Save the Children (SC) is searching for an experienced Technical Director – OVC for an expected USAID/PEPFAR-funded undertaking presenting guide to orphans and inclined youngsters (OVC) in Tanzania. The Technical Director may be answerable for the technical oversight of the venture and is particularly responsible for venture implementation of proof-based totally, excessive quality, multi-sectoral interventions to increase get admission to to and use of fitness/HIV prevention, care and treatment, protection, training, and socio-monetary offerings amongst OVC and teens. S/he's going to document at once to the Chief of Party (COP) and will propose and assist the COP in supplying technical path to venture implementation and ensure the undertaking meets stated goals, expected outcomes and reporting necessities. S/he's going to take a technical management role in coordination with the government of Tanzania, local network businesses, and different stakeholders. S/he will be informed approximately evidence-based totally and contemporary OVC provider delivery approaches.
The goal of the five-12 months project is to improve the fitness, properly-being, and safety of OVC and teenagers in excessive HIV burden communities in Tanzania. Overall, the venture seeks to enhance fitness, psycho-social properly-being and academic effects; and decreased abuse of youngsters laid low with HIV.
Responsibilities
The Technical Director will lead the Technical Team to reap the strategic objectives of the undertaking – that specialize in HIV prevention, care and help in addition to assisting move-reducing subject matters and integration efforts across the task with different regions of OVC programming, along with Household Economic Strengthening. Key obligations will consist of:
Provide technical management in the improvement and implementation of strategies, interventions and sports that deal with the holistic needs of inclined youngsters, which include their fitness, education, vitamins, psychosocial properly-being, protection and financial strengthening desires.
Ensure that challenge techniques and sports addressing youngsters and teenagers are proof-based totally and in keeping with trendy, globally diagnosed high-quality practices; in addition to aligned with Government of Tanzania law and guidelines.
Strengthen the linkages between community-based totally care sports and fitness facilities presenting HIV care and treatment in the direction of ensuring a continuum of care.
Promote integration across a number of services for children to take a holistic, family-targeted approach to improving their wellbeing.
Ensure the assignment addresses the desires of exceedingly vulnerable sub-groups of kids, such as adolescent ladies, HIV superb kids and children living with disabilities.
Provide technical leadership and oversight for high first-class implementation of the household financial strengthening components of the venture.
Facilitate linkages with government protection internet applications and different stakeholders to make certain that activities complement different economic strengthening tasks and adhere to u . S . And international requirements.
Ensure all infant-focused strategies are gender-sensitive and promote equitable programming.
Improve the capacity of implementing CSOs in effective programming for susceptible children and their households, HIV prevention cognizance introduction, network mobilization for HIV counselling and checking out, PMTCT and Early Infant Diagnosis (EID), and enhancing referral and counter-referral structures between groups and centers.
Promote techniques that help integration and maximize u . S . A . And community-ownership.
Coordinate and keep close liaison with task partners and relevant stakeholders in the cognizance geographies.
Take a management position within the development and well timed submission of to paintings plans, quarterly and annual reviews, economic reviews, and different reports and papers summarizing venture outcomes and evidence.
Work carefully with the MEAL group to deliver venture first-rate benchmarks, baseline, tracking, evaluation and key lessons found out.
Comply with Save the Children’s baby safety regulations, safety procedures and other team of workers policies.
Requirements
Advanced degree in public health, social sciences, development research or related field.
Minimum of 7 years of experience imposing OVC packages in a improvement context, in particular PEPFAR, with five of those years in Sub-Saharan Africa, preferably Tanzania. During this era s/he must were worried with socioeconomic offerings for susceptible children and or public fitness mission design, implementation, machine strengthening, reporting and assessment, including assessment of evidence-based monetary/livelihood tasks for inclined groups, such as OVC or commencement programming.
Familiarity with contemporary course of PEPFAR programming in Tanzania, specifically on OVC and continuum of take care of PLHIV
Demonstrated brand new enjoy at a mid- or senior stage in as a minimum 4 of the following regions: baby safety, household economic strengthening, social safety, education, fitness and vitamins which include HIV/AIDS care and guide; excellent development; social provider systems strengthening, which include social offerings team of workers development; M&E; and operations research.
Demonstrated potential to work correctly with government and civil society companions and communities as well as transfer understanding to diverse audiences thru workshops, training and meetings using participatory strategies and grownup getting to know ideas.
Proven leadership and inter-personal talents for effective group paintings; as well as the ability to work independently on a frequent foundation, taking initiative, handling a diffusion of activities concurrently, and delivering outputs on agenda.
Demonstrated capacity to assist partners running at a distance to attain consequences against application goals/goals.
Demonstrated skills in venture design, implementation and reporting, ideally for USG funded packages.
Experience with tracking, assessment, and reporting TB/HIV Care & Treatment sports as well as OVC.
Good know-how of Government of Tanzania OVC programming terrain, HIV Care and Treatment and enjoy running with Ministry of Health Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children and other relevant entities.
Strong writing and presentation competencies approximately program activities, outcomes and impact.
Excellent English oral and written verbal exchange talents; Working understanding of Swahili language.
Excellent analytic, organizational and pc abilties; gifted in MS Office together with Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint. Experience with SharePoint a plus.
The deadline for filing the application is 31 May 2021 .
