Deadline of this Job: 18 September 2022
JOB DETAILS: Position Summary
• Data Clerk for COVID-19 Vaccination Project will support data entry activities, daily report compilation and verification. Under the supervision of the Pharmacy Technician, Data Clerk will support vaccination related activities at the Facility and Community. He/She will work closely with the COVID-19 vaccination team and strategic information teams in the respective Districts and Central to ensure allCOVID-19 vaccination data are entered in Chanjocovid systems, and monitoring and reporting activities are implemented in accordance to approved plans.
• Minimum Diploma in Computer Science, Monitoring & Evaluation, Statistics, or related field
• Minimum 1 year experience with data systems, Data entry, collection, verification and reporting for National Monitoring Programs or HIV programs in Tanzania
• Familiarity with Ministry of Health data systems
• Excellent computer skills, at minimum with Microsoft Office package including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access
• Ability to maintain confidentiality regarding clients’ health status and sensitive information contained in data sources.
• Flexibility to work after normal working hours and weekends and travel extensively to remote areas
Equal Employement Opportunity (Eeo) Statement:
• Aga Khan Health Service, Tanzania (AKHST) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. By embracing diverse skills, perspectives, and ideas, we choose to lead. Applicants from all age, sex, religion, race, national origin, and individuals with disabilities are strongly encouraged.
Duty Stations:
• Dar es Salaam and Mwanza the incumbents should be willing to travel in Project target areas which include Dar es Salaam, Mwanza, Arusha, Morogoro Coastal and Tabora.
Deadline of this Job: 16 September 2022
JOB DETAILS: Institute Overview
• Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) is a leading research organization in Africa with a strong track record in developing, testing and validating innovations for health. Driven by a core strategic mandate for research, training and services, the Institute’s work now spans a wide spectrum, covering biomedical and ecological sciences, intervention studies, health-systems research, service delivery and policy translation.
Position Summary
• Ifakara Health Institute is seeking a Social Worker to take the position of Research Officer. The Officer will provide support for the community engagement activities. The individual will closely with the Project Leader and the community engagement team to promote awareness and, carry out our sensitization activities to the community under the study.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Conduct quantitative and qualitative research.
• Data collection, analysis, and management.
• Enhance protection and benefits; create legitimacy, and share the responsibility that is facilitated through the incorporation of a community’s views and its participation in research.
• Engaging the community in discussions that will increase everyone’s level of awareness, allowindividuals to advocate for their ideas, and offers a format to gather advice or guidance based on the community’s expertise and experiences.
• Engage the community at the beginning and throughout the project, to be more receptive to the outcome, implement change, and maintain long-term partnerships with the community.
• Support study and field coordinators in planning, organizing, and coordinating study workincluding establishing and maintaining linkages with participating health facilities in the field andother key community stakeholders.
• Assist the study coordinator in maintaining the site investigator’s file.
• Support in sensitization and recruitment of the intended clinical trials and any other activities related to the community engagement process.
• Provide support to the project leader on proposal development, data collection, analysis, andmanagement.
• Monitor participants’ satisfaction and complaints through the systematic collection of their views using customized feedback forms and liaise with the relevant study staff to address any concerns.
• Assist in training of staff involved in research on the use of data collection tools such as interview guides.
• Perform other duties assigned by the supervisor.
Qualification and Experience
• A Degree in Social Work or equivalent.
• The applicant must be conversant with clinical research activities.
Skills and Competencies
• Knowledge and interest in community engagement activities.
• Good communication skills – both written and verbal.
• Good organization skills and attention to detail.
• Team working spirit as well as the ability to work independently.
• Adherence to IHI core values (Transparency, Responsibility, Integrity, Respect, and Initiative)
Deadline of this Job: 14 September 2022
JOB DETAILS: For every child, commitment.
The Tanzania Country Office is a large Country Programme which operates in a challenging and sensitive economic and political environment. The office has 4 Sub offices and a total 158 staff and over 30 consultants. The office, with an annual budget of over US$ 70 million works with over 149 Government partners and 67 Civil Society organizations. Tanzania is a DAO country for the United Nations, an initiative that aims at a more unified and coherent UN structure and UNICEF takes the lead in most of the initiatives including the CBO and also leads the Admin & common premises, Supply and Procurement working groups.
The main outcome of the assignment is to assess the functionality and implementation of all UNICEF relevant program requirements including, HACT quality assurance activities, peer review and audit recommendation/implementation and sustenance, program monitoring, internal control compliance, budget and funds monitoring, and enterprise risk management.
How can you make a difference?
Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative Operations the Risk and Compliance Specialist will be responsible for strengthening risk assurance and compliance efforts, assessing programmatic and operational risks and challenges which require management attention, guidance and decision in making sure that resources are continuously, effectively and efficiently geared towards achieving results for children.
This role will bring together all the components of risks managements in programmes and operations, including the management of implementing partnership under HACT.
Risk and Compliance Specialist will be responsible to ensure that key management, operational and programmatic risks are systematically identified, reviewed holistically, integrated and managed effectively to inform management, operational and programmatic decisions within the UNICEF TCO.
He/She will be responsible for providing complementary support, and monitoring related to the management of risk, including but not limited to the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of risk management practices at a process, systems, and TCO level.
He/she will ensure the achievement of risk management objectives follows organizational rules and regulations, and acceptable ethical behavior; internal controls; information and technology security; sustainability; and quality assurance. Moreover, he/she will provide analysis and report on the adequacy and effectiveness of risk management and internal controls.
Key functions, accountabilities and related duties/tasks
1. Risk management support
• Support the office management team in the annual risk assessment process and monitor reliability of reports and their compliance with applicable rules and regulations.
• Ensure the monitoring of risk mitigation action plans including a mid-term review.
• Lead the office peer reviews process, undertake visits to project sites and field offices to verify the quality of performance.
• Ensure the risk management approach is embedded in any project/proposal, in office governance committees’ review of submissions and in any major decision made by the management.
2. Compliance support
• Review the office systems, procedures and processes for compliance with organizational rules and regulations.
• Enforce and strengthen internal controls to ensure that systems are in place to prevent, detect and report non-compliance. Support the process for the preparation of the annual Statement of Internal Control (SIC) by the office.
• Review internal work processes in Programme and Operations to ensure that accountabilities are clear and placed at the adequate levels as per global policies and/or best practices.
• Establish a risk-based system to periodically and systematically review a sample of activities (Programme and Operations) to ensure they are carried out according to established work processes and in compliance with UNICEF policies and Procedures.
• Ensure smooth preparedness of internal and external audit, conduct a quality assurance and follow-up on the implementation of the recommendations and provides feedback to the management.
• Periodically test compliance with the Table of authority and adherence to the delegation of authorities in line with UNICEF policies and Procedures; and ensure staff understand the roles and responsibilities delegated to them.
• Review the conformity of statutory and non-statutory committees, assess committee members have been trained/oriented on their roles and responsibility.
3. Fraud risk Management support
• Support the management of the office in collecting evidence to respond to OIAI’s queries when initially assessing allegations of fraud and misconduct or during actual investigations.
• Advise the management on lessons learned from investigations and measures to be taken accordingly.
• Ensure the implementation of the global anti-fraud strategy, suggest internal fraud prevention mechanisms and alert the management on any fraudulent issues as well as unethical behaviors detected.
• Lead the process of Fraud risk training / orientation to staff, Partners and suppliers.
4. Oversight and advisory to the Management
• Serve as a secretary to the risk management task force for the TCO,
• Help advise the management on actions to be taken to enforce and strengthen accountabilities for a robust, responsive and transparent governance framework.
• Contribute to effective management process by participating in key governance meetings (particularly CMT, PMT and OMT).
• Coordinate Risk assessment and control activities with other UN agencies by representing the office in meetings related to Risks and Compliance activities.
5. Create awareness/capacity building
• Establish a system to document and report weaknesses in internal control and implement actions aimed at addressing internal controls gaps (SOP, NFR, memos…) and building the capacity of responsible staff.
• Analyze cause and effect of policy changes to the operations of the office, anticipate changes and advise on the new way of doing business.
• Support the implementation of a continuous learning and development plan for the Risk and Compliance function.
• Ensure that management provides staff with access to relevant training and that staff and other personnel understand key UNICEF policies including PSEA, Fraud and Ethics, etc.
6. Any support needed
• Support and perform duties as might be required by the supervisor and management from time to time
Risk & Compliance Specialist, (P3) Job Vacancy at UNICEF
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Education:
• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher*) in Business Administration or Financial Management, Operations Management, Strategic Management, Risk Management, Audit, Investigation, Internal Control, Statistics and Data Analysis or Accounting certifications are considered as assets.
*A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
Experience:
• At least 5 (five) years of professional work experience in Risk and Compliance, or another directly relevant area, several of which in internal control and or audit. Experience in financial management, particularly developing and implementing financial control systems, ERM, audits, internal control preferably with international organizations, NGOs and UN.
Language required:
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language or local language of the duty station is considered as an asset
Other skills:
• Emotional Intelligence
• Managing complexity and change
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, 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), Drive 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 committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.
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 also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. 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.
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/
This position is open to non-Tanzanians and open to internal and external candidates.
Deadline of this Job: 14 September 2022
JOB DETAILS: Responsibilities
• Enter data, run output reports from data bases and cross-check with data sources to make sure that data are accurate.
• Assist the data manager in keeping records of all the forms collected from field activities file completed forms in organized manner Enter data, run output reports from data bases and cross- check with data sources to make sure that data are accurate.
• Ensure all data are routinely entered into the data base and updated
• Ensuring data quality through reviewing of all data collection forms submitted to the office by field officers and other data collectors particularly, health unit’s staff, CHWs and identifying the errors and working with data collectors to ensure that the errors are timely addressed.
• Ensuring data and field level are collected according to EpiC guidelines, well kept at all levels, analyzed and results shared with data manager.
• Conducting data verification and periodic data audits to ensure data quality at all times
Required Qualifications
• Certificate, Diploma, or Degree in Information Technology, health information and statistics
• Additional training in Monitoring and Evaluation, community mobilization, counseling is of added advantages.
Required experience:
• Experience in HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment Programming.
• Community health experiences and capacities.
• Ability of Community Health Work, Health Committees (villages Health committees, Ward Development committees, Health facilities committees) etc.
• Ability to build relationship with Key Vulnerable Populations (KVP) groups at community levels.
• Able to work with Health staff at different district council levels.
• Computer literacy is highly required.
• Able to timely collect, compilation and data analysis as required by the EpiC.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
Deadline of this Job: 16 September 2022
JOB DETAILS: 4 Research Assistants
We are looking for motivated individuals to fill the position of Research Assistant for the Multilink research project at the Muhimbili National Hospital Emergency Department. The research project aims to design and test a system to identify patients suffering from multimorbidity during the emergency assessment to optimize immediate treatment and ensure post-discharge linkage to appropriate care. This position offers clinical research experience for those interested in pursuing a clinical career.
Job Responsibilities
• Perform measurements and collect medical data
• Perform measurements and collect medical data
• Provide support for research staff
• Select a place to conduct interviews and obtain permission from all participants
• Recruit, schedule and conduct interviews
• Write reports to summaries data and the implications of the results
• Maintain accurate records of interviews, safeguarding the confidentiality of subjects, as necessary
• Perform other duties and responsibilities that project supervisors may assign
Skills and Experiences
• Sound organizational and data management skills, and the ability to handle several responsibilities and work under tight time constraints
• Ability to use tact, discretion, and sound judgement when dealing with confidential information
• Basic computer skills using MS Office applications, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Spreadsheets
• At least One (1) year of experience in conducting qualitative and quantitative research activities
Qualifications
• Holder of diploma or bachelor's degree in one of the following fields: Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy or Medical Laboratory who has completed an internship and registered by a reputable council.
Deadline of this Job: 15 September 2022
JOB DETAILS: Senior Data Manager
Duties and Responsibilities
• Set up the various data systems associated with the Activity.
• Contribute to the design and programming of the data collection tools.
• Develop the data management and analysis plan together with the Activity team.
• Set up Activity monitoring dashboards to monitor data collected from the field.
• Conduct regular data quality checks and data cleaning.
• Liaise with the district-based teams to resolve any data discrepancies.
• Develop technical manuals, SOPs and training materials for the data-related components of the Activity.
• Build capacity of R/CHMTs and health care workers in data collecting quality data, analysis, interpretation and use for improvement
• Together with the IT coordinator, monitor adherence to standards related to data security, including user access and database documentation, performing backup and recovery of program databases.
• Together with the IT coordinator, troubleshoot technical problems and escalate issues that could potentially impact timelines and deliverables of the Activity.
• Maintain collaborations with local institutions to ensure that the tools of the TMSA integrate with the eHealth vision of Tanzania (e.g., interoperability and data exchange with the national HMIS and/or Electronic Medical Records system).
• Participate in data analysis and report writing.
• Regularly report on the progress of assigned tasks to the Activity team.
• Perform other additional job-related duties as assigned by the supervisor.
Qualification and Experience
• A Master’s in Computer Science/Information Technology/Health Informatics or Statistics.
• 5 years of experience with data systems, programming, and analytic experience (experience in the health sector with health information systems would be an asset).
Skills and Competencies
• Knowledge and interest in IT and computer systems.
• Knowledge of SQL language (querying and manipulating), and a good understanding of relational databases.
• Experience with one or more programming languages such as R, STATA or Python (experience with data visualization tools would be an asset).
• Experience with data management, including quality-checking, cleaning, anonymizing, dispatching, and backing up.
• Proactive attitude, including willingness to learn new technologies and skills quickly.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Good communication skills – both written and verbal.
• Good organization skills and attention to detail.
• Team working spirit as well as the ability to work independently.
• Excellent communication skills in English and Swahili, both spoken and written.
• Willingness to sometimes travel to implementation areas, which could be remote.
Remuneration
• An attractive and competitive remuneration package will be offered to successful candidates as per IHI salary scales.
Equal Opportunity
• IHI is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit intentional biases or discrimination and harassment of any kind at the work place and during recruitment. All employment decisions are based solely on job requirements and individual qualifications, and our recruitment process is governed by the labour laws of Tanzania.
Deadline of this Job: 15 September 2022
JOB DETAILS: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Reports To: Regional Manager, partly to the Senior M&E Officer
Duties and Responsibilities
• Assist the Senior M&E officer and MEL Director with the development of the M&E Plan for the TMSA project.
• Coordinate implementation of the TMSA monitoring system at the regional and district level.
• Coordinate M&E capacity building (e.g., training and mentorship of key implementers at the regional and district level).
• Work with regional and council teams to analyze and present M&E data as periodically and when requested by the region and/or Council(s).
• Familiarize with and manage USAID geographical information system (GIS) tool for reporting facilities reached by location.
• Undertake M&E advocacy at the Council level.
• Liaise with stakeholders concerning the implementation of TMSA monitoring systems.
• Perform data quality assessment (DQA) to ensure good quality data before submission.
• Promote data use during decision making and planning of interventions and use data for decision making.
• In collaboration with other TMSA M&E Team members manage program monitoring data dissemination at regional and council levels.
• Take lead in the compilation of regional level quarterly progress reports.
• Perform other duties as may be assigned by Regional Project Manager / Senior M&E / MEL Director.
Qualification and Experience
• A Bachelor’s degree in quantitative discipline (preferably in Social Science, Economics, or
• Statistics). A master’s degree will be an added advantage.
• At least 2-3 years of professional experience in the field of Monitoring and Evaluation.
Skills and Competencies
• Knowledge of major quantitative & qualitative monitoring methodologies and proven ability to design monitoring instrumentation tools and plans.
• Excellent coordination and communication skills gained through experience in the supervision of monitoring field staff.
• Proven technical skills in M&E technology applications.
• Broad experience in the design and implementation of capacity building activities in M&E.
• High level of proficiency in Windows Excel and/ or Statistical Software (SPSS, STATA).
• Excellent analytical skills combined with a proactive, energetic approach to problem solving.
• Demonstrated skills in quantitative and qualitative data analysis, data management and report writing.
• Strong ability of writing and public speaking skills with good command of English and Swahili.
• Good interpersonal and people management skills, a team player and builder.
Remuneration
• An attractive and competitive remuneration package will be offered to successful candidates as per IHI salary scales.
Equal Opportunity
• IHI is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit intentional biases or discrimination and harassment of any kind at the work place and during recruitment. All employment decisions are based solely on job requirements and individual qualifications, and our recruitment process is governed by the labour laws of Tanzania.