Benedict Nyiro Chidzao
Tanga
Summary
Dr. Benedict Chidzao, a thought leader public health systems and Project management expert and implementation scientist, has over 12 years of specialized service delivery and management experience managing and implementing large-scale, integrated health projects, Research and operations. His experience includes providing technical leadership and operations management to programs addressing maternal, newborn, child health, family planning, malaria, nutrition, HIV/AIDS,Sexual Reproductive, youth, and gender issues. He has successfully led complex health projects at Marie stopes, Pathfinder International ,World lung foundation(WLF),Population services International(PSI) and Tanzania Health Promotion support(THPS). He is a seasoned leader in the health discipline with training and experiential learning in various leadership and management skills. Dr. Benedict Chidzao has more than 12 years of experience in Project planning, leadership and management; research and use of evidence for improvement; Strategic leadership; Business development, resource mobilization and Proposal writing; Public health promotion and community engagement for change(SBCC); Budgeting and financial management; Human resource management and development; Networking, Negotiation and Partnership Management; Gender analysis and programming; Training and transformative capacity building, coaching and mentorship. Project Evaluation and Team building skills, Experience working with the government and the ministry of health at all levels, National, regional(RHMT) and Council level(CHMT).Experiences in community engagement approaches for successful project performance.Experiences working with different systems for efficiency-ERP,Norming and advanced computer skills and Data analysis(SPSS)
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Zonal Program Manager
USAID Uhuru TB/FP LON Activity
06.2022 - Current
- Kigoma, Tanzania
- Tanzania Health Promotion Support (THPS), Oversee the overall Planning, initiation and implementation of TB prevention, early detection and linkage to treatment services as well as the integration of reproductive health services at supported health facilities (HFs) in the 252 supported facilities in the Project Area
- Liaise with the RHMT, CHMT, MOHCDGEC officials and other Stakeholders in coordinating implementation of the program and compliance to the national guidelines and standards
- Co-ordinate and work closely with CTRL and NTLP to ensure availability of TB Commodities including ; Gene expert Cartridges, M &E
- Reporting tools and IEC Materials to support the TB Program
- Generated strategic weekly Key Performance Indicator (KPI) targets
- Motivating and incentivizing staff to continually achieve and exceed expectation
- Coordinated smooth onboarding for new staff with related training
- Documentation & Technical approaches
- Work in collaboration with the community Implementing partner-USAID Afya shirikishi - A mref to ensure smooth implementation of our Activities
- Ensure that all technical teams in the zone support program - Implementation by building good working relationships and enhancing capacity of R/CHMTs in program management and various technical domains , Work closely with the USAID Uhuru TB and FP Facility Solutions Activity central technical team in programmatic aspects of the supported TB and reproductive health services activities
- Supervise and oversee overall activities implemented by zone Program Officers and other Staff in the supported Regions Kigoma &Katavi
- Participate in THPS strategic planning sessions including planning With sub grantees in the region, development of Country Operational, Plan (COP) activities and other planning related activities as will be deemed
- Participate and represent THPS in National Program related activities e.g.:-Development of curriculum/guidelines
- Coordinate procurement of equipment and consumables for the sites
- Prepare budgets, work plans, monthly and quarterly reports and other technical
- Evaluated employee skills and optimized assignments to best use Individual talents and knowledge
- Established monthly goals, communicating priorities to staff and Closely tracking progress to achieve success
- Supervised and mentored junior team members, providing detailed,Instructions and guidance to maximize team efficiency.
- Managed and supervised administrative and daily program operations, complying with policies and regulations.
- Established strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring support for program initiatives.
- Developed strategic plans, setting clear objectives and achievable milestones for the team.
- Managed cross-functional teams for successful project completion within deadlines and budgets.
- Conducted comprehensive program evaluations, identifying areas for improvement and recommending actionable solutions.
- Managed multiple strategic projects with numerous sub-projects or workstreams.
- Identified program obstacles and communicated possible impacts to team.
- Spearheaded innovative problem-solving techniques that addressed challenges head-on, resulting in effective resolution measures.
- Improved program efficiency by streamlining processes and implementing time-saving solutions.
- Coached team members on productivity strategies to accomplish challenging goals.
- Delivered high-quality results by setting performance metrics and monitoring progress against targets.
Senior Technical Clinical Advisor TB/FP
Tanzania Health promotion support(THPS)
11.2020 - 06.2022
- Promotion and community engagement for change; Budgeting and financial management; Human resource management and development; Networking Negotiation and Partnership,Management; Gender analysis and programming; Training and transformative capacity building, coaching and mentoring
- TB/FP LON Activity, Tanzania Health promotion support, Provide direct
- Technical assistance to health care facilities supported by the USAID Uhuru TB and FP,Integrated Facility Solutions Activity such as; sites assessment and development, training staff in the clinical management of individuals with TB, clinical mentoring, patient flow analysis, improvement of adherence support systems, improvement of referral and linkages systems for TB and reproductive health services
- Support health care providers at designated points of service in TB
- Case finding and strengthening entry points in order to increase the number of referrals to TB clinics from CTC, RCH, PMTCT, OPD and
- IPD and outreach services, Support implementation of TB treatment adherence strategies in Health facilities and linkage to former TB patients' groups for psychosocial support among newly diagnosed TB clients
- Facilitate integration between FP, TB and HIV services and infection Control within health facilities
- Coordinate implementation of integrated reproductive health services, ensures high performance on key indicators for this component of the program
- Conducts comprehensive site supportive supervision visits and
- Provide feedback on successes and areas of improvement with relevant management and unit specific service providers
- Prepare technical narrative draft reports for timely submission to Facilitate regional reporting timelines
- Conducts data sharing meetings Quarterly Review meetings ,Data cleaning meetings, Annual review meetings(APR) with service providers for Improvement and decision-making
- Ensure that all supported clinical care activities at multiple delivery,Sites conform to the national guidelines and standards
- Participated in HIV/TB treatment program management, HIV/TB care and Treatment at CTC and Outreach/Mobile, HIV/TB care services according with Tanzania National guideline to nearby and remote areas/villages around Kigoma and Katavi Regions.
- Participated in conducting Pediatric Saturday Clinics and Teen,Clubs, prescribe recommended pediatric formulations (ABC/3TC /LPV/r) and transition to TLD according to age and weight
- Conduct HTS screening, Elicitation, Index and diagnostic testing to all pediatric and Adults entry point,Conduct index testing coverage for biological children of HIV
- Positive women and effectively performing
- Linkage Case Management to new POSITIVE identified clients and Same day ART initiation
- Ensured HIV testing services are routinely conducted at RCH, labour wards and all OPD entry points and IPDEnsured that all newly diagnosed HIV positive pregnant women
- Infants, children and Adolescent are linked and retained to care and treatment services
- Ensured that all HIV Exposed infants (HEI's) both high risk and low risk are identified and tested for HIV after births and provision of appropriate ARV prophylaxis
- Conducted HVL test to all eligible pediatrics and Adults, identify,Clients with High Viral Loads Results and initiate Enhanced,Adherence Counselling (EAC) session.
Senior Technical Health Advisor
Pathfinder International
06.2017 - 03.2020
- Work with Conservation Partners (The Nature Conservancy & Jane
- Goodall Institute) to integrate Health into conservation programs in
- Kigoma and Katavi region
- Provide technical health support to Freshwater and Climate Smart
- Agriculture programs and ensure health and environment indicators are visible at household level
- Work with the District and Regional Health Management teams to
- Coordinate project implementation
- Work with Ministry of Health and TAMISEMI to design and deliver
- Health training in the field
- Represent Pathfinder in the National level and Regional Technical
- Working Groups for Health and ensure organization priorities are included in the Government plans
- Facilitate national and regional Population, Health & Environment (PHE) Network and work with University of Dar es Salaam in the development of its Master's program in PHE
- Likewise, coordinate with Ministry of Health and Ministry for East
- Africa Cooperation in formalization of PHE programming in the country
- Identify trends technical standards and donor priorities on the WASH program
- Ensure evidence and learning from WASH programme is captured, consolidated and disseminated, contributing to knowledge building and sharing within Kenya and globally to influence policies and programme planning, Provide technical direction and project implementation support
- Follow up on compliance with contractual commitments within
- WASH, ensure high technical quality and synergies in project implementation
- Provide capacity building and Mentorship of technical staff
- Implementing TUUNGANE Project
- Responsible for donor reports and for organizing donor meetings and field visits
- Lead the design and implementation of innovative capacity building approaches including on-the-job training and mentorship to build competencies, attitudes and motivation to optimize the performances from health workers
- Coordinate drafting of concept notes and proposals and lead in budget development
- Work with M&E Team to review, analyses and evaluate the effectiveness of activities and use of data to lead the design of improvement
- Supervise and mentor project staff to attain project deliverable and ensure progressive and positive career development
Project Manager
Thamini Uhai/World Lung Foundation
10.2016 - 05.2017
- Kigoma
- Tanzania
- Advocate at the regional, district and community levels to allow and
- Promote practice of birth companionship in the health facilities
- Coordinate with the Ministry of Health, Technical Working group to influence integration of the project into the national health policy priorities
- Support and coordinate with research firms to undertake formative research to understand the gender, cultural, social, economic and political dynamics surrounding women's childbirth experience - both from the perspective of the laboring woman and from the health providers assisting in the delivery
- Organization and facilitation of stakeholder workshops to develop a ‘Code of Good Practice' laying out the rights, roles and responsibilities of health providers supporting women delivering at facilities
- In collaboration with the Communication Manager, develop and implement a multimedia communication campaign to ensure the promotion of birth companionship
- Oversee environment of collaboration between health providers, delivering women and birth companions to ensure birth companionship practice leads to more satisfaction to delivering women
- Ensure data is collected, processed and analyzed, Use the lessons
- Learnt to continually improve the project performance
- To Conduct and facilitate workshops for community members, health facility staff and local government officials to support the implementation of guideline for referral in project area
- Supervising the implementation of referral guideline in the project area communities and ensure that performance standard of all key element of implementation are achieved
- Build strong and respectful relationship and partnerships between all those involved in referral system, including communities, health facilities, local government and local transportation such as taxi drivers, motorists
- Monitor the project activities ensuring all needed data is collected
- Processed and analyzed and to use the lesson learnt from the result of analyzed data to continually to improve the project performance
- Reviewed performance against targets, appropriately identifying and managing risks and opportunities
- Reported project status and financial updates to stakeholders and
- Collected feedback
- Led and motivated project team to meet and exceed project
- KPIs.Identified future capacity and capability needs for successful project planning
- Oversaw operational aspects of projects, staffed project teams and directed activities to achieve budget targets.
Quality Improvement Advisor
05.2015 - 08.2016
- Population services International (PSI) | Dar e s salaam, Tanzania
- Build capacity and provide technical assistance to the Regional and
- Council Health Management Teams (R/CHMTs), Facility Quality
- Improvement (QI) and Work Improvement Teams (WITs), and community-level program staff to design, implement and monitor
- CQI projects.(HIV,Malaria,Family planning &Cervical cancer Screening prevention & Treatment(CCSP&T)
- Mentor the PSI project staff to integrate and implement CQI
- Approaches into the routine program Guide the design, implementation, and monitoring of CQI initiatives across all technical areas in community and facility settings
- Build capacity and provide technical assistance to the Regional and
- Council Health Management Teams (R/CHMTs), Facility Quality
- Improvement (QI) and Work Improvement Teams (WITs), and community-level program staff to design, implement and monitor
- CQI projects
- Mentor the PSI project staff to integrate and implement CQI
- Approaches into the routine programmatic design, implementation, and monitoring across all program areas
- Establish, scale up and maintain CQI teams across all facilities and in all community interventions
- Promote and oversee proper documentation of QI projects the use of
- SES Forms
- Lead the establishment and maintenance of the experience-sharing forums and platforms and promote widespread scale-up of best practices and success stories
- Work closely with the strategic information, monitoring and evaluation, and data analysts to identify programmatic gaps and use the information to develop CQI projects Provide technical assistance to ensure quality of training activities
- Monitor and assist in evaluating CQI activities and organize/participate in public health evaluations related to CQI
- Coordinate the implementation of capacity building and training programs in close collaboration with staff supervisors, facility in-charges, and other stakeholders
- Oversee the planning of short-term technical assistance related to quality improvement activities, including drafting scopes of work, negotiating with technical assistance providers, and collaborating with them while they are in the field
- Regularly travel to the program's target regions to supervise, monitor progress, and provide follow-up technical assistance on CQI activities for the project
- Ensure compliance with policies for data-quality assurance and reporting requirements
- Perform any other tasks assigned by the supervisor
- Thematic design, implementation, and monitoring across all program areas
- Establish, scale up and maintain CQI teams across all facilities and in all community interventions
- Lead the establishment and maintenance of the experience-sharing forums and platforms and promote widespread scale-up of best practices and success stories
- Work closely with the strategic information, monitoring and
- Evaluation, and data analysts to identify programmatic gaps and use the information to develop CQI project
Quality Assurance Coordinator Zonal Health
International
06.2012 - 07.2015
- PSI
- Arusha Tanzania
- Oversee the planning of short-term technical assistance related to quality improvement activities, including drafting scopes of work, negotiating with technical assistance providers, and collaborating with them while they are in the field
- Provide technical assistance to PSI/Tanzania's Social marketing and behavior change communications programs in maternal and child health
- Performs regular supervision visits to the field, oversee the
- Implementation of quality assurance standards throughout the franchised and non-franchised facilities
- Build the technical expertise and program management capacity of technical staff to design and manage effective and efficient interventions
- Develop a feedback system to the providers'In-depth knowledge of family planning (LARC)
- Short term and permanent methods Knowledge in Basic Emergency
- Obstetrics and
- Neonate care (BEmONC) and Comprehensive Emergency Obstetrics & Neonate care (CEmONC)-National Facilitator Ministry of Health (MOHCDGEC)
- Support the development of a quality improvement plan on behavior
- Change communication (PBCC)
- Develop a monitoring and evaluation strategy on the franchised facility Ensure compliance of all reporting systems and procedures as per schedule, deadline and donor policies and procedures
Sexual and Reproductive health officer/Team Leader
06.2009 - 08.2012
- Marie stopes
- International, Dar es Salaam/ Tanzania
- Performance of procedures during outreach and in facilities, e.g
- Voluntary surgical contraception(VSC)Bilateral Tubal
- Ligation,NonScarpel vasectomy and Caesarian section
- Lead the outreach team in coordinating, planning and execution of
- FP events
- Perform manual vacuum aspiration as an intervention to post
- Abortion care and medical abortions use of misoprostol for PPH prevention and treatment
- Oversee the quality assurance standards in service delivery
- Particularly technical competence, client safety, informed choice, privacy, confidentiality, continuity of care
- Perform informed choice counselling, especially for long acting
- Reversible contraceptives (LARC) and permanent methods
- Give technical updates on sexual and reproductive health (SRHR)
- Issues to the rest of the team and services providers
- Mentor team members through supportive supervision and
- On-the-job training
- Perform clinical work at the level of in and out patient
- Enforce and maintain health professional's ethics and standards as per the ministry of health and social welfare(MOH)
- Facilitate post abortion care trainings especially use of MVA (Manual
- Vacuum aspiration) and misoprostol in the management of PPH
- Technical capacity buildings to the teams to ensure quality of the
- Services delivery
Project officer, support and Treatment/Clinical Advisor Tanga
08.2008 - 05.2009
- TAWG)-Aids Relief-Pepfar, Technical clinical over role in charge of
- Tanga Aids working group (TAWG) and its satellites sights
- Clinical mentorship, coaching of the junior staffs and subordinates'
- Working in Tanga AIDS working group (TAWG)
- Supporting the community linkage of services with the community
- Based health services providers (CBHS) and community Health workers
- Collaboration with the district, regional and National HIV/AIDS
- Teams
- Supporting the Development of Guidelines and Standard operation
- Procedure/IEC materials under different Technical working groups at the Tanzania AIDS Control Program (TACAIDS) and National aids control program Tanzania
- Daily treatment of People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHIV)-OIs
- Ante Retroviral drugs initiation and counseling
- Programmatic support with most vulnerable groups
- IVDUs, MSM, FSWs Integrated services delivery-TB, HIV & Family planning
- Supporting clinical trials in collaboration with National Institute of
- Medical research (NIMR)
- Tracing clients-Loss to follow-up cases and abscondants
- PMTCT and Ante natal services support for mothers with pregnancy
- Couple support
- Regional, district and community levels to allow and promote, practice of birth companionship in the health facilities
- Co-ordinate with the Ministry of Health, Technical Working group to
- Influence integration of the project into the national health policy priorities
- Support and coordinate with research firms to undertake formative
- Research to understand the gender, cultural, social, economic and political dynamics surrounding women's childbirth experience - both from the perspective of the laboring woman and from the health providers assisting in the delivery
- Organization and facilitation of stakeholder workshops to develop a ‘Code of Good Practice' laying out the rights, roles and responsibilities of health providers supporting women delivering at facilities
- In collaboration with the Communication Manager, develop and
- Implement a multimedia communication campaign to ensure the promotion of birth companionship
- Oversee environment of collaboration between health providers, delivering women and birth companions to ensure birth companionship practice leads to more satisfaction to delivering women
- Ensure data is collected, processed and analyzed, Use the lessons learnt to continually improve the project performance;
- To Conduct and facilitate workshops for community members, health facility staff and local government officials to support the implementation of guideline for referral in project area
- Supervising the implementation of referral guideline in the project
- Area communities and ensure that performance standard of all key element of implementation are achieved
- Build strong and respectful relationship and partnerships between all those involved in referral system, including communities, health facilities, local government and local transportation such as taxi drivers, motorists
- Monitor the project activities ensuring all needed data is collected
- Processed and analyzed and to use the lesson learnt from the result of analyzed data to continually to improve the project performance
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Sociology
Open University of Tanzania
Diploma - Clinical Medicine
Machame Clinical officers' Training Centre-Moshi
MBA - Project management
The Open University of Tanzania
Advanced Diploma in Clinical medicine - Clinical medicine
Assistant Medical officers' Training Centre(AMTOC)
Masters of Public health(MPH) - Public health
Muhimbili University of Health & Allied Sciences
2019
Skills
Problem-Solving
Project Management
Detail Oriented
Strategic Planning
Process Improvement
Team leadership and direction
MS Office Applications
Project Coordination
Interpersonal Skills
Data Collection & Research
Work Planning and Prioritization
Operations Management
Stakeholder Communications
Certification
19-WHO -Health Emergency Program learning Course-No Expiry
Course-No Expiry Emergency obstetrics and Newborn
Care (EMoNC)-USAID Global health eLearning Centre-15th
January
2017
No Expiry Post-Partum Family planning (PPFP)-7th February
2017-USAID Global health eLearning Centre
No expiry Population Health and Environment-11th December
2017-USAID Global health eLearning Centre
No Expiry Promising Programmatic Approaches for Adolescence
and
Youth sexual
Reproductive Health (AYSRH)-7th August 2019-USAID Global health
eLearning Centre
No Expiry Protecting life in Global Health Assistance and statutory
abortion Restriction(PLGHA)-2020Mandatory USAID
COURSE-USAID Global health eLearning Centre-Annual Renewal
USAID Abortion and FP Requirements 2020-USAID Global health
eLearning Centre
Annual Renewal Eletronic TB Data system(ETL)-Training
Participatory certificate-2020
Emerging Respiratory Viruses, Including COVID19.Methods for
detection, Prevention response and Control-WHO-Health Emergency
program learning-No Expiry
Infection prevention and control(IPC) for COVID
Languages
Swahili
Native language
English
Advanced
C1
Timeline
Zonal Program Manager
USAID Uhuru TB/FP LON Activity
06.2022 - Current
Senior Technical Clinical Advisor TB/FP
Tanzania Health promotion support(THPS)
11.2020 - 06.2022
Senior Technical Health Advisor
Pathfinder International
06.2017 - 03.2020
Project Manager
Thamini Uhai/World Lung Foundation
10.2016 - 05.2017
Quality Improvement Advisor
05.2015 - 08.2016
Quality Assurance Coordinator Zonal Health
International
06.2012 - 07.2015
Sexual and Reproductive health officer/Team Leader
06.2009 - 08.2012
Project officer, support and Treatment/Clinical Advisor Tanga
08.2008 - 05.2009
Bachelor of Arts - Sociology
Open University of Tanzania
Diploma - Clinical Medicine
Machame Clinical officers' Training Centre-Moshi
MBA - Project management
The Open University of Tanzania
Advanced Diploma in Clinical medicine - Clinical medicine
Assistant Medical officers' Training Centre(AMTOC)
Masters of Public health(MPH) - Public health
Muhimbili University of Health & Allied Sciences
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