UHAI Tanzania, Healthy People®
Internship: Outreach programme Officers.
UHAI Tanzania is a national and growing international NGO in the field of public health and public private partnership since
01.07.2011. We are supporting governments in Africa to meet their best health systems development to reduce and where
possible end ill health issues. Currently we are currently looking for students [volunteers/interns] who are currently studying
in colleges, Universities [higher learning institutions] who can be part of our newly developed programmes namely GESS,
SEMA, BUSU, Vipaji Maalum, CEPA, Our MMUMY. Our leading programme is Maendeleo ya Uhai wa Mama na Mtoto
Wetu [Our MMUMY].
Positions available: 400
Locations: rural areas country wide with seasonal visits
First priority: Lake Zone, Western Zone, Cost Zone, Northern Zone, Central Zone, Southern Zone, Southern Highland Zone
Role and responsibilities
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To listen to people’s health needs in villages
To listen to people’s concerns on people health needs for women and children health development in rural areas
Undertake one to one training on RCH, SRH, ANCs
Meet youth-mostly girls and young women, breast feeding mother on ANCs
Support district health officers on maternal and child health needs in rural villages
Write event and technical reports
Support action research where needs arise
Recruit volunteers and give them supportive supervision
Qualifications
We are looking men and women who are highly attached to rural area [meaning that-they are coming from rural and they go
to their home rural areas many times and they will go to their homes during long vacation in July 2015].
We are looking most first year bachelor degree students mass of them are needed] and second year students [ fewer but].
High interaction and readiness to be informed and change and transformed based on social development systems in place.
Any student from any field is invited to apply. The student should be able to go back to his/her village most of the time [4
times a year under special arrangements].
Application
If you are interested please submit your application on the email page only [DO NOT ATTACH ANY DOCUMENTS-CV or
Letter,certificate] to jobsuhaitanzania@gmail.com and Copy to uhaitanzania@gmail.com and indicate the following: name of
YOUR DISTRICT in the subject matter of your email/To:. Specifications to tell us: your full name, college/University/Institute,
year of studies, cellphone number, district, ward, village, and name of your ward chairperson [diwani] and his/her cellphone,
name of the village chairperson [mwenyekiti] and his/her cellphone. Please tell us if your village lacks a dispensary or it has
a dispensary. Tell us if the next 2-3 villages bordering your home village lack dispensaries or have dispensaries, and if
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your ward has a health centre or lacks a health centre. These positions are depending on the availability of funds from our
sources. Clear applications will be given first consideration. FEMALE ARE HIGHLY INFORMED TO APPLY. We set
equal employment opportunities but we base on key sector targets and right candidates in high needs, no gender, race,
color and sex segregation. Graduates are not allowed to apply. They will be considered later. Deadline is 30 March 2015 at
12:00pm
Please do not send your application to other emails that are not mentioned here. If you email through those emails,
you will not be considered.
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