Technical Officer – Community-Based Health Services

Overview

Project Overview
The AFGHS-Jhpiego 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.
The Technical Officer – Community-Based Health Services (TO-CBHS) provides field-level technical and implementation support for an integrated and coordinated community health programme aligned with national policies, guidelines, and minimum intervention packages for community health workers (CHWs) in Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar. The role supports the integration of existing community-owned resource persons (CORPs) and CHWs within the health system and strengthens their readiness to deliver quality community-based health services in MNCH and malaria, including community-based insecticide-treated net (ITN) distribution as a major component of project’s malaria programming.
Supervised by the Field Team Leader with technical support from the MCS and MNCH technical teams, the TO-CBHS serves as the field-based counterpart to Regional and District Health Promotion Coordinators and works within relevant local government structures. The role supports workforce preparation and deployment, supportive supervision, system readiness, community data use, and other mechanisms required for effective community-based service delivery. The TO-CBHS strengthens systems for CORP and CHW oversight, coordination, performance management, and compensation, contributing to expanded service coverage, continuity of care, and strengthened government capacity and ownership to progressively institutionalize and sustain community-based health services within routine health-system structures.
This position will be closed on October 12, 2026.

Responsibilities

• Integrated Community-Based Service Delivery

• Support implementation of integrated community-based health services through existing government structures and systems, in accordance with national policies, technical guidelines, approved minimum intervention packages, and project work plans in Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar, with an emphasis on strengthening government ownership and sustainable delivery.

• Support participatory mapping and micro-planning to identify community structures, population movement, underserved groups, service-access barriers, malaria hotspots, and priority locations for community-based services.

• Support CORPs and CHWs to deliver quality community-based malaria and other priority testing, prevention, referral, follow-up, health promotion, and surveillance services within their approved scopes of practice.

• Monitor implementation progress, identify operational bottlenecks, and coordinate timely corrective action with government and project teams.

• Community-Based ITN Distribution (in Malaria specific regions)

• Support government teams to conduct household or population registration, quantification, micro-planning, distribution-point selection, community mobilisation, and scheduling to achieve equitable coverage, including for remote and underserved populations.

• Coordinate with regional and council teams, health facilities, community leaders, CORPs, CHWs, and logistics colleagues to ensure timely last-mile delivery and readiness of ITNs, distribution tools, personnel, and community delivery points.

• Support orientation, deployment, supervision, and performance follow-up of community cadres and other personnel engaged in ITN registration, mobilisation, distribution, and reporting.

• Monitor distribution progress and stock accountability; reconcile registration, issuance, balance, and return data; identify coverage and operational gaps; and support timely corrective action through existing government monitoring and accountability mechanisms.

• Community Health Workforce and Systems Strengthening

• Support government-led processes for the identification, selection, orientation, training, deployment, and continuing development of CORPs, CHWs, and their supervisors in line with national requirements.

• Assess and follow up workforce readiness, including availability of trained providers, approved tools, job aids, commodities, reporting materials, and functional referral arrangements.

• Strengthen the integration of CORPs and CHWs within decentralized government and health-system structures, including their linkage to health facilities and ward, shehia, village, and community health committees.

• Support local authorities to strengthen transparent arrangements for CHW oversight, coordination, workload management, motivation, remuneration or compensation, retention, and replacement, consistent with government policy and approved project mechanisms.