Women Fund Tanzania – “Empowering Local Women Heroes” (WFT) is an upcoming women’s rights fund in Tanzania. As a Grant Maker, WFT provides a funding mechanism which aims at enhancing the voice and visibility of women’s rights organizations through grant making and capacity strengthening with the aim of facilitating women’s rights actors at different levels in the country to realize their full potential for empowerment, access to rights and women’s movement building in the country

WFT, which was registered as Non-profit making organization in the country in the year 2008, intends to employ a competent and qualified person as a Grant Program Officer in line with WFT growth prospects.

WFT intends to employ a competent and qualified person as a Grant Program Officer in line with WFT growth prospects. This is a new Position within the Organization

PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES: Grants evaluation Under the guidance of the Head of Progema evaluate the risk, need for and benefits fo funding applications, taking into account funding criteria for a rage of different grant programmes

SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITIES: Working in a Team Perform the following tasks:

·         Engage and facilitate processes relating to Grant Management cycle, manage grants awarded and ensure that projects and expenditure are compliant agreed milestones throughout he duration of the grant

·         Handles the day to day grant-making processes and provide technical support in the planning and coordination fo grant-making activities  including timely disbursement of funds

·         To participate in conducting due diligence and site visits for current and prospective grantees organizations for monitoring and evaluation purposes wield developing, implanting compliance systems and monitoring procedures to ensure proper stewardship of funds on pre-awards, award, post-awards, and close-out to attain value for money.

·         Reporting collect and record data and information using the tools provided(e.g the grants database) and prepare reports ensuring that information is well presented accurate and meets the needs  of WFT, Donors, partners and the grant recipient

·         Prepare narrative reports and communicate with finance department in order to align both reports for quality assurance and ensure is reviewed by ED and submit to donor timely.

·         To provide support in coordinating convenings, engage and network with likeminded Ngo’s working in relevant fields and attend relevant forum, meeting, and conferences

·         To assist in preparing mainly and quarterly review meeting(finance and program departments) to reflect budget  against annual work plan to ensure implementation is done timely and reported accordingly

·         To assist in preparing WFT contacts, partnership agreements, consultancy and ensure format template is used and is sequentially numbered

To execute any other task as required by the Head of the Department in relation to granting making activities and selective

Core competencies

·         Strong analytical and grants managements skills

·         Ability to design and write a variety of reports and articles

·         Ability to build capacity to grantees and provide technical support

·         Personal initiative and ability to work under pressure

·         Ability to express oneself clearly and effectively both orally and in writing

Qualifications and experience

·         At least in possession of Degree in political science, gender studies, sociology, humanities or related field;

·         A minimum of 3 years professional experience working in the field of CSO/women’s rights or relevant professional experience in social justice or human rights broadly

·         Grant making management track record and experience is an added advantage

·         Candidates must demonstrate a proven commitment to women’s rights activist and will be expected to demonstrate the highest levels of integrity and model the rights based and social justice values espoused by  WFT

If you apply and you don’t hear from us within seven days from the deadline pleas count that, your application has not been successful