Location: Dar-es-saleem, Tanzania
Contract: 2 year fixed term contract
Salary: Local Terms and Conditions apply
About the role
Sightsavers
is growing its new programmatic area in economic empowerment which
supports businesses to become successful employers of people with
disabilities, and supports people with disabilities to develop skills,
confidence and experience to successfully gain work. The programme
portfolio is growing at a rapid pace with projects being designed and
implemented in numerous countries across Africa and parts of Asia.
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As
the Project Officer you will support the Economic Empowerment project
to manage activities and relationships with key stakeholders, and ensure
that the project is planned, implemented, coordinated, monitored,
evaluated, and adapted to the highest possible quality standards.
Project Officer key duties and accountabilities include:
- Work
with the country project management team and other funding / resources
partner to coordinate implementation of activities and sharing of
lessons learned. - Manage all aspects of the project cycle with
the partners including effective planning, start-up, implementation,
monitoring and evaluation, financial and asset management, reporting,
documentation and closeout. - Liaise and work with the Global
Technical Leads (Disability Inclusive Economic Empowerment) and other
internal expertise as required. - Support tool
development/adaption e.g., participant database, tracking entrepreneurs,
ILO tool, Three Circles Tool, informed consent forms, surveys, feedback
forms, participant registration forms. - Support learning and
adaptation through developing and implementing tools, events and
processes e.g., learning logs, action learning groups, qualitative and
quantitative data collection tools, analysis and dissemination of
performance data. - Document learning and adaptation to feedback
into project design, implementation, evaluation and ToC reviews; and to
project team, global teams including MEL team and GTLs and to external
stakeholders such as partners and participants. - Identify
partner organizations with whom Sightsavers can work to achieve the
project and organization’s strategic objective of ensuring that people
with disabilities have equal rights and opportunities through both
service delivery and advocacy. - Support project partners in the preparation of budgets and forecasts.
- Be
proactive in providing good quality information on case studies and
interesting news stories relating to the project to support preparation
of fundraising materials and advocacy materials.
This is a
highly varied and involved role and the above is not an exhaustive list
of duties or required professional skills. Please see the Job Description for full details.
About you
As
the successful candidate you will have experience with labour market
issues including labour market assessments, skills training/development,
internships, employer engagement, disability inclusion, job placements
and job fairs. You will possess a background/qualification in social
sciences, education, development studies, public health or equivalent,
or another relevant field.
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Jobholder Requirements
- Knowledge
of current issues and best practices in disability, UNCRPD, the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and employment.
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Closing date: 21 August 2022
Due to an expected high response for this role the advert may close on the 14 August 2022.
Next Steps
We
anticipate that in person interviews will take place from the week
commencing 22nd or 29th August (depending on advert close date) onwards
and the evaluation process will include a task and oral interview.
To
apply for this exciting new opportunity, please complete an application
via our recruitment portal. We are particularly interested in learning
of your motivations for applying.
Due to the project workshop
taking place on 12th September, we are keen to fill this role as quickly
as possible, but we are able to accommodate any notice period that
needs to be adhered to.
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As
an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from
all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident
Leader and qualified people living with a disability are particularly
encouraged to apply.