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Jhpiego Tanzania Jobs 2023
Overview
Jhpiego is an international non-profit health
organization affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University. For more than
46 years now, Jhpiego has empowered front-line health workers by
designing and implementing effective, iow-cost, hands-on solutions to
strengthen the delivery of health care services for women and their
families.
By putting evidence-based health innovations into everyday
practice, Jhpiego works to break down barriers to high-quality health
care for the world’s most vulnerable populations.
Jhpiego,
implementing a number of projects in Tanzania, wishes to recruit the
following positions below, available for immediate filling…
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Interns – Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant
Job ID 2023-5067
Location TZ-Arusha | TZ-Kilimanjaro | TZ-Singida | TZ-Zanzibar
Category International Positions
Employment Status Full-Time
Overview
The
Momentum Country and Global Leadership (MCGL) Tanzania program is
working hand in hand with the Government of Tanzania (GoT) through the
MOHDGEC-IVD unit with support from the United States Agency of
International Development (USAID) to increase COVID-19 vaccination
coverage of the highest priority populations; integrate COVID-19
vaccination activities into primary health care, and strengthen
immunisation program resiliency to reduce COVID-19 mortality and
morbidity and invigorate routine immunisation recovery efforts in
selected regions of Tanzania including, Arusha, Morogoro, Manyara,
Kilimanjaro, Kagera and Singida and Zanzibar.
Several activities
have been done to increase coverage and address barriers to increase
uptake address barriers related to low uptake, the skills gap in the
vaccine delivery strategies among healthcare providers, inefficient
community mobilisation and engagement, ineffective data entry into
electronic and paper-based systems as well inadequate access to
vaccination services to the community. However, more efforts should be
made to integrate COVID-19 and Routine immunisation to achieve the
target MCGL project, in collaboration with R/CHMT, conducts campaigns
and outreaches as an implementation approach to mobilise and accelerate
the uptake of vaccination services at community and facility levels.
Campaigns
and outreaches involve collecting and reporting a large number of data,
which necessitates regular field monitoring visits and follow-ups, and
carrying out data verification and quality assurance exercises. The
MCGL project wishes to offer monitoring and evaluations (M&E)
internships to develop interns’ capacity and support the Government in
the country’s scale-up of COVID-19 and RI vaccinations. The M&E
Interns will work closely with the MCGL Regional Technical Officers and
collaboratively with the regional and district teams to strengthen the
data entry and collection processes, data quality, data accuracy, data
integrity and reliability of data collected and reported.
Under
the mentorship of M&E assistants, will support the MCGL project to
conduct data quality and verification exercises in collaboration with
district and regional data focal persons. The M&E Interns will also
conduct financial compliance checks by verifying data linked to payments
of providers and community health care workers. In addition, the
M&E Interns will work to perform client, CHW and provider
verification exercises to ensure compliance with SOPs and verify
payments for performance principals. The M&E Intern will support the
data entry exercises to avoid data backlogs and offers mentorship
support to the ChanjoCovid system to providers and R/CHMTs.
In
collaboration with M/E assistants, M/E interns will conduct monitoring
visits in their workplace, ensure at least 20 health facilities are
visited by week, facilitate data quality and support the health
facilities in developing data improvement plans. The M/E interns will
also collaborate with the M/E assistants to prepare and present weekly
performances and support the technical team using analysed data to
inform the program implementation in their regions.
M/E interns
will also be responsible for writing activity reports and supporting
other program duties, including logistics in program management.
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Responsibilities
-
In collaboration with district counterparts, conduct regular field/site
monitoring visits, DQAs, client verification and follow-ups - Support
R/CHMT to collect and verify CHW and health care workers’ (HCW) daily
reporting forms, verify data reported in the vaccination registers,
verify data entered in the registers, and crosscheck the progress toward
achieving targets. - Review data weekly with R/CHMTs to ensure harmonisation of district-level and project data into national ChanjoCovid systems
- Supports the M&E Advisor in the development of district level COVID-19 and RI data visualizations dashboards
- In
collaboration with M/E Assistants, the Intern will conduct weekly
monitoring visits to at least 20 health facilities, conduct data
quality, and support the health facilities in developing data
improvement plans. - The M/E interns will also collaborate with
the M/E assistants to prepare and present weekly performances and
support the technical team using analysed data to inform the program
implementation in their regions. - Assist the M&E Assistants
in the data collection, triangulation and analysis of the required
weekly report per Donor required indicators - Support data
preparation for adaptive management meetings (e.g. data review meetings
and after-action reviews with the project team) - Be responsible for writing activity reports in all assigned tasks
- Support other program duties as assigned, including logistics in field-level program management.
NEW TANZANIAN JOBS, INTERNSHIPS AND VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES 2023 (1,475 POSTS)
Required Qualifications
- Must be a self-directed individual who has multi-tasking abilities
- Bachelor’s
degree in social sciences, humanities, quantitative/qualitative
research methods, public health, or any other related field; - six
months of relevant work experience in data collection and data entry,
preferably in health programming, social work, community development,
non-government, and/or any organisations - Fluent in English and Kiswahili, both written and spoken
- Proficient in MS Office applications, including Word, excel and power BI
- Ability to travel more than 50% of the staff time
- Experience working with MOH information systems and personnel is an added benefit
- Good analytical, oral and report-writing skills
- Self-motivated, proactive and have a positive attitude to work requiring minimum supervision
- Knowledge of using information systems. Knowledge of the Chanjocovid-19 system will be added advantage
- Good interpersonal skills and teamwork.
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Jhpiego,
a Johns Hopkins University affiliate, is an equal opportunity employer
and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status,
pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability,
religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran
status, other legally protected characteristics or any other
occupationally irrelevant criteria. Jhpiego promotes Affirmative Action
for minorities, women, individuals who are disabled, and veterans.
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