Team Leader/COP

IMA is currently seeking candidates for a program to support interventions designed to reduce the prevalence of stunting among children under the age of five. The anticipated DFID-funded five year project in Tanzania will support the Ministry of Health (MOH) in six to eight regions and will look, specifically to 1) support interventions to build knowledge, change attitudes, strengthen practice and expand services in order to prevent low birth weight and stunting 2) retrain facility and community resource persons to ensure community engagement 3) deliver overall nutrition components 4) build capacity for planning, programming, budgeting and financial management to sustainably address stunting.

Duties:

• Oversee all programmatic activities
• Serve as principal point of contact to donor
• Liaise with the Ministry of Health (MOH)
• Supervise program staff, while ensuring technical deliverables are met
• Ensure positive and clear communication on project targets, objectives, and timelines to partners and team members and key stakeholders
• Manage program budgets and report on these to the donor
• Lead effective program implementation, including grant, financial and team management, monitoring and evaluation and delivery of timely and quality outputs

The position requires a competent and experienced person with the following attributes:

• A minimum of 10 years experience implementing international development projects, preferably in health
• Experience working directly with projects funded by; DFID, UNICEF, USAID or CDC in the Tanzanian context
• Experience building and maintaining partnerships with other projects, local organizations, host country governments, and international agencies.
• Strong management skills
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in written form
• Experience managing projects in Tanzania

HOW TO APPLY:

All interested parties should send their CVs to the following email address:recruiting@imaworldhealth.org