At the heart of Pact is the promise of a better tomorrow. The promise of a healthy life. Of a decent livelihood. Of sustainable natural resources that benefit communities. Now more than ever in its 42-year history, Pact is helping millions of people who are poor and marginalized discover and build their own solutions and take ownership over their future.
Pact accomplishes this by strengthening local capacity, forging effective govemance systems, and transforming markets into a force for development. Pact Tanzania is a field office of 'Pact' an international non-governmental and non-profit making organization with its headquarters in WaShington DC. Pact Tanzania exists to build local capacity to enable systematic solutions that allow those who are poor and marginalized to earn a dignified living, be healthy and enjoy the benefit nature provides.
For efficient execution of its duties, Pact Tanzania is looking for enthusiastic, creative, energetic individuals to fill the following vacant positions:
Job Title: Technical Services Coordinator- Economic (1 position)
Location: Dar es salaam, Tanzania Reporting To: Technical integration Cluster Manager
Position Purpose:
The Technical Services Coordinator serves as an active member of the program team for the implementation of Pact's Caring for Children and Empowering Young People project. The coordinator will ensure the technical cohesion of project integration, strengthening age-appropriate HIV/AIDS-related and other services for improved care, health, nutrition, education, protection, livelihoods, and psychosocial well-being.
Specific Duties
The Technical Services Coordinator must develop a close working relationship with the sub-grantees providing OVC services at the community level. The coordinator will be responsible for:
• Support the Senior Technical Advisor to disseminate updated guidance, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and other job-aids that facilitate holistic case management at the household/community levels to assure beneficiaries are receiving appropriate health and social services.
• Serve as technical point person and mentor with sub grantees on economic strengthening, ECD, parenting skills, adolescent, and GBV priorities while ensuring program activities are age appropriate reflecting child and youth perspectives and interest.
• Co-develop work plans with sub grantees and monitor their progress
• Regularly monitor project activities and use the information to improve project quality and implementation; and to pro-actively identify risks related to contract compliance and prescribe, implement and manage corrective action.
• In close collaboration with sub-grantees, providing weekly support-supervision mentoring visits to the field to assure SOPS are properly implemented and case files are maintained in accordance with PEPFAR requirements
• Provide guidance and technical oversight to sub grantees ensuring skills trainings are conducted in accordance with international and Tanzanian standards and best practices.
• Work in partnership with local qovernment authorities as appropriate .
• Create community linkages for broader community engagement of youth and adolescent in the core areas of program interest-sexual reproductive health, livelihoods, life skills, and employability.
• Document lessons learnt and best practices for experience sharing and replication.
• Timely preparation of quality progress reports that meet the organizations/donor requirements, as stipulated in the contract.
• Identify and documenting best practices for presentation and possible integration to existing SOPs
• Promoting, documenting and presenting shared learnings across technical partners and other actors.
• Conduct training/learning needs assessment for PEPFAR OVC sub grantees;
• Receiving TOT and coordinating/co-facilitate trainings on case management, economic strengthening, ECD/parenting skills, adolescent/youth, and referrals.
• Support PEPFAR OVC technical partners to oversee quality improvement initiatives and learning exchanges related to case management among partners
• Collaborate with the Senior Technical Advisor and Technical Integration Cluster Manager to develop and roll out procedures related to graduation and transition of OVC and their households.
• Coordinating with Para-social Workers and community level care workers to effectively monitor and document Interventions (data-collection) in a timely and accurate manner
• Submit written case management updates to the Technical Integration Cluster Manager for inclusion in the quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports
• Perform any other relevant duties as assigned by the Technical Integration Cluster Manager.
Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor in relevant field
• Minimum of 6 years of relevant experience in at least one of the following technical areas: Social Work, OVC care, health, nutrition, education, protection, livelihoods, and psychosocial well-being
• Fluent in both written and spoken English & Kiswahili
• Experience with PEPFAR 3.0 funded projects in Tanzania
• Experience managing donor-funded programs with demonstrated capacity to create and/or maintain complex systems and procedures involving multiple implementation sites, multiple partners and diverse beneficiaries
• Ability to provide the financial oversight necessary to successfully execute a large-scale program
• Experience implementing program and donor regulations, systems, and procedures
• Diplomacy and negotiation skills that demonstrate ability to collaborate and coordinate with a range of stakeholders and complex priorities
If you believe you are the ideal person we are looking for, please submit your application letter describing why you are the right candidate for this position, a curriculum vitae detailing your experience and three (3) professional referees from previous and current place of employment.
(Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted) Qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply
