Safe Schools Intervention Specialists at International Rescue Committee (IRC)

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Safe Schools Intervention Specialists
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic of | req52851
Requisition ID: req52851
Job Title: Safe Schools Intervention Specialists
Sector: Governance
Employment Category: Regular
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: Not Applicable
Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Work Arrangement:

Job Description
Founded
in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the International Rescue
Committee (IRC) responds to serious humanitarian crises around the world
and helps victims to survive and rebuild their lives.

For over
half a century, Tanzania has been a country of asylum, hosting one of
the largest refugee populations in Africa. Currently, the country hosts
approximately 287,903 Burundian and Congolese refugees, many of whom
arrived in 2015 as the crisis in Burundi increased. To date, refugees
continue to co-exist with the host communities in Kigoma region
expressing multiple reasons and needs. Within
this context, IRC provides protection and basic assistance in the areas
of Safety (comprises of Protection and Rule of Law, Women Protection
and Empowerment, and Child Protection), Health (mental health and
psychosocial support services and reproductive health), and Education.

Job Overview/Summary:
The
UK aid funded Shule Bora programme aims to improve the quality of
pre-primary and primary schools in Tanzania. The programme’s Impact
Statement is: Shule Bora will deliver improved quality, inclusiveness,
and safety of learning for boys and girls. There are four outcomes:
1. Learning: All children* are learning in school.
2. Teaching: UKAID supports the strengthening of Tanzania’s teaching workforce.
3.
Inclusion: All children are in schools that are safe, offer an
environment conducive to learning and that enables children to complete
primary education and progress to secondary education.
4. Systems
building: UKAID supports the government in strengthening the value for
money of education provision at school, local and national levels, The
term ‘all children’ infers particular attention to the most
disadvantaged: girls, the disabled and those living in deprived areas
and value for money is defined as a composite of economy, efficiency,
effectiveness, and equity

The Programme will:
Work
with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MOEST) and the
President’s Office Regional Administration and Local Government
(PO-RALG) to test, adapt and implement at-scale quality,
gender-transformative, disability-inclusive, and safe-to-learn education
approaches in 9 regions, generating learning and evidence on how to
achieve these outcomes affordably and at scale.

Support GoT with
the timely and effective implementation of the Payment for Results
(PforR) mechanism through technical assistance and capacity building,
with a strong focus on data verification, financial management and risk
management. Support lesson learning processes from PforR so that these
can be embedded into government processes and shared with development
partners and other key stakeholders. Ensure that lessons and best
practice from (1) are used to inform the PforR mechanism.

Manage
and coordinate programme activities, with a strong focus on (i) ensuring
a highquality programme and financial and risk management oversight,
(ii) working with an independent Learning and Evidence (L&E)
provider on establishing regular, rigorous, and community-driven
monitoring and evaluation activities, and (iii) developing and
implementing a strategy for effective communication of Shule Bora
objectives, results, and lessons learned to a range of target audiences.

The
intervention specialists will support the implementation of programme
interventions across the nine regions. Each intervention specialist will
have a specialization in pupils’ safety intervention in addition to
supporting school improvement and will provide additional support on
pupils’ safety interventions across their zone.

General Responsibilities:

• Providing support to technical leads and key advisers to programme and
  deliver interventions including preparation, planning, pre-testing, and
  piloting of activities and materials
• Drawing upon IRC’s expertise to support the government to develop and implement interventions to reflect their thematic focus
• Supporting
  the development of capacity-building activities of the community,
  school, district, and regional education managers in the areas of
  teacher development, school leadership, planning and management,
  community participation and data management and use.
• Following up on intervention activities within the region
• Collecting data and information from regional and district partners as required
• Identifying, solving and/or escalating challenges relating to programme delivery
• Providing
  zonal support to implementation and troubleshooting relating to
  inclusion activities (disability, safety, and girls) in line with the
  inclusion strategy
• Ensuring that all stakeholders across the
  region have a good understanding of Shule Bora and their role in the
  programme as pertains to them
• Contribute to the writing of various reports, articles, and other forms of communication
• Communicate success, lessons learnt, programme best practices and evidence of impact
• Ensure inclusion is mainstreamed and gender-sensitive and inclusive language is used in all programme communications
• Deputizing for the programme regional coordinator as required
• Joining all programme meetings as required
• Ensuring proper saving of all regional documents on SharePoint

Technical:

• Assisting
  the programme regional coordinator to support regional and district
  offices in planning, implementing, and monitoring Shule Bora
  interventions across all output areas
• Provide advice on what works in terms of improving safety in and around schools.
• Participate
  in the design, implementation, monitoring and adaptation of quality
  interventions relating to improving safety of learning for all children
• Develop timely reports of programme activities and input to formal reports such as quarterly reports and annual reports
• Utilize the Managing for Learning Approach and other programme strategies as developed
• Ensure
  all programme activities and materials include an inclusive approach,
  use inclusive language and disaggregated data, and promote diversity in
  educational institutions
• Work closely with other intervention specialists to ensure harmonization across the programme at zonal level
• Provide input on design, approach and content of materials and quality assure where relevant

Planning and institutional coordination

• Ensure harmonization of approaches across programme activities
• Coordinate Shule Bora’s safe school activities with LGA, regional and zonal level as well as other organizations as required
• Generate
  synergies and ensure lesson learning between Shule Bora and other
  efforts to improve safety of learning for all children in Tanzania

Build capacity:

• Support the institutionalization of safe school activities within LGAs, Regional and zonal levels
• Support capacity development activities of programme staff and government counterparts at LGA, regional and zonal levels

Key Working Relationships:
Position Reports to: Shule Bora Regional Coordinator -Kigoma
Position directly supervises: N/A
Other Internal and/or external contacts: IRC Education Coordinator,
technical leads Shule Bora, colleagues at IRC and Shule Bora, Shule Bora
team to ensure harmonization across the Programme.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s
  degree in education, community development, social development or
  related degree, master’s degree in the same field is an added advantage.
• Good understanding of the Tanzanian education system.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies

• Ability to prioritize and work under pressure
• Ability to work in a collaborative team setting
• Understanding of and sensitivity to cultural differences
• Proficient in using MS packages, particularly Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint
• Strong organizational skills, reliability, and adherence to ethical standards
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong leadership and influencing skills
• Fluency in written and spoken English, Kiswahili preferred

Desired Experience

• Experience in planning, coordinating, implementing, and monitoring activities to improve safety in and around schools
• Experience in capacity development
• Experience in large-scale, international development projects
• Experience with stakeholder engagement from schools to government levels

Language: Fluent in written and spoken English and Kiswahili
Travel: Travel within Shule Bora regions as at and when required.

Working Environment
Security
level yellow – The situation in most of the country is calm. Some parts
of Kigoma experience insecurity-highway banditry.

Partnership:
The
IRC is committed to working with partners as our preferred operating
model and adhering to our six partnership principles: equality,
complementarity, mutuality, solidarity, results orientation, and
humility.

Commitment to Client Responsiveness:
By
committing to Client-Centered Programming, at the IRC Tanzania, we place
the people we serve – our clients – at the center of our programming
and services. The IRC Tanzania Staff have an important role to play in
supporting the implementation of client-responsive programming through
raising awareness to the community and clients about the existing
feedback mechanisms and how to use them including the response
processes, access, and eligibility to services, and contribute to
building an institutional culture that prompts staff to listen to
clients and to communicate and respond to their requests, feedback, and
complaints.

Professional Standards:
The IRC and IRC
workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way
– Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and
Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and
enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse,
Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and
Anti-Retaliation.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusivity:
IRC
is committed to building a diverse organization and a climate of
inclusivity. We strongly encourage applications from candidates who can
demonstrate that they can contribute to this goal.

IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer:
IRC
considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race,
sex, color, national origin, religion, age, marital status, veteran
status, or disability. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities
are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job
application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and
to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.