Project Director (Tanzania)

Job Description

Project Director

Plan International

Background

Plan International is a girls’ rights organization that partners with adolescents and children around the world to overcome oppression and gender inequality, providing the support and resources that are unique to their needs and the needs of their communities. Working in more than 75 countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas, Plan’s holistic, rights-based approach ensures that our project participants achieve their full potential with dignity, opportunity and safety. Our projects are designed in partnership with communities and strategically address systemic issues that often transcend sectors. As such, Plan demonstrates technical expertise across a range of intervention areas: education, health, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), protection and youth economic empowerment. In addition, Plan has a robust humanitarian response and disaster preparedness practice. With extensive local networks and community reach, Plan drives positive change through broad community participation, achieving sustainable results by actively engaging and providing services to individuals, families, communities and governments.

Plan International has been working in Tanzania since 1991. Our work supports marginalized children and youth, especially adolescent girls, to grow up physically and mentally healthy and ready to shape their future. We create an enabling environment and empower girls to be active drivers of change in realizing their rights. We prioritize working with partners, and ensuring all of our work is evidence based

Position Description

Plan International is seeking a project director for the anticipated Department of Labor (DOL) The Bureau of international Labor Affairs (ILAB) Tanzania Project to Combat Child Labor and Promote Acceptable Conditions of Work in Tanzania’s Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Sector​. The Project Director is responsible for overall project management, supervision, administration, and implementation of a high-quality project. S/he will establish and maintain systems for project operations; ensure that all agreement deadlines are met and targets are achieved; coordinate and maintain working relationships with project stakeholders (including government and private industry stakeholders, sub grantees and/or subcontractors); lead collaborative initiatives with private companies; and oversee the preparation and submission of technical and financial reports to US Department of Labor.

Responsibilities:

• Provide overall technical and managerial oversight and leadership for the project.
• Ensure efficient management of financial resources, including the review and approval of program budgets and monitoring expenditures.
• Oversee the delivery and monitoring of sub-awards.
• Serve as the principal liaison with the Governments of Tanzania, USDOL and other donors, and project partners and stakeholders to ensure effective program implementation and build lasting relationships. Manage a team of project staff, technical experts, consultants, and local partners, while coordinating with headquarters and in-country project staff.
• Provide strategic guidance to the team for the completion of project activities in prioritized sectoral and geographic areas.
• Ensure project compliance with all USDOL financial, contractual, and reporting requirements.
• Ensure that milestones, performance goals, and indicators are monitored and achieved.
• Lead high-quality report preparation in English, capturing project activities, documenting impacts related to all activities, and ensuring timely submission

· Ensure Plan’s Child Protection Policy and Guidelines and Research Standards are adhered to during project implementation.

· Represent the program positively and professionally to internal and external stakeholders.

· Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in social work, child protection, international development, or a related field is required.

• 7+ years of international development program management experience on similarly sized multi-year US government-funded projects in a leadership position; demonstrated knowledge and use of program design, management, and project monitoring tools

• Proven experience overseeing subawards, meeting deadlines, achieving targets, and overseeing the preparation and submission of reports to donors

• Experience and familiarity with USG policies, procedures, and requirements

• Ability to maintain strong working relationships with all project stakeholders, including coalition building and promotion of public-private partnerships

• Significant technical experience in the areas of child labor; additional technical experience in child protection, education, livelihoods, social protection, institutional capacity building, and/or other relevant fields

• Prior experience in Tanzania

• Fluency in written and spoken English required

• Second language experience preferred; knowledge of local languages preferred

• Ability to work in Tanzania without sponsorship

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, including Word, Excel, and Outlook.

Plan is a diverse and inclusive organization. Candidates of all genders and backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

About the Organization

Plan International works for girls’ rights. Harmful barriers like child marriage, human trafficking and gender-based violence are preventing girls and young women from achieving their full potential. Plan, along with government and private partners, fights against harmful gender norms and empowers young people to create positive change. We have worked in communities for more than 80 years and implement locally-led programming through approximately 240 offices around the world. Our technical sectors include education, youth economic empowerment, sexual and reproductive health rights, empowerment of girls and young women, and emergency response.

We are fully committed to the safeguarding of all children and young people from all forms of violence.