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| International Rescue Committee (IRC) |
AJIRA TANZANIA 2020 / NAFASI ZA KAZI 2020
Requisition ID: req7712
Job Title: Project Coordinator
Sector: Education
Employment Category: Fixed Term
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No
Location: Kasulu, Tanzania
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Job Description
Background/IRC
Summary: The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the
world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and
rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein,
the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees
forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries
and 28 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who
are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm
to home.
Position Summary:
IRC
is seeking a Project Coordinator in Tanzania for a five-year project,
“PlayMatters”, funded by the LEGO Foundation. This position will be a
part of the larger PlayMatters initiative to increase play-based
learning opportunities for nearly 1 million pre-primary and primary
school aged refugee and host community children impacted by the
humanitarian crises in East Africa and living in Ethiopia, Uganda and
Tanzania. This project aims to build children’s social, emotional,
cognitive, physical and creative skills through play in their homes,
schools, and communities and will be implemented in partnership with War
Child, Plan International, Ubongo, Behavioural Insights Team and
Innovations for Poverty Action.
The
Project Coordinator for Tanzania will be responsible for coordinating
across these partners and IRC staff to ensure the project delivers high
impact programming for children. In addition, the Project Coordinator
will be responsible for ensuring design and implementation of project
activities engages other key stakeholders required to achieve results
such as government officials, the UN and other humanitarian coordination
actors, as well as other implementing agencies outside of the
consortium. The Project Coordinator will ensure that the project
achieves the expected results in Tanzania and is implemented in
accordance with the donor agreement, donor regulations, and
internationally recognized quality of assistance standards. The Project
Coordinator will report both into the IRC Country Program senior
management team as well as into a PlayMatters Senior Regional Management
Team based in Uganda. The Project Coordinator will jointly work with
the regional management and technical team to also ensure a coordinated
and cohesive program approach across Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania to
jointly learn and ensure results across the two countries.
Recommended:
Job Responsibilities:
- Oversee technical direction and project delivery to ensure activities are in line with the project wide performance framework and work plan, and meet all standard operational policies and procedures;
- Jointly work with the PlayMatters regional team to provide strategic and technical leadership and define country level activities to achieve the greatest impact toward project goals and objectives;
- Develop, review, and monitor, in coordination with key regional project staff and partners, annual work and performance plans to ensure long-term and short-term priorities are on track;
- Conduct regular visits to project sites, as possible, to provide technical assistance and ensure proper implementation and monitoring of project activities;
- Oversee management of partners/subgrantees in Tanzania and provide financial and operations support that optimizes resources through sound budgets, consistent financial tracking, and timely submission of reports to the donor;
- Support field staff to use project data to track progress and engage in meaningful course correction discussions at regular and frequent intervals; as well as ensure data is tailored to facilitate similar discussions at the country and regional senior management level.
- Contribute to monthly, quarterly and annual donor reports through both formal and informal debriefings and written inputs;
- Maintain active and cooperative relationships with all key stakeholders, including government officials, project partners, other implementing agencies, and related institutions;
- Represent the project in Tanzania in public and ensure distribution of information about project achievements and lesson learned;
- Support project staff by creating and maintaining a work environment that promotes teamwork, trust, mutual respect, and empowers staff to take responsibility.
- Regularly communicate and coordinate with the Regional PlayMatters Project Director, Deputy Director and key home office staff on technical and project management issues
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Qualifications
Requirements:
- Advanced degree from an accredited university in education international development, or related field;
- Minimum of 5 years of experience managing education programs for refugees or crisis-affected populations;
- Experience managing large-scale, multi-million dollar, complex, multi-partner projects;
- Demonstrated success in staff capacity-building and in participatory, flexible, and gender-sensitive programming and implementation;
- Strong communication skills, both oral and written;
- Fluency in English required.
Recommended:
Reports to: IRC Tanzania Deputy Director of Programs and PlayMatters Regional Deputy Director (based in Uganda)
Working Environment: The Project Coordinator will work in the IRC Tanzania office and be provided regular administrative and logistics support to perform his/her responsibilities.
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