Senior Program Officer at Ifakara Health Institute, Pwani April 2026

Responsibilities

• Provide overall organisation and coordination of project activities across all sites.
• Support roll-out of MNH interventions (ANC, skilled birth attendance, newborn care, postnatal care, KMC) across regions.
• Coordinate project teams at national and sub-national levels, ensuring consistent implementation.
• Assist in the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual program work plans.
• Preparing activity budgets and collaborating with finance teams to ensure timely financing for field activities.
• Manage workplan execution, follow up on milestones, and liaise with implementing partners and government counterparts.
• Prepare timely programmatic reports, briefs, and donor reporting inputs.
• Support delivery of trainings, workshops, and capacity-building activities for facility staff, CHWs, and local managers.
• Maintain strong working relationships with MoH (national, regional, district), PMORALG, implementing partners, and other stakeholders.
• Facilitate compliance among program staff with organisational policies, donor requirements, and ethical standards.
• Contribute to documenting and disseminating project success stories during routine programming.
• Maintain documentation of project files, including meeting notes and performance reports.
• Establish and maintain program management tools across project teams and field offices.
• Build the capacity of program officers and program assistants in project coordination, organisation, and reporting.
• Assist in the development of materials to include formatting, typesetting, content flow and finalisation of the document ready to print.
• Support sub-grantees in program and financial management and reporting.
• Archive primary project records and related events, meetings, press releases and other technical and implementation documents.
• Support the programmatic team by organising the central project filing system, ensuring the integrity of official documents, including correspondence with the ministry, donors, and other partners.

Preferred Skills

• Demonstrated leadership skills and experience in building and maintaining productive working relationships with colleagues and the host government.
• Computer literacy, particularly in the use of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint Experience.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Demonstrated a high level of integrity, commitment and team working spirit.
• Flexible, results-oriented, able to travel frequently and work in resource-limited settings.
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Essential Qualification

• Master’s degree in public health, Social Sciences, or Development Studies, or related field.

Required Experience

• At least 5 years of similar work experience in donor-funded projects.
• Prior experience managing field teams, coordinating multi-site programs, and working with government health structures.
• Strong operational and project management skills (planning, budgeting, logistics).
• Proven record of building teams and fostering collaboration to achieve program goals, meet program milestones, and produce quality program results
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines, and intense pressure to perform.

Preferred Language

• Fluency in English; Kiswahili proficiency is highly desirable