Organization Overview
The International Health Division is committed to the improvement of health and healthcare delivery around the world. Serving both the public and private sectors, our efforts include health policy research and evaluation, health promotion and disease prevention, health finance, and health systems management. Our impact is felt in policies that ensure healthcare access for women, children, and individuals with special needs, in strengthening health infrastructures, and HIV/AIDS solutions.
Project Overview
The USAID-funded Africa Indoor Residual Spraying 2 (AIRS 2) Project supports the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI), as well as USAID Missions and Bureaus with malaria programs outside the PMI focus countries, in planning and implementing IRS programs with the overall goal of reducing the burden of malaria in Africa by enhancing USAID's ability to implement IRS programs on the ground through cost-effective commodities procurement and logistics systems, access to technical expertise, and implementation of IRS in countries affected by malaria.
Under the supervision of the Tanzania Chief of Party, the Technical Specialist 11 / Country Operations Manager provides organizational and logistical management for the project's IRS operations.
Specific duties and responsibilities include the following:
Manages the overall planning and implementation of all project spray operations in Tanzania, including:
Developing annual operations activity schedules,
Conducting geographic reconnaissance,
Identifying, and overseeing the preparation and renovation of, spray operation sites/bases,
Organizing planning meetings with NMCP, other local stakeholders, and spray districts,
Determining spray operation labor requirements, and overseeing the recruitment of seasonal spray personnel,
Quantifying requirements for insecticides, sprayers, PPE, and all other equipment and supplies,
Ensuring that specifications for PPE, and all other equipment and supplies procured locally, are compliant with the PMI-AIRS standards.
Organizing micro-planning meetings.
Overall responsible for supervising and monitoring spray activities
o Ensuring that correct spray techniques are applied
o Ensuring quality and accuracy of primary data
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