BRAC Tanzania is the country chapter of BRAC, an international development organization from Bangladesh. It operates through two main entities: the non-governmental organization (BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania) and a microfinance institution (BRAC Tanzania Finance Limited). This entity focuses on social development programs in areas like health, education, food security, and livelihood development.

Purpose of this job:

The Project Officer will provide supervision to Play Labs designated for him/her in the ECD project activities in the field in liaison with other project staff and the target beneficiaries to ensure that the project’s objectives and results are achieved in a timely manner and according to the agreed standards in the project framework and in the grant agreement document. The Project assistant will be accountable for daily supervision of play labs, children’s performance, the quality of play labs and quality assurance of the Early childhood component with a focus on ensuring equitable learning opportunities and outcomes for most vulnerable children

Responsibilities:

Community mobilization and facilitation

• Achieve dissemination of project objectives, priorities and approaches defined within the project among the communities, government and other stakeholders
• Apply participatory approaches /techniques to facilitate children, government and communities in identifying their own problems and development priorities in project activities · Facilitate community ownership of projects and participation in play lab projects.
• Ensuring the overall management of procurement, logistics and administration of ECD project in the area based on BRAC policy
• Collaborate with project staff to implement internal controls systems and resolve day to day issues in at field level

Effective project activities delivery based on standards

• Ensure close consultation with street authorities, play lab leaders, children and BRAC`s technical staffs during project implementation
• Ensuring survey, children selection and play leaders, play lab house selection according to set criteria
• Ensure children attendance at play lab to be more than 90%
• Organize monthly parents and community meeting at play lab centers
• Ensure play lab materials and equipment are with quality and well maintained to enhance the overall quality of play labs
• Maintain the caseload of the enrolled children at the play lab centers and ensure children are well performing in the centers
• Monitor all project activities closely on regular basis, document and share monitoring reports to Area Manager
• Conduct field visit to play lab centers by 100% of the work
• Attend staff meetings and develop monthly refresher module
• Effective monitoring the works done by play leaders
• Ensuring the recruitment and development of staffs and play leaders
• Appraising job performance of play leaders

Coordination, Networking and Advocacy to project

• Establish good working relations with project team, government and stakeholders at districts and regional level
• Participate and organize project meetings and stakeholder meetings at streets and play lab centers
• Enhance self – empowerment of children, parents and communities in play lab centers
• Ensure effective advocacy with local authorities at district and regional level, ensure that they are embedded in program delivery
• Linking the children under play lab centers with available services surrounding them · Adhere to high ethical standards, and comply with all regulations

Child Protection

• Promote and ensure child rights based programming at field and office level
• Promote and abide by internal policies and procedures including child protection policy
• Ensuring mandatory reporting of child abuse cases in play lab project operation
• Promote and facilitate child rights and gender inclusion based on play lab project at field level ·
• Ensuring Child Protection Committees at play lab centers are fully functional.
• Ensuring all project team and relevant others, including play lab leaders, parents and projectstakeholders are aware and have access to child protection policy, contents and their responsibilities it places on it.

Reports and documentation

• Develop and submit to Area Manager monthly, field progress in timely manner
• Document well project success stories/ case study/ best practices/ lesson learned and submit to Area Manager
• Ensure and monitor downward accountability to stakeholders especially children and communities including documenting what works for wider sharing across BRAC, government and donor
• Ensuring the project properties are well kept at play lab centers and office

Safeguarding job responsibilities

• Read, understand, practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Required Experience.

• At least 1-2 years’ practical experience working with NGOs, Education, Early Childhood, child protection or related programs.
• Teaching experience in early years will be an added advantage.
• Experienced in Administration and leadership
• Have soft skills like teamwork, communication and flexibility
• Little bit knowledge on monitoring and evaluation
• Knowledge on the Tanzanian education system mainly about the available service of early learning opportunities, government policies, departments and institutions in the education field etc.

Skills and Competencies

• Bachelor Degree in Early Childhood Care and Development, Education Management, Sociology, Social Work, Development Studies, Community Development

Employment Type: Contractual

Salary: Negotiable

If you feel you are the right match for the above-mentioned position, please follow the application instructions accordingly:

Candidate needs to email their CV with a letter of interest mentioning educational grades, years of experience, current and expected salary at: bimcf.tanzania@brac.or.tz

Please mention the name of the position in the subject bar.

Only complete applications will be accepted and shortlisted candidates will be contacted