Vacancies – 5 Posts
Catholic Relief Services
carries out the commitment
of the Bishops of the United States to assist the
poor and vulnerable overseas. Our Catholic identity is at the heart of our
mission and operations. We welcome as a part of our staff and as partners people
of all faiths and secular traditions who share our values and our commitment to
serving those in need.
Catholic Relief Services
(CRS) is an international non-governmental organization supporting relief and
development work in over 99 countries around the world. CRS programs assist
persons on the basis of need, regardless of creed, ethnicity or nationality and
works through local church and non-church partners to implement its programs.
CRS has been helping poor, vulnerable families improve their lives through
orphans and vulnerable children, agriculture, health, microfinance, and WASH
programming in Tanzania since 1962.
CRS is seeking for
qualified individuals to fill 5 positions as stipulated below, for an upcoming
USAID-funded project aimed at improving youth livelihoods in agriculture. The
program will enhance entrepreneurial, life and workforce readiness skills and
link qualified youth with economic and employment opportunities.
1. Job Title: Chief of
Party
Job Location: Dar es Salam
Tanzania
Reports To: Country Representative
Specific
Responsibilities:
• Provide
overall technical and administrative leadership to the project implementation
team, including development of strategies, budgets, work plans, monitoring and
evaluation plans and reporting
• Provide
supervision to the project full time personnel, consultants and subcontractors
• Interact
with the USAID Mission and provide regular updates on project progress or
issues that arise
• Serve
as the primary liaison to USAID, local and national governmental authorities,
local NGOs, community organizations, and other donor organizations
• Provide
mentoring and professional development support to project staff, with emphasis
on building capacity of national staff
• Lead
the development of program strategies, planning and implementation of program
activities while ensuring cohesion among the program components.
• Promotes
sustainability of project activities with effective networking, linkages to
other programs, capacity building of project staff, and institutional
strengthening of implementing partners and community-based organizations.
Required
Qualifications and Experience:
• Master’s
Degree in Agriculture, Economic Development or related field.
• Minimum
ten years of relevant experience in the technical areas of: agriculture, youth
development, workforce development, entrepreneurship, and/or youth
employability
• Experience
working with education and training institutions, private sector and NGOs to
provide work readiness and technical training for the agriculture sector
• Experience
with either the facilitated approach to donor programs and/or youth
participatory engagement, peer-to-peer learning, and youth engagement
strategies
• Experience
working in developing countries (Sub-saharan or Tanzania specific experience
desirable)
• Experience
with USAID or other international donors preferred
• Fluency
in oral and written English
2. Job Title: Entrepreneurial
Skills Specialist
Job
Location: Dar es Salaam
Reports To: Chief of
Party
Specific
Responsibilities:
•
Works to proactively assist in identifying
local, regional and national opportunities for public/private partnerships to
support the employment and career advancement efforts of youth to enable them
to secure jobs in the targeted sectors.
•
Facilitates lasting relationships among
employers, workforce development providers and government entities in support
of their efforts to secure employment or career advancement for at-risk youth.
•
Enhances partnerships with industry, government
and community partners to develop a system for the collection, analysis and
regular, widespread dissemination of labor market demand data to employers,
workforce development providers, GOH, and the public.
•
Provide expertise in value chain and labor
market analysis to identify critical job needs in the industry.
•
Advocates for policy changes by both GoT and
leading employers which support the development, implementation, and continuous
improvement of an integrated and effective workforce and economic development
system, as well as those policies, procedures and standards which reduce
barriers for the participation of at-risk youth in the formal workplace.
•
Has a passion for developing youth employability
solutions and a commitment to technical thought leadership in this area.
Required
Qualifications and Experience:
•
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or
university in Business, Economics, Public
Administration,
Sociology or a closely related field. Master’s degree in business or a related
field. Minimum
of five years of experience with workforce development and/or professional
education.
•
Demonstrated experience managing projects and
programs that enhance human capital development.
•
Demonstrated experience and expertise in labor
market, value chain and/or related economic or population-level analysis.
•
Experience working in the private sector,
preferably in public private partnerships or social corporate responsibility.
•
Excellent interpersonal skills and teamwork.
•
Professionally proficient and fluent in written and
spoken English.
SOURCE::: Mkaguzi Blog
3. Job Title: Employment
Skills Specialist
Job
Location: Dar es Salaam
Reports To: Chief of
Party
Specific
Responsibilities:
•
Work in the design, management, and
implementation of youth workforce development interventions.
•
Identify curriculum for remedial education, soft
skills training, and technical skills training
•
Work to integrate positive youth development
principles and wraparound services required for effective youth development
•
Ensure that the workforce development
interventions use best practices to address the needs of youth.
•
Work with local curriculum design experts to
establish or identify competency-based standards or industry certifications as
identified
•
Improve training curricula for related
occupations to create a more highly qualified and technologically skilled youth
workforce that matches labor market demand.
Required
Qualifications and Experience:
•
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or
university in a field related to education or youth development. (Master’s
degree strongly preferred)
•
Experience working in institutions with a focus
on serving the needs of youth.
•
Technical knowledge and experience in skills
development, curriculum development, positive youth development, and related
support services youth.
•
Minimum of five years of experience managing
field-based workforce and curricula development initiatives.
•
In-depth knowledge of youth workforce
development interventions in the Eastern Africa Region, preferably in Tanzania.
•
Excellent interpersonal skills and teamwork.
•
Professionally proficient and fluent in written
and spoken English. Experience with USAID or other USG funding highly desired.
4. Job Title: Life Skills
Specialist
Job
Location: Dar es
Salaam
Reports To: Chief of
Party
Specific
Responsibilities:
•
Develop strategies to increase learning and
skills building for employment, citizenship, leadership and healthy behaviors
to prepare young people for transition into adulthood.
•
Ensure that skills development and leadership
activities are accessible to youth.
•
Promote age-appropriate learning opportunities
based on developmental phases of different age groups.
•
Provide technical leadership in community
engagement and leadership opportunities for youth.
•
Provide technical leadership in design,
development, planning, and implementation; and capacitybuilding in quality
technical, workforce readiness and entrepreneurship skills training.
•
Ensure that project strategies and activities
addressing youth are evidence-based and in line with state-of-the-art, globally
recognized best practices; including Youth in Development Policy.
Required
Qualifications and Experience:
•
Master’s Degree or its International Equivalent
in education, business, or other relevant field.
•
8+ years of experience in workforce development
with an emphasis on youth development activities.
•
Excellent track record of achieving results in
similar types of skill development activities.
•
Demonstrated high-level technical, analytical,
and interpersonal skills.
•
Expertise in delivering training to diverse
audiences with varying levels of education.
•
Strong critical thinking and technical writing
skills.
•
Experience in projects promoting livelihood
interventions and youth employment with a focus on food-based economies highly
desired.
•
Experience with USAID or other USG funding
highly desired.
•
Experience working with relevant government
agencies, civil society organizations, employers, and unions.
•
Must have strong English written and oral
communication skills.
•
Knowledge of adolescent development and best
practices to promote positive youth development.
5. Job Title: Monitoring,
Evaluation and Learning (MEAL)
Job
Location: Dar es Salaam
Reports To: Chief of
Party
SOURCE::: Mkaguzi Blog
Specific
Responsibilities:
• Contribute
to the design and implementation of M&E systems to collect and analyze
project data for evidence-based programming decisions
• Work
with the CRS/Tanzania MEAL Director and the project technical team to develop
or adapt project-specific MEAL tools
• Orient
CRS and partner staff on M&E tools and provide ongoing supportive
supervision for implementation of the tools
•
Ensure collection and reporting of high-quality
program data and use of the data to track program implementation and outcomes
against targets
•
Supervise data quality through site visits and
the administration of data quality assessments
•
Support the project manager in the preparation
and submission of the annual implementation plan and budget
•
Support the project manager assure the
implementation of CRS’s MEAL Policies & Procedures as a minimum standard
•
Support the design and lead the coordination of
country level project evaluation activities
• Work
closely with the project manager to produce high-quality required and ad hoc
reports
Required
Qualifications and Experience:
•
Five years of relevant professional experience in
project-level MEAL, including development of data flow maps, data collection
tools, reporting forms, and project databases
•
Master’s degree in public health, statistics, health
informatics, biostatistics, epidemiology, international development, economics
or related field
•
Experience in designing and implementing mixed method
evaluation plans
•
Thorough familiarity with principles and current
approaches to project monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning
•
Excellent analytic and computer skills; skilled in MS
Office Suite including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Access
•
Skills in developing project M&E databases desired
•
Willingness and ability to travel at least 40% of the
time to project sites
•
Experience in at least one of the following data
analysis software: SPSS, STATA, SAS and Epi Info
•
Prior knowledge and experience with early child hood
development and maternal and child health (MCH) programs strongly desired
Application
Submission Deadline: 28th January 2016
If you are interested and
meet the minimum requirements, please submit your application and CV to the
below address;
Senior Human Resources
Officer
P.O. Box 34701
Catholic
Relief Services Dar es Salaam.
Email address:
tz_hr@global.crs.org