Program Officer - Girls Education Program
Tanzania - Kibaha
Position Overview:
The Program Officer is a key technical team member who supports the successful implementation of Room to Read’s Girls’ Education Program (GEP) in Bagamoyo and Kibaha Districts. The Program Officer will primarily be responsible for managing the implementation of GEP’s Life Skills Clubs program, which focuses on increasing girls’ financial literacy knowledge and skills. This position also provides technical support for other GEP components and activities, including contributing to overall program development and contextualization of global program materials, as well as guiding program implementation, training, monitoring & evaluation, program data collection and entry, general planning, and project reporting. Regular interaction is required with other Room to Read staff, education officials, partners, school administrators, teachers, parents and students. This position reports to the Girls’ Education Program Manager, and supervises all Life Skills Clubs Facilitators in both Bagamoyo and Kibaha.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Compensation:
Room to Read offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits. Benefits include thirteenth month bonus, health insurance and a retirement plan. The non-monetary compensation includes a unique opportunity to be part of an innovative, meaningful, and rapidly growing organization that is changing transforming the lives of millions of children in developing countries on literacy and gender equality in education.
To be successful at Room to Read, you will also:
Position Overview:
The Program Officer is a key technical team member who supports the successful implementation of Room to Read’s Girls’ Education Program (GEP) in Bagamoyo and Kibaha Districts. The Program Officer will primarily be responsible for managing the implementation of GEP’s Life Skills Clubs program, which focuses on increasing girls’ financial literacy knowledge and skills. This position also provides technical support for other GEP components and activities, including contributing to overall program development and contextualization of global program materials, as well as guiding program implementation, training, monitoring & evaluation, program data collection and entry, general planning, and project reporting. Regular interaction is required with other Room to Read staff, education officials, partners, school administrators, teachers, parents and students. This position reports to the Girls’ Education Program Manager, and supervises all Life Skills Clubs Facilitators in both Bagamoyo and Kibaha.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Organize and oversee the complete process of setting up Room to Read Life Skills Clubs for Girls Education Program (GEP) in Bagamoyo and Kibaha Districts Collaborate with other Room to Read Tanzania GEP staff to design and contextualize Life Skills Clubs Curriculum.
- Identify, engage and assess schools which implement Room to Read’s Girls’ Education Program and formulate strategies for Life Skills Clubs implementation
- Schedule and conduct regular meetings with key stakeholders to monitor the girls’ progress in LS clubs and address issues as they arise.
- Train and supervise GEP School focal teachers/other teachers and Life Skills Clubs Facilitators to ensure that they are able to support the girls and complete their roles effectively.
- Visit project schools as needed to supervise clubs activities at the sites and organize discussions with school key stakeholders and Gather feedback to ensure that schools and communities understand and support clubs activities in their districts.
- Complete detailed and accurate written reports in a timely manner to GEP Program Manager and Country Office as required.
- Participate in any other activities, which may be required to be undertaken to fulfill the objectives of the organization.
- Collaborate with fellow GEP Program Officers to manage relationships with other NGOs, government officials and local educational facilities/authorities; schedule and attend meetings with them to coordinate planning and implementation of projects.
- Develop and facilitate capacity building trainings for Life Skills Club Facilitators, School focal teachers and Social Mobilizers (SMs), NGOs, Partners representatives, team members, girls, parents and the community at large as may be required.
- Represent Room to Read at relevant meetings.
- Provide regular updates on program activities and plans at regular meetings with Tanzania Country Office management staff Document best practices and lessons learned during field work and share with other project sites, relevant local staff, the Country Director and appropriate Regional and US based Global Program Officers
- Collect data and conduct data entry into the system as required
- Participate in developing Quarter and Annual report on timely basis
- Develop and submit Monthly/Quarterly Cash forecast on timely basis
- On monthly basis, develop Field staff fund request and submit expense reports on their behalf
- Support GEP Program Manager on development/ review of new content modules – contextualization as needed
- University degree in a related field (Sociology, education, gender, social work, community development).
- 3 – 5 years of relevant work experience.
- Prior experience in planning and facilitating trainings.
- Prior experience coaching or supervising others.
- Good interpersonal skills and a team player.
- Prior experience working with and or counseling adolescent girls. Familiarity with life skills and/or financial literacy skills is preferable.
- Strong organizational and planning skills, including the ability to monitor progress of program implementation.
- Ability to juggle multiple priorities simultaneously and take initiative.
- Prior success working closely and building relationships with diverse groups of people.
- Desire and ability to spend a quarter or more time traveling and providing direct support to Life Skills Club Facilitators and Focal Teachers in the schools and communities in which they work.
- Strong computer skills including Microsoft Office and Outlook.
- Fluency in the local language.
- English fluency.
Compensation:
Room to Read offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits. Benefits include thirteenth month bonus, health insurance and a retirement plan. The non-monetary compensation includes a unique opportunity to be part of an innovative, meaningful, and rapidly growing organization that is changing transforming the lives of millions of children in developing countries on literacy and gender equality in education.
To be successful at Room to Read, you will also:
- Have passion for our mission and a strong desire to impact a dynamic nonprofit organization
- Be a proactive and innovative thinker who achieves results and creates positive change
- Have a very high level of personal and professional integrity and trustworthiness
- Embrace diversity and a commitment to collaboration
- Thrive in a fast-paced and fun environment
Literacy Facilitator, Literacy Field
Tanzania – Tanga
Position Overview:
The Literacy Facilitator is responsible for supporting and coaching teachers, librarians, and principals to adopt new ways of working with children to increase their literacy skills and habit of reading. The Literacy Facilitator will report to the Associate, Literacy Field.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Compensation:
Room to Read offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits. Benefits include thirteenth month bonus, health insurance and a retirement plan. The non-monetary compensation includes a unique opportunity to be part of an innovative, meaningful, and rapidly growing organization that is changing transforming the lives of millions of children in developing countries on literacy and gender equality in education.
To be successful at Room to Read, you will also:
Tanzania – Tanga
Position Overview:
The Literacy Facilitator is responsible for supporting and coaching teachers, librarians, and principals to adopt new ways of working with children to increase their literacy skills and habit of reading. The Literacy Facilitator will report to the Associate, Literacy Field.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Program Implementation, Training and Monitoring.
- Serves as the technical resource in the schools on applying literacy skills and the habit of reading techniques in the classroom or library.
- Through the Associate, Literacy Field, coordinates closely with the Instructional Design and Teacher Support Unit to ensure they are successfully implementing the program design and able to provide feedback on how well it is working.
- Regularly observes, demonstrates and coaches Grade 1 and 2 teachers in delivering the instructional component of the Literacy Program.
- Regularly observes, demonstrates and coaches all primary grade teachers and librarians in the implementation of the library period and reading activities.
- Supports Grade 1 and 2 teachers in effective use of ongoing student tracking assessments to inform instruction.
- Conducts and analyzes data related to formative student assessments to inform support for Grade 1 and 2 teachers.
- Regularly provides an update to the principal on progress and coaches him/her on ways to support teachers and ensure longer term sustainability of literacy outcomes within the school.
- Attends and participates in teacher and librarian trainings related to the Literacy program.
- Participates in literacy events, parent meeting and other community activities.
- Participates in regular review meetings and any other activities which may be required to be undertaken to fulfill the objectives of the organization.
- Supports donor visits through demonstration projects and presentation, as needed.
- Conducts ongoing planning, documentation, and reporting of school visits.
- Documents best practices and lessons learned and shares with the Associate, Literacy Field.
- University degree in Education, preferably with a major in Language/Linguistics
- 1-2 years of related work experience
- Proficient user of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel), internet and related applications
- Good command of English (both written and oral)
- Good interpersonal skills and a team player
- Ability to monitor progress of program implementation
- Prior success working closely and building relationships with diverse groups of people
- Ability to juggle multiple priorities simultaneously and take initiative
- Desire and ability to spend 90% of time traveling and visiting school sites to provide coaching and monitor progress of program implementation
- Experience working with young children
- Experience working with schools and teachers
- Experience with reading, literacy or learning improvement programs
Compensation:
Room to Read offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits. Benefits include thirteenth month bonus, health insurance and a retirement plan. The non-monetary compensation includes a unique opportunity to be part of an innovative, meaningful, and rapidly growing organization that is changing transforming the lives of millions of children in developing countries on literacy and gender equality in education.
To be successful at Room to Read, you will also:
- Have passion for our mission and a strong desire to impact a dynamic nonprofit organization
- Be a proactive and innovative thinker who achieves results and creates positive change
- Have a very high level of personal and professional integrity and trustworthiness
- Embrace diversity and a commitment to collaboration
- Thrive in a fast-paced and fun environment
Associate, Administration
Tanzania – Tanga
Position Overview:
The Literacy Facilitator is responsible for supporting and coaching teachers, librarians, and principals to adopt new ways of working with children to increase their literacy skills and habit of reading. The Literacy Facilitator will report to the Associate, Literacy Field.
Position Overview:
The Associate, Administration (Field Office) will act as the point of contact for all administrative work across all Field Offices. She/he will provide all administrative support and managing queries related to administration; his/her main duties includes providing administration support across all 3 programs and to the all field based employees; managing offices stock, managing offices settings; managing the relationships of the service providers across field office; providing support to collect and submit finance documents to the Field Operations Manager for review and then submission to the Administration Manager who will be based at the Country Office. She/he will be a key contact person for all logistics needs at the field office including planning and managing the distribution of all the materials in to respective schools such as GINKI books, Local Language Published books, GEP materials support, etc. She/he will be directly reporting to the Field Operations Manager with a strong reporting dotted line to the Administration Manager.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Location: Tanga region, Tanzania.
Compensation:
Room to Read offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits. Benefits include thirteenth month bonus, health insurance and a retirement plan. The non-monetary compensation includes a unique opportunity to be part of an innovative, meaningful, and rapidly growing organization that is changing transforming the lives of millions of children in developing countries on literacy and gender equality in education.
To be successful at Room to Read, you will also:
Tanzania – Tanga
Position Overview:
The Literacy Facilitator is responsible for supporting and coaching teachers, librarians, and principals to adopt new ways of working with children to increase their literacy skills and habit of reading. The Literacy Facilitator will report to the Associate, Literacy Field.
Position Overview:
The Associate, Administration (Field Office) will act as the point of contact for all administrative work across all Field Offices. She/he will provide all administrative support and managing queries related to administration; his/her main duties includes providing administration support across all 3 programs and to the all field based employees; managing offices stock, managing offices settings; managing the relationships of the service providers across field office; providing support to collect and submit finance documents to the Field Operations Manager for review and then submission to the Administration Manager who will be based at the Country Office. She/he will be a key contact person for all logistics needs at the field office including planning and managing the distribution of all the materials in to respective schools such as GINKI books, Local Language Published books, GEP materials support, etc. She/he will be directly reporting to the Field Operations Manager with a strong reporting dotted line to the Administration Manager.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Assist in providing all required daily administration functions within the field office.
- Assist in soliciting service providers at the field level through receiving purchase requisition, collecting/ receiving all Expressions of Interest
- Maintain trusting working relationship with service suppliers, visitors and colleagues
- Perform receptionist duties when necessary answer, screen and direct calls/message, greet, register and direct guest/visitors, receive,
- Work with Field Operations Manager in coordinating office activities and operations to secure efficiency and compliance to the organization.
- Organize and maintain office setting
- Support Field Office staff to deliver their transport request to Program Operations Director for approval.
- Provide general support to the office visitors
- Ensure timely collection of invoices and other documents from service providers and verify if in compliant then submit to the finance for payment process.
- Maintain Incoming and Outgoing invoice log book.
- Ensure operational of the office work related requirements by conducting routines checks, identification of the non-functioning, preparing reports on repair needs for review by Field Operations Manager and for approval by Program Operations Director.
- Manage the field office warehouse including the field office stock and inventory management system including submitting the records to both the Field Operations Manager and the Country Administration Manager.
- Maintain reporting on all the books distributed delivery notes and submitting the same to the Field Operations Manager.
- Updating and maintaining office equipment inventory with support from Administration Officer/Manager
- Updating and maintaining office supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level, receiving goods/services and verifying receipts of supplies.
- Assist Field Office team to book for meeting venues, arrangement for visitor’s lunch conferences and other required services within Field Office level.
- Work with Program Officers to arrange for transport for book distribution, material support distribution and other activities which requires transport including site survey.
- Equipment allocation and Dispatch important documents.
- Land line and internet connection services and maintenance.
- IT complaint register-wise consultant communication and response to IT related problems
- Support all donor visit requirements.
Qualifications:
- University degree in Administration, Procurement management or any other social science related degree.
- Knowledge of office management systems and procedures
- Excellent time management skills and ability to multi-tasks and prioritizing work
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both Swahili and English
- Strong planning skills
- Proficient in Ms Office
- At least 2 years of experience in the office administration and support work in the field setting or in a related working environment
Location: Tanga region, Tanzania.
Compensation:
Room to Read offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits. Benefits include thirteenth month bonus, health insurance and a retirement plan. The non-monetary compensation includes a unique opportunity to be part of an innovative, meaningful, and rapidly growing organization that is changing transforming the lives of millions of children in developing countries on literacy and gender equality in education.
To be successful at Room to Read, you will also:
- Have passion for our mission and a strong desire to impact a dynamic nonprofit organization
- Be a proactive and innovative thinker who achieves results and creates positive change
- Have a very high level of personal and professional integrity and trustworthiness
- Embrace diversity and a commitment to collaboration
- Thrive in a fast-paced and fun environment
