REPORTS TO: Project Principal Investigator and SI Director

LOCATION: Dar Es Salaam (with frequent field travel up to 75%))

Tanzania Health Promotion Support (THPS) is an indigenous NGO established under nongovernmental organization act No 24 of 2002 in 2011. THPS works in partnership with the Ministries of Health Community Development Gender Elderly and Children (MoHCDGEC) and Regional Administration and Local Governments (PORALG) with a goal of ensuring accessible high quality health care services to Tanzanians; through strengthening of health systems for quality health services including comprehensive HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care, Support and Treatment in Pwani and Kigoma regions.

OVERALL RESPONSIBILITIES:

To provide overall technical support in the planning and implementation of monitoring and evaluation activities required for the Strengthening the Quality, Accessibility, and

Sustainability (SQAS) of the National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) project implemented by THPS. Work with the SI Director to build sustainable capacity of the National Health Laboratory System teams at national, zonal and regional lab levels in managing health information systems. This includes capacity to quality data management and its use for program improvement.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for the NHLS project Monitoring and Evaluation activities
• Coordinate timely reporting of NHLS Project reports
• Provide leadership on reviews of database and hiring of database managers
• Coordinate laboratory Information systems supported by NHLS project
• Coordinate M&E and data collection team meetings and work plans and tracking of the outputs
• Assist in refine of M&E materials and data management systems
• Provide technical support in the process of laboratory data quality assurance, data cleaning and summarization
• Provide leadership for capacity building to zone and regional labs to improve national M&E systems, use of data and timeliness of reporting.
• Provide inputs on funding applications and renewals
• Compile timely weekly and monthly M&E activity reports
• LiaisewithNHLSProject Coordinator to coordinate Zonal M&E activities
• Coordinate reporting of Lab indicators to national and PEPFAR
• Assisting in trouble shooting of Lab database
• Perform other duty as required by the Supervisor

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor Degree in epidemiology, biostatistics, computer science, public health, international health, or a related discipline. A background in a medical-related field is an added advantage
• Advance degree in epidemiology, biostatistics, public health or related discipline will be an added advantage
• Working for 4+ years of experience in the design, implementation and management of health monitoring and evaluation systems. HIV/AIDS epidemiological experience preferred. Experience with primary collection of clinical data, design of forms and data collection instruments, and data analysis is an advantage
• Extensive experience with Microsoft Access and Excel and one or more of the following statistical analysis packages (SAS, SPSS, STATA)
• Leadership skills, team building and good interpersonal skills
• Excellent communications skills in English and Swahili