Technical Advisor - Community-Based Health Services (CBHS)

Overview

The AFGHS project is funded by the U.S. Department of State (DoS) to support the delivery of lifesaving, comprehensive maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) and malaria services across Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar. It aims to improve service and data quality, strengthen health-system integration and resilience, facilitate effective transition, and promote local ownership and accountability for sustained health outcomes.

 

Jhpiego works closely with the Ministries of Health in Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar, the Reproductive and Child Health Section (RCHS), the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP), the Zanzibar Malaria Elimination Programme (ZAMEP), and Regional Administration and Local Government (RALG) structures to align implementation with national priorities and strengthen locally led implementation and oversight.

 

Position Summary

The Technical Advisor – Community-Based Health Services (TA-CBHS) provides technical guidance and implementation support for integrated, coordinated, and sustainable community health services aligned with national policies, guidelines, and approved minimum intervention packages for community health workers (CHWs) across Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar. The Advisor provides technical oversight for community-based maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) and malaria interventions, including community-based insecticide-treated net (ITN) distribution as a key component of AFGHS malaria programming. The role supports the effective integration of community-owned resource persons (CORPs) and CHWs within existing government health systems, strengthening linkages between communities and health facilities to improve access, quality, and continuity of essential health services.

Working closely with Field Team Leaders, technical teams, and national, regional, and council government counterparts, the Advisor translates approved technical guidance into consistent field-level implementation, strengthens the capacity of community health workers and their supervisors, and identifies and addresses implementation and performance gaps. The Advisor ensures that technical activities and implementation priorities align with approved project milestones and payment-linked deliverables, supporting timely achievement, monitoring, and verification of results.

The Technical Advisor contributes to the project's sustainability and transition objectives by strengthening government leadership, ownership, and accountability for community health services. This includes supporting the institutionalization of government-led mechanisms for community health workforce planning, supervision, performance management, coordination, and compensation, as well as integration of community-based interventions into existing planning, financing, service delivery, and monitoring systems. The Advisor works with government counterparts to progressively strengthen their capacity to independently manage, oversee, and sustain quality community-based health services beyond project support. The Advisor also provides technical oversight of CSO subgrants supporting community-based MNCH and malaria services, ensuring quality implementation, performance accountability, alignment with government priorities, and strengthening of local partner capacity for sustainable service delivery.

 

 

 

This position will be closed on October 19, 2026.

 

Responsibilities

 

Integrated Community-Based Service Delivery Oversight

• Working closely with the malaria and MNCH technical teams, provide oversight for integrated community-based health services in accordance with national policies, guidelines, approved intervention packages, and project work plans.
• Guide participatory mapping, prioritization, and micro-planning to identify community structures, population movement, underserved groups, access barriers, malaria hotspots, and priority locations for community-based services.
• Provide technical guidance for community-based testing, prevention, treatment where authorized, referral, follow-up, and surveillance within the approved scopes of CORPs and CHWs, reflecting the distinct service delivery requirements of Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar.

Community-Based ITN Distribution Planning

• Provide technical oversight for government-led community-based ITN distribution, working closely with the ITN Systems Coordinator to support issuance point mapping, community mobilization, and multisite scheduling to achieve equitable coverage.
• Guide CBHS Technical Officers and government counterparts to coordinate with health facilities, community structures, and logistics colleagues on last-mile delivery and readiness of ITNs, distribution tools, personnel, and delivery points.
• Working with logistics and MERL colleagues, strengthen distribution monitoring and stock accountability, including reconciliation of registration, issuance, balance, and return data; use findings to address coverage and operational gaps.

Community Health Workforce and Systems Strengthening

• Provide technical guidance for government-led identification, selection, orientation, training, deployment, and continuing development of CORPs, CHWs, and their supervisors in line with national requirements.
• Strengthen integration of CORPs and CHWs within decentralized government and health-system structures, including links to health facilities and ward, shehia, village, and community health committees.
• Advise government counterparts and project teams on transparent arrangements for workforce oversight, coordination, workload management, motivation, remuneration or compensation, retention, and replacement, consistent with government policy and approved project mechanisms.

Community Engagement and Service Uptake

• Guide engagement of local leaders, influencers, community committees, civil society groups, and other community structures to strengthen local ownership and reach underserved populations.
• Provide technical guidance on community dialogues, feedback mechanisms, and participatory approaches to address misconceptions, social norms, gender-related barriers, and structural constraints affecting timely care seeking and service uptake.
• Ensure community perspectives, qualitative findings, and local intelligence inform micro-planning, adaptation of delivery approaches, and follow-up of service access gaps.

Supportive Supervision, Capacity Building, and Learning

• Provide technical mentorship to CBHS Technical Officers and strengthen government-led supervision and capacity building for CORPs and CHWs.
• Use supervision findings and community data to identify performance gaps, guide corrective action, and strengthen service quality.
• Strengthen community-to-facility referral, follow-up, and feedback, and support community surveillance and timely notification of priority health events.
• Work with MERL colleagues to improve community data quality and use, and share learning across project-supported geographies.

CSO Subgrant Oversight and Performance Management

• Provide technical oversight and guidance to civil society organizations (CSOs) implementing community-based MNCH and malaria services through project subgrants, ensuring alignment with national guidelines, approved work plans, and project priorities.
• Support development and review of CSO subgrant scopes of work, implementation plans, budgets, performance indicators, and deliverables in collaboration with Grants, Finance, MERL, and technical teams.
• Monitor CSO implementation progress, service quality, and achievement of agreed targets, milestones, and payment-linked deliverables, identifying performance gaps and supporting timely corrective actions and verification of results.
• Provide technical mentorship and capacity strengthening to CSO partners to improve service delivery, community engagement, data quality, reporting, and accountability.
• Coordinate with Field Team Leaders and government counterparts to ensure CSO activities are integrated into regional and council health plans, complement government-led services, and avoid duplication.
• Support sustainability and transition of CSO-led community interventions by strengthening local organizational capacity, government-CSO collaboration, and integration of priority services into existing community and government systems.

Sustainability and Transition

• Strengthen government leadership, ownership, and accountability for community-based MNCH and malaria services, including integration into existing health systems and structures.
• Support institutionalization of community health workforce planning, supervision, performance management, financing, and community engagement mechanisms.
• Strengthen the technical and organizational capacity of CSO partners to independently manage, deliver, and sustain quality community-based health services.
• Promote integration of CSO-led interventions into government planning, coordination, budgeting, and accountability mechanisms to strengthen sustainable government-CSO partnerships.
• Support implementation of sustainability and transition plans, including identification of capacity and financing gaps, joint transition planning, and monitoring progress toward locally led service delivery.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Community Development, Public Health, Health Promotion, Social Sciences, Communications, or a related field required.
• At least 6-7 years of progressively responsible experience implementing and providing technical guidance for community-based health programmes involving CORPs and CHWs in donor-funded public health interventions.
• Minimum 5 years of experience managing community health programme functions and supervising or providing technical oversight to field-based teams.
• Demonstrated experience supporting integrated community-based MNCH and malaria services, including workforce readiness, supportive supervision, quality improvement, and community-to-facility referral systems.
• Practical experience providing technical guidance for community-based ITN distribution or comparable large-scale community commodity distribution, including micro-planning, mobilisation, last-mile coordination, monitoring, and commodity accountability, is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience applying social or participatory mapping and using community feedback, qualitative methods, and local intelligence to guide service delivery planning and adaptation.
• Experience engaging local leaders, influencers, and community structures to address social norms, misconceptions, gender-related barriers, and structural constraints affecting service uptake.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring staff and government counterparts and strengthening community workforce coordination, oversight, performance management, and integration within decentralized health systems.
• Strong understanding of Tanzania’s community health policies, approved scopes of practice, national service delivery guidelines, and community health structures in Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar.
• Ability to synthesize community service delivery and surveillance data, document implementation learning, and use evidence to guide performance improvement.
• Familiarity with U.S. Government-funded project reporting and compliance requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

Required Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and Kiswahili.
• Willingness to travel up to 25-30% to project-supported geographies across Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar.
• Strong understanding of Tanzania’s community health policies, approved scopes of practice, national service delivery guidelines, and community health structures in Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar.

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders contacted during work.
• Planning and negotiation skills required
• Good level of computer literacy, conversant with all Microsoft products

 

 

 

Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package.

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Jhpiego is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer

 

Jhpiego, a Johns Hopkins University affiliate, is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, other legally protected characteristics or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria. Jhpiego promotes Affirmative Action for minorities, women, individuals who are disabled, and veterans.

 

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