Technical Director - Faith and Community Initiative (FCI)

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Employee Contract Type:Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description

Recruitment is Contingent upon Award and Donor Approval

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical Leadership and Local Adaptation (20%)

• Provide overall technical direction for FCI Tanzania in close coordination with the Chief of party and Global FCI Technical Director.
• Translate the FCI global technical strategy, service-delivery standards, tools and protocols into a Tanzania-specific technical implementation framework aligned with national policies, standards and service-delivery structures.
• Implement in-country technical strategy, standards, tools, protocols, and integrated service package designed at the global level, adapting them to the national context and guidelines.

• Oversee technical planning, implementation, and coordination of all technical program activities delivered through a network of government facilities, Christian Health Associations (CHAs) , and other faith-based organizations (FBOs) health facilities, delivering HIV, TB, malaria, maternal and child health, and nutrition services.

• Ensure the country program is technically sound and in line with both FCI global technical policies and strategies and Ministry of Health policies, strategies, and guidelines, and responds to donor requirements, while promoting effective integration between government and faith-based service delivery systems.

• Provide technical leadership to ensure high-quality service delivery across government, CHA, and other faith-based organizations (FBOs) health facilities, strengthening referral systems, continuity of care, and service quality throughout the network.

End Results

• FCI Tanzania has a technically sound, contextually appropriate and integrated service-delivery model aligned with FCI global standards, Government of Tanzania policies and donor requirements. High-quality integrated services are effectively delivered through government and faith-based hub-and-spoke networks, with strengthened referral, counter-referral and continuity of care.

Integrated Service Delivery and Health Systems Strengthening (20%)

• Provide technical leadership for implementation and continuous strengthening of the FCI integrated hub-and-spoke service-delivery model, ensuring effective linkages between government facilities, faith-based health facilities and community platforms.
• Ensure effective integration of priority services including HIV, TB, malaria, RMNCAH, nutrition and community health—based on Tanzania’s disease burden, population needs, service gaps and national priorities.
• Strengthen referral and counter-referral systems between community platforms, spoke facilities and hub facilities, ensuring referral completion, continuity of care, appropriate follow-up and re-engagement of clients who interrupt care.
• Work with MoH, PO-RALG, RHMTs and CHMTs to ensure FCI-supported service-delivery approaches are embedded within existing national and sub-national health systems, rather than creating parallel structures.
• Strengthen community–facility linkages by ensuring effective coordination among CHWs, faith and community leaders, health facilities and other community structures for demand creation, treatment literacy, referral, follow-up and continuity of care.
• Provide technical oversight for strengthening the frontline health workforce, including competency-based training, mentorship, supportive supervision, task optimisation and identification of critical workforce capacity gaps.
• Strengthen facility and community-level supportive supervision and continuous quality improvement (CQI) mechanisms, ensuring performance gaps are systematically identified, analysed and addressed.
• Promote effective integration and coordination between government and faith-based health systems, including service delivery, referral networks, workforce development, supervision, laboratories/diagnostics, supply-chain systems and health information systems.
• Work closely with the MEL Manager to ensure service-delivery performance—including referral completion, continuity of care, service integration and quality—is routinely measured and used for decision-making.
• Identify and promote effective service-delivery models and promising practices for institutionalisation, replication and scale-up through government and faith-based health systems.
• Provide technical leadership to ensure that FCI-supported service-delivery systems, workforce capacities, referral mechanisms, supervision and quality-improvement functions are progressively institutionalised within Government, FBO and locally owned systems for sustainability.

End Results

• FCI’s integrated hub-and-spoke model delivers high-quality, accessible and continuous health services across government, faith-based and community platforms. Referral and counter-referral systems, community–facility linkages, frontline workforce capacity, supportive supervision and quality-improvement mechanisms are strengthened and progressively institutionalised within Tanzania’s existing health system, contributing to improved service quality, continuity of care, client outcomes and long-term sustainability.

Government and Stakeholder Technical Relationships (15%)