JOB VACANCIES ANNOUNCEMENT

COCODA Tanzania is a non-governmental organisation established in 2000. COCODA’s establishment resulted from intensifying concern among community members in Tanzania over the surging number of orphans, mainly as a consequence of the swelling amount of people infected by HIV and dying from AIDS, the majority being adults leaving behind young children without parents. This trend had a negative impact on social and economic development. Hence COCODA Tanzania envisioned offering an effective response to the situation by providing social health education to the local community on HIV/ AIDS, supporting orphans and most vulnerable children, providing vocational skills to youth and establishing small-scale income-generating groups for the community’s sustainable economy.

Kizazi Hodari Project is a five-year global effort to reach and sustain HIV epidemic control among pregnant and breastfeeding women, adolescents, infants, and children. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funded the project and implemented by Deloitte Tanzania.  A resource partner’s global and local strategic resource partner network supports these core partners. Kizazi Hodari focuses on priority PEPFAR countries across Africa and the Caribbean. The consortium works with USAID Missions, national governments, and existing response partners to identify gaps in HIV prevention and treatment programming among target populations. Using best practices and expertise along with innovations, the project is addressing critical gaps to meet country-specific epidemic control goals. Kizazi Hodari is USAID’s flagship initiative to address the needs of children, young people, and breastfeeding women affected by HIV. This includes supporting local organizations and organisations that serve these populations and ultimately build their capability to receive direct U.S. government funding for programs at scale. The project leverages the full strength of its consortia and related private and public sector stakeholders to support countries in attaining and sustaining HIV epidemic control. In Tanzania, starting in November 2022, Kizazi Hodari is receiving funds from USAID to support the Government of Tanzania (Got) to achieve its aim of controlling the HIV epidemic, with a particular focus on programs targeting orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and adolescent girls and young women, through the DREAMS (Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe) program, in 54 councils across 15 regions in Tanzania. Additionally, Kizazi Hodari aims to strengthen local organizations and the national- and community-level social welfare systems, structures, and workforce to support and sustain OVC to access HIV-inclusive services that support their health and well-being. The Kizazi Hodari program has three Strategic Objectives:

1. Increase the use of OVC platforms for pediatric HIV case finding, linkage to treatment and viral suppression
2. Increase access to HIV prevention, violence prevention and response services for OVC and Youth
3. Improve the socio-economic capacity of at-risk adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) and OVC caregivers

COCODA Tanzania invites competent and motivated applicants to apply for the following positions;

Job type: Full-time

M&E Officer – 1 Position

      Location:  Njombe Region 

Reports to: Project Manager 

Position Description:

Serve as an active member of the COCODA Tanzania management team for the implementation of the USAID Kizazi Hodari project with the primary responsibility of strategic leadership and management of Monitoring and Evaluation functions under the leadership and direction of the Project Manager.

Responsibilities:

The Assistant Monitoring and Evaluation officer must develop a close working relationship with the technical team (ESO, CMOs and HTOs etc.) to ensure quality data is collected and entered in the database. The assistant M&E Officer will be responsible for:

• Support in implementing and overseeing monitoring and evaluation activities at the council level, including development of COCODA M&E plans and data collection frameworks to support data management, and reporting.
• Support data analysis for their respective councils, visualization and use of data to assess daily and monthly COCODA performance trends and help COCODA management to interpret program performance and implications of data for programming.
• Participate actively in generating data for COCODA management monthly and quarterly narrative reports or other reports, as needed.
• Organize and supervise routine internal data quality assessments (DQAs) for each council under the management of the COCODA.
• Play a coordinating function for producing data and feeding to COCODA management for program decision making at the council and organizational levels.
• Provided technical assistance to COCODA technical team members (CMOs, HTOs and ESOs on developing and monitoring targets in compliance with the developed and approved M&E plan.
• Conduct and coordinate the provision of regular data collection and entry visits to Community Case Workers (CCWs); identify data entry challenges and provide technical assistance on data entry to CCWs.
• Serve as a mentor to COCODA technical team members (CMOs, HTOs and ESOs,) and provide technical assistance in various areas relating to M&E function.
• Organize and coordinate quarterly data review meetings at councils’ level by supporting program performance presentation preparations, and data interpretation.
• Organize and manage all Quality Improvement (QI) activities of the COCODA and other tasks as assigned

Qualifications and experience 

• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, public health, Information technology, Computer science, demography, or other social science areas.
• Academic qualification in monitoring and evaluation will be an added advantage.
• The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of professional experience working in Monitoring, Evaluation, and reporting, preferably working with donor funded programs.
• 2 – 3 years’ work experience supporting technical or programmatic activities in orphans and vulnerable children (experience with health facility setting a plus) · Experience with DHIS2 preferred other software.
• Experience implementing qualitative and quantitative research
• Report writing and publication skills
• Excellent written, oral and presentation skills in English and Kiswahili · Excellent people and partnership skills.
• Collaborative team player with leadership skills
• The candidate should have experience in training / workshop facilitation, mentoring and a proven ability to develop and maintain effective work relationships with government and other NGO counterparts.