Job Description
Requisition ID: req22229
Sector: Education
Employment Category: Fixed
Term
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: Yes
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 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 this
enables children to complete primary education and progress to secondary
education.
- Systems building: UKAID supports
government in strengthening the value for money** of education provision
at school, local and national level.
The term ‘all
children’ infers particular attention to the most disadvantaged: girls, the
disabled and those living deprived areas **Value for money is defined as a
composite of economy, efficiency, effectiveness, and equity
The programme will:
- Work with 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 Safe Schools
Lead will function as part of the Core Team. S/he will be required to work
closely with the senior management team to achieve results in support of
improving safety in and around schools for all children. The Safe Schools Lead
will oversee design, implementation, monitoring and adaptation of activities to
improve safety of learning for all children in primary schools and pre-primary
settings in line with the programme strategy and log frame targets. She/he will
work collaboratively with other Outcome Leads to ensure activities are
well-coordinated and offer best VFM. She/he will also work closely with government
counterparts at national, regional and district levels. She/he will also
provide support where required in support of Education Performance for Results
2 activities and results related to school safety and safeguarding. The Safe
Schools Lead will ensure all interventions follow the Shule Bora operating
principles and ultimately support government-led education sector reform and
system strengthening through the Managing for Learning (M4L) approach.
Major Responsibilities:
The Safe Schools Lead will:
General
- Implement project activities according
to approved TORs and agreed budget. Ensure quality contributions to
project deliverables and reports as per the project workplan and log
frame.
- Provide inputs into mainstreaming minimum
standards in safeguarding across all project activities, in close
collaboration with the Core Team (including partners with responsibility
for delivery in other outcome areas).
- Support development and implementation
of the Shule Bora Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning framework as
needed.
- Provide inputs into community-based
interventions across relevant outcome areas and across regions as jointly
agreed with the senior management team and association partners during
project development and through inception.
- Assess risk of activities, monitor risk,
and proactively raise any concerns with the senior management team
- Manage specialists and short-term
technical assistance in support of Safe Schools activities
- Contribute to programme reporting
internal and to FCDO and Government
- Represent Shule Bora at relevant
meetings and conferences as required and share updates
- Work in line with Shule Bora Programme
policies and manuals at all times.
- Communicate success, lessons learnt,
programme best practice and evidence of impact
Technical
- Contribute to the design of the
programme during the inception period, through situational analyses,
consultations, fieldwork, and Managing for Learning activities.
- Together with key advisers provide
technical advice on what works in terms of improving safety in and around
schools.
- Lead on the design, implementation,
monitoring and adaptation of quality interventions relating to improving
safety of learning for all children
- Develop budgets for programme activities
and manage costs to achieve best VFM. Forecasts spend on a monthly basis
within programme targets and communicate this promptly to enable
compliance with FCDO’s monthly forecasting cycle.
- 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 Leads, MEL and
EPforR teams to ensure harmonization across the programme
- Provide input on design, approach
and content of materials and quality assure where relevant
- Provide training and support to all
staff towards an inclusive and safe working environment
Planning
and institutional coordination
- Ensure harmonization of approaches
across programme activities
- Coordinate Shule Bora
activities with PO-RALG, MOEST, TIE and other organisations 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
programme activities within PO-RALG, LGAs and Regions
- Support capacity development activities
of programme staff and government counterparts
Qualifications
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
- Managing and leading technical
specialists
- 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
Knowledge
- Educated to a degree level, Masters
preferred in education, community development, social development or
related subject
- Good understanding of the Tanzanian
education system.
Women and People
with disability are highly encouraged to apply.
Submission deadline for application is November 21st 2021.
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