Options Consultancy Services Limited is a leading global health consultancy established in 1992 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Marie Stopes International. We manage health programmes that ensure vulnerable women and children can access the high quality health services they need. We work with partners to co-create and implement locally informed solutions to complex health problems. This includes governments, development partners, NGOs, civil society and health workers. Our programming is flexible, evidence-based and politically informed. This means we adapt to changing contexts, use data to inform our decisions and ensure our approach is appropriate. Our focus is always on building local skills and systems that last.
Options Consultancy Services is preparing to bid for the Improving Healthcare in Tanzania (HiT) GIZ programme. We are seeking a Team Leader to provide overall strategic leadership, managerial oversight and technical direction to the programme. The goal of the programme is to improve the quality and quantity of health services, including access through health insurance.
Programme:
The Healthcare in Tanzania programme will contribute to performance improvement of selected health facilities in neonatal care, including improvement of equipment availability. Supported hospitals will be enabled to establish functional new-born care units and assure adequate treatment to newborns in critical condition. The HiT programme will also contribute to improvement of services for reproductive health, including emergency obstetric and neonatal care and post-partum family planning services in the supported partner health facilities. The focus on improved access to family planning and emergency obstetric (and neonatal) care contributes to ensuring the right to reproductive health and sexual self-determination for especially vulnerable groups.
Key responsibilites:
The Team Leader will be a German speaker and will provide overall strategic leadership, managerial oversight and technical direction to the programme. They will build and maintain strong relationships with GIZ and UNICEF amongst other important stakeholders.
To suceed in this role, you will have: