Project Manager – Jifunze Uelewe at Ubongo Kids Tanzania

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Jifunze Uelewe – Project Manager
Operations · Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam
UBONGO
is Africa’s leading producer of kids’ edutainment. As a non-profit
social enterprise, we create fun, localized, and multi-platform
educational content that helps kids learn, and leverage their learning
to change their lives. Ubongo reaches over 27 million kids across Africa
through accessible technologies like TV, radio, and mobile phones. Our
show’s Ubongo Kids and Akili and Me currently air in 23 countries across Africa in 9 languages and counting.
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We are looking for a project manager for full multi-year USAID sub-contract Jifunze Uelewe
Responsibilities:
External:

• Leading project and budget management, work-plan, reporting and compliance for a full multi-year USAID sub-contract
• Managing
  Ubongo’s relationship and coordination with consortium partners for
  initiative delivery, and acting as the key point of contact for all
  Jifunze Uelewe related issues.
• Representing Ubongo in all partnership meetings under the JU consortium

Internal: Overseeing and coordinating all aspects of Ubongo’s participation in the Jifunze Uelewe initiative. Such as:

• Managing the budget
• Managing internal coordination and check in meetings
• Keeping track and making all aware of timelines and deadlines
• Helping to mitigate any delays/obstacles that arise
• Coordinating across the full Ubongo team to deliver on the commitments for the sub-contract

Administrative and Compliance in line with USAID and grant specific requirements:

• Ensuring all timesheets are submitted on time and continuous auditing of the time tracking
• Managing all procurement budgeted in the project
• Work
  closely with our Grants Manager on compliance, budget management,
  reporting and administration. Ensuring that all Ubongoers are kept up to
  date on initiative status, and contributing throughout!

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Experience:

• Already managed a former long term USAID funded project or contract
• Have
  experience working in consortium for development projects Ready and
  able to take on all the challenges listed above (and many more, down the
  line) as we scale!
• This probably means you’ll have a
  Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree and at least 6 years experience in NGO
  project management. But we’re more interested in your ability to get the
  job done than your qualifications.
• Extremely organized and process oriented.
• Excellent analytical and numerical skills, and including budget management and excel skills
• Able
  to GET THINGS DONE. You will be a team of one reporting to the head of
  department, often problem solving for issues we’ve never faced before,
  and coordinating large groups of disparate teams and partners to get
  things done!
• A strong written and verbal communicator.
• A self-motivated and independent worker who can work remotely and also coordinate between remote teams in disparate places.
• Comfortable using and managing technology and cloud based software to coordinate between remote teams.
• A super troubleshooter!
• Good at dealing with ambiguity and able to figure things out for yourself.
• Willing to speak up for what’s right, when you see wrong, or when you think there might be a better way.
• Someone
  who loves kids. They’re why we do what we do. They’re running around
  our office all the time. Our kids’ music and videos will become part of
  your life (and constantly stuck in your head)

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ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Benefits:
Phew!
You made it through that. The good thing is that there are also perks,
like a delicious healthy lunch at the office, health insurance, pension
payments of up to 10% (matching the value of your individual
contributions), 28 working days of paid annual leave (in addition to the
public holidays) and you get to watch cartoons at work.

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ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Please
note that only online applications will be considered. Those who come
directly to the office with a CV or who email their CV to us will simply
be directed to apply online.
So please save yourself time and effort by simply sticking to online applications. THANKS!