Monday, 20 December 2021

Job Opportunity at The Small Things, Families and Futures Coalition of Tanzania – Program Manager and M+E

Small Things

This role will be primarily responsible overseeing the pilot coalition hub, monitoring government compliance, ensuring that objectives are met for all team members, and handling day-to-day issues that arise. They will oversee all 4 components of the hub: children’s education, family strengthening, capacity building, and specialist services. They will also support the creation of toolkits and take a lead on the content end of the M & E app, as well as interpreting that data.


Staff and Organization Management (60%)

  • Manage coalition staff with support of Executive Director
  • Support recruitment for unfilled or new coalition roles
  • Provide an orientation and support staff with relevant logistics
  • Participate in annual planning for the coalition and help hold staff to objectives
  • Ensure all coalition staff have the resources to properly do their jobs
  • Primary point of contact for logistical issues that arise during operation of pilot hub
  • Coordinate construction and capital expenditures at pilot hub
  • Ensure coalition is compliant with government regulations, with HR/Admin specialist
  • Work with hub site guards and make sure site is secure
  • Coordinate membership logistics and oversee network mapping by capacity building coordinator


Monitoring, Evaluation and Research (40%)

  • Manage and support development of the M+E app, based on international tools. IT Specialist will handle technical side
  • Work with partners to implement M+E at their sites
  • Gather and analyze M+E data to measure impact of coalition work
  • Continually assess available tools and options to improve systems.


Required Candidate Qualifications

  • Fluent spoken and fluent written Swahili
  • Fluent spoken and good written English
  • Academic qualification in Community Development, Social Work, Management, Monitoring + Evaluation, or related field.
  • Experience managing several subordinates at once
  • Comfortable using Google Drive, Google Docs/Word, and Google Sheets/Excel
  • Extensive cross-cultural experience
  • Organized and reliable, self-motivated
  • Team player who loves kids and is passionate about systemic change
  • Able to handle conflict and mediate between groups with competing needs
  • NOT looking for a limited 1-year position, but looking to grow with the organization


Preferred Candidate Qualities

  • Energetic, extroverted and friendly team player
  • Experience developing and using M+E and statistics systems
  • Experience working with international organizations such as USAID or UNICEF
  • Tanzanian, or already has visa/permit to work in TZ


How to apply

Please send your resume/CV and cover letter to reubensamwel@thesmallthings.org. Due to the large number of applications we generally receive, we regret that we are unable to personally respond to every applicant



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