Career with BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania
BRAC is an award-winning international non-governmental development organization with the vision of a world free from all forms of exploitation and discrimination, where everyone can realize their potential. As a global leader in developing and implementing cost-effective, evidence-based programs, BRAC aims to assist poor and disadvantaged communities in low-income countries, including those in conflict-prone and post-disaster settings.
Founded by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed in Bangladesh in 1972, BRAC expanded its reach outside Bangladesh in 2002, beginning its first program in Afghanistan. Since then, BRAC has reached millions of people in
11 countries across Asia and Africa. Its holistic approach to development spans a range of programs, including microfinance, education, health, agriculture, gender, and human rights.
BRAC is widely recognized for its success, having been ranked the world’s number one NGO by the Geneva-based NGO Advisor for five consecutive years, starting in 2016. As the largest NGO globally by staff numbers and people directly reached, BRAC continues to pioneer new development and social enterprise approaches, empowering communities to achieve prosperity.
BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania is part of this globally recognized development organization, having started its operations in Tanzania in 2006. The focus areas of BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania include Agriculture, Youth and Women Empowerment, Food Security, and Livelihood.
About the Programme
The MasterCard Foundation, in partnership with BRAC International (BI), is implementing an initiative that aims to create a positive and measurable impact for 1.2 million adolescent girls and young women, and 9.5 million people across seven countries in East and West Africa: Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Uganda.
This initiative addresses the urgent need to support adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) living in poverty, an issue made more pressing by the global pandemic. Through this partnership, scalable economic development approaches will be introduced to foster the agency and voice of AGYW, allowing them to fulfill their aspirations, achieve sustainable livelihoods, and engage in advocacy.
BRAC International is implementing an integrated and holistic model to address the life cycles of young women living in poverty, ensuring they transition safely from adolescence to adulthood. This includes equipping them with the necessary skills, tools, and access to finance to exercise their agency and build fulfilling livelihoods.
Position: Regional Monitoring & Learning Officer (01) Location: Morogoro
Purpose:
To support Monitoring activities and enhancing learning in Accelerating Impact for Young Women (AIM) program in Dodoma Region which aims to foster the agency and voice of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) to act on their aspirations, to enable AGYW to engage in sustainable livelihoods and Create an enabling environment for AGYW, including support for AGYW to engage in advocacy.
The Monitoring and Learning Officer shall provide technical assistance to in-country staff pertaining to M&E and build capacity in the country mission by identifying and supporting the implementation of effective, cost efficient and meaningful Monitoring & learning systems. The officer will work closely with program staff and partners to collect data, analyze results, and report on the program’s outcomes.
Main job responsibilities:
- To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
- Assist the program team in the execution of M&E Plan, support with participants’ database management, and verification of project MIS report.
- Ensure development and testing of all data collection tools and reporting formats for Accelerating Impact for Young Women in Africa-AIM project and share with the relevant project team and Monitoring and Learning team.
- Conduct Program quality monitoring data collection, analysis and reporting using project’s as per BI guidelines.
- Conduct quality control of the data through random verifications and validations
- Participate in the development of the performance indicators and support the team with tracking the progress and document learnings.
- Lead in the project monitoring process (both process and outcome monitoring), document findings and share recommendations for learning and continuous improvement of the project.
Capacity building development to the project team
- Coordinate, support and facilitate training, workshop and meetings related to Monitoring and Learning across the organization, community and implementing partners.
- Capacitate the team in securing and archiving of supporting documentation of accomplished project activities including trainings and distributions disaggregated by gender, disability status and location.
Documentation and reporting
- Compiles analyses data for specific Monitoring and learning touch points reports, and disseminate to relevant stakeholders.
- Holding/attending regional level review and reflection workshop, document findings and share with project and monitoring team as per the need.
Safeguarding Responsibilities
- Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation to achieve the program goals on safeguarding implementation.
- Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
- Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do the same.
Required skills/capacity:
- Interpersonal skills with ability to work both collaboratively and independently.
- Organizational skills, with ability to work and meet deadlines.
- Attention to detail and accuracy.
- Written and verbal communication skills
Educational requirements:
- University Degree Preferably Information Technology, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or any other related fields.
Experience:
- Minimum 2 years of experiences in the field of monitoring in national or international organizations
- Experience in using digital devices (tablet or cell phone) and platforms such as KOBO collect for data collection
- Expertise in analyzing data using statistical software such as SPSS, ENVIVO and STATA, GIS
- Experience in designing tools and methods for data collection, analysis, and reporting
Employment type: Contractual
Remote work opportunities
If you feel you are the right match for the above-mentioned position, please follow the application instructions accordingly:
Candidate needs to email their CV with a letter of interest mentioning educational grades, years of experience, current and expected salary at: [email protected].
Only complete applications will be accepted, and shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Application deadline: 25th April 2025
BRAC is committed to safeguarding children, young people, and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share the same commitment. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation – regardless of age, race, religion, and gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment process includes extensive reference and background checks, self- disclosure of prior issues regarding sexual or other misconduct and criminal records and our values are a part of our Performance Management System.
BRAC is an equal opportunities employer.
