Summary

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership:

• Develops clear Digital Operations Manuals, tools and training for the Programme’s Women’s Empowerment Model
• Develops and delivers WE training and tools using digital technology to accelerate learning, increase uptake and ease replication.
• Attends national technical working groups and conferences on Women’s Empowerment and women’s financial inclusion
• Leads the process for WE Groups to identify bottlenecks and collaboratively identify solutions
• Remains focused on transforming the program models into cost-effective replication strategies.
• Develops the reputation as the country’s premier VSL model
• Develops and implements a private sector engagement strategy to enable replication

Innovation & Program Quality:

• Identifies opportunities to improve program approaches
• Explores new ways to use digital technology to reduce costs, increase scalability and make replication easier.
• Develops and teaches others to consistently deliver WE training curriculum for groups
• Strengthens capacity of Dodoma and Mara region administrations and the ward education officers extension systems to oversee and support the WE groups
• Develops and nurtures a system to monitor adherence to existing quality indicators for WE model implementation

Digitalisation of Savings Groups:

• Lead the process to identifying risks, barriers and challenges faced by savings group members
• when digitizing group functions.
• Lead the design and implementation of strategies to incorporate digital tools into savings groups
• programs
• Lead the development and deployment of the digital Programme WE Model that will include digital operations manuals, tools, training curriculum and materials.

Project Management:

• Tracks and reports on the WE group activities.
• Oversees the development and monitoring of annual, quarterly, monthly, and weekly work plans for the WE sector.
• Supervises the implementation of the WE team activities
• Ensures close coordination with MEL to ensure the appropriate data is being collected
• Develops and monitors the sector budget, ensuring spending is within the approved budget
• Proactively coordinates planning and implementation with the other technical sectors to ensure smooth and cost effectiveness implementation.
• Plans and shares procurement, logistical requirements in advance
• Prepares WE related reports
• Publishes at least two success stories per year.

Technical Capacity Building:

• Leads the recruitment, training and supervision of the WE officers.
• Mentors, coaches and trains staff and partners to build their capacity to support WE activities
• Nurtures an enabling environment, linking annual performance objectives to key performance indicators
• Develops strategies to replicate WE groups through the program regions.
• Manages project staff relationships and resolves conflict during project implementation.

Representation:

• Lead the development and management of partnerships with local, regional and national government agencies in the promotion of women ́s empowerment efforts and capacity building as needed
• Consistently develops high quality presentations and other materials. Reviews and approves presentations prior to dissemination
• Collaborates with sector leads to identify operations and technical services support required from the Headquarters (HQ), schedule and follow up with the HQ on provision of support needed.
• Supports DCoP in building and maintaining relationships with donors, local partners, government
• Represents the programme in other external meetings

Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Evaluate the performance of the Women Empowered implementation team through data and periodic field supervision visits and identify strategies to address issues and improve program quality
• Support MEL in developing MIS for WE activities: collecting, cleaning & compilation, analysis and utilisation.
• Develop systems to identify and report on program progress and quality of the activities
• Ensure the WE team is fully competent in the data management system, focusing on utilisation.
• Lead the development of tools based upon WE standard M&E tools for monitoring against project objectives, outputs and activities as per the project design
• Contributes in preparations, reviews and dissemination of program results via documentaries, quarterly reports, semi-annual progress reports (SAPR) and success stories

Education and Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Social Sciencies, Economics, Social Work, Gender Studies, Public Administration or related Field.

Requirements

• Minimum five years of verifiable experience in all of the following:
  • Women ́s economic empowerment and/or economic development programming (including savings groups, digital record keeping and basic business skills)
  • Implementation of development programs and the promotion of gender equality in community settings
  • Adult education and life skills programming
  • Inter-institutional coordination and capacity building of local partners (including government agencies)
  • Supervision of field personnel
• Experience linking community savings groups to digital banking services
• Experience in mentoring and training on women’s financial inclusion and economic empowerment
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, problem solving and negotiation skills; project management skills; ability to work with a multidisciplinary team.
• Knowledge of the areas of intervention as well as relevant government development priorities and policies.
• Availability to travel 30-40% of the time to project sites
• In-depth experience in coordinating with government structures and representatives
• Experience in collaborating and doing business the private sector
• Preferred, completion of a Leadership program in the past 3 years.

Characteristics

• Ability to develop implementation technical models that can be replicated
• Ability to coordinate work across different programmatic areas
• Proven success as trainer
• Strong understanding of and commitment to expanding village savings and loan programs
• Knowledge of new and emerging technologies and their application to solving development challenges (e.g., operating mobile apps, e-learning or SMS technology)
• Good communication Skills and ability to speak, read and write in both English and Kiswahili.
• Proficient Microsoft skills including the use of Microsoft 365 suite of applications
• Expert planner and overseer of work for geographical disperse teams
• Demonstrates Adaptability to ever-changing scenarios and challenges
• A problem solver, teacher, mentor, and innovator.

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