This role will be primarily responsible overseeing the pilot coalition hub, monitoring government compliance, ensuring that objectives are met for all team members, and handling day-to-day issues that arise. They will oversee all 4 components of the hub: children’s education, family strengthening, capacity building, and specialist services. They will also support the creation of toolkits and take a lead on the content end of the M & E app, as well as interpreting that data.
Staff and Organization Management (60%)
- Manage coalition staff with support of Executive Director
- Support recruitment for unfilled or new coalition roles
- Provide an orientation and support staff with relevant logistics
- Participate in annual planning for the coalition and help hold staff to objectives
- Ensure all coalition staff have the resources to properly do their jobs
- Primary point of contact for logistical issues that arise during operation of pilot hub
- Coordinate construction and capital expenditures at pilot hub
- Ensure coalition is compliant with government regulations, with HR/Admin specialist
- Work with hub site guards and make sure site is secure
- Coordinate membership logistics and oversee network mapping by capacity building coordinator
Monitoring, Evaluation and Research (40%)
- Manage and support development of the M+E app, based on international tools. IT Specialist will handle technical side
- Work with partners to implement M+E at their sites
- Gather and analyze M+E data to measure impact of coalition work
- Continually assess available tools and options to improve systems.
Required Candidate Qualifications
- Fluent spoken and fluent written Swahili
- Fluent spoken and good written English
- Academic qualification in Community Development, Social Work, Management, Monitoring + Evaluation, or related field.
- Experience managing several subordinates at once
- Comfortable using Google Drive, Google Docs/Word, and Google Sheets/Excel
- Extensive cross-cultural experience
- Organized and reliable, self-motivated
- Team player who loves kids and is passionate about systemic change
- Able to handle conflict and mediate between groups with competing needs
- NOT looking for a limited 1-year position, but looking to grow with the organization
Preferred Candidate Qualities
- Energetic, extroverted and friendly team player
- Experience developing and using M+E and statistics systems
- Experience working with international organizations such as USAID or UNICEF
- Tanzanian, or already has visa/permit to work in TZ
How to apply
Please send your resume/CV and cover letter to reubensamwel@thesmallthings.org. Due to the large number of applications we generally receive, we regret that we are unable to personally respond to every applicant
