Program Officer, Dar es Salaam – Norwegian Church Aid

Program Officer, Dar es Salaam – Norwegian Church Aid

The Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) is a Norwegian non-governmental and development organization working to promote Social Justice, Human Rights and Economic Justice for poor communities. NCA has its foundations based in the congregation of churches in Norway, whose efforts are dedicated towards eradicating poverty, its causes and social deprivation.  In Tanzania, NCA works in collaboration with local faith based partners.

Background:

Since 2015 Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) is partnering with Royal Norwegian Embassy in Tanzania and Haydom Lutheran Hospital (HLH) on a four year agreement. NCA is now managing the grants from the Embassy to HLH. The overall goal of the partnership is to lay the foundation for sustainability through ending the hospital’s single-donor dependency. In addition to grants management, NCA is supporting the hospital with capacity development of hospital management, fundraising as well as advocacy. In this work NCA cooperate with Norwegian Diakonhjemmet hospital and the Christian Social Service Commission (CSSC).

NCA is looking for a structured and result oriented person with very good programme management skills and a good understanding of health care and social policies in Tanzania. The selected candidate will coordinate the implementation of the above mentioned partnership agreement and support HLH with advocacy.

Job description

1.      Programme coordination: Provide continuous support to HLH and secure efficient programme implementation. Review programme plans, proposals and budgets, and carry out project monitoring and report writing.

2.      Health advocacy: Support and facilitate Haydom Lutheran Hospital in their effort to do effective advocacy towards Tanzanian authorities.

3.      Cooperation: Dialogue with relevant stakeholders and support Haydom Lutheran Hospital’s work on fundraising as well as capacity building.

4.      Budget responsibility for relevant budget posts.

The right candidate will also be able to support the Norwegian Church Aid programme on Resource Governance, hereunder focus on Tax Funded Social Protection.

The selected candidate must be available for travel on short notice and travel between 70-90 days per year.

Qualifications

·         Tanzanian national with a good Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Health Management, Social Development, Administration or related, relevant topics from a recognized learning institution.

·         Minimum 3 years of relevant experience from public health or social policy work in Tanzania.

·         Excellent project management skills. Experience in coordinating people and processes.

·         Knowledge and understanding of health systems in Tanzania is a requirement. International experience is an advantage.

·         Experience in advocacy on health or social policy in Tanzania

·         Experience in fundraising and dialogue with donors

·         Experience from hospital management and/or work with faith based social services is an advantage.

·         Excellent communication skills (Oral and written, English and Swahili)

·         Confident user of MS Office (incl. Excel and Power Point)

·         The ability to learn fast and adapt to change easily and work under pressure/ tight deadlines with minimum supervision. Timely deliveries and good time management are expected.

·         Ability to work in multi-cultural settings and being able to interrelate with relevant stakeholders both at the national and sub-national levels. Professional inter-action with NCA head office in Norway and 17 country offices world-wide will apply.

·         Being a positive and good team player, open to the new procedures and flexible to the changing environment.

Personal qualities

·           Systematic, structured and result oriented

·           Energetic and enterprising

·           Team player with good collaboration skills

·           Ability to train and build capacity

·           Good people skills, including relationship building with donors

·           The person who is to be employed has to be loyal to Norwegian Church Aid's Christian values

Remuneration

An attractive compensation package based on performance and consummate with the responsibility will apply to the successful candidate. 

How to apply:

Please submit your application to the address ncatz@nca.no. Only electronic applications are considered. In the subject line of your email, please state clearly which position you apply for. The application should consist of a brief motivation letter and CV, compiled into one document of maximum 4 pages. The document name should start with your name and include which position you apply for. E.g. <Mary Juma – Program Officer>. Certificates are not of interest at this stage, but should be brought to 2^nd round of interviews. Applications failing to meet these requirements or sent to other email addresses will not be considered. First and second rounds of interview will take place first weeks of February. If you do not hear from us, please consider your application unsuccessful. Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) reserves the right not to make an appointment/contact.

Application deadline is 26^th January 2017.