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RTI International’s Global Health Division is currently accepting applications for a Regional Coordinator for an anticipated USAID-funded malaria program in Tanzania.
Under this activity, USAID/Tanzania will fund malaria case management, malaria in pregnancy (MIP) through quality improvement initiatives and malaria surveillance, MERLA, entomological monitoring, drug efficacy monitoring, and monitoring of other drug-based interventions.
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RTI anticipates this activity will also seek to improve private sector engagement and strengthening the existing linkages between community health services/ community-level leadership and facilities/District Health Teams that promote malaria prevention, detection, and treatment in households.
The Regional Coordinator leads and coordinates the implementation of the project activities and provides technical expertise at regional, district and community levels. ( Nafasi za kazi RTI International)
They will maintain relationships with key sector partners, donors, consultants, host country counterparts and stakeholders as well as collaborate with colleagues across RTI on technical, administrative, and strategic planning initiatives.
May serve as a representative of the project to clients, stakeholders, and partners, providing key inputs for technical or management decisions. The position will be based with RTI in Dar es Salaam and local travel will be required.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with Senior Leadership Team to respond to requests for information and ensure project leadership and USAID are informed in a timely manner regarding project challenges, grantee issues, or changes to work plans or budgets, and disseminating key results.
- Provide partnership technical performance monitoring and support the COP to ensure high quality implementation across required deliverables.
- Ensure field-level goals within the project are met in accordance with USAID rules and regulations.
- Support the Finance and Operations Director to monitor project activities and spending to ensure proper activity planning and to meet USAID financial and management reporting guidelines.
- Provide support for annual work plan and budget development and for project reporting.
- Support and contribute to preparation of project documents for submission to USAID (e.g., project report, annual work plan, etc.).
- In coordination with the RTI Senior Management team, support central and decentralized project teams to identify technical assistance needs and ensure assistance is provided in an efficient and effective manner.
- Link teams to relevant technical resources within the project, RTI, partners, or from external consultants.
- Support field teams to develop scopes of work for technical assistance and work with them to identify needed talent and execute agreements.
Minimum Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in public health, biological sciences, environmental sciences, entomology, or related area with 10 years of relevant management experience.
- Experience managing USAID-funded malaria prevention and control activities highly preferred.
- Broad technical understanding of public health and must be knowledgeable about malaria prevention and control is preferred.
- Demonstrated capacity to build and maintain productive working relationships with a wide network of local partners and stakeholders. Experience with capacity building of local partners considered desirable.
- Excellent English language ability and strong interpersonal, written, and oral presentation communications skills.
RTI does not permit any payment requests demanded during any part of the hiring process. If such requests are made, please report it to the RTI Ethics Office via HRethics@rti.org. Any candidate making any payment will be disqualified from consideration for future employment with RTI.
Position: Surveillance & Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, Learning and Adapting (MERLA) Director
Responsibilities
- Provide oversight of Project technical assistance for surveillance activities, including support to routine malaria surveillance on
- Mainland and enhanced surveillance and stratification activities in Zanzibar. Coordinate training, IT support and other project activities to support these efforts.
- Provide expertise and capacity building in use of surveillance data and other health information in evidence-based decision making for malaria programming in support of the NCMD and DHMTs.
- Oversee MERLA efforts and work closely with COP and technical staff to ensure they support and inform activity planning, budgeting, and project decisions.
- Lead the development, implementation, refinement, and harmonization of the project’s MERLA system and AMELP including develop and operationalize indicators; monitor progress; support design of evaluations; and implement the CLA plan.
- Design and implement the project’s Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) activities, including the learning agenda, providing leadership and facilitating project review meetings (‘pause and reflect’ sessions), activity after action reviews and relevant stakeholder collaboration meetings.
Other Duties
- Work with technical staff to oversee tools for data collection, storage, and analysis; and train staff and partners on project
- Surveillance & MERLA system operations, collection methods, and tools.
- Ensure data quality and integrity through field visits and spot checks to verify data.
- Design a routine project evaluation and performance improvement process that uses evidence (indicator, evaluation, and qualitative data) to adjust project activities.
- Lead the development of quarterly and annual progress reports on the status of project implementation, including progress towards defined targets; contribute to other project reports such as annual work plans and technical briefs.
- Design needs-based, rigorous, operations research studies and protocols to generate evidence for gaps in program understanding, as prioritized with stakeholders.
- Supervise and mentor MERLA staff.
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum of a Master’s in Public Health or relevant discipline and Minimum of 12 years of professional experience, or a combination of education and experience, in a Surveillance, M&E position in the health field in Tanzania.
- Demonstrated experience in establishing M&E systems and tools; designing and implementing project evaluations, quantitative and qualitative research, surveillance surveys, data analysis; CLA tools and methods; and familiarity with research methodologies and sampling techniques.
- Minimum of 8 years of professional experience in a M&E position in the health field in Tanzania; experience with USAID, PMI and/or other development partner projects preferable
- Demonstrated experience with computer and/or web-based performance data recording and reporting systems and other technologies that improve the quality of monitoring system integrity and data collection/analysis/reporting/visualization; familiarity with DHIS2 a in Tanzania preferable. Excellent proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite applications as well as data, management, and mapping platforms (including DHIS2, STATA/SPSS/R).
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated capacity to use conduct analysis and use data for decision-making and experience training others to do so.
- Experience and in-depth knowledge with global development priorities and reporting requirements; experience with programs focused on health impact considered highly desirable. ( Nafasi za kazi RTI International)
- Ability to work effectively, responsively, and collaboratively with government counterparts such as government ministries, development and private sector partners, civil society organizations, private sector, and academic/research institutions.
- Excellent management, communication, and organizational skills, as well as flexibility and capacity to multi-task.
- Demonstrated experience leading and building the capacity of MERLA staff in a decentralized setting.
- Demonstrated track record in disseminating programmatic and research outcomes and findings at national and international conferences, as well as in published literature.
- Excellent English language ability and strong interpersonal, written, and oral presentation communication skills.
This position is contingent upon award and funding; the anticipated award date is June 2022. To apply, please upload your resume to the RTI Careers Page.Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. RTI is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
RTI does not permit any payment requests demanded during any part of the hiring process. If such requests are made, please report it to the RTI Ethics Office via HRethics@rti.org. Any candidate making any payment will be disqualified from consideration for future employment with RTI.
Position: Technical Director
Responsibilities
- In close collaboration with COP, provide overall technical leadership and quality assurance for technical assistance and activities necessary to achieve objectives, outputs, services, and products expected under the program.
- Supervise the implementation of integrated delivery and scale up of proven malaria interventions, including vulnerable groups of pregnant women and children under 5 years of age, and other activities required under the Contract to ensure that performance schedules are observed, and outputs are completed according to schedule.
- Oversee activities to improve access to rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) and quality artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) at facility and community levels as well as ensure state-wide training and follow-up in the public and private sectors.
- Work with surveillance data and other health information for decision-making and coach internal project and external stakeholder teams to work with data.
Other Duties
- Oversee activities to ensure the provision of MIP services, including consistent delivery of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) – at ANC clinics. (Nafasi za kazi RTI International)
- Support the MSDQI system for comprehensive supervision of malaria service delivery in health facilities
- Provide technical oversight of the work undertaken by subcontractors and grantees.
- Together with the COP, provide direction and support for the preparation of annual work plans and strategies.
- Support COP and project staff with the production of project materials, including the development of policy briefs, technical reports and training materials ensuring technical quality and relevance for programmers and policy makers.
- Liaise with other critical Government of Tanzania and development partners working in malaria such as the Ministry of Health Social Welfare, Gender Elderly and Children (MOHCDGEC), National Malaria Control Program, GFTAM, WHO, UNICEF, DFID, SDC, RBM etc.
- Represent RTI in national level technical working groups, committees, and other meetings related to malaria, etc.
- Directly supervise technical team members and help facilitate and coordinate their liaison work with senior counterparts and stakeholders at national and subnational levels.
Minimum Qualifications
- PhD or medical degree with additional relevant training in on or more of the following areas: public health, biological sciences, entomology, environmental sciences, malariology, or parasitology.
- Minimum of 8 years’ experience working in the field of malaria prevention and control in Tanzania; demonstrated success leading technical teams for USAID and/or other development partner-funded health projects highly preferred.
- Demonstrated senior-level expertise in malaria prevention and control preferred including experience with implementation and scale up of case management and MIP services and iCCM.
- Experience supporting collaborating learning and adapting (CLA) and other monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities to improve technical project performance.
- Demonstrated capacity to build and maintain productive working relationships with a wide network of local partners and stakeholders. Experience with capacity building of local partners considered desirable.
- Strong experience with Microsoft Office applications. (Nafasi za kazi RTI International)
- Excellent English language ability and strong interpersonal, written, and oral presentation communications skills.
This position is contingent upon award and funding; the anticipated award date is June 2022. To apply, please upload your resume to the RTI Careers Page. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. RTI is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
RTI does not permit any payment requests demanded during any part of the hiring process. If such requests are made, please report it to the RTI Ethics Office via HRethics@rti.org. Any candidate making any payment will be disqualified from consideration for future employment with RTI.
