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:

Learning: All children* are learning in school. Teaching: UKAID supports the strengthening of Tanzania’s teaching workforce.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.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 high-quality 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 specialist will support the implementation of programme interventions in PWANI Region, Tanzania. The 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.

 Major Responsibilities.

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 materialsDrawing upon IRC’s expertise to support the government to develop and implement interventions to reflect their thematic focusSupporting 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 regionCollecting data and information from regional and district partners as requiredIdentifying, solving and/or escalating challenges relating to programme deliveryProviding zonal support to implementation and troubleshooting relating to inclusion activities (disability, safety, and girls) in line with the inclusion strategyEnsuring that all stakeholders across the region have a good understanding of Shule Bora and their role in the programme as pertains to themContribute 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 requiredJoining all programme meetings as requiredEnsuring 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 areasProvide 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 the safety of learning for all childrenDevelop timely reports of programme activities and input to formal reports such as quarterly reports and annual reportsUtilize the Managing for Learning Approach and other programme strategies as developedEnsure all programme activities and materials include an inclusive approach, use inclusive language and disaggregated data, and promote diversity in educational institutionsWork closely with other intervention specialists to ensure harmonization across the programme at zonal levelProvide input on design, approach and content of materials and quality assure where relevantPlanning and institutional coordination Ensure harmonization of approaches across programme activitiesCoordinate Shule Bora’s safe school activities with LGA, regional and zonal level as well as other organizations as requiredGenerate 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 levelsSupport 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 -KigomaPosition directly supervises: N/ALocation: This position will be based in Pwani RegionOther Internal and/or external contacts: IRC Education Coordinator, Safe School Adviser, Shule Bora, colleagues at IRC and Shule Bora, Shule Bora team to ensure harmonization across the Programme.