Mobile Device Economic Strengthening Coordinator at Pact

Application deadline 2017-08-19

Description

Pact Overview:
At the heart of Pact is the promise of a better tomorrow. The promise of a healthy life. Of a decent livelihood. Of sustainable natural resources that benefit communities. Now more than ever in its 42-year history, Pact is helping millions of people who are poor and marginalized discover and build their own solutions and take ownership over their future.
Pact enables systemic solutions that allow those who are poor and marginalized to earn a dignified living, be healthy, and take part in the benefits that nature provides. Pact accomplishes this by strengthening local capacity, forging effective governance systems, and transforming markets into a force for development.
Department Purpose: Reporting to the Senior Director Livelihoods & Economic Opportunities, the Mobile Device Economic Strengthening Coordinator is responsible for the oversight of the roll-out of the MyWORTH app (Kiswahili version) to maximize the devices’ impacts on savings-group members in Tanzania.
Pact has developed an Android phone app called MyWORTH that automates the accounting and governance functions of our Village savings group program called WORTH (Women Organizing Resources Together). WORTH is one of Pact’s most effective poverty-reduction tools because it places women at the center of their own solutions and helps them build or accumulate assets with diversified income streams.
The MyWORTH app complements WORTH and resolves pain points and gaps within the current paper ledger model. Crucially, the time saved and calculation errors reduced by using MyWORTH allows WORTH participants to more smoothly participate in savings groups and navigate the economic pathway set before them.
Pact’s WORTH model improves people’s access to and control over their assets and resources. WORTH brings poor, primarily rural women together in groups of 25 for integrated savings-led microfinance, literacy and numeracy, group banking, and micro-enterprise development, while strengthening social networks and empowering members to have a voice in their communities. WORTH is one of Pact’s most effective poverty-reduction tools because it places women at the center of their own solutions and helps them build or accumulate assets with diversified income streams.
Pact’s Livelihoods and Economic Opportunities department seeks to ensure that people with limited livelihood choices gain the economic resources they need to be income secure, to exercise their voices in their communities, and to allow sustainable behavior change in other development intervention areas. Our approach is to meet poor families and communities where they are and strengthen their individual capacity to address the root causes of poverty, adjust to their often-shifting socio-economic and climatic environment, and access services, resources and markets for sustainable economic wellbeing.
Position Purpose:
The Mobile Device Economic Strengthening Coordinator will lead efforts to pilot and scale up the use of the MyWORTH app across our WORTH Savings groups. In short, we want to get the app onto phones and the phones into the hands of our savings group members, with training and support to ensure the app’s success.
The Mobile Device Economic Strengthening Coordinator must be a dynamic individual with strong interpersonal and managerial skills, and a commitment to mobile technology. S/he will manage and be responsible for ensuring effective high-quality implementation of economic strengthening interventions for participants in the pilot phase of a new app to accompany Pact’s signature WORTH program.
The Mobile Device Economic Strengthening Coordinator is responsible for monitoring the number of devices procured and distributed to the WORTH participants; ensuring the participants are trained effectively; and monitoring the usage of the MyWORTH app and comparing savings rates between those with the app and those without.
The Mobile Device Economic Strengthening Coordinator will have day-to-day responsibility for monitoring implementation, ensuring adherence to timelines, budget management and achievement of objectives. Project oversight will include but is not limited to: managing daily project activities to ensure the project accomplishes its deliverables with high impact, logistics and operations, budget approval; as well as monitoring, reporting, and evaluation activities.

Key Responsibilities:
The Mobile Device Economic Strengthening Coordinator’s primary responsibilities include:
Lead/coordinate strategy development, implementation and monitoring of all project activities
Identify WORTH savings groups appropriate to receive the phones and pilot first usage of the app
Introduce/facilitate sessions and activities on using MyWORTH app
Support collaboration with Pact staff, Tanzanian country government and other relevant groups
Contribute to Pact on quality assurance/continuous quality improvement of project tools, methodologies, and approaches.
Drafting and/or review and adaptation of MyWORTH app training, workshops, and other economic strengthening activities for participants
Monitor use and learning of app, strengthen such with mentoring, lead reporting and collection of feedback from users
Support knowledge management and linkages across program activities and Pact Tanzania’s work
Basic Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree in International Development, Economics or field relevant to either economic strengthening OR mobile technology uptake.
At least 5 years’ experience managing/filling leading either economic strengthening OR mobile technology programs
Excellent grasp of mobile banking technology.
Excellent facilitation and training skills in a variety of economic development OR mobile technology topics.
Excellent communication and relationship management skills.
Oral and written fluency in English.
Preferred Qualifications:
Master's Degree or Higher
Experience working on donor-funded programming, experience within the last five years strongly preferred.
Motivated, self-starter with experience working independently

APPLICATION
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