Capacity Development Officer
CVPeople Tanzania | Full time
Shinyanga, Tanzania | Posted on 01/03/2022
Job Description
Reports to: Cluster Manager
Location: Shinyanga
About Pact
At
the heart of Pact is the promise of a better tomorrow. The promise of a
healthy life. Of a decent livelihood. Of sustainable natural resources
that benefit communities. Now more than ever in its 42-year history,
Pact is helping millions of people who are poor and marginalized
discover and build their own solutions and take ownership over their
future.
Pact enables systemic solutions that allow those who are
poor and marginalized to earn a dignified living, be healthy, and take
part in the benefits that nature provides. Pact accomplishes this by
strengthening local capacity, forging effective governance systems, and
transforming markets into a force for development.
Project Overview
ACHIEVE
is a five-year, USAID-funded global cooperative agreement with the dual
objectives of attaining and sustaining HIV epidemic control among
at-risk and hard to reach pregnant and breastfeeding (PBF) women,
infants, children, and youth, as well as to mitigate the impact of HIV/
AIDS and prevent HIV transmission among these populations; and
supporting the transition of prime funding and implementation to capable
local partners in order to meet the PEPFAR goal of 70% of funding to
local partners.
ACHIEVE is funded by USAID in Tanzania to
implement a four-year activity (October 2020 to April 2024) which aims:
(1) to improve national- and community-level social welfare systems in
order to sustain support for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and
families affected by HIV and (2) to strengthen the capacity of local
organizations to deliver OVC services and (3) to deliver high quality
OVC services and DREAMS interventions for AGYW 9-14 years.
Position Purpose
The
CDOs will be based in the Cluster Offices in Mwanza, Shinyanga, and
Mbeya and will report to Cluster Manager. The CD Officers will
contribute to ACHIEVE’s objective of strengthening the capacity of local
organizations to manage and implement USAID/PEPFAR OVC and DREAMS. They
will work to ensure that Transitional Track Partners and other
OVC/DREAMS service delivery partners in Lake, Northwestern, and
Southwestern Clusters have strengthened technical and organizational
capacities to implement and manage high quality programs serving OVC. In
collaboration with ACHIEVE Cluster technical teams, the Capacity
Development Officers will play a role to ensure that TTPs are
transitioned for direct funding from USAID and other local implanting
partners sustain and own OVC service delivery.
The CDOs will also
assist other technical components within ACHIEVE and link with other
cluster technical team to achieve project goals. They will also work to
ensure coordination among other stakeholders to leverage resources.
Key Responsibilities:
The Capacity Development Officers, will be responsible for the following functions, tasks, and deliverables:
- Support
Capacity Development activities including grants and compliance at
cluster level for both Transitional Track Partners and other OVC/DREAMS
service delivery implementing partners. - They will coordinate
strategy development, implementation, and monitoring of all capacity
development activities at cluster level. This will include working
across teams: MEL, Systems Strengthening, OVC Service Delivery, etc. to
integrate capacity development and grants management activities. - Lead
the implementation of capacity actions plan (CAP) of each TTP and CSOs
performance assessments using the Non-US Organization Pre-Award Survey
(NUPAS), Integrated Technical and Organizational Capacity Assessment
(ITOCA) Tool, and Organizational Performance Index-Plus (OPI) of local
partners and document results in the Capacity Solution Platform (CSP). - Participate
in development and implementation of Capacity Action Plans (CAPs) for
local partners and ensure timely documentation and updated information
in the Capacity Solutions Platform. - Work in collaboration with
Transitional Track Partners (TTPs) to support implementation of all
Capacity Action Plans and document all processes (challenges, lessons
learnt, and best practices) for sharing with USAID and other partners. - Monitor
closely the progress of implementation of agreed capacity action plan
of each TTP and other local implementing partners in his or her
respective cluster, evaluate the progress of each CAP milestone and
strategize on time completion of each milestone with respective CSOs
management. - Take lead of capacity development and grants
management activities to both TTPs and other OVC/DREAMS implementing
local partners trough training, mentoring, coaching, and technical
supportive supervision - In collaboration with other ACHIEVE
technical staff at cluster level, conduct field visits to address
capacity development gaps through training, coaching and mentorship to
TTPs and Traditional OVC/DREAMS subgrantees. - Participate in
preparing work plans, quarterly and annual reports, and other reports
and papers summarizing project results and evidence-based successes from
both TTPs and Traditional OVC/DREAMS service delivery partners. - Prepare
and document field success stories and best practices for capacity
development activities reflecting TTPs transitioning for direct funding
from USAID and support sharing success stories and evidence for project
visibility. - Act as capacity development and grants technical
lead at cluster level. Overall, in charge of all activities, and targets
capacity development and grants at the cluster level. Conduct strategic
assessment of CD&G component and provide technical, administrative,
and managerial recommendation on improvement to cluster management. - Conduct other CD & Grants tasks as assigned by supervisors.
Basic Requirements:
- Bachelor’s
degree in social sciences. Social Work, Sociology, Community
Development, Community Economic Development (CED), Business
Administration, Public Health, education, Project Planning and
Management etc. with at least 5 years work experience in activities
related to Capacity Development. - Master’s degree in social
sciences is an added advantage. Social Work, Sociology, Community
Development, Community Economic Development (CED), Business
Administration, Public Health, education, Project Planning and
Management etc. with at least 2 years work experience in activities
related to Capacity Development. - At least three years post
university experience in organization and technical capacity development
activities and an interest in supporting OVC/DREMS. - Experience
in strengthening organizational capacity in PEPFAR/USAID funded HIV/AIDS
programs, child welfare and protection programs, systems strengthening,
capacity building, economic strengthening, service delivery, quality
improvement, or policy development. - Experience in capacity assessment using different tools such as OCA, OPI and NUPAS.
- Experience writing project field reports
- History of effectively working and collaborating in multi-cultural and gender balanced teams.
- Moderate grasp of participatory Capacity Development methodologies.
- Demonstrated effective interpersonal and creative problem-solving skills.
- Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with technical teams, government, and other stakeholders.
- Appropriate facilitation and training skills in a variety of health and organizational development thematic areas.
- Appropriate writing and oral presentation skills, including fluency in English and Swahili.
- Appropriate teamwork and interpersonal communication skills
