Amref Health Africa is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) whose mission is to improve the health of people by partnering with and empowering communities and strengthening health systems': Amref Health Africa has over 1000 employees throughout Africa with its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. Amref Health Africa has offices in Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa, South Sudan and Senegal and a number of offices in Europe and North America for fundraising.
Amref Health Africa-Tanzania is largely supported by Multilateral, Bilateral and National donors, implementing several programmes including HIV/AIDS/TB/Malaria, Reproductive, Maternal Newborn and Child Health, Water and sanitation, e-learning programme and clinical outreach.
Amref Health Africa -Tanzania has the following vacancy at Amref Country office and projects in Lake Zone
REPORTS TO: HEAD OF PROGRAMS
JOB OBJECTIVE:
Provide leadership and support in assessment of organizational and technical capacity of human resources for health to improve quality of service delivery and response to community health needs
Key Responsibilities:
• Take lead in development and implementation of innovative capacity building agenda at country level by coordinating and supporting Amref health Africa in Tanzania projects and programs with design, review, and harmonization of training curriculum and materials development in related subject areas.
• Ensure Amref health Africa projects meet the minimum training reqtJireHierit5 stipulated in national policies, curriculum, and guidelines of respective authorities
• Work with country programmes, projects and other stakeholders in analyzing and addressing training needs of various cadres in facility and community healthcare workers.
• Support Amref health Africa programmes and projects in developing training curriculum and packages for CSOs, capacities, local authorities from national, district and community levels that are relevant to Amref health Africa Strategy
• Generate innovative programmatic capacity building initiatives for bridging existing gap between communities and the health system including empowering communities for community-based health promotion initiatives
• Participate actively in national efforts and forums by Ministry of health and other stakeholders in strengthening human resource capacities including community health workers
• Forge collaboration with development partners and other partners including Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and other relevant ministries in establishing opportunities for engaging CSOs in capacity building agenda
• Provide technical support to HR Unit in strengthening Amref health Africa technical capacity on identified and priority training needs including documentation, research, and advocacy skills as per Amref health Africa business plan and strategic demands
• Promote development, management, and supervision and backstopping of Amref health Africa e-Learning programme, Tanzania Library and Information Resource Centre and Heritage
• Work closely with the Head of Program to support programme and project staff in generation, documentation of good practices from project processes and outcomes/impacts; and appropriate dissemination of programme results
• Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor on daily basis in relation to your position.
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
• A Master Degree in Medical Education, Public Health or Health Policy or related fields. Ph.D. in social sciences or business administration is an added advantage
• A technical qualification in HRH management
• Excellent project planning and proposal writing skills. At least seven (5) years experience of providing technical expertise in capacity building and training initiatives.
• Experience of working with the MOH or health systems is an asset.
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
• Pro-active and innovative attitude
• Hard working with analytical ability
• Ability to work independently
• Strong team leader and player
• Proposal writing skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
