Location: United Republic of Tanzania, Dares Salaam and Shinyanga
The American Red Cross (ARC) Tanzania office is currently seeking a Health Delegate who will assist the Tanzania Red Cross Society (TRCS) in the start-up and implementation of a 3 year, $1 million/year integrated AIDS project including home based care, OVC programming, counseling and testing and youth prevention education. The Health Delegate will spend about 40% of his/her time in Dar-es-Salaam and 60% in the region of Shinyanga.
Responsibilities include:
Ensuring successful implementation of the new integrated HIV/AIDS project, as well as ongoing USAID funded youth peer education project, through building the capacity of the TRCS by providing technical assistance in the following areas: community mobilization volunteer management behavior change communication project planning and implementation monitoring and evaluation program reporting donor compliance
Required Qualifications:
- Master's degree in public health or related discipline and a minimum of five years work experience
- Must have technical knowledge and experience in youth HIV prevention programs with additional experience in at least one of the following areas: HBC, OVC, Mobile Counseling and Testing
- High degree of competence in planning, project design, monitoring and evaluation, financial management, especially management/reporting of US Government grants
- Strong project management skills and ability to coach and train local staff.
- Experience leading proposal development and other business development activities Solid communication and writing skills with computer literacy in Word and Excel.
- Fluency in English and Swahili
- Must display flexibility, adaptability, initiative and a high degree of competence in team building, teamwork and a commitment to the Red Cross principles.
- Must possess strong personal integrity and ability to adapt to changing situations
