Doctors with Africa CUAMM,Nutrition Expert – Program Manager for Ruvuma Jobs in Tanzania

Project
title:The
Next Generation Programme – Integrated Promotion of Nutrition, Growth &
Development

Expected
outputs:

• Successful
  integrated treatment of SAM & prevention of stunting from facility to
  community
• Increased
  KAP on healthy pregnancy and feeding practices through evidence-based
  social and behavior change communication during the ANC period
• Generate
  evidence and create enabling sub-national environment for delivery of
  innovative nutrition services

Specific
tasks:
The program manager is responsible for:

• Implementation
  of the activities foreseen by the project at regional level
• Coordination
  of project team and partners
• Maintaining
  and develop relation with local health authorities
• Ensuring
  timely project reports
• Actively
  collaborate to data collection, operational research, surveys and evidence
  generation activities

Main
activities areas:

• Integrating
  services for chronic and severe acute malnutrition from community to
  Health Units
• Strengthening
  capacity of Community Health Workers to deliver nutrition services to
  prevent stunting across the lifecycle
• Improving
  availability collection, quality and analysis of monitoring data at
  district, facility and community level
• Increase
  awareness on birth preparedness, behaviour change promotion, awareness
  raising on appropriate feeding practices by addressing identified barriers
  through KAP survey on healthy nutrition and care behaviours
• Improving
  budgeting, planning and monitoring at regional and district level
• Generating
  evidence on integrated delivery at scale, and on an adapted SAM treatment
  protocol to informing policy and scale-up planning
• Piloting
  low-tech beneficiary-level feedback tool to collect information on service
  availability and quality

Start date:middle of September
Cotract:
12 months (renewable)

Required
qualifications and experience

• Degree
  in Health Sciences (ex. Medicine, Biology) and possibly qualification (ex
  diploma or postgraduate) in Nutrition
• A
  minimum of 3 years’ experience as Program Manager of developing project
  possibly on nutrition programs and particularly on chronic malnutrition
• Proven
  experience in designing and implementing a behaviour change communication (BCC)
  package, possibly in nutrition
• Proven
  experience in programming and implementing training
• Experience
  in conducting surveys, barrier analysis and KAP studies
• Languages:
  excellent English written and spoken; Kiswahili will be an advantage
• Good
  facilitation skills
• Excellent
  interpersonal and communication skills
• Willing,
  able and interested to work as part of a team

Submit an updated CV
and cover letter to: risorseumane@cuamm.org
specifying in the object CUAMM/TANZ/R
Only
shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Selection interviews will take place at Cuamm HQ in Italy (Padua) or at Country
offices in Angola, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania
and Uganda; the NGO does not cover travel expenses for selection.
NGO website: www.mediciconlafrica.org/en