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Specialist Community System Strengthening,NOC,Zanzibar, Tanzania TA(364 Days)
Job
no: 517905
Position
type: Temporary Appointment
Location:
Tanzania,Uni.Re
Division/Equivalent:
Nairobi Regn’l(ESARO)
School/Unit:
United Republic of Tanzania
Department/Office:
Zanzibar, United Rep. of Tanzania
Categories:
Health, HIV/AIDS, NO-3
The
Community System Specialist reports to the Chief Zanzibar Field Office for
managerial purposes and to the Chief of Section, Health for technical guidance
and supervision. The Specialist is responsible for managing, implementing,
monitoring, evaluating and reporting of the country office’s program and
providing technical guidance and operational support throughout the programming
process to facilitate the achievement of concrete and sustainable results
according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and
methodology (RBM) and organizational Strategic Plans and goals, standards of
performance and accountability framework.
Program
development and planning
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Plan and provide technical support/guidance to the preparation of strategic
plans for the development, design and management of community related programs.
This includes working with the government at national, district and community
levels, as well as other development partners, donors, private sector and
others. The Specialist must keep abreast of global research on community health
and development trends to enhance program management, efficiency and delivery.
•
Support the institutionalizing of CBHP and the CHWs within government and
community health structures. Although the CHWs have been formally recognized in
a variety of policy and planning documents, because the focus on community
health and CHWs are new, the Specialist will need to assess the gaps and needs
at various levels of government and work together with MOH and other partners
to develop plans to embed and support CHWs within the health system.
•
Support the development of CBHP planning to ensure smooth roll out nationally.
This includes assessing the needs and developing strategies to address key
obstacles to successful CBHP, including training, deployment, supplies, service
delivery issues, supervision, etc.
•
Ensure overall coordination in collaboration with MoH of all stakeholders
supporting community work in Zanzibar. Assist the government and development
partners to develop systems, tools, mechanisms and other methods to support the
scale up of functional community level service delivery.
•
Ensure alignment of sectoral program with the overall UNICEF’s Strategic Plans
and Country Program and coherence/integration with UN Development Assistance
Framework (UNDF), regional strategies and national priorities, plans and
competencies.
Program
management, monitoring and delivery of results
•
Support the decentralization of decision-making through strengthening community
administrative structures at sub-national level.
•
Ensure that the roll out of CHWs is equitable across the country and that poor,
vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations have care in their communities.
•
Work with other sections in UNICEF to integrate key services into the community
health platform, such as nutrition, WASH, child protection, HIV, etc., to
ensure that mothers and children have access to lifesaving care.
•
Strengthen capacities of local governments, communities and other entities such
as village health committees to promote community engagement and social
accountability
•
Establish or enhance civil society organizations and grassroots community
involvement in health plan and budget, including service delivery, performance
accountability and progress tracking.
•
Actively monitor programs/projects to assess progress, identify bottlenecks and
potential problems and take timely decisions to resolve issues and/or refer to
relevant officials for timely resolution.
•
Assess gaps in financial resources to support CBHP and work together with
development partners, donors and others to identify and secure additional
funding.
Advisory
services and technical support
•
Collaborate/consult with key government officials, CSOs, NGO partners, UN
system partners and other country office partners/donors on policies,
strategies and best practices and approaches on health, nutrition and related
issues to support program development planning, management, implementation and
delivery of results.
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Ensure the technical appropriateness of the package of maternal and child
survival interventions in the CBHP and the capacity in place to support its
implementation (staff and supplies).
•
Advise on methods to strengthen the supply system to ensure that CHWs, as a new
cadre, are included in supply plans and that supply chain systems and funding
are in place to ensure a reliable flow of equipment and lifesaving medications.
•
Research and recommend methods to standardize the quality of maternal, neonatal
and child healthcare, such as using clinical algorithms.
•
Participate in program strategic discussions/planning to provide technical
advice/contribute policy discussions and agenda setting to promote health and
development issues especially in the areas of gender, emergency preparedness
and maternal, neonatal and child survival and development.
•
Prepare policy papers, briefs and other strategic program materials for
management use, information and/or consideration.
•
Participate in emergency preparedness initiatives program development and
contingency planning and/or to respond to emergencies in country or where
designated.
Advocacy,
networking and partnership building
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While the vision of the CHW program was national-led by the Ministry of Health,
UNICEF supported a widely consultative process in the Task Force to ensure it
evolved and was adapted to both global evidence and standards and local needs.
The Specialist will need to continue to work collaboratively to strengthen the
program.
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Public-private partnerships (PPP) are a key goal of the government’s CBHP
program, and therefore the Specialist will need to assess local options for PPP
and assist the government and other partners to adapt them for CBHP.
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Develop or revise high level advocacy tools for community health, such as
policy briefs, costings and other documentation as needed.
Innovation,
knowledge management and capacity building
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Promote critical thinking and innovative approaches and good practices for
sustainable health programs/projects initiatives.
•
Strengthen the use of mHealth or other innovative solutions for community-based
care.
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Pursue options for ensuring the efficient and accurate collection and use of
data and evidence for community health.
•
Keep abreast of current relevant research, benchmark and implement best and
cutting edge practices in health management and information systems.
Institutionalize and share best practices and knowledge learned.
•
Contribute to the development policies and procedures and introduce innovation
and best practices to ensure optimum efficiency and efficacy of sustainable
programs and projects.
•
Lead/plan/implement capacity building initiatives to enhance the competencies
of clients/stakeholders to promote sustainable results on health related
programs/projects.
Impact
of Results
The
efficiency and efficacy of program preparation planning and implementation of
health programs/projects contributes to the delivery of concrete and
sustainable results that directly impact the improvement of the health of the
most marginalized and vulnerable children in the country, and this in turn
contributes to maintaining/enhancing the credibility and ability of UNICEF to
continue to provide program services to protect the rights of children, promote
greater social equality to enable children to survive, thrive and develop and
reach their full potential in society.
Competencies
and level of proficiency required (based on UNICEF Professional Competency
Profiles)
Core
Values
Commitment
Diversity and inclusion
Integrity
Core
competencies
Communication (II)
Working with
people (II)
Drive for results (II)
Functional
Competencies:
Leading and supervising (I)
Formulating strategies and concepts (II)
Analyzing (III)
Relating and networking (II)
Deciding and Initiating action (II)
Applying technical expertise (III)
Recruitment
Qualifications
Education:
An
Advanced University Degree in public health/nutrition, pediatric health, family
health, health research, global/international health, health policy and/or
management, environmental health sciences, biostatistics, socio-medical, health
education, epidemiology or other health related sciences is required.
Experience:
A
minimum of 8 years of professional experience in public health/nutrition
planning and management and/or in relevant areas of maternal and neonatal
health care, health emergency/ humanitarian preparedness, at the international
level some of which preferably in a developing country is required. Relevant
experience in health/nutrition program/project development and management in
any UN system agency or organization is an asset.
Language
Requirements:
Fluency
in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language is an asset.
Advertised:
Nov 14 2018 E. Africa Standard Time
Application
close: Dec 02 2018 E. Africa Standard Time