The Program Officer is responsible for providing support and technical
Elderly and Children (MOHCGEC) service providers in integrating family
planning services, with a focus on LAPRC and PMs into post-abortion care
(PAC) services. H/she will be responsible for providing technical
assistance to EngenderHealth’s Operationalizing Family Planning within
Post Abortion Care. The program officer will also represent EH Tanzania
at district and regional FP/PAC meetings and conferences.
The program officer will work with the project Manager in the Field
Office to develop strategies and activities to implement program
activities. He/she will provide technical programmatic assistance for
improving and expanding facility and community based FP/PAC activities,
and to identify strategies of improving linkages and referrals to higher
health facilities.
He/she will work closely with the districts, other team members and
MOHCGEC counterparts and other Implementing partners to ensure
consistent application of national family planning and post-abortion
care guidelines. H/she will promote and assist in the integration of FP
and PAC interventions with a focus to increase uptake of LARC among PAC
clients.
Key qualifications:
- Advanced diploma clinical medicine (AMO) with 3- 5 years of work experience or Registered Nurse Midwife or Clinical Officer with 5 years of work experience in Post-abortion care and Family Planning services.
- Proven experience in building capacity of clinical and non-clinical health providers and community-based health workers in maternal and child health care, FP/PAC integration, post-abortion family planning with a focus LARCs.
- Experience with community-based health care provision and promotion
- Familiarity with MOHCGEC and private-public partnership structures
- Strong personal and professional commitment to Family Planning and PAC
- Demonstrated ability to supervise service delivery, demand creation, and capacity building interventions’
- Ability to map and establish coordination of partnership with other stakeholders working the same area
- Proven skills and experience in the integration of male involvement in health services
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Computer skills an
Please visit the careers page at www.engenderhealth.org to submit your
application online or by 25th August 2017. Please include the region of
preference; details of your salary requirements and salary history
To apply for this job, please go to the following
website: www.engenderhealth.org
