Rafiki Social Development Organization is a development and advocacy Non-Governmental and Non-profit making Organization.
Rafiki Social Development Organization is a development and advocacy
Non-Governmental and Nonprofit making Organization working with
Children, Youth, Marginalized and Vulnerable groups, families and their
communities to reach their full potential by advocating for their rights
and tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.
The Organization was established in January 2005 and registered under
the NGO Act of 2002, issued with a registration number 00NGO/R1/00903
to operate in Tanzania Mainland.
Currently Rafiki-SDO is implementing projects in 5 regions and 14
councils in Tanzania mainland including Shinyanga, Geita, Kigoma, Rukwa
and Mara region and funded by different donors.
Rafiki-SDO in partnership with PACT implement the USAID Adolescents
and Children HIV Incidence Reduction, Empowerment and Virus Elimination
project (ACHIEVE). ACHIEVE is a five-year global effort to reach and
sustain HIV epidemic control among pregnant and breastfeeding women,
adolescents, infants and children. The project is funded by the U.S.
Agency for International Development and implemented by a Pact-led
consortium of top global HIV/AIDS partners. The ACHIEVE consortium works
with USAID Missions, national governments and existing response
partners to identify gaps in HIV prevention and treatment programming
among target populations. As part of its strategy, ACHIEVE is working to
prevent and respond to gender-based violence and to empower youth to
own their own future.
To facilitate smooth implementation of this project, RAFIKI-SDO
wishes to recruit qualified, experienced, motivated and dynamic
applicant to fill one (1) position.
JOB TITTLE: Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Coordinator (1 POST)
Office location: Mara Region
Work station: Bunda DC, Bunda TC, Serengeti DC, Rorya DC and Musoma MC
Reporting to: Project Manager
Duration: 5 Months / Renewable (full time)
Salary: Attractive package
Overview:
Serve as an active member of the Rafiki-SDO management team for the
implementation of ACHIEVE Tanzania project with the primary
responsibility of strategic leadership and management of Monitoring and
Evaluation functions under the leadership and direction of Project
Manager.
Responsibilities:
The M&E Coordinator must develop a close working relationship
with the technical team (ESLO, CMOs, CMCs. HHOs etc.) to ensure quality
data is collected and entered in the database. The coordinator will be
responsible for:
- Support in implementing and overseeing monitoring and evaluation
activities in the council level, including development of Rafiki-SDO
M&E plans and data collection frameworks to support data management,
and reporting.
- Support data analysis for their respective councils, visualization and use of data to assess daily and monthly
- Rafiki-SDO performance trends and help Rafiki-SDO management to
interpret program performance and implications of data for programming.
- Participate actively in generating data for Rafiki-SDO management
monthly and quarterly narrative reports or other reports, as needed.
- Organize and supervises routine internal data quality assessments (DQAs) for each council under management of the Rafiki-SDO.
- Facilitate communication, technical and working linkages between technical team and M&E team within and between councils.
- Play a coordinating function for producing data and feeding to
Rafiki-SDO management for program decision making at council and
organizational level.
- Provided technical assistance to Rafiki-SDO technical team members
(CMOs, CMCs, HHOs, ESLOs, DREAMS Officer etc.) on developing and
monitoring targets in compliance with the developed and approved M&E
plan.
- Conduct and coordinate provision of regular data collection and
entry visits to Community Case Workers (CCWs); identify data entry
challenges and provide technical assistance on data entry to CCWs.
- Serve as a mentor to Rafiki-SDO technical team members (CMOs, CMCs,
HHOs, ESLOs, DREAMS Officer etc.) and provide technical assistance in
various areas relating to M&E function.
- Organize and coordinate quarterly data review meeting at councils’
level by supporting program performance presentation preparations, and
data interpretation.
- Organize and manage all Quality Improvement (QI) activities of the CSOs.
- Manage council level Monitoring and Evaluation Officers (M&EOs)
by ensuring that they all have performance objectives, conducts one to
one meeting and regularly evaluate their performance against agreed
performance goals.
- Other tasks as assigned
Minimum Requirements:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in statistics, public health, Information
technology, Computer science, demography, or other social science area.
- Academic qualification in monitoring and evaluation will be an added advantage.
Experience:
- The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years’ professional
experience working in Monitoring, Evaluation, and reporting, preferably
working with donor funded programs.
- Adept at data quality assessment, data analysis, visualization, and use
2 – 3 years’ work experience supporting technical or programmatic
activities in orphans and vulnerable children (experience with health
facility setting a plus) - Experience with DHIS2 preferred other software a plus.
- Experience implementing qualitative and quantitative research a plus
- Report writing and publication skills
- Excellent written, oral and presentation skills in English and Kiswahili
- Excellent peoples and partnership skills.
- Collaborative team player with leadership skills
- Experience with PEPFAR 3.0 funded projects in Tanzania is a plus
- The candidate should have experience in training / workshop
facilitation, mentoring and proven ability to develop and maintain
effective work relationships with government and other NGO counterparts.
Skills:
- Ability to work effectively with multiple teams, partner agencies and community members.
- Knowledge of different database software
- Proficient with MS Excel, SPSS, Stata etc.
- Availability and willingness to travel up to 50% time
HOW TO APPLY:
If you believe you are the ideal person we are looking for, please submit your application letter to
Executive Director,
Rafiki-SDO,
P.O.BOX 177,
MUSOMA OFFICE.
Describing why you are the right candidate for this position,
curriculum vitae detailing your experience, copy of educational
certificates and three (3) professional referees from previous and
current place of employment.
Please send the application to: ajira@rafikisdo.or.tz and
indicate the position title in the email subject line. The closing date
for this application will be on Wednesday, 19th April 2023, 17:00 hrs.
** Women are encouraging to apply**
NOTE: Rafiki-SDO will not refund any costs incurred by any applicant
in preparation for this application. This includes, but not limited to
cost for submitting an application and other communication related to
the application. Rafiki-SDO will inform those successful, if you do not
hear back from Rafiki-SDO two weeks after the date of release of this
job advert consider yourself as unsuccessful. Thank you for your
interest in Rafiki-SDO work in Tanzania and for supporting national
initiatives to saving lives and improve health for people affected by
poverty or disaster so they can reach their full potential
