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For every child, the right to health. 

Several challenges constrain the implementation of outreach services in Tanzania. Planning and budgeting for outreach are often routine rather than data-driven, which limits the allocation of adequate resources throughout the year. Funding remains insufficient and heavily reliant on external support, making outreach services vulnerable to interruption. The shortage of health workers further weakens outreach delivery, especially in rural areas, where one or two staff members must cover multiple services, thereby reducing the scope and quality of care provided. Infrastructure limitations, such as poor roads, lack of electricity, and weak communication networks, make outreach logistics difficult. Many health workers use motorbikes to reach communities, restricting the equipment and supplies they can carry.

Recognizing outreach as one of the key delivery models within the National Essential Health Care Interventions Package (NEHCIP), the Ministry of Health and partners aim to strengthen the guidance on Primary Health Care (PHC) outreach delivery. The ministry developed guidelines that provide practical direction for planning, implementing, and monitoring outreach services in both rural and urban settings. It emphasizes integration across service areas, ensuring that outreach responds to the diverse and interconnected needs of communities

How can you make a difference? 

The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the President’s Office, Regional Administration and Local Government (PORALG), UNICEF, and partners, seeks to strengthen the implementation of integrated outreach services within the Primary Health Care system. Although integrated service delivery is a national goal, current implementation remains limited due to variations in facility capacity, human resources, transport access, geographical distance, varying outreach platforms and community health needs. Existing guidance does not adequately address these contextual realities or the specific health needs of adolescents in community and school-based outreach platforms.

This assignment aims to revise and update the integrated outreach guidelines to make it more practical, data-driven, and adaptable to diverse service delivery contexts. The revised guideline will draw lessons from modelling and implementation efforts in six UNICEF-supported regions. The final output will be used by the Ministry of Health, PORALG, regional and council health management teams, health care workers, and development partners to guide planning, budgeting, and delivery of integrated outreach services. The revised guideline will also inform the ongoing development of the National Essential Health Care intervention (NHCEP) package for Primary Health Care.

Objective

The objective of this consultancy is to develop a revised and comprehensive integrated outreach guideline that provides practical direction for health facilities to plan, implement, and monitor integrated outreach services, including adolescent health interventions, in both community and school settings.

For further information on the work assignment and specific deliverables of the consultancy, please click here  ToR Revision and updating of the integrated PHC.docx

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… 

Minimum requirements:

• Advanced university degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, and other relevant fields with a background in health (MD, DDS, Nursing, Pharmacy, or other relevant health disciplines) plus a master, or higher degree in public health or related field
• Five (5) years of professional work experience in the national and/or international programming, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Primary Health Care
• Proven expertise in engagement with stakeholders at the national and subnational level
• Proven experience in developing guidelines and strategic documents.
• Proven work relations with national (MoH, PORALG), regional, district, and sub-district structures (RHMT, CHMT and Health Facility level), community and CSOs
• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) to be able to liaise with a wide variety of people and good attention to detail.
• Excellent writing, facilitation skills, negotiation skills, and oral and written communication
• Fluency in written and spoken English and Swahili is required.
• Strong analytical skills

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness

(3) Drive to achieve results for impact

(4) Innovates and embraces change

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity

(6) Thinks and acts strategically

(7) Works collaboratively with others 

Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels.

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be selected for a position with UNICEF, you either must be inoculated as required or receive a medical exemption from the relevant department of the UN. Otherwise, the selection will be canceled.

Remarks:  

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.

UNICEF is committed to fostering an inclusive, representative, and welcoming workforce. For this position, eligible and suitable female candidates are encouraged to apply.

Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a  medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason. 

UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information.

Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.

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