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- Program Manager - Health Workforce [1 Position]
- Senior Program Officer - Health Workforce & MNCH Systems Strengthening [1 Position]
- Program Officer - Health Workforce [1 Position]
- Monitoring & Evaluation Officer [2 Positions]
- Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer [1 Position]
- Procurement Officer [1 Position]
The Benjamin William Mkapa Foundation (BMF)
Job Advertisement – July 2026
1. Strategic Leadership and Health Workforce Systems Strengthening
The Benjamin William Mkapa Foundation (BMF) is a non-profit Trust, established in 2006 with the vision towards healthy lives and well-being for all, in Tanzania and the rest of Africa. Its strategic mission is to innovate sustainable and resilient health and related system solutions for equitable health outcomes. BMF's Vision and Mission can be achieved through empowered workforce, which is self-motivated, committed to growth and integrity, and the one who seeks excellence in execution. BMF seeks innovative, self-driven, dynamic, and competent qualified candidates to fill the vacancies below:
Title: Program Manager – Health Workforce
Department: Directorate of Programs & Strategic Information
Reports to: Director of Programs & Strategic Information
Duty Station: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (with travel to project sites as required)
Contract Type: Full-Time
Supervises: Program Officers – Health Workforce and Compensation
Position Summary
The Program Manager – Health Workforce provides strategic leadership and oversight of the Foundation's Health Workforce Portfolio, ensuring the effective design, implementation, quality, and growth of programs that strengthen health workforce systems and improve health outcomes. The role oversees multiple health workforce initiatives across Mainland Tanzania and collaborates closely with programs in Zanzibar. The position is also responsible for portfolio performance, stakeholder engagement, quality assurance, and resource mobilization, while supporting expansion of the Foundation's health workforce portfolio within Tanzania and beyond.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
1. Strategic Leadership and Health Workforce Systems Strengthening
- Provide strategic technical leadership and oversight of the Foundation's health workforce portfolio.
- Lead development and implementation of innovative and evidence-based health workforce interventions aligned with national priorities and organizational strategy.
- Promote integrated approaches across workforce planning and information, deployment, performance management, leadership development, retention, and workforce governance.
- Support health workforce investments that contribute to broader health systems strengthening and improved health outcomes.
2. HRH Portfolio and Program Management
- Lead the planning, implementation, performance monitoring, and quality assurance of the Foundation's Health Workforce Portfolio.
- Ensure effective delivery of program objectives, achievement of results, and compliance with donor and organizational requirements.
- Monitor portfolio-wide performance, risks, and opportunities, and drive adaptive management to enhance impact and sustainability.
- Coordinate resources, partnerships, budgets, and implementation across multiple HRH projects, funding streams, and locations to ensure coherence and alignment with strategic priorities.
3. Technical Excellence, Capacity Strengthening and Learning
- Lead workforce capacity-strengthening initiatives, including training, mentorship, coaching, supportive supervision, and leadership development.
- Support implementation of performance improvement and retention strategies for health workers and managers.
- Promote the use of data, research, and learning to inform program design, implementation, decision-making, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure technical quality and alignment with national standards, global evidence, and best practices across the portfolio.
- Lead documentation and dissemination of lessons learned, innovations, success stories, and other knowledge products to support learning, policy influence, and scale-up.
- Oversee development of technical reports, policy briefs, publications, and portfolio learning products.
- Foster a culture of learning, accountability, innovation, and quality improvement across HRH programs.
4. Stakeholder Engagement and Partnership Management
- Build and maintain strong relationships with government institutions, development partners, donors, academic institutions, and implementing organizations.
- Ensure alignment and coordination across the Foundation's health workforce initiatives in Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar.
- Work closely with the Senior Program Officer – Zanzibar and other project leads to promote collaboration, shared learning, and achievement of portfolio objectives.
- Represent the Foundation in technical working groups, policy forums, consortium meetings, and coordination platforms.
5. Business Development and Technical Positioning
- Provide technical input to resource mobilization, partnership development, and portfolio growth efforts under the guidance of the Director of Programs & Strategic Information.
- Contribute to the development of concept notes, proposals, and grant applications, ensuring technical quality and alignment with national priorities and donor interests.
- Pursue strategic opportunities.
- Leverage program evidence, lessons learned, and results to strengthen BMF's visibility and thought leadership in health workforce and health systems strengthening.
6. Team Leadership, Compliance and Risk Management
- Supervise, mentor, and support program staff to ensure high performance and professional growth.
- Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and accountable team culture.
- Ensure compliance with donor requirements, government policies, and organizational procedures.
- Identify and manage programmatic, operational, financial, and reputational risks.
Qualifications and Experience
- Master's degree in Public Health, Health Systems Management, Health Workforce Development, Health Policy, Medicine, Nursing, Public Administration, or a related field.
- Minimum of eight (8) years of progressively responsible experience in health workforce, health systems strengthening, or related health programs, including experience managing donor-funded projects.
- Demonstrated experience leading multi-stakeholder programs involving government institutions, development partners, and implementing organizations.
- Strong understanding of health workforce systems, policies, and priorities in Tanzania, with regional experience considered an added advantage.
- Proven experience in program design, implementation, budgeting, monitoring, reporting, quality assurance, and risk management.
- Demonstrated experience in proposal development, resource mobilization, and partnership development.
- Strong leadership, strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, communication, negotiation, and team management skills.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a dynamic environment.
- Commitment to accountability, innovation, collaboration, and sustainable health systems strengthening.
Title: Program Officer – Health Workforce
Department: Directorate of Programs & Strategic Information
Reports to: Program Manager – Health Workforce
Duty Station: Mwanza, Tanzania (with travel across the Lake Zone as required)
Contract Type: Full-Time
Supervises: None (may supervise short-term staff, consultants, or volunteers as assigned)
Position Summary
The Program Officer – Health Workforce supports the implementation, coordination, monitoring, and reporting of health workforce interventions under the guidance of the Program Manager – Health Workforce. Based in Mwanza, the officer will serve as a regional focal point for Mkapa Foundation's health workforce programs across the Lake Zone, working closely with Regional Secretariats, Local Government Authorities, health facilities, implementing partners, and other stakeholders. The role supports health workforce strengthening initiatives, including those funded by the Beginning Fund and other partners, to improve the availability, competence, and performance of frontline health workers, particularly in primary healthcare and maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) services.
The Program Officer will contribute to program delivery, stakeholder coordination, monitoring and learning, and documentation of results in line with organizational, government, and donor requirements.
Key Responsibilities
1. Program Implementation and Coordination
- Support planning and implementation of health workforce interventions across the Lake Zone in line with approved workplans, budgets, and program objectives.
- Support implementation of health workforce activities under the Beginning Fund-supported Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH) initiative and other health workforce programs within the Foundation's portfolio.
- Coordinate day-to-day implementation with Regional Secretariats, Local Government Authorities, health facilities, and implementing partners.
- Support integration of health workforce interventions with broader health systems strengthening initiatives.
- Monitor implementation progress, identify challenges and risks, and provide timely updates to the Program Manager.
- Prepare activity reports, field updates, and implementation documentation.
2. Capacity Strengthening and Technical Support
- Support implementation of training, mentorship, coaching, supportive supervision, and leadership development activities.
- Assist in organizing and facilitating workshops, review meetings, and learning events.
- Conduct follow-up visits to assess application of skills and strengthen workforce performance.
- Support capacity-building initiatives for health workers delivering maternal, newborn, child health, and other priority health services.
- Support implementation of workforce performance improvement and retention initiatives.
3. Monitoring, Learning and Quality Improvement
- Support collection, verification, analysis, and reporting of program and workforce data.
- Work closely with the MERL team to monitor progress against program indicators and targets.
- Support monitoring and documentation of how workforce interventions contribute to improved service delivery and health outcomes, including MNCH services where applicable.
- Contribute to documentation of lessons learned, best practices, innovations, and success stories.
- Support implementation of quality improvement activities and use of data for decision-making.
4. Stakeholder Engagement and Partnership Support
- Maintain strong working relationships with Regional Secretariats, Regional and Council Health Management Teams, health facilities, training institutions, and implementing partners.
- Support coordination of health workforce interventions to ensure alignment with regional and national priorities.
- Participate in stakeholder consultations, technical meetings, and coordination forums.
- Support follow-up on agreed actions, partner commitments, and implementation decisions.
- Promote visibility and effective communication of BMF-supported interventions across the Lake Zone.
5. Compliance, Risk Management and Knowledge Management
- Ensure assigned activities comply with donor requirements, government regulations, and organizational policies.
- Identify and escalate operational, programmatic, and compliance risks to the Program Manager.
- Support safeguarding, ethics, accountability, and proper documentation of program activities.
- Maintain organized records and contribute to the development of reports, presentations, briefs, and other knowledge products.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Health Sciences, Public Health, Nursing, Health Administration, Social Sciences, or a related field; a Master's degree will be an added advantage.
- Minimum of five (5) years' experience in health workforce, health systems strengthening, public health, MNCH, or other donor-funded health programs.
- Experience working with government institutions, regional and council health authorities, implementing partners, and other health sector stakeholders.
- Good understanding of Tanzania's health system, decentralized service delivery structures, and health workforce priorities.
- Demonstrated experience in program implementation, coordination, monitoring, reporting, and stakeholder engagement.
- Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and report-writing skills, with the ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and commitment to quality, accountability, teamwork, and continuous learning.
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