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Post Title: Programme Coordinator (Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights Project in Iringa Region)
Unit: Programmes
Reports to: Southern Highland Program Manager, Tanzania
Salary Grade: Approximate Annual Gross: TZS 17,294,400or Net 12,219,072(plus benefits where applicable) Restless Development guarantees net salaries as part of its salary equity policy gross salaries given are approximate.
Duration: Fixed term contract, one year with possibility of renewal upon successful completion of first year
Staff managed: Assistant Programme Coordinators; Officers; Interns
Context
Restless Development is the leading youth development agency working in Africa and South Asia. We are seeking an outstanding individual to join our team in Tanzania. We are mid-way through an ambitious strategic plan from 2011-2015, and this role will lead on ensuring delivery and management of quality youth led Sexual Reproductive Health Programme in Iringa with a strong focus on health programming, with an integration of livelihoods and civic participation. The project targets both young man and women's quality of life and health, including their Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). The project envisages that programs for young men and women (aged 10-24 years) in and out of school are crucial to address the prevailing vulnerabilities including limited knowledge about their Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and almost negligible Sexually Transmitted Infections like HIV and AIDS, sexual abuse and other life threatening challenges.
We are looking for a young, talented, and values driven individual to take up the role of Iringa SRHR Programme Coordinator to lead the regional programme to even greater heights. Working closely under the Southern Highland Manager, you will be responsible in producing SRHR project materials, leading the production of project documents, overseeing media & campaign in liaise with marketing and communication officer, event management, planning, coordination & implementation of your general roles and the staff under your department. This post is ideal for a talented individual looking to take a step up into organisational leadership within a dynamic and ambitious organisation.
Position Summary
The Programme Coordinator works closely with the Southern Highland Programme Manager, operating as the number 1 in-regional office.
The project visualizes achieving:
Strategy and Direction
Main responsibilities
programme Quality and Programme Delivery
Main Responsibilities
People Performance and Values
Main Responsibilities
Financial Management
Main Responsibilities
Partnership and Visibility
Main Responsibilities
With support from the Director, Partnerships Manager and Southern Highland Manager
Values Based Leadership
Main Responsibilities
Qualifications
Essential
Essential:
Please send your application form to with the title 'Iringa Programme Coordinator'
jobs@restlessdevelopment.org by the closing date
Please note we DO NOT accept CVs, resumes or covering letters
Closing Date: 24 [SUP]th[/SUP] February 2014
Unit: Programmes
Reports to: Southern Highland Program Manager, Tanzania
Salary Grade: Approximate Annual Gross: TZS 17,294,400or Net 12,219,072(plus benefits where applicable) Restless Development guarantees net salaries as part of its salary equity policy gross salaries given are approximate.
Duration: Fixed term contract, one year with possibility of renewal upon successful completion of first year
Staff managed: Assistant Programme Coordinators; Officers; Interns
Context
Restless Development is the leading youth development agency working in Africa and South Asia. We are seeking an outstanding individual to join our team in Tanzania. We are mid-way through an ambitious strategic plan from 2011-2015, and this role will lead on ensuring delivery and management of quality youth led Sexual Reproductive Health Programme in Iringa with a strong focus on health programming, with an integration of livelihoods and civic participation. The project targets both young man and women's quality of life and health, including their Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). The project envisages that programs for young men and women (aged 10-24 years) in and out of school are crucial to address the prevailing vulnerabilities including limited knowledge about their Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and almost negligible Sexually Transmitted Infections like HIV and AIDS, sexual abuse and other life threatening challenges.
We are looking for a young, talented, and values driven individual to take up the role of Iringa SRHR Programme Coordinator to lead the regional programme to even greater heights. Working closely under the Southern Highland Manager, you will be responsible in producing SRHR project materials, leading the production of project documents, overseeing media & campaign in liaise with marketing and communication officer, event management, planning, coordination & implementation of your general roles and the staff under your department. This post is ideal for a talented individual looking to take a step up into organisational leadership within a dynamic and ambitious organisation.
Position Summary
The Programme Coordinator works closely with the Southern Highland Programme Manager, operating as the number 1 in-regional office.
The project visualizes achieving:
- An Increased awareness on SRHR
- Empowered youth to establish healthy sexual behaviors
- Providing conducive environment for youth to affect informed and responsible choices and rights regarding their Sexual and Reproductive Health.
- Strengthening medically safe-health, legally protected, socially tolerant and widely educated practices in Iringa, Tanzania
- Developed network platforms to research resources to improve reproductive health services and information for youth in Tanzania.
- An understanding of the central role of reproductive health in 'population and development' issues
- Empowerment of youth to develop and sustain the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to make safe choices about sexuality by adapting responsible behaviors.
- Institutionalized Learning, Reflection and Communication Mechanisms
- Researched information gaps related to sexual and reproductive health and rights of youth in Tanzania
- Set up of Life Skills friendly communities, institutions and resource centre(s).
- The advocacy logical debates and dialogues amongst a variety of stakeholders from across the country/region on SRHR issues and risks
- Attracted donors and strategic partners into coalitions around SRHR, in order to ensure greater political and financial commitment and reduce misconceptions and gaps related to the issue of SRHR in Tanzania
- Developed face book page, SRHR Portal, to have wider outreach and impact.
- An active engagement of government, public sector organizations, civil society organizations, media and community stakeholders etc to partner in emerging the plight of youth in Tanzania.
Strategy and Direction
Main responsibilities
- Working with the management team, you will coordinate the planning, implementation and review of the project in accordance with the programme's planned outcome
- Working closely with the Management team to ensure the programme respond effectively to emerging needs, challenges and programmatic learning to ensure maximum impact
- Working closely with southern highland manager and policy and advocacy manager to develop strategic partnerships at national level to ensure more programme visibility.
- To review and impact to revise all policies, that address SRHR health issues such as safe motherhood, infertility, adolescent sexual reproductive health, family planning, cancers of reproductive systems, gender, child health, demography, population and development, reproductive and sexual rights.
- Ensure regular, correct and up-to-date documentation and sharing of lessons learnt and best practices.
- Conducts meetings on important issues at different internal and external forums.
programme Quality and Programme Delivery
Main Responsibilities
- Understand Project design along with desired and related project activities and convert it into an actionable work plan.
- Identify SRHR key issues, select relevant and priority social areas bottlenecks and finalize focus topics of research.
- Conduct desk research and studies
- Ensure that all sexual health documentation is accurate and up to date.
- Develop curriculum and prepare manuals, visual aids, course outlines, and other materials used in teaching and training.
- Write reports and other publications to document and communicate research findings.
- Document case studies, best practices and lessons learnt from projects
- Coordinate all aspects of volunteer recruitment, selection, training, implementation and review of the programme in accordance with the project's planned outcomes
- Working with programme quality team, coordinate the monitoring and review of the project across all locations on monthly basis
- Ensure timely planning and execution of planned activities, seeking approval for programme adjustments based on evidence based learning and working within the parameters of the budget available
- Provide technical support and capacity building to staff on the project areas
- Ensure sensitization and engagement of internal and external communities in all aspects of the programmes.
People Performance and Values
Main Responsibilities
- Carry out regular performance, and line management of the Assistant Programme Coordinator in Iringa in line with HR policy
- Carry out field support visits to ensure your team is actively supported in delivering of their work and in turn they are effectively completing their duties with volunteers and local stakeholders
- Assess and develop annual capacity building plans for your team to enhance performance with your team
- Serve as role model at all times, personally embodying Restless Development's mission and values, whilst helping to ensure that Restless Development's code of conducts, policies and standards are understood and adhere to in practice by all our, volunteers and stakeholders
Financial Management
Main Responsibilities
- Responsible on a day to day basis for financial management including monitoring and execution of the budget in line with the project strategy and implementation plan
- Ensure that all financial policies and procedures are upheld by staff and volunteers within the programme, and action is taken where standards are not met in line with Restless Development's policies
- Coordinate the annual budgeting process with support from the finance team and ensuring engagement of the programme team
- With the finance officer, prepare monthly budgets and requisitions, with an understanding of current budget position per item line
- With the finance officer, prepare monthly expenditure reports against approved budgets, providing detailed variance analysis
- Manage and authorise the monthly reconciliations of cash and bank books
- Ensure that all requisitions and retirements are appropriately authorized and that all expenditure is backed up with the required support documentation
- As principle budget holder for the programme, ensure that value for money is obtained in all purchases through the team, and that all purchases are in line with our policies and procedures
Partnership and Visibility
Main Responsibilities
With support from the Director, Partnerships Manager and Southern Highland Manager
- Interact with key SRHR stakeholders, opinion leaders, scholars and experts and document their views and key messages on SRHR
- Impact Government policies or by-laws for SRHR in liaison with community authorities to assist in health promotion.
- Establish and operationalize cluster SRHR champion platforms on Sexual and Reproductive Health.
- In liaise with Marketing and Communication Officer, develop communication strategy plan and implement strategy essentials in all forms of communication channels and media mix.
- Engage all alliance partners and stakeholder to advocate key messages, to disseminate materials and to actively pursue campaign activities
- Provide support to the media and communications component.
- Update and develop content for communication materials, with a focus on regularly updating the SRHR face book page.
- Maintain a calendar of key events and other communication lists
- Develop and Maintain database of project photographs, documentaries, video clips, news clips etc
Values Based Leadership
Main Responsibilities
- Supports learning environment, shares information and maintains confidentiality
- Support southern Highland Program Manager in project correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings and presentations
- Acting as SRHR Project Spokesperson where required.
- Assist with the organization and setting up of meetings, seminars, conferences and other events
- Serve as role model at all times, personally embodying Restless Development's mission and values, whilst helping to ensure that Restless Development's code of conduct, policies and standards are understood by all and adhered to in practice.
- Other duties as required, sometimes requiring work on weekends, for which time off in lieu can be taken.
- This post will involve regular travel outside of Iringa for conferences and events.
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Communications, Marketing specialized in social sciences.
- Hands-on 01- 02 years communication / media practitioner and 02-03 years social development sector experience in execution of research, communication and program/project management
- Technical expertise public health communications in particular SRHR
- Experience of volunteering
Essential:
- Extensive knowledge of the principles, practices and techniques of oral and written communications
- Experienced in writing for the media on social issues of young people development, policy, health and the economy . Demonstrated concern for social justice issues.
- Ability to strategize development sector interventions for advocacy, research, community mobilization, capacity building, public relations, lobbying and changing behavioral patterns.
- Ability to deliver and organize presentations, media relations, press conferences, events, conferences, video links, media briefings,
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.
- Proven ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment; to troubleshoot and follow projects through to completion, consistently on schedule, without loss of attention to detail and budget
- Responds positively to feedback and displays improvement in results.
- Remains calm, in control and good humored even under pressure.
- Excellent written, verbal, organizational, analytical and interpersonal skills;
- Excellent computer skills, proficient in Microsoft Office and experience with internet research;
- Excellent listening and communication skills with sensitivity to cultural communication differences
- Flexibility and willingness to work simultaneously on a wide range of tasks and projects and ability to prioritize tasks;
- Pleasant, diplomatic manner and disposition in interacting with senior management, co-workers and the general public.
- Experience in running programmes or projects working with young people
- Experience in working with volunteers led programmes
- Experience in human resources management
- Experience in training delivery and provision of capacity building support
- Experience in managing large scale budgets and finances
- Experience in building and managing partnerships within the programmes
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, including excellent networking and presentation skills at high level meetings
- Experience of working in multi cultural environment
Please send your application form to with the title 'Iringa Programme Coordinator'
jobs@restlessdevelopment.org by the closing date
Please note we DO NOT accept CVs, resumes or covering letters
Closing Date: 24 [SUP]th[/SUP] February 2014