Jobs at World Vision – Health and Nutrition Team Leader

• Contribute to overall WVT strategy; ensure health priorities are adequately and accurately reflected in national strategy
• Develop H&N technical approaches, ensuring alignment with WVT strategy and regional and global health priorities and cross-sectoral considerations
• Develop systems and processes to support WVT health programs have consistent approaches
• Ensure ongoing improvements to health TA/TP design to ensure it remains relevant to context, incorporates innovation, by receiving and analysing field-level information
• Develop and/or contextualize models, methodologies and tools for health programming implementation

Quality Assurance

• Review H&N reports, H&N TA, TPs and AP plans for quality.
• Regular monitoring, supervision and evaluation of health programs to ensure quality implementation. Includes technical backstopping, reflection, lessons learned events, etc., to ensure programming on track
• Ensure AP designs are aligned to TP,
• Ensure implementation meets minimum standards
• Participate with DME team in designing, redesigning and elaborating logframes for H&N programming.
• Ensure standardization of H&N indicators and project models across projects

• Preposition WVT for grants in H&N technical sector, working with national GAM team
• Mapping of donors in H&N; understand donor expectations, technical priorities and key strategic approaches
• Track multilateral, bilateral and local funding programs to access resources
• Prepare concept papers and proposals for grant acquisition
• Prepare detailed health or sub-sector capacity statements for WVT
• Ensure that all aspects of the project development, funding appliactions and proposals are accurate and professionally prepared

• Assessment of NO H&N staff capacities/ competencies
• Prepare Manuals and guidelines for staff and community training in Health, and Nutrition programs
• Facilitate capacity building of staff on health technical modules, public health topics, through trainings, workshops and technical backstopping
• Conduct trainings at ToF/TOT level in select HHN project models
• Assist in capacity building of local government, CBOs,CPGs, Church/FBOs, CCCs and other community groups

Team Performance Management

• Provide leadership, support and technical guidance to field staff in implementation of health programming
• Technically supervise H&N Grant Managers and AP Health technical staff
• Conduct field visits to provide on site support
• Participate in recruitment and hiring of H&N technical staff, together with P&C
• Supervise H&N technical team staff

• Identify and implement opportunities for research to enhance learning and build the evidence base/generate evidence, ideally with academic partners.
• Spearhead research, documentation and reflection exercises for learning in collaboration with other sector specialists.
• Collect, document and disseminate field best practices, case studies and success stories
• Develop conference abstracts and/or publications based on learnings and best practice

• Incorporate local-to-national H&N advocacy and campaigning in H&N Technical Approach and programming, with assistance of advocacy team
• Accompany advocacy and SLT members to meetings with health departments
• Provide technical input into policy briefings/ensure quality of advocacy product content
• Understand and include advocacy staff in health TAs and TP
• Obtain evidence from health programs and data from CVA to inform policy at sub-national and national level and to be used in government relations

Networking and Partnership

• Represent WVT at external workshops, technical forums, etc, engaging with MoH and other relevant ministries, donors and other health partners.
• Ensure WVT is recognized as a prominent actor at all levels;
• Networking with MoH, contribute to Tanzania government strategy or national plans and strategies
• Develop strategic partnerships with private sector with more intentional engagements with private sector/corporates
• Compile updated fact sheets on health programming to support the partnering and external engagement teams.

• Provide spiritual support to staff of the Division and reinforce the core values to enable understanding of the WV operations and culture.
• Manage the WVT material and financial resources to ensure Stewardship and accountability in Program Quality and Strategy Division.

• A deep knowledge of the health and nutrition issues that affect the country, with significant H&N experience
• Knowledge and skills in health data management/monitoring & evaluation
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, time management, demonstrated leadership and good management ability

• Master Degree in Public Health, Nutrition or related field, with at least 5 years practical experience in Public health programming with a reputable organization

• 5+ years experience in public health programs
• Proven experience in managing community health and nutrition projects
• Experience leading and managing a professional technical team