Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, September 22, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Area Supervisor – YEP

Purpose
To provide overall management and supervision of the youth empowerment projects activities in the field in liaison with other project staff and the target beneficiaries to ensure that the project’s objectives and results are achieved in a timely manner and according to the agreed standards in the project framework and in the grant agreement document. The Area Supervisor will be accountable for planning, implementing, monitoring and quality assurance of the girl empowerment component with a focus on ensuring equitable learning opportunities and outcomes for most vulnerable young girls

Job Responsibilities:
Community mobilization and facilitation
• Achieve dissemination of project objectives, priorities and approaches defined within the project among the communities, government and other stakeholders.
• Apply participatory approaches /techniques to facilitate adolescent girls, government and communities in identifying their own problems and development priorities in project activities.
• Facilitate community ownership of project and participation in clubs.
• Ensuring the overall management of procurement, logistics and administration of youth empowerment projects in the area based on BRAC policy
• Collaborate with project staff to implement internal controls systems and resolve day to day issues at field level
• Ensure mentors with the help from adolescent organizers conduct Bi Monthly parent meetings and parenting sessions

Effective project activities delivery based on standards
• Ensure close consultation with street authorities, club leaders, adolescent girls and BRAC`s technical staffs during project implementation
• Ensuring survey, adolescent girls’ selection and club leaders, club house selection according to set criteria
• Ensure adolescent girls’ attendance at clubs to be more than 90%
• Ensure monthly or bimonthly parents and community meeting at club centers are held
• Ensure club materials and equipment are with quality and well maintained to enhance the overall quality of club.
• Maintain the case load of the enrolled adolescent girls at the club centers and ensure adolescent girls are well performing in the centers
• Monitor all project activities closely on regular basis, document and share monitoring reports to Project Manager
• Conduct field visit to club centers by 100% of the work
• Attend staff meetings and develop monthly refresher module for staff
• Effective monitoring the works done by club leaders and adolescent organizers
• Ensuring the recruitment and development of staffs and club leaders
• Appraising job performance of club leaders and adolescent organizers

Coordination, Networking and Advocacy to project
• Establish good working relations with project team, government and stakeholders at districts and regional level
• Participate and organize project meetings and stakeholder meetings at streets and club centers
• Enhance self – empowerment of adolescent girls, parents, and communities in club centers
• Ensure effective advocacy with local authorities at district and regional level, ensure that they are embedded in program delivery
• Linking the adolescent girls under club centers with available services surrounding them
• Adhere to high ethical standards, and comply with all regulations

Child Protection
• Promote and ensure girls/child rights-based programming at field and office level
• Promote and abide by internal policies and procedures including child protection policy and SHE policy.
• Ensuring mandatory reporting of child/girls abuse cases in youth empowerment projects operation
• Promote and facilitate child rights and gender inclusion based on youth empowerment projects at field level
• Ensuring Club Management Committees at youth empowerment projects are fully functional.
• Ensuring all project team and relevant others, including club leaders, parents and project stakeholders are aware and have access to child protection policy, contents and their responsibilities it places on it.

Reports and documentation
• Develop and submit to Project Manager monthly, field progress and ad hock reports in timely manner
• Document well project success stories/ case study/ best practices/ lesson learned and submit to Project Manager
• Ensure and monitor down ward accountability to stakeholders especially adolescent girls and communities including documenting what works for wider sharing across BRAC, government and donor
• Ensuring the project properties are well kept at club centers and office

Safeguarding
• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation.
• Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place,

Required Qualifications and Experience:
• Must have a bachelor degree of gender and Development, Sociology, Social Work, Community Development, Development Studies. Masters of Project Management is an added advantage
• At least 3 years’ practical experience working with NGOs, youth empowerment projects, social / community work related programs.
• Facilitation and coaching of youth related projects
• Knowledge of the youth empowerment projects, youth activities and opportunities, youth policies in Tanzanian and knowledge in ICT
• Strong leadership experience, policy and advocacy, research methodology, learning and child development assessment, material development, community participation and social mobilization


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

If you feel you are the right match for the above-mentioned position, please apply by sending your CV and cover letter through email at: recruitment.tanzania@brac.net  with a subject “Area Supervisor – YEP”.



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