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Jobs in Tanzania 2019: New Job Vacancy at PACT Tanzania, Senior Technical Advisor | March, 2019
AJIRA TANZANIA 2019 / NAFASI ZA KAZI 2019
Position: Senior Technical Advisor
PACT - TANZANIA
Experience : 8.0 Year(s)
No. of Position : 1
Job closing date : 30-Sep-2019
Location Dar es Salaam
Reporting To Deputy Chief of Party – Kizazi Kipya Project
Pact Overview
Pact
is working in partnership with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids
Foundation, the Aga Khan Foundation, Railway Children Africa, and the
Ifakara Health Institute on a five-year (2016- 2021) USAID/PEPFAR funded
project to enhance the strengths of families caring for orphans and
vulnerable children (OVC). The overall goal of the program is to improve
the health and social wellbeing of OVC, young people, and their
families through strategic service delivery support. Pact will provide
financial and technical support to Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)
for direct project implementation.
Recommended:
Position Purpose
Serve
as an active member of the program team for the implementation of Pacts
Orphan and Vulnerable Children (OVC) activities. The Senior Technical
Advisor oversees and guides the technical advisors in the implementation
of the project. This includes the promotion of quality and timely
project management as well as intra- and interdepartmental coordination
and collaboration. The Senior Technical Advisor will focus 50 of level
of effort on HIV related programming; the remaining 50 level of effort
will be dedicated to other technical areas including supervising about
seven technical advisors and other Kizazi Kipya project
responsibilities.
Responsibilities;
Technical Advisory Responsibilities
•
Provide technical support and management of the project in OVC care
and support, HIV services, violence prevention and response, early
childhood and adolescent development, education, child labor, and
children living and working in the streets, and community strengthening.
•
Provide leadership in the areas including, but not limited to
implementing and monitoring bi- directional referral systems; rolling
out and ensuring high quality OVC case management tools and training;
work with quality improvement advisor to develop and monitor quality
improvement plans; ensuring alignment to PEPFAR's Site Improvement
Monitoring System; developing and ensuring adherence to Standard
Operating Procedures and job aids.
• With the HIV Integration
Advisor, develop and implement strategies to target high risk HIV
exposed infants for enrollment, improve pediatric case findings,
strengthen linkages to HIV services, and continue to closely collaborate
with care and treatment partners to ensure timely delivery of HIV
services to project beneficiaries.
• Ensure high quality
facilitation of training and systematic post-training supportive
supervision and mentoring to Pact staff and implementing partner staff.
•
Ensure overall technical integration of services for improved care,
health, nutrition, education, protection, livelihoods, and psychosocial
well-being
• Provide technical management to sub-awardees in
the consortium in the following intervention areas HIV and sexual
reproductive health services, education services, particularly Early
Childhood Development; and youth livelihoods and employment
•
Promote integration and cross fertilization of ideas and information
technical areas and oversee initiatives to promote and strengthen
knowledge management
• Provide high-quality technical guidance
and support that is grounded in the program's strategic objectives and
adheres to expected technical quality and reporting requirements
•
Mentor technical advisors as appropriate and ensure international
best practice is integrated into program design and implementation
Program Management, Monitoring, and Learning
•
Provide guidance and monitor monthly progress towards key
indicators, problem solve with advisors, cluster teams and M&E staff
if targets are not achieved.
• Monitor workplan to ensure technical initatives and plans are implemented in a timely and efficient manner.
•
Work within the team to write quarterly, semi-annual, and annual
reports. This will include compiling, cleaning and copyediting reports
from the advisors.
• Support project teams to maintain relationships and close coordination with counterparts in partner organizations
• Cooperate and promote collaboration with the Programs, Grants & Contracts, Finance, and M&E teams
•
Assist the Deputy Chief of Party on providing directions to the
Technical Integrated Cluster managers at the project zonal levels
•
Ensure proper implementation of Pact's performance management
systems for direct reports. This can include proactively addressing
performance issues through regular, constructive and honest feedback,
and coaching.
• Contribute to development and management of a
learning agenda and evidence building strategy for the project,
particularly in the areas of referrals and linkages to ensure continuum
of care, ART adherence and care retention of HIV positive OVC, youth
livelihoods and employment strategies, gender transformative
interventions
• Write abstracts to highlight programmatic results for submission to conferences, forums, etc.
• Travel to the field to provide technical & monitoring support, as needed
Recommended:
Representation and Strategic Direction
• Present quarterly progress to USAID and participate in various meeting with donors and other donor-funded implementing partners
• Write and compile annual workplans aligning with PEPFAR COP guidance in collaboration with other team members (advisors, M&E, and consortium members)
• Closely collaborate with implementing partners, on complementary activities including but not limited to partners working in the following areas care and treatment, economic strengthening, education, case management, parenting, and child protection.
• Develop responses to ad hoc donor requests
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Preferred Qualifications
• Degree in medicine, public health, nursing, or equivalent at a master's level.
• 8 years of relevant work experience
• Experience with PEPFAR 3.0 funded projects in Tanzania; solid understanding of evidenced- based HIV case identification especially for children, care and treatment and prevention interventions.
• Experience in working with HIV care and treatment clinics (CTCs) and partners implementing care and treatment interventions in health facilities.
• Technical expertise in OVC care and support, violence prevention and response, early childhood and adolescent development, education, child labor, and children living and working in the streets, and community strengthening will be an added advantage
• Demonstrated ability and experience in several of the following implementing and monitoring bi- directional referral systems; rolling out and ensuring high quality services to beneficiaries, developing tools to ensure quality trainings (including step down trainings); developing and monitoring quality improvement plans; ensuring alignment to PEPFAR's Site Improvement Monitoring System; developing and ensuring adherence to Standard Operating Procedures and job aids
• Proven ability to provide technical guidance to sub-awardees including international NGOs in the consortium to ensure integration of services
• Experience in using data for decision making to improve programming
• Strong PowerPoint and presentation skills
• Technical understanding of PEPFAR 3.0 and USAID indicators and managing for performance
• Ability to travel regularly and at short notice
• At least 7 years of project management experience in developing country setting
• Fluency in English
• A strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a high profile, fast-paced environment
Qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply.
Pact is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its selection and employment practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, citizenship status, genetic information, matriculation, family responsibilities, personal appearance, credit information, tobacco use (except in the workplace), membership in an employee organization, or other protected classifications or non-merit factors.
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