New Jobs at Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) Tanzania - August 2023

JOB TITLE: Senior Program Officer – Haydom Lutheran Hospital Dares Salaam 

Background:

Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) has managed a grant from the Norwegian government to Haydom Lutheran Hospital (HLH) in Manyara Region since 2015. NCA is currently administering the two-year grant agreement with NORAD, which runs from 2023 to 2024. The grant's overarching objective is to maintain the quality, accessibility, and affordability of healthcare services in the communities served by HLH.


While assisting the hospital in achieving institutional and financial sustainability. In addition to grants management, NCA provides the hospital with capacity development in the following areas: a) Hospital leadership and management, b) Health Sector Policy Advocacy, c) Hospital governance reform, d) Clinical services monitoring, and e) Replication of HLH innovations in Safer Births in the catchment area, nationally, and to other relevant NCA Country Programs in Africa. NCA facilitates support from pertinent experts and networks in order to accomplish these sub-project objectives. This includes assistance from the Christian Social Service Commission (CSSC) but is not limited to it.


NCA is seeking a structured, results-oriented individual with exceptional program management skills and experience in health systems management, health financing, and the sustainability of health facilities in Tanzania. Some familiarity with social protection and gender programming is a plus. The chosen candidate will coordinate the implementation of the Norad grant agreement and facilitate the implementation of the sub-project agreement between HLH and NCA for the 2023-2024 fiscal year.


Job description

  2. Programme Advisor: Assist HLH in ensuring effective program implementation. Review program plans, develop budgets and proposals, and provide project support, monitoring, and report writing. In 2023-2024, the focus of the programmatic intervention will be on the quantifiable improvement of HLH's financial sustainability.
  3. Advocacy for health financing: Assist HLH in advocating effectively with Tanzanian authorities, including advising and equipping NCA with pertinent information to facilitate advocacy with relevant Norwegian stakeholders.
  4. Cooperation: Strengthen networking and partnerships in support of HLH with relevant stakeholders, including organizing and participating in relevant forums for dialogue and learning, and establishing working partnerships that include relevant Tanzanian government authorities, the Norwegian Embassy in Dar es Salaam, and relevant government authorities.
  5. Communication: Advise HLH on communication strategy and content, especially to enable HLH's financial sustainability and to increase the visibility of HLH's activity and brand.
  6. Resource Mobilization: Support HLH's initiatives to mobilize resources locally and globally. Including pursuing opportunities with potential partners through networks, forums, and collaborations.
  7. Support the development of HLH digital systems and governance

The selected candidate must be available for travel on short notice and travel between 70-90 days per year primarily to Haydom Lutheran Hospital in Manyara.

Qualifications and working experience

  • Tanzanian national with a master’s degree in health management, Business Development, Project Management, Administration, or related, relevant topics from a recognized learning institution.
  • Minimum 5 years of relevant management experience from public health, or International Health NGO in Tanzania. Knowledge and understanding of health systems and health financing in Tanzania is a requirement. International experience and knowledge of health sector donors in Tanzania is an advantage.
  • Skills in developing Funding proposals and funds raising concepts and papers Experience in advocacy on health or social protection policy in Tanzania
  • Good knowledge of the health sector and centers of excellence, which can provide relevant capacity development, training, or support services to HLH.
  • Experience with faith-based social services is an advantage.
  • Excellent communication skills (oral and written, English and Swahili).
  • Confident user of MS Office (incl. Excel and PowerPoint).
  • Timely deliveries and good time management are expected.
  • Ability to work in a multi-cultural setting and to interrelate with relevant stakeholders both at the national and sub-national levels. Professional interaction with the NCA head office in Norway and relevant country offices in Africa is expected.

Personal qualities

  1. Systematic, structured, and result-oriented Energetic and enterprising
  2. Team player with good collaboration skills with flexibility to adapt to changing environments Ability to train and build capacity
  3. Good people skills, including relationship-building with donors
  4. The person who is to be employed has to be loyal to Norwegian Church Aid’s Christian values
  5. Duty Station and Remuneration
  6. The duty station is Mikocheni, Dar es Salaam.
  7. An attractive compensation package based on performance and consummate responsibility will apply to the successful candidate.

How to apply:

Send your application to the ncatz@nca.no email address. Electronic submissions are the only ones approved. Please specify in the subject line of your email the position for which you are applying. The application should include a concise cover letter and resume, totaling no more than four pages. Include your name and the position for which you are applying in the document's title. At this stage, certificates are irrelevant; however, they should be carried to the second round of interviews. Applications that do not meet these requirements or that are sent to other email addresses will be disregarded. Please consider your application declined if we do not respond. NCA reserves the right to decline an appointment or other form of contact.



The application deadline is 25th August 2023.