New "Senior Grants Manager" Job opportunity at International Rescue Committee Kasulu, Kigoma, Tanzania.

 

Job Description

Background/IRC Summary:

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.

IRC has been present in Tanzania since 1993 and initially focused its response on meeting the needs of refugees from Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since the initial influx, IRC Tanzania has continued to tirelessly serve the needs of both refugees and host communities. In 2020, IRC Tanzania reached 250,000 people across three refugee camps and within the broader population. Our work focuses across Protection (including GBV, Women’s Empowerment, Child Protection and Protection and Rule of Law), Education and Health (including mental health and sexual reproductive health).

IRC in Tanzania is funded by a range of high profile institutional and voluntary donors, including governments, international organizations, corporations, and foundations.

Job Purpose/Objective

The Senior Grants Manager (SGM) is responsible to support in the management of IRC’s grants portfolio in Tanzania. This position is key in managing the grants portfolio throughout the project cycle and in ensuring compliance with donor and IRC requirements and business development efforts. The SGM reports directly to the Grants Coordinator and will have immediate supervision for field-based Grants Officers. The position is based in Kasulu with periodic travel to other IRC’s field offices and project sites, as needed. The SGM will work closely with program staff, finance, and operations on compliance, donor regulations, reporting, and business development. S/he will also liaise closely with IRC’s global Award’s Management Unit to meet organizational performance goals for grants management.

Key Responsibilities

Grants Management and Compliance

• Oversee and manage donor and internal reporting processes, ensuring high-quality, well-written and timely reports are submitted. Prepare and circulate templates, coordinate inputs, and review and edit in line with donor expectations and contractual deadlines.
• Maintain close collaboration with all relevant departments in their preparation.
• Ensure that IRC’s grants in Tanzania are well-administered and implemented in compliance with the relevant donor regulations and IRC procedures.
• Ensure the smooth roll out and adherence to IRC Project Cycle Management (PCM) through coordinating programme design, planning, opening, implementation, closing and learning meetings.
• Support coordinating and facilitating in country Budget vs Actual (BVA) discussions to provide grant specific compliance guidance and address challenges in grant health
• Support the Grants Coordinator and program teams to provide timely responses to donor and HQ grant-related requests.
• Ensure quality information management related to grants by overseeing the regular maintenance of online grant files (OTIS and Box), reporting calendars, and updating of internal IRC documentation and Grant Unit tools
• Support program and partnership staff in grant revisions, cost extensions, no-cost extensions, budget realignments, and other amendments as require.
• Act as a focal point for donor rules and regulations and provide support to program team on questions around compliance.
• Identify potential compliance concerns and flag them to the Grants Coordinator as required.
  

Program Design & Proposal Development

• Working with the Grants Coordinator, technical leads, and technical advisors, support the development of comprehensive program design and develop funding proposals/concept notes, appropriate to context and aligned with the country-level Strategic Action Plan.
• Support development of concept notes and proposals, providing both writing and editing support, as required
• Assist Grants Coordinator in donor/HQ liaison and communication as requested.
  

Sub-grant management

• Support in the reviews of sub-grants for compliance with donor rules and regulations
• Provide feedback and request clarifications on sub-grant documents that have been submitted for approval
• Support in the drafting of partner agreements
• Support in keeping of proper and updated master files on sub-grants both hard copy and in box.
• Support in the facilitation and oversee all internal, external, and sub-grantee reporting with programs and finance, ensuring high-quality, well-written and timely reports meeting donor and IRC requirement.
  

Donor Relations and Communication

• As requested, liaise with donors regarding grants and grant management particularly field level donor engagement.
• Maintain excellent relationships internally within IRC and with all IRC's existing partners, and local authorities.
• Maintain necessary donor files on grants including hard copy and box.
• Ensure regular reporting for the NGO Registrar is complete, in partnership with the External Liaison.
  

People Management and Capacity Building

• Directly supervise field based grants staff, building their capacity and supporting their professional development.
• Build grant management capacity of field staff by assisting Grants Coordinator in trainings, and providing support in report writing, proposal development, budget management, IRC-specific tools, and other topics as/if needed.
  

Key Result Areas

• Donor and IRC compliance
• Effective Grants Operational Meetings
• Effective partner management
• Quality Proposals (Narratives and Budgets)
• Quality reports
• Proper record keeping
  

Qualifications

Required Experience & Competencies:

• Bachelor’s Degree (Master’s Degree preferred) in international relations or a related field, or relevant work experience Fluency in English and Swahili, spoken and written.
• At least three years’ work experience in humanitarian/development setting with proven field-based experience with grants management and business development
• Experience with program design and proposal writing (including logical frameworks).
• Sound budget development capacity and financial management skills.
• Prior knowledge of donor regulations (BPRM, FCDO, GFFO, UNHCR, UNFPA etc.)
• Good communicator with strong organizational, time management and analytical skills.
• Ability to carry out responsibilities and lead tasks independently while being a strong team player for the grants team.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, and proven track record to handle pressure and improve grant management processes.
• Excellent inter-personal, cultural, and diplomatic skills.
• Strong capacity to mentor and build capacity of staff.
  

Professional Standards: The IRC and IRC workers adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – Code of Conduct. These are Equality, Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Harassment-Free Workplace, Fiscal Integrity, Anti-Retaliation, Combating Trafficking in Persons, and several others.

Warning

Please note that the IRC does not charge a fee at any stage of its recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing, training or any other fee). IRC does not request any information related to bank accounts. If asked of any payment please contact TZ-Recruitment@Rescue.Org.

New "M-Pesa Agent Network Specialist" Job opportunity at Vodacom Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

 

Role Purpose

Description

• Overall accountability of managing agent targets and productivity.
• Supporting on ground initiative executions by working together with Regional M-Pesa Leads and others.
• Drive actionable commercial insights and direct on how to be acted upon on Agent productivities.
• Develop and execute Agent management tool (Dashboard) based on their segmentation.
  

Key Accountabilities And Decision Ownership

• Develop a strong dashboard for segmented agents for strategic Agent management and control.
• Ensure continuous M-Pesa agent targets and performance management
• Work with Regional M-Pesa Leads for product and service execution and support.
• Develop and manage agent loyalty programs
• Work with Reporting and Product teams for technical and analytical insights; develop appropriate operational reports for on ground execution and team support.
  

Core Competencies, Knowledge And Experience

• Excellent analytical and logical reasoning skills translated from customer insights and different reports
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Ability to anticipate customer, competitor and market dynamics
• Able to challenge the status quo
  

Must Have Technical/professional Qualifications

• 2+ years’ experience industry or functional experience.
• Bachelor degree in Actuarial Science, Data Science , Economics/Finance, Marketing or its equivalent.
• Strong analytical skills, use of SQL, power BI, click or any other business insight tool.
• Build and maintain relationship with key stakeholders in the value chain.
• Mobile financial services experience would be advantageous.
• Technical knowledge on data analytics and experience would be advantageous.
• Skills on managing large base of partners
  

Key Performance Indicators

• Drive productivity of M-Pesa agent base
• Accurate and timely delivery of Initiatives for execution and business support
• End to end execution of Sales Initiatives, Agent targets and performance Managements
• Quality support to team and stakeholder alignment
  

Skills

• Dynamic Prioritisation and Multi Tasking
• Business Partnering
• Requirements Analysis
• Change and Adaptability
• Data Driven Decision Making
• Complexity Management
• Expert Communication
• Drives Continuous Improvement

New "Field Monitors, Healthcare Quality Assessment, and Improvement" Job Opportunity at Palladium: Make It Possible Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

 

Company Overview.

About Palladium - Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with governments, businesses, and investors to solve the world's most pressing challenges. With a team of more than 3,000 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of over 35,000 experts, we help improve economies, societies and, most importantly, people's lives.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.

Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual or any other circumstance, please email our team at accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com

Safeguarding - We define Safeguarding as “the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm”. We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.

Project Overview And Role

Under the USAID-sponsored Data for Impact (D4I) project, Palladium is executing a site level monitoring and health data collection activity in Tanzania. The overall goal of the activity is to improve clinical care, patient safety and health care operations. This will be accomplished by periodic quality assessments (QA) of USAID supported health sites with recommendations for actions to improve quality (QI). Palladium seeks to hire 6 Field Monitors to assist with site monitoring visits and completion of QA/QI site monitoring forms. The Field Monitors may carry out their work in tandem with USAID Tanzania staff.

Primary Duties And Responsibilities

• Assist with capacity assessments in QA/QI of local IPs
• Make the necessary contacts with relevant stakeholders including the IP, the Region and the Regional and District Medical Officers, and health sites prior to any site visits
• Carry out site visits for data collection and program monitoring utilizing PEPFAR and HIV and MCH & FP, TB, and malaria intensive site monitoring QA/QI tools.
• Conduct data verification on a sample of the priority indicators during the site visits
• Mentor and conduct on-the-job training in QA/QI with local IP staff as requested
• Communicate to sites and relevant IPs on the results of the QA/QI monitoring especially the recommendations for action
• Turn in electronically completed forms to the D4I Activity Director within two days following the facility visit.
• Review the site monitoring recommendation form with the D4I Activity Director to make sure all information is well documented.
• Schedule a follow-up phone call or site visit depending on the overall performance.
• Prepare monthly summary findings and recommendations two weeks after site monitoring visits.
• Report to the D4I Activity Director in Dar es Salaam.
  

Required Qualifications:

• Experience with the PEPFAR tools for QA/QI monitoring, especially SIMS
• Experience in using QA/QI site monitoring tools and their implementation
• Familiarity with routine health data reporting in Tanzania at the site level
• Experience training field officers in data collection utilizing the USAID and project developed site monitoring tools
• Available to travel locally in Tanzania as required at least 70% of the time
• Have a basic understanding of quality improvement issues relating to health services and monitoring skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Knowledge of regional and local healthcare system in Tanzania
• Public health and/or medical doctor training

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New "Front End Developer" Job Opportunity at accelerate agency Tanzania (Remote).

 

We have an exciting opportunity for a Front End Developer to join our busy and bustling modern web team.

We are looking for someone who is experienced with creating bespoke WordPress themes using designs provided and created in-house. We use GitHub to manage our code and make extensive use of Advanced Custom Fields.

We are a Digital Agency that seamlessly integrates Creativity with Technology and Web Solution Specialists based in South West London.

You will get to work on some of the following projects:

• Multi-country websites in multiple languages
• Client Portals
• Staff Portals
• Intranets
• Bespoke Integrations
• eCommerce
• Bespoke CRMs
  

Do you have?

• Experience with UI Design – a background in modern, responsive user interfaces
• Experience with JavaScript – Experience with jQuery and handlebars in particular
• Experience with PHP – Particular with WordPress hooks
• Experience with GitHub
• Experience with WordPress Plugin development
  

What You Will Be Doing

As developers we are experienced at finding bespoke solutions for any situation. We do not use templates all our websites are bespoke.

You will have the opportunity to work with some well-known brands.

This role comes with an opportunity to learn and pick up new skills along the way.

This is a remote base role, Monday-Friday 08:30-17:00

New "Nutrition Lead - Tanzania Horticulture Activity" Job Opportunity at Corus International Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Longtime partner INGOs Lutheran World Relief (LWR) and IMA World Health (IMA) have founded Corus International to spearhead new collaborations and innovations across the global development, aid, public health, and private sectors that achieve transformational change and build self-reliance.

LWR is seeking a Nutrition Lead for an upcoming USAID-funded horticulture opportunity in Tanzania. The five-year project will focus on increasing the commercialization, inclusiveness, and competitiveness of horticulture market systems in Tanzania.

Summary Of The Position

The Nutrition Lead will provide vision and leadership for country-led scale up of effective, integrated, sustainable nutrition sensitive policies and interventions in horticulture. The Nutrition Lead will introduce nutrition sensitive activities to address the causes of malnutrition by supporting improvements in horticulture diversification and nutrient quality of crops grown throughout the country. S/he will raise community awareness and consumption of diversified, nutrient dense, fortified, and nutritionally adequate foods.

This position based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and will report to the Youth Inclusion Lead.

Actual hiring is contingent upon successful contract award and USAID approval. Nationals of Tanzania are strongly encouraged to apply.

Duties

• Advocate for improved nutrition-sensitive food and agriculture policies with local government and private sector processing companies
• Promote demand for nutrient-rich crops to improve the consumption of a dietary diversity of food at the household level
• Promote increased production and good value chain practices to increase access to quantity and quality of diversified foods available in the markets
• Promote women's economic empowerment, including women's earnings and budget management skills, to increase equitable roles in decision making in farm management and use of resources for nutrition-related expenditures
• Raise community awareness and engagement in the identification and consumption of diversified, nutrient dense, nutritionally adequate foods, including engagement of local leaders and influential groups to promote positive nutrition-sensitive behaviors
• Support the target population to adopt healthy eating practices by introducing a range of innovative social and behavior change activities
• Coordinate capacity building and technical support for beneficiaries on agri-nutrition issues, including nutrition-sensitive agricultural technologies
• Work with the M&E Officer to monitor adoption rates of new agricultural practices and food consumption methodologies, dietary diversification, and nutrient-dense diets across different gender and age groups
• Promote appropriate methods of harvesting, handling, preservation, processing, and storage to maintain the nutrient content of food and meet food safety standards
  

Qualifications

• The position requires a competent and experienced person with the following attributes:
• Master's degree in nutrition, public health, or agriculture with five years of relevant experience; or a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field of study with at least eight years of relevant experience
• Expertise in nutrition-sensitive agriculture and food systems
• Experience designing soft skills curricula and facilitating capacity building workshops (especially with low literacy populations) focused on nutrition-sensitive agriculture
• Ability to lead nutrition analyses and recommend appropriate nutrition-sensitive interventions for agriculture programs, including designing and implementing tools and approaches to integrate nutrition support throughout agriculture programming
• Experience with behavior change communications strategies and activities to improve dietary diversity and improve health and nutrition outcomes
• Demonstrated record of developing and maintaining strong working relationships with various levels of key stakeholders, from global nutrition networks and ministry-level counterparts (i.e., Ministry of Health or Agriculture) to community-level actors
• Demonstrated capacity to lead the collection, analysis, and production of high-quality project reporting products
• Fluency in English and Kiswahili in oral and written communication
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Expertise and experience implementing complex donor funded gender awareness nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs
• Experience managing USAID-funded grants, cooperative agreements, and/or contracts
• Experience using digital technologies for message dissemination
• Ability to travel within the country as needed
• Willingness to support Lutheran World Relief's mission
  

IMA/Corus International OR LWR/Corus International is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). As such, Corus makes employment decisions and provides equal employment opportunity without regard to an applicant's or employee's race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, and local laws. If you need a reasonable accommodation in the application or hiring process, please notify Corus's Human Resources department.