Gender & Community Engagement Officer Job at Ifakara Health Institute

• Provide technical support in implementing malaria case management strategies and interventions at the community level.
• Coordinate efforts to implement integrated community-based case management (iCCM) in Katavi, including training of CORPs, supervision and mentorship, and reporting on progress.
• In collaboration with RHMT, CHMTs and other project staff, implement and monitor strategies to improve community knowledge, attitudes and practices towards malaria prevention, case management (CM), and Malaria in Pregnancy (MiP) services.
• Contribute to the design and development of community and gender strategies and tools for the project.
• Support the execution of gender analysis to identify barriers to the uptake of malaria services across population groups.
• Provide leadership in rolling out community digital applications to facilitate community malaria services.
• Support scoping and feasibility assessments for iCCM data management including electronic data transmission.
• Collaborate with the SBC officer in implementing community mobilization and sensitization activities.
• Participate in the identification and building capacity of local organizations and community structures to implement community-based activities.
• Implement program strategies to promote accountability for access to quality malaria services from the community to facility levels, such as community score card and community dialogue.
• Coordinate and implement service delivery strategies for accessing hard-to-reach populations, including outreaches, and identification of opportunities to integrate malaria services with nonhealth sectors (such as agriculture, education, environment, economic reform, and private sector enterprises).
• Coordinate work planning and reporting on program progress at the regional level in areas of community engagement and gender.
• Engage R/CHMTs to facilitate evidence-based planning for malaria community activities within CCHPs.
• Ensure that national standards, policies and guidance on community programming are properly implemented within local context to meet the project needs in Katavi.
• Document and share lessons learned and success stories during the implementation of community Malaria activities.
• Work closely with the Data Manager, and Monitoring and Evaluation Officers to ensure community data is properly collected, analyzed and reported.

Qualification and Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in public health, community development, sociology or other relevant fields.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in implementing community health programs.
• Experience working with donor-funded projects and local government authorities
• Current knowledge in the field of malaria and/or maternal and child health.
• Prior in participatory methods to engage communities for positive health behavior.

METHOD OF APPLICATION

All candidates who meet the above job requirements should send their application letters together with their detailed curriculum vitae (CVs) showing contact addresses including email, telephone/cell phone numbers and copies of academic and professional certificates to the email address below.

The deadline for this application is 23:59hrs on Tuesday, October 11^th, 2022. All e-mail application subject lines should include: GENDER & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT OFFICER – TMSA. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for an interview. 

Human Resources Manager

IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE

#5 Ifakara Street Plot 463 Mikocheni

P.O. Box 78,373

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Email: [email protected]

Application Deadline: 11th October 2022.