3 Job Opportunities At Tearfund
JOB TITLE: Design Monitoring & Evaluation Advisor – Southern & East Africa
- Region: Southern & East Africa
- Job Category: International Relief & Development (Outside UK)
- Contract Type: Fixed Term
- Potential Interview Date: 10 November 2020
Tearfund is looking for a dedicated and passionate Design, Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor to support our work in the Southern & East Africa (SEA) region. You will work with Country Directors to establish and implement quality design, monitoring and evaluation frameworks that enable performance to be tracked and impact evidence to be captured. You will also work closely with our Impact and Effectiveness Team helping to improve our corporate approaches to evidence and impact. We’re looking for a motivated, and experienced professional with a strong technical background in design, monitoring , evaluation and learning work.
Do you have experience of establishing successful monitoring and evaluation and learning frameworks? Are you able to provide strategic technical support on monitoring and evaluation and learning to country programmes? Are you able to give advice and support to others in order to influence their working practices? Do you have experience in working and supporting programmes in different contexts in Africa? Do you have a passion for learning and continual improvement?
If your skills match the above then we’d love to hear from you
The successful candidate will be able to:
- Lead the continual improvement and quality of Tearfund’s Design, Monitoring, Evaluation and learning activities in Southern & East Africa.
- Assist country teams to establish and implement design, monitoring, evaluation and learning (DMEAL) frameworks to track progress of country strategies
- Ensure lessons learnt are captured, disseminated and applied
- Build the DMEAL capacity of our staff across the region, in turn enabling them to build the capacity of local partners and church based organisations.
- All applicants must be committed to Tearfund’s Christian beliefs.
- The recruitment process may include specific safeguarding checks
Please note: This contract is for a 36 month period, but with potential to extend. Please note candidates must have the current right to live and work in one of the following countries: Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia or Zimbabwe. Candidates must be able to freely travel in the Southern and East Africa region. Travel of up to 16 weeks per year is required. Salary is dependent on location and is benchmarked against the local pay market. Applicants from all SEA countries are strongly encouraged to apply.
Closing Date: 25th October, 2020.
JOB TITLE: Program Manager
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an individual with proven humanitarian and partner management experience to join our team in Tanzania as Programme Manager.
The Programme Manager (PM) will support the Interim Country Director (CD) in providing programme management support to partners ensuring that programmes are design, implemented, monitored, evaluated and reported in accordance with Tearfund’s Quality Standards and within Tearfund’s management systems.
In addition, the PM will contribute to building the capacity of Tearfund’s partners (churches and civil society) in Tanzania to deliver excellent poverty reduction work in a cost effective and sustainable manner. The post holder will also represent and advocate on behalf of Tearfund and its partners with donors, partner organisations and governmental bodies.
The successful candidate will have the following:
- A degree or equivalent in development, management studies or related subjects
- Relevant humanitarian experience which includes project management and capacity development, strategic planning and thinking and budget development and management
- Excellent people and team management skills
- Proven success in securing institutional funding
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills in English and Swahili
- Do you have experience in the community development sector and proven experience of building capacity of others? If so we would love to hear from you.
- Tearfund is a faith based organisation and applicants must share our statement of faith.
- This contract is for a 24 month period, but with potential to extend. Please note candidates must have the current right to live and work in Tanzania.
Salary: 72,391,510 Tanzanian Shilling per annum
The recruitment process will include specific checks related to safeguarding issues. In addition, personal identification information will be submitted against a Watchlist database to check against criminal convictions as a counter-terror measure.
Closing date 26 Oct 2020
JOB TITLE: Grants & Finance Capacity Building Officer
Tearfund has an exciting opportunity for a Grants and Finance Capacity Building Officer to join our team in Tanzania as Grants & Finance Capacity Building Officer.
The Grants and Finance Capacity Building Officer is responsible for ensuring that Tearfund partners are implementing Tearfund policies and procedures, ensuring partners follow donor rules & regulations on grants implemented under Tearfund supervision and support the management of a signed MOU agreement between Tearfund and all her partners.
The role will provide training (capacity building) to Tearfund partners on grant financial procedures, grant management, mentoring and coaching partners finance officers on financial management and best practices. The role will also assume responsibility on some transactional focus for the country programme and monthly reporting.
Do you have the ability to:
- Work closely with project and partner staff in drafting and editing donor proposals and reports, ensuring compliance with various donor regulations, Tearfund policies, and government processes.
- Undertake regular financial reviews with Partners to ensure financial reports tie in with financial records and supporting documents to ensure compliance with donor rules and regulations of both Tearfund and other institutional donors
- Design and conduct capacity building initiatives of partners to strengthen their financial systems and reporting
The successful applicant will have:
- A graduate degree in accounting or equivalent qualification with relevant work experience in financial capacity building of partners.
- Experience of project cycle management, especially reporting and proposal development and Financial Reporting
- Initiative, strong organisational and leadership skills
- experience with donors and multilateral donor mechanisms
- Are you a committed Christian with a concern for vulnerable and marginalized communities? Then this could be the role for you!
Do you have the required skills and experience?
If so, we’d love to hear from you.
Tearfund is a faith based organisation and applicants must share our statement of faith.
This contract is for a 24 month period, but with potential to extend. Please note candidates must have the current right to live and work in Tanzania.
Salary set up for this role is: 48,718,248 Tanzanian Shilling per annum
The recruitment process will include specific checks related to safeguarding issues. In addition, personal identification information will be submitted against a Watchlist database to check against criminal convictions as a counter-terror measure.
Closing date 26 Oct 2020
