WaterAid Tanzania seeks to recruit dynamic candidates to fill the Program Manager, Public Health Position that plays a vital role in our mission to make clean water, decent toilets, and excellent hygiene normal for everyone, everywhere, by 2030.
Job purpose:
The Program Manager, Public Health, will provide thought leadership, strategic advice, and support on WASH and public health programming. S/he will work collaboratively with other specialists across the wider WaterAid Tanzania Country Program to embed knowledge and approaches on WASH and public health. In order to deliver WAT’s public health aim, s/he will develop a public health and WASH policy and program concepts, identify and ensure the delivery of relevant research, advocacy, and campaign initiatives, provide technical support for program development and fund raising, and ensure adherence to PMER core procedures in all relevant and related areas of public health and WASH work, including periodic reflection, review, and learning.
To be successful, you will need the following:
Essential:
- Master’s degree in public health or relevant discipline
- Minimum 7 years of experience in similar managerial roles
- Experience and understanding of working modes in the health sector.
- Experience in WASH or public health program delivery and coordination of
program/project. - Competency in WaterAid common approaches to work, including partnerships,
convening, inclusion, systems strengthening, creating behavioral change, and
mainstreaming gender and inclusion of youth. - Ability to create networks between central government ministries, local
governments and stakeholders that further sustain behavioral change
interventions. - Good communication skills in written and verbal English with good
interpersonal, negotiating, and persuasive skills and experience - Possess IT skills, specifically in MS Word, Excel, and Outlook.
Desirable:
- Have extensive experience conducting research on public health and WASH development issues.
- Excellent skill in community consultation, organizing group discussions with
different and diverse group of people, field observation, interviewing with
Responsible for managing people and facilitating meetings both internally and externally. - Ability to work flexibly, to manage varying competing priorities under your own
initiative, meet strict deadlines. - Ability to design, manage, and evaluate behavioral change interventions.
- Experience in managing and supporting staff or volunteers.
- Experience of working effectively within a culturally diverse and matrix
organization.
We are looking to attract people who share a commitment to our vision, people with an appreciation and respect for different people and ideas, and the energy and expertise to help tackle the most important challenges. In return, you can expect to get inspiration from the change you help make happen—a sense of belonging and the feeling of being part of a global community. You will also experience stimulation and fulfilment, the chance to grow, and space to be yourself at your best. This is our pledge to you
We celebrate the diversity of our staff, partners, and everyone with whom we work to create a culture where everyone feels respected, included, and can be their best.
If you are interested in these positions and have the right skills and attributes, please visit wateraid.org/tz/work-with-us to download job descriptions and an application form. Send your job application form to [email protected], stating the title of the applied post in the subject line.
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