Micronutrient Initiative Careers in Africa
3.3 External Relations
Build and maintain good collaborative relations with Ministry of Health, other government agencies, UN agencies, and NGOs, as appropriate to promote information sharing and effective coordination of effort to improve and sustain effective and efficient adolescent and women health and nutrition program.
Represent MI at national and regional fora relevant the interventions implemented in the country.
Keep up to date with developments in adolescent, maternal and child health and nutrition and micronutrient supplementation issues.
In the event of additional funding opportunities arising for MI to carry out wok in country, support the Country Director and External Relations team at regional level with gathering of relevant information for proposal development.
Document and share with the ER team field stories and lessons learned from projects.
3.4 Research and Evaluation
Participate in the design of research and evaluation activities and work closely with researchers and external evaluators to ensure research and evaluations exercises are feasible, responds to project and MoH needs and is disseminated in timely fashion.
Support the dissemination of research and program evaluation findings in Tanzania and elsewhere with the view to inform available new information and improved practices.
Any other related duties.
4. Supervisory Responsibilities:
Supervise Program Assistant (PO7)
5. Education / Professional Designations / Experience:
Education
At a minimum, a Masters degree from a recognized university in Public Health, Reproductive Health, Community Health or Nutrition.
Training in epidemiology and research methodologies preferred.
Post graduate certificate in project management will be added advantage
Experience
At least 10 years’ experience working in adolescent, maternal and child health, public health and nutrition /or related field in Tanzania or the Sub Saharan Africa.
At least 5 years of experience in supervising child and women health and nutrition programs.
At least 5 years of experience in donor funded program/project implementation/supervision, monitoring and evaluation.
Experience with micronutrient supplementation programs for adolescent, women and pregnant mothers desirable.
6. Language Skills
Good spoken and written English
Fluency in Kiswahili
7. Travel Requirements
Based in Dar es Salam ; around 25-30% of time will be spent travelling in Tanzania with occasional travel outside Tanzania.
8. Other Specific Skill Requirements:
Excellent interpersonal skills
Excellent IT skills
Very good presentation skills
Excellent team working skills
Integrity
How to Apply:
Please forward your resume and cover letter to africahr@micronutrient.org quoting Job# 2016-TAN-07 in the subject line.
Competition closes November 14, 2016.
Please note that this position is located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
17. Country Director Job in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Job#: 2016-ETH-25
Reports to / Position Title: Deputy Regional Director, Africa
Reports indirectly to / Position Title: Regional Director, Africa
2. Overall Purpose / Broad Function: To lead the management of relations with the Government of Ethiopia and with other key local stakeholders, the work of the country team in developing, mobilizing resources for, managing, monitoring and reporting on MI-supported programs in Ethiopia, and to manage MI’s country operations including ongoing compliance with legal and financial regulations in the country.
He/she ensures that the programs of MI Ethiopia are aligned effectively with both the priorities of the Ethiopia government and with MI’s priorities.
3. Key Duties and Responsibilities:
3.1 External Relations: lead the external representation of MI at external meetings, lead the process of building, maintaining and strengthening relationships with key stakeholders (including Federal, Provincial and District Government, private sector, donors, NGOs, academia and communities), and seek opportunities:
Profiling: to enhance the profile of MI and its work in Ethiopia, in the region and globally.
Positioning: to position MI with stakeholders as a key actor in nutrition and public health, including representation of MI on national (and as needed at international) conferences/fora and playing an active role on national level task forces and alliances.
Influencing: to engage in policy advocacy
both directly and/or in partnership with others so as to influence Government policies and investments by partners and donors.
Coordinating: to ensure that MI programming activities are harmonized with those of others and facilitate government leadership and ownership in line with the Paris Principles.
Opportunities: to identify opportunities for MI to leverage and mobilize additional resources to expand the work of MI.
Stewarding: to ensure that staff of donors to MI (who are based in Ethiopia) are kept well informed of progress on MI programs, and are appropriately recognized for their support.
3.2 Planning and Program Development: lead the country team in
(a) maintaining a thorough knowledge of the local landscape in terms of unmet national needs and opportunities for MI to have impact
(b) generating new ideas, initiatives and strategies to achieve additional impact.
Specifically, to lead the country team in:
Landscape analyses: consulting with key stakeholders, documenting needs, trends, relevant new developments and opportunities, and sharing knowledge with country, regional and HQ colleagues.
Negotiating MI’s role: consulting with key stakeholders to define MI’s scope of work, and general arrangements for steering and oversight of planned programming activities.
Innovation: encouraging innovation and entrepreneurial thinking in program development.
Planning: developing and proposing costed plans for programming activities with expected results (country implementation plans, annual operational plans and/or other planning documents as required) which are informed by, and responsive to, needs and opportunities in the local landscape.
Budgeting and Targets: propose country budgets and results targets on the basis of the costed plans.
Documentation: ensure that all planned and expected programming activities, costs and results with timelines are recorded and maintained up to date in MI’s systems (contracts database; BOARD; Sharepoint etc).
3.3 Program Management: Oversee the management of grant funded programming activities in Ethiopia so as to achieve agreed results, program quality and disbursement targets within agreed timelines.
In close consultation with relevant staff (including subject matter experts or other advisors) in Regional and HQ Office, lead, guide and oversee the work of the country team in:
Developing enabling agreements: consulting with key stakeholders and collaborating partners to agree management arrangements for planned programming activities, including drafting Memoranda of Understanding or other documents that clarify the relative roles and expectations of MI and of other partners.
Developing specifications for goods and services: drafting the scope of work, terms of reference and terms and conditions for invitations (including RFPs; RFQs etc) to vendors (individuals, institutions or suppliers) to submit proposals to MI to provide goods and/or services needed for MI programming activities and for delivering required results.
Identification of resources: identifying potential vendors with the capability and capacity to offer required goods and services.
Procurement and selection: overseeing and managing the process of procurement and selection of vendors in compliance with MI’s Policies and Procedures, and in close consultation with collaborating partners.
Negotiating agreements: negotiating agreement TORs and terms with vendors.
Briefing and inception: ensuring that all vendors are appropriately briefed and that they clearly understand their specifications/TOR, reporting requirements, activities, process, deliverables, milestones and standards.
Performance management: monitoring the performance of vendors against agreements and negotiating corrective actions by vendors as needed to ensure that deliverables, milestones and standards are met; assessing value for money obtained from vendors.
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