New "NPO(Child and Adolescent Health)" Job Opportunity at World Health Organization Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

 

About the job

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME

Contribute to the reduction of mortality and morbidity of newborns, children and for the promotion of adolescent's health and development by strengthening the national capacity in planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of interventions to improve the health and nutritional status, building effective partnerships with health development partners for an integrated approach to Primary Health Care.

Description Of Duties

• Serve as the primary liaison for CAH&N between the Ministry of Health and WHO;
• Provide technical support to the Ministry of Health and its technical departments in the development, review and implementation of child and adolescent health and nutrition policies and strategies, including training and supervision.
• Support the adaptation of global and regional evidence based policies, strategies and plans for child, adolescent health and nutrition to fit the context of the country, with a view to reducing risk, morbidity and mortality and improving health across the life course.
• Build capacity for improved health service delivery for children and adolescent, at facility and community levels, and monitor progresses on health status;
• Facilitate national counterparts in operational researches related to child and adolescent health and nutrition;
• Work with other clusters in the Country Office, IST and AFRO in addition to other relevant international, regional and national counterparts to advocate for WHO's work on child and adolescent health and nutrition;
• Participate in resource mobilization and contribute to proposal development and implementation of, but not limited to, child and adolescent health and nutrition;
• Compile periodical reports and provide relevant programmatic information for internal and external reporting purposes.
• Perform any other work requested by the supervisors.

Required Qualifications

Education (Qualifications):

Essential: First university degree in Pediatrics or other related field from an accredited/recognized institute.

Desirable: Training in Public Health; Adolescent Health, Integrated management of Childhood illnesses, Infant and Young Child Nutrition, Health Programme Management or Epidemiology or an advanced degree in Medicine/Public Health will be of an added advantage;

Experience

Essential: At least five years of progressively responsible professional experience in the implementation, organization, and management of Public Health programmes in areas of CAH/N.

Desirable: Experience in policy development and strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation in CAH & Nutrition ; Relevant work experience with WHO and/or UN agencies, health cluster partners; experience working in relevant nongovernmental or humanitarian organizations.

Skills

• Sound knowledge of the principles, practice, methodology and techniques in public health, epidemiology, communicable disease surveillance and control.
• Ability to collect, analyze and use data for program monitoring and evaluation.
• Ability to monitor and communicate progress, write concise reports.
• Skills in programme and proposal development, project management and promotion of national capacities,
• Ability to work with partners proactively, including effective chairmanship of stakeholder meetings.

WHO Competencies

• Building and promoting partnerships across the Organization and beyond
• Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences
• Ensuring the effective use of resources
• Teamwork.
• Communicating in a credible and effective way

Use Of Language Skills

Essential: Expert knowledge of English.

Desirable: Intermediate knowledge of French.

REMUNERATION

Remuneration comprises an annual base salary starting at 145,847schillings (subject to mandatory deductions for pension contributions and health insurance, as applicable) and 30 days of annual leave.

Additional Information

• This vacancy notice may be used to fill other similar positions at the same grade level
• Only candidates under serious consideration will be contacted.
• A written test may be used as a form of screening.
• In the event that your candidature is retained for an interview, you will be required to provide, in advance, a scanned copy of the degree(s)/diploma(s)/certificate(s) required for this position. WHO only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed through the link: http://www.whed.net/. Some professional certificates may not appear in the WHED and will require individual review.
• Any appointment/extension of appointment is subject to WHO Staff Regulations, Staff Rules and Manual.
• For information on WHO's operations please visit: http://www.who.int.
• WHO is committed to workforce diversity.
• WHO prides itself on a workforce that adheres to the highest ethical and professional standards and that is committed to put the WHO Values Charter into practice.
• WHO has zero tolerance towards sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), sexual harassment and other types of abusive conduct (i.e., discrimination, abuse of authority and harassment). All members of the WHO workforce have a role to play in promoting a safe and respectful workplace and should report to WHO any actual or suspected cases of SEA, sexual harassment and other types of abusive conduct. To ensure that individuals with a substantiated history of SEA, sexual harassment or other types of abusive conduct are not hired by the Organization, WHO will conduct a background verification of final candidates.
• WHO has a smoke-free environment and does not recruit smokers or users of any form of tobacco.
• This is a National Professional Officer position. Therefore, only applications from nationals of the country where the duty station is located will be accepted. Applicants who are not nationals of this country will not be considered.

Grade

NO-C

Contractual Arrangement

Fixed-term appointment

Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days)

two years

Job Posting

Oct 27, 2022, 3:33:41 PM

Closing Date

Nov 8, 2022, 1:59:00 AM

Primary Location

Tanzania, United Republic of-Dar-es-Salaam

Organization

AF_TZA Tanzania

Schedule

Full-time

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please note that the deadline for receipt of applications indicated above reflects your personal device's system settings. 

New "Health Specialist (Health Financing), P-3, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. # 00122400 ( Temporary Appointment)" at UNICEF Dodoma, Tanzania.

 

About the job

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, health

The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programs, in advocacy and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment to children’s rights into action. For UNICEF, equity means that all children have an opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential, without discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the degree that any child has an unequal chance in life — in its social, political, economic, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There is growing evidence that investing in the health, education and protection of a society’s most disadvantaged citizens — addressing inequity — not only will give all children the opportunity to fulfil their potential but also will lead to sustained growth and stability of countries. This is the reason why, the focus on equity is so vital. It accelerates progress towards realizing the human rights of all children, which is the universal mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, while also supporting the equitable development of nation.

How can you make a difference?

The United Republic of Tanzania (URT) has renewed its commitment to achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and adopted Primary Health Care (PHC) as a main pillar for its action to achieve its UHC goals. Optimal Public Financial Management (PFM) in the health sector is a key prerequisite for effective and efficient use of scarce resources. The Health Specialist (Health Financing) will provide support to UNICEF Tanzania CO, Health Section in the area of health financing. This includes leading costing exercises (e.g. PHC services delivery, human resources for health planning, integration of COVID vaccines within the national EPI, Malaria vaccines introduction), health planning and budgeting efforts at national and sub-national level, promote key budgetary reforms (e.g. introduce PHC grants, streamline financing for community health services), identify and address key PFM bottlenecks affecting services delivery, conduct fiscal space analysis to identify efficiencies within the existing resources envelope. The ultimate objective is to contribute to health system strengthening (HSS) to achieve UHC with a focus on PHC. The Health Financing Specialist is expected to develop close collaboration with other key partners at national and sub-national level, including the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Finance and Planning, the President’s Office Finance and Planning, the President’s Office for Regional Administration and Local Government, selected regional authorities, other UN agencies and International Financial Institutions. Additionally, the Health Financing Specialist will work closely with the UNICEF Tanzania CO Social Policy section on assessing design and implementation of health insurance schemes at community and state level. The ultimate objective of UNICEF’s work in health financing is to influence the size, composition, equity, efficiency, effectiveness and transparency of health spending at national and subnational level.

Summary Of Key Functions/accountabilities

KEY FUNCTIONS, ACCOUNTABILITIES AND RELATED DUTIES/TASKS

• Data-driven health financing and spending
• Improving use of health sector public financial resources
• Advocacy, networking and partnership building
• Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
• Data-driven health financing and spending
  

▪ Prepare timely economic and financing analysis of health services delivery to provide UNICEF Tanzania with evidence for national dialogue in improving efficiency in health spending.

▪ Guide UNICEF Tanzania on the analysis of PHC financing mechanisms at sub-national level to identify opportunities to realise efficiencies.

▪ Undertake selected health sector budget analysis (e.g., identification of PFM bottlenecks affecting services delivery) inform UNICEF’s advocacy and technical engagement with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Finance and Planning, the President’s Office for Finance and Planning, the President’s Office for Regional Administration and Local Government to leverage and prioritize resources for sustainable PHC services delivery.

▪ Provide technical support in the design, implementation and monitoring of innovative health financing initiatives to ensure sustainable and equitable financing and UHC in collaboration with other key development partners (e.g., WHO, GAVI, Global Fund, the World Bank, the Global Financing Facilities, International Monetary Fund, Health Basket Fund partners).

• Improving use of health sector public financial resources
  

▪ Provide technical assistance to Ministries of Health Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar in developing the health financing strategy, expand the coverage of and optimise pool of the National Health Insurance Fund and establish the Zanzibar Health Insurance Fund.

▪ Participate in and provide technical inputs to the national and sub-national PFM discussions, with a focus on streamlining funding for PHC services and community-based services delivery and increase transparency of expenditure reporting, addressing challenges related to direct facility financing (DFF) and introduce such payment mechanism in Zanzibar.

▪ Work with sector colleagues to build capacity to undertake costing and cost effectiveness analysis on priority interventions to help inform policy decisions on child-focused investments.

▪ Carry out analyses on fiscal space, with a focus on realising efficiencies within the existing resources envelope.

▪ Support the Government to regularly monitor and measure the equity, efficiency, and effectiveness of public health expenditures.

• Advocacy, networking and partnership building
  

▪ Build and sustain effective close working partnerships with health sector government counterparts, national stakeholders, as well as global partners, allies, donors, and academia for active networking, advocacy and effective communication to improve health planning, budgeting and financial flows at federal and sub-national level.

▪ Prepare communication and information materials to promote awareness, establish partnerships/alliances, and support national efforts on fundraising for health programmes (PHC, UHC and HSS).

▪ Participate and/or represent UNICEF in appropriate inter-agency discussions and planning on health-related issues to collaborate with inter-agency partners/colleagues on PFM in the health sector related discussions; and on UNSDCF planning and preparation of health financing programmes/projects.

▪ Support compelling use of finance data and evidence in advocacy materials and campaigns, including designing visually attractive infographics and data analysis on health planning, budgeting, and expenditures.

▪ Collaborate with WHO, World Bank, other UN agencies and implementing partners to support country-level technical assistance on public financing, with a focus on revising the rules governing the Health Basket Fund funds utilisation.

▪ Advocate, during strategic discussions with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Finance and Planning, the President’s Office for Finance and Planning, the President’s Office for Regional Administration and Local Government

• Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
  

▪ Review other countries experiences around priority topics (e.g., GAVI transition, financing health emergencies preparedness and response).

▪ Document and disseminate lessons learned from national efforts in strengthening health systems and expanding health coverage for UHC with a focus on PHC and routine immunization, and to improve partnerships for sustainable health systems strengthening.

▪ Provide technical leadership and coordination of relevant operational research around costing and funding specific health interventions and programmes, thus contributing to the knowledge base in health systems.

▪ Disseminate relevant research findings, publications, presentations and reports.

▪ Develop and conduct capacity building activities on health financing for UNICEF staff and government officials.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in health economics, health financing or public financial management or closely related field is required.
• A minimum of five years of relevant professional experience in a public finance or economic development role within the national/international health sector.
• Preference will be given to candidates who have demonstrated knowledge of and professional experience in at least two of the following areas: Public Financial Management in health, health economic analysis, strengthening health financing and governance.
• Experience working in developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan African is considered as an asset.
• Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization, or in a global health initiative (TGF, GAVI, GFF) or development bank is considered as an asset.
• Fluency in English is required.
  

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues

UNICEF Competencies Required For This Post Are…

Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1), Works Collaboratively with others (1), Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1), Innovates and Embraces Change (1), Thinks and Acts Strategically (1), Drives to achieve impactful results (1). Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks

UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable candidate from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, are encouraged to apply.

The UN system in Tanzania provides a work environment that reflects the values of gender equality, teamwork, diversity, integrity, a healthy balance of work and life and equal opportunities for all, including persons with disabilities. Qualified persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply for UN vacancies and are protected from discrimination during all stages of employment

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are also subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

UNICEF only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/

New "Chief Operating Officer" Job Opportunity at Shugulika Africa Limited Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

 

About the job

Recruiting For a Client- The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring operational excellence across the organization. Your primary goal will be to increase our organization's productivity, efficiency, and profitability. You will advise the CEO on key operational insights as well as provide coaching to employees.

Responsibilities

• Produce annual operation forecasting report and strategy
• Oversee and evaluate day-to-day operations
• Identify new market opportunities to accelerate growth
• Present operational strategy recommendations to the CEO based on your market research

Qualifications

• 10 - 15 years' of executive experience
• Strategic planning and business development experience
• Strong written and verbal and presentation skills
• Strong leadership and organizational skills
• Excellent Organizational, communication, leadership, analytical and problem solving skills.