AED, an international not-for-profit development and health organization, seeks to recruit a Health Social Marketing Project Director for a proposed USAID funded social marketing project in Tanzania.
Tanzania Social Marketing Project (TSMP) seeks to support a nation-wide health social marketing and communications project in Tanzania whose goals are to aggressively expand the impact of targeted social marketing initiatives that are aligned to measurable behavioral outcomes in HIV/AIDS, family planning/ reproductive health, child survival, and malaria, and build local capacity (civil, public, and private) to sustain social marketing activities in Tanzania that serve to strengthen public health outcomes.
Position: Tanzania Health Social Marketing Project Director
Required skills and experience:
Tanzania Social Marketing Project (TSMP) seeks to support a nation-wide health social marketing and communications project in Tanzania whose goals are to aggressively expand the impact of targeted social marketing initiatives that are aligned to measurable behavioral outcomes in HIV/AIDS, family planning/ reproductive health, child survival, and malaria, and build local capacity (civil, public, and private) to sustain social marketing activities in Tanzania that serve to strengthen public health outcomes.
Position: Tanzania Health Social Marketing Project Director
Required skills and experience:
- Prior experience in managing national health social marketing (supply and demand) projects;
- experience in family planning/reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, malaria, maternal and child health from both a public health and private sector marketing perspective;
- working with and monitoring various distribution channels for product marketing, with an emphasis on the commercial private sector;
- expertise in both branded communications (product and or corporate) and unbranded behavioral change communications;
- demonstrated success in building capacity of developing country institutions;
- proven experience and personal disposition to work collaboratively with partners to achieve public health outcomes that includes donors, technical agencies, host country government (particularly drug regulatory authorities and Ministry of Health), civil society, and other non-government development agencies;
- project management experience (preferably as Chief of Party) on large donor funded projects, with a preference for USAID funded bilateral programs;
- prior recent work experience in Tanzanian market (preferred); if not East or Southern Africa is desired.
Additional required skills: Strong management and leadership ability; good collaborative and networking skills; excellent analytical and technical skills; good written and oral communication; and ability to mentor and work with diverse groups.
Position: Finance and Administration Director
The Finance & Administration Director will oversee all financial operations of the organization, including budgeting, corporate accounting and cash management for TSMP, as well as have overall responsibility for the management of human resources, administration and IT functions.
This is a senior position reporting to the Health Social Marketing Project Director and linked to programmatic elements, including cost recovery of socially marketed products and pricing issues.
Duties include preparation of statutory returns, management of contractors and legal engagements, management of travel advances, organization assets and other duties related
to fiduciary controls for the organization.
Other responsibilities are to train project staff and staff of collaborating institutions in finance and administration; design and administer a system that will track and support the reporting
of financial, technical, and personnel performance in the activities and deliverables of the programme; and develop and oversee systems for regular reporting on results and finances to AED/Washington.
Qualifications: Masters in Business Administration degree or related field; chartered accountant, CPA or equivalent; 5 years experience in a similar position, with strong preference for having managed a multimillion dollar donor program, preferably USAID; extensive and progressively more responsible experience working with statutory bodies of government and multilateral donors; knowledge of USAID reporting and contractual requirements, administration and capacity building.
Required skills: Excellent analytical skills, methodical approach and attention to detail; extensive knowledge of spreadsheet and accounting packages, especially QuickBooks and Microsoft Serenic Navision software; good written and oral communication; demonstrated leadership and ability to work independently, and as a team.
Qualified applicants: please send a cover letter and resume to proposals@aed.org by January 7th, 2010 with subject line as Tanzania Health Social Marketing Project Director or Finance and Administration Director.
We thank all individuals for their interest in AED; however only those selected for interviews will be contacted.
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