Deadline of this Job: 04 October 2022
JOB DETAILS:Duties and Responsibilities
• The Project Management unit (PMU) will consist of the Project Analyst, Project Associate, and Project Admin and Finance Officer, and will be working under the supervision of the Vice President’s office – Department of Environment and UNDP. The Project Analyst will carry out the following tasks:
1. Assist the Project Associate in implementing project activities in Zanzibar.
• Plan the activities of the project and monitor progress against the approved workplan.
• Execute activities by managing personnel, goods and services, training, and low-value grants, including drafting terms of reference and work specifications, and overseeing all contractors’ work.
2. Monitor events as determined in the project monitoring plan, and update the plan as required.
• Provide support for completion of assessments required by UNDP, spot checks and audits.
• Monitor financial resources and accounting to ensure the accuracy and reliability of financial reports.
3. Monitor progress, watch for plan deviations, and make course corrections when needed within project board-agreed tolerances to achieve results.
• Ensure that changes are controlled, and problems addressed.
• Perform regular progress reporting to the project board as agreed with the board, including measures to address challenges and opportunities.
• Prepare and submit financial reports to UNDP on a quarterly basis.
4. Manage and monitor the project risks – including social and environmental risks – initially identified and submit new risks to the Project Board for consideration and decision on possible actions if required; update the status of these risks by maintaining the project risks log.
• Capture lessons learned during project implementation.
• Prepare revisions to the multi-year workplan, as needed, as well as annual and quarterly plans if required.
• Prepare the inception report no later than one month after the inception workshop.
5. Ensure that the indicators included in the project results framework are monitored annually in advance of the GCF bi-annual report submission deadline so that progress can be reported in the GCF Interim Progress Reports and portfolio reports.
• Prepare the GCF bi-annual report.
• Assess major and minor amendments to the project within the parameters set by UNDP-NCE.
6. Monitor implementation plans including the gender action plan, stakeholder engagement plan, and any environmental and social management plans.
• Support the Terminal Evaluation process.
Institutional Arrangement
The Project Analyst will be embedded within the Vice President’s Office and will report to the Director of Environment and the UNDP Project Focal Point (Progamme Specialist). The Analyst will work closely with the Project Associate to be based at the Vice President’s Office in Zanzibar, and collaborate with the rest of the experts and relevant institutions.
Competencies
Core Competencies
• Achieve Results: LEVEL 2: Scale up solutions and simplifies processes, balances speed and accuracy in doing work.
• Think Innovatively: LEVEL 2: Offer new ideas/open to new approaches, demonstrate systemic/integrated thinking.
• Learn Continuously: LEVEL 2: Go outside comfort zone, learn from others and support their learning.
• Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new situations, involve others in change process.
• Act with Determination: LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources of pressure simultaneously.
• Engage and Partner: LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together, build/maintain coalitions/partnerships.
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 2: Facilitate conversations to bridge differences, considers in decision making.
Cross Functional/Technical competencies
Show Managerial Courage:
• Face up to organizational and people problems Not be afraid to take decision and action when and as needed Not hold back anything that needs to be said, respectfully and diplomatically.
Project management:
• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals.
Resource mobilization:
• Ability to allocate and use resources in a strategic or tactical in line with principles of accountability and integrity.
Operations Management:
• Ability to effectively plan, organize, and oversee the Organizational /project’s business processes in order to convert its assets into the best results in the most efficient manner.
Result based Management
• Ability to manage programmes and projects with a focus at improved performance and demonstrable results.
Communications
• Ability to communicate in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience.
Effective decision making
• Ability to take decisions in a timely and efficient manner in line with ones authority, area of expertise and resources.
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
• A Master’s degree in a subject related to Natural Resource Management, Climate Change, Environmental Sciences and related fields.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant fields in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of Master’s degree.
Experience:
• Minimum 2 years (Bachelor’s degree) of demonstrable project/programme management experience working with ministries, national local governments institutions that are concerned with natural resource and/or environmental management;
• Strong leadership, managerial and coordination skills, with a demonstrated ability to effectively coordinate the implementation of large multi-stakeholder projects, including financial and technical aspects;
• Ability to effectively manage technical and administrative teams, work with a wide range of stakeholders across various sectors and at all levels, to develop durable partnerships with collaborating agencies;
• Ability to administer budgets, train and work effectively with counterpart staff at all levels and with all groups involved in the project;
• Strong drafting, presentation and reporting skills;
• Strong communication skills, especially in timely and accurate responses to emails;
• Strong computer skills, in particular mastery of all applications of the MS Office package and internet search;
• Strong knowledge about the political and socio-economic context related to the Tanzania environment and climate change landscapes;
• Ability to manage competing priorities;
• Ability to oversee the work of and provide guidance to staff;
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment and to demonstrate gender-sensitive and non-discriminatory behavior.
Language:
• Excellent command of English and Swahili is a requirement.
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The deadline for submitting the application is 04 October 2022.
Deadline of this Job: 30 September 2022
JOB DETAILS:This position is responsible for providing overall technical leadership on social empowerment activities of AIM Programme to ensure sound and effective implementation. S/he will uphold BRAC’s values and ensuring programming and organizational principles.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Oversee social empowerment activities of AIM programme and provide technical support on gender and inclusion aspects
• Prepare branch wise Social Empowerment training calendar and help to ensure trainings, including staff training and ToT for Mentors and PAs
• Provide overall technical leadership and help to Community Selection & Demarcation
• Support Branch set-up and procurement, community mapping and selection
• Support club-space set up ensuring safeguarding criteria and reasonable accommodation and Club Group Formation and facilitate club-based curriculum delivery
• Lead mapping of linkage services following standardized referral pathways (government/inter-agency) and provide orientation to staff, mentors and Youth Development Committees
• Prepare work plan both yearly & monthly to achieve the programmatic target
• Support branch team to maintain strong linkage with local Government and other community authorities
• Support GBV case management from collecting incident reports to providing guidance and support to branch team and YDCs to resolve or establish referral linkage
• Follow up & monitor the field level activities on regular basis and assist for proper implementation
• Follow up YDCs activities by attending meetings and help to capacity building
• Conduct and monitor Family & Partners’ sessions
• Write case stories or success stories and help Knowledge Management team for programme documentation
• Coordinate with MF CO and BM for participants inclusion in Microfinance
• Ensure report submission in right time and check MIS data Safeguarding Responsibilities:
• 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 and encourage others to do the same
EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
• Master’s degree (preferred) or Bachelor’s degree in Social Science /Anthropology /Sociology /Business Administration and /or other relevant fields
SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
• Strong Microsoft Office skills
• Good communication, facilitation and representation skills.
• Proven ability to develop and manage institutional relationships
• Understanding on gender and inclusion, community empowerment and local government issues.
EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
• At least three (02) years working experience on gender and inclusion, community mobilization, local government and social safety net.
EMPLOYMENT TYPE: CONTRACTUAL
SALARY: Negotiable
Deadline of this Job: 05 October 2022
JOB DETAILS:Job Overview/Summary
• The UK aid funded Shule Bora programme aims to improve the quality of pre-primary and primary schools in Tanzania. The programme’s Impact Statement is: Shule Bora will deliver improved quality, inclusiveness, and safety of learning for boys and girls.
There Are Four Outcomes
• Learning: All children* are learning in school.
• Teaching: UKAID supports the strengthening of Tanzania’s teaching workforce.
• Inclusion: All children are in schools that are safe, offer an environment conducive to learning and that enables children to complete primary education and progress to secondary education.
• Systems building: UKAID supports the government in strengthening the value for money of education provision at school, local and national levels, The term ‘all children’ infers particular attention to the most disadvantaged: girls, the disabled and those living in deprived areas and value for money is defined as a composite of economy, efficiency, effectiveness, and equity.
The Programme Will
• Work with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MOEST) and the President’s Office Regional Administration and Local Government (PO-RALG) to test, adapt and implement at-scale quality, gender-transformative, disability-inclusive, and safe-to-learn education approaches in 9 regions, generating learning and evidence on how to achieve these outcomes affordably and at scale.
• Support GoT with the timely and effective implementation of the Payment for Results (PforR) mechanism through technical assistance and capacity building, with a strong focus on data verification, financial management and risk management. Support lesson learning processes from PforR so that these can be embedded into government processes and shared with development partners and other key stakeholders. Ensure that lessons and best practice from (1) are used to inform the PforR mechanism.
• Manage and coordinate programme activities, with a strong focus on (i) ensuring a high-quality programme and financial and risk management oversight, (ii) working with an independent Learning and Evidence (L&E) provider on establishing regular, rigorous, and community-driven monitoring and evaluation activities, and (iii) developing and implementing a strategy for effective communication of Shule Bora objectives, results, and lessons learned to a range of target audiences.
• The intervention specialists will support the implementation of programme interventions across the nine regions. Each intervention specialist will have a specialization in pupils’ safety intervention in addition to supporting school improvement and will provide additional support on pupils’ safety interventions across their zone.
General Responsibilities
• Providing support to technical leads and key advisers to programme and deliver interventions including preparation, planning, pre-testing, and piloting of activities and materials
• Drawing upon IRC’s expertise to support the government to develop and implement interventions to reflect their thematic focus
• Supporting the development of capacity-building activities of the community, school, district, and regional education managers in the areas of teacher development, school leadership, planning and management, community participation and data management and use.
• Following up on intervention activities within the region
• Collecting data and information from regional and district partners as required
• Identifying, solving and/or escalating challenges relating to programme delivery
• Providing zonal support to implementation and troubleshooting relating to inclusion activities (disability, safety, and girls) in line with the inclusion strategy
• Ensuring that all stakeholders across the region have a good understanding of Shule Bora and their role in the programme as pertains to them
• Contribute to the writing of various reports, articles, and other forms of communication
• Communicate success, lessons learnt, programme best practices and evidence of impact
• Ensure inclusion is mainstreamed and gender-sensitive and inclusive language is used in all programme communications
• Deputizing for the programme regional coordinator as required
• Joining all programme meetings as required
• Ensuring proper saving of all regional documents on SharePoint
Technical
• Assisting the programme regional coordinator to support regional and district offices in planning, implementing, and monitoring Shule Bora interventions across all output areas
• Provide advice on what works in terms of improving safety in and around schools.
• Participate in the design, implementation, monitoring and adaptation of quality interventions relating to improving safety of learning for all children
• Develop timely reports of programme activities and input to formal reports such as quarterly reports and annual reports
• Utilize the Managing for Learning Approach and other programme strategies as developed
• Ensure all programme activities and materials include an inclusive approach, use inclusive language and disaggregated data, and promote diversity in educational institutions
• Work closely with other intervention specialists to ensure harmonization across the programme at zonal level
• Provide input on design, approach and content of materials and quality assure where relevant
Planning and institutional coordination
• Ensure harmonization of approaches across programme activities
• Coordinate Shule Bora’s safe school activities with LGA, regional and zonal level as well as other organizations as required
• Generate synergies and ensure lesson learning between Shule Bora and other efforts to improve safety of learning for all children in Tanzania
Build capacity
• Support the institutionalization of safe school activities within LGAs, Regional and zonal levels
• Support capacity development activities of programme staff and government counterparts at LGA, regional and zonal levels.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in education, community development, social development or related degree, master’s degree in the same field is an added advantage.
Good understanding of the Tanzanian education system.
Skills
• Ability to prioritize and work under pressure
• Ability to work in a collaborative team setting
• Understanding of and sensitivity to cultural differences
• Proficient in using MS packages, particularly Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint
• Strong organizational skills, reliability, and adherence to ethical standards
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong leadership and influencing skills
• Fluency in written and spoken English, Kiswahili preferred
Experience
• Experience in planning, coordinating, implementing, and monitoring activities to improve safety in and around schools
• Experience in capacity development
• Experience in large-scale, international development projects
• Experience with stakeholder engagement from schools to government levels
The deadline for submitting the application is 05th October 2022.
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