Change Management Associate Career Opportunity at PATH, Tanzania

Job Title: Change Management Associate
Tracking Code: 6088
Job Location: Arusha, , Tanzania
Job Type: Full-Time/Regular 

Employer: PATH

About PATH
PATH is an international organization that drives transformative innovation to save lives and improve health, especially among women and children. We accelerate innovation across five platforms—vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, devices, and system and service innovations—that harness our entrepreneurial insight, scientific and public health expertise, and passion for health equity. By mobilizing partners around the world, we take innovation to scale, working alongside countries primarily in Africa and Asia to tackle their greatest health needs. Together, we deliver measurable results that disrupt the cycle of poor health.

The Better Immunization Data (BID) Initiative’s strategy is based on the premise that better data, plus better decisions, will lead to better health outcomes. Its vision is to empower countries to enhance immunization and overall health service delivery through improved data collection, quality, and use. The BID Initiative will shine a light on the challenges surrounding data collection, quality, and use, and identify practical, country-owned, country-led solutions in immunization that could spread to other health interventions. The Initiative will partner with countries and global health stakeholders to develop and deploy a holistic and scalable approach that focuses on information system products, data management policies, and the practices of people that use them in order to enable evidence-based decision making. These components will be packaged into a replicable solution that can be easily and cost-effectively adapted by additional countries interested in using it to improve their immunization management. If successful, a true tipping point will occur—one in which countries can access, analyze, and act upon accurate immunization data—anytime, anywhere, resulting in improved immunization outcomes.

    The Change Management Associate will be based in the BID Initiative Arusha office, and will be responsible to work to implement strategies to encourage behavior change and new practices in health facilities related to data quality and use throughout the Arusha region as well as the Northern Zone. The Change Management Associate will both conduct activities to initiate new practices as well as provide ongoing mentoring and coaching to health facilities related to new systems and new practices. The Change Management Associate will be assigned specific districts and clinics as their responsibility area, and will work in coordination with a team working to implement systems and new practices across the region and zone.

    Job responsibilities:

•         Conducting training sessions related to use of new systems and associated practices related to data collection, data quality and data use.
•         Provide ongoing mentoring and coaching to health care workers related to new practices or interventions to ensure they fully understand and implement them accordingly.
•         Schedule and conduct regular visits to health facilities to monitor ongoing activities.
•         Work with team members to do basic data analysis and design data for reporting and providing feedback to facilities.
•         Document processes as they are being implemented to record any enhancements and modifications made.
•         Collaborate with Change Management Lead to identify opportunities for new or modified interventions to introduce within the targeted health facilities.
•         Submit timely reports as required by BID Initiative staff and management.
•         Work in collaboration and support the activities of team members to enable the BID Initiative activities to be replicated in additional districts and regions.
•         Support and foster the utilization and communication within peer networks involving health care workers.
•         Assist with translation of BID Initiative activities into Swahili and/or communicate information from Swahili into English.

Required Skills

•         Work experience in primary health care.
•         Community engagement experience.
•         Behavior change experience in introducing new practices and work in mentoring and coaching others to implement the practices.
•         Strategic and analytical thinker.
•         Familiarity with immunization services preferred.
•         Competency with Microsoft Office (Word and Excel specifically)
•         Strong interpersonal communication skills.
•         Ability to communicate with people at different levels of the healthcare system.
•         Fluency in Swahili.
•         Able to communicate (oral and written) in English.

Required Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in a social science (sociology, psychology, community development, behavior change, anthropology, or related subjects)
• 1-3 years work experience in community engagement work,experience in an international organization or in a multicultural environment, preferably with a health or development focus is desired.

    You must currently have legal authorization to work in Tanzania
    PATH is dedicated to diversity and is an equal opportunity employer.

Deadline Date: 23/05/2014

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