About the job

• Job Type : Full Time

• Industry : Social Science

• Education Level : Senior level

Job Description

SOS Children’s Villages Tanzania is a local non-government organization affiliated to SOS Children’s Villages International, a worldwide child care and protection or­ganization that provides orphaned and destitute children with a permanent home and educational opportunities. Established 60 years ago, SOS Children’s Villages International the umbrella organization, currently has Children’s Villages and other projects in 135 countries around the world. Globally, it runs the SOS Children’s Vil­lage Programme which has two main arms, i.e. Family Based Care based at SOS Children’s Villages and Family Strengthening Programmes supporting families in local communities. SOS has been working in the United Republic of Tanzania since 1991, and implements its programs in the following locations Zanzibar, Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Mwanza and Iringa. SOS Children’s Villages Tanzania seeks to recruit suitably qualified candidates to fill the following vacant position

Reporting to: Program Manager

Purpose of the Role

Senior M& E Officer is responsible for the overall SOS Children’s Villages Moni­toring & Evaluation strategy, policy, and practice in close co-operation with Moni­toring & Evaluation Coordinator at the National Office, Senior M&E Officer will be responsible to develop and improve monitoring, evaluation, impact assessment, and learning methodologies. The Senior M&E officer’s function will contribute to improvement of programme quality and promote programme innovation through capacity building, technical advice, and knowledge sharing, and identifying new programme areas.He/She is also responsible for bringing together programme learning, research-based evidence, and information, effective impact monitoring to feed into organizational learning

Major Responsibilities.

• Support all M &E initiatives for assigned grant(s) including monitoring data quality, tracking the progress of results, and contributing to staff capacity building initiatives as necessary.
• Promote Result Based Management (RBM) to M&E, emphasizing results and impact, including, timely reporting and analytical processes for each program component and for each level of objective hierarchy.
• Lead, prepare and support the programme team in producing consolidated quarterly and annual progress reports in accordance with approved dead­lines and reporting
• Undertake and facilitate the implementation of the M&E plan, regularly revis­ing and updating performance questions, indicators, methods, and formats.

• Support development and implementation of RBM action plan in each RMB cycle.
• Assist in making sure that Program Data Base (PDB) remain alive by sup­porting the program staff in the processes of entering valid, relevant and reliable data in PDB, reviewing the quality of existing project data, strength­en data collection methods, and the degree to which the existing data will provide good baseline information.
• Undertake regular visits to the field to support implementation of M&E and to identify where adaptations might be needed.
• Designing SOS Children’s Villages Arusha monitoring and evaluation tools. Analysing the data from the field and assisting the Monitoring & Evaluation Coordinator in writing the M&E reports
• Support program staff on ways to properly document, organize and capture
• Program progress including best practices, lesson learnt, challenges and other observations.
• Build capacities and knowledge of program staff on Monitoring & Evalua­tion, development of frameworks to integrate M&E in Project cycle, impact assessment and Learning and knowledge management.
• Coordinate and ensure the quality of baseline, mid-term, and end-term sur­veys for all projects at SOS Children’s Villages Arusha programme.
• Ensure adherence to SOS Children’s Villages Tanzania principles of Result based management and integrate Child Rights Monitoring and Evaluation principles and practices into the strategies and its implementation.
• Reviewing existing M&E and management information systems of SOS Chil­dren’s Villages Arusha and identifying where support is needed.
• Monitor development and implementation of program activities included in the annual work plan, focusing on results, impacts, documenting success stories and lesson learning.
• Actively seek to understand problems and unexpected positive/negative impacts, discussing these with primary stakeholders at location level/ Pro­gram Manager and the senior management.
• Develop a plan for program-related capacity-building on M&E and for any computer-based system support that may be required and carry out capaci­ty building of relevant staff especially in areas of M&E systems, and conduct quality circles checks in order to identify possible areas for improvement.
• Ensure that staff are receiving adequate support to be able to implement their M&E functions including strengthening their capacity
• Collaborate with other M&E colleagues and other staff both at Arusha pro­gram location and other location to ensure strong team works that deliver desired results.
• Participate in Annual planning and budgeting process both at location and National level.
• Identify problems with the M&E system and modify the system as neces­sary.
• Create a knowledge management strategy and framework.

Academic Qualification and Experiences:

• Bachelor degree in either Social Sciences, Information Sciences, Project Management, Research, Statistics or related field .
• Demonstrable experience using various quantitative and qualitative meth­odologies for data analysis, including analyses using statistical tools such as Ms. Excel, Google Sheets, SPSS, or STAT and NVIVO
• Proven experience in performance measurement, including indicator se­lection, target setting, and developing M&E and/performance monitoring plans.
• Solid experience of at least four years in M & E with a Non-Governmental Organization;
• Experience in Strategic Planning with good background of reporting writing shared to donors, sponsors and other key stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills (Fluent in written and spoken in English and Swahili)
• High degree of flexibility and ability to adopt to changes
• Ability to use digital tools such as ODK and Kobo toll box in data collection and processing.

How to apply:

Interested candidates for any of the above positions should submit their applica­tion letter by email describing how your experience, qualifications and competen­cies make you the right candidate for this position. Enclose ONLY detailed and updated CV with telephone contacts, email address and details of at least 3 referees.The candidate MUST clearly indicate the title of position applied for. Only con­tacted candidates for the interview will submit copies of academic, professional certificates and passport size photo.  Closing date is 25th November, 2021. To apply please send to;

The National Director SOS Children’s Villages Tanzania.

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

recruit.sostanzania@sos-tanzania.org 

Please Note: SOS Children’s Villages Tanzania is an equal opportunity employer and committed to keeping children safe from abuse and harm, therefore candi­dates applying for this post will be subject to child safeguarding recruitment pro­cedures and checks.

Only short listed candidates will be contacted