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Details
- Application deadline
- 2017-05-19
- Business / Employer name
- Thamini Uhai
- Job categories
- Medical & Dental
- Job role
- Management
- Position type
- Full Time
- Organization type
- NGO
Location
Kigoma Ujiji Kigoma
Description
Since 2008, Thamini Uhai has contributed to the Government of Tanzania’s efforts to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality by improving women’s access to good-quality comprehensive emergency obstetric and neonatal care (CEmONC) through its Tanzania maternal health program.
The program works in three regions (Kigoma, Morogoro and Pwani) supporting 15 health facilities to bring quality CEmONC services to rural, isolated populations. Thamini Uhai upgrades health centers, strengthens hospitals, trains and mentors assistant medical officers to provide emergency obstetric care including cesarean sections and nurse-midwives/clinical officers to provide anesthesia. The program also works to improve women’s access to CEmONC services by strengthening referral systems and works to increase demand for good-quality services through multimedia communications campaigns and by partnering with community health workers. The program is now adding a birth companionship component to our work in Kigoma which will contribute to improving the quality of delivery care in the supported facilities in that region.
Birth companionship is being introduced, so that women delivering in these facilities can have a female companion of their choice to support them in the labour/delivery room throughout their childbirth. The project will be for 18 months and by the end of implementation, it is expected over 50% of women delivering in the supported facilities will have a birth companion with them throughout childbirth.
Thamini Uhai is seeking a motivated and experienced candidate to join a strong and creative team in the organization in the position described below:
Position: Birth Companionship Project Manager Duty station: Kigoma Reporting to: Kigoma Programme Manager
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:Manage all aspects of the project which seeks to increase birth companionship during delivery in supported facilities in Kigoma. The manager will oversee the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the project and ensure the expected goals of the project are achieved by the end of project.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:Planning:
The program works in three regions (Kigoma, Morogoro and Pwani) supporting 15 health facilities to bring quality CEmONC services to rural, isolated populations. Thamini Uhai upgrades health centers, strengthens hospitals, trains and mentors assistant medical officers to provide emergency obstetric care including cesarean sections and nurse-midwives/clinical officers to provide anesthesia. The program also works to improve women’s access to CEmONC services by strengthening referral systems and works to increase demand for good-quality services through multimedia communications campaigns and by partnering with community health workers. The program is now adding a birth companionship component to our work in Kigoma which will contribute to improving the quality of delivery care in the supported facilities in that region.
Birth companionship is being introduced, so that women delivering in these facilities can have a female companion of their choice to support them in the labour/delivery room throughout their childbirth. The project will be for 18 months and by the end of implementation, it is expected over 50% of women delivering in the supported facilities will have a birth companion with them throughout childbirth.
Thamini Uhai is seeking a motivated and experienced candidate to join a strong and creative team in the organization in the position described below:
Position: Birth Companionship Project Manager Duty station: Kigoma Reporting to: Kigoma Programme Manager
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:Manage all aspects of the project which seeks to increase birth companionship during delivery in supported facilities in Kigoma. The manager will oversee the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the project and ensure the expected goals of the project are achieved by the end of project.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:Planning:
- The manager will support a research firm to conduct the end-line evaluation at the end of the project to understand women’s childbirth experience – both from the perspective of the laboring woman and from the health providers assisting in the delivery.
- Conduct workshop to develop a birth companionship ‘Code of Good Practice’ which will lay out the rights, roles, and responsibilities of all the people supporting the women delivering at facilities.
- Facilitate workshops for health providers at facilities to introduce birth companionship including the developed ‘Code of Good Practice’.
- Oversee the identification, recruitment and training of on-call birth companions.
- In collaboration with the Communication Manager, ensure the promotion of birth companionship through developing and implementing a strategic, multi-media communication campaign to explain and promote birth companionship.
- Oversee maternity ward improvements to accommodate birth companions in delivery rooms in the supported facilities.
- Build a good environment of collaboration at the facilities among health providers, delivering women and birth companions to ensure birth companionship practice leads to more satisfaction to delivering women.
- Advocate at the regional, district and community levels to allow and promote practice of birth companionship in the health facilities.
- Provide and coordinate other technical assistance for implementation as may be needed.
- Supervise two birth companionship project coordinators, ensure they work with well defined goals, support them in implementation of their activities, evaluate their performance and develop their skills as needed.
- Ensure the project activities are implemented according to the work plan and budget
- Conduct field visits up to 40% of time to monitor project activities.
- Ensure all needed data is collected, processed and analyzed. The manager will use the lessons learnt from the results of analyzed data to continually improve the project performance.
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EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
How to apply: Email your curriculum vitae and cover letter, along with the names, email addresses, and phone numbers of three professional references, to info@thaminiuhai.or.tz
Closing Date: 19th May 2017
- Degree in medicine, nursing or public health with at least five years of working experience. A Masters degree in public health will be an added advantage.
- Experience in the following needed: supervising staff, health project management including project report writing, organizing and facilitating participatory trainings, working with rural communities, working with health workers and/or local government officials.
- Experience in the following areas preferred: strengthening service delivery at health facilities; gender issues; maternal and reproductive health; behavior change communication (BCC); community-based health programs.
- Proven experience in managing data collection, processing and analysis as well as monitoring and evaluation preferred.
- Good organizational skills
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to develop working relationships with a wide range of people including project staff, communities, health providers (e.g., nurses), donors, partners and government leaders.
- Fluent in English and Kiswahili.
- Ability to solve problems and make decisions.
- Willingness and ability to travel frequently in rural Kigoma.
- Strong computer knowledge in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
How to apply: Email your curriculum vitae and cover letter, along with the names, email addresses, and phone numbers of three professional references, to info@thaminiuhai.or.tz
Closing Date: 19th May 2017
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