CAREER OPPORTUNITY
BRAC MAENDELEO TANZANIA
PROGRAMME OFFICER (PO), AIM – 138 POSITIONS
BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania is part of a leading development organization that started its operations in 2006 in Tanzania, focusing on thematic areas of Agriculture, Youth and Women Empowerment, Food Security and Livelihood.
ABOUT THE PROGRAMME
The MasterCard Foundation in partnership with BRAC International (BI) is implementing an initiative that will create a positive and measurable impact for 1.2 million adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in 9.5 million people across seven countries in East and West Africa, including Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Uganda.
There is mounting urgency to support adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) living in poverty, which has been further amplified by the global pandemic. Through this partnership, scalable economic development approaches will be delivered in communities to foster the agency and voice of AGYW. They will have the opportunity to fulfill their aspirations, achieve sustainable livelihoods, and engage in advocacy issues.
BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania is seeking applications from competent, dynamic and self-motivated individuals to fill the following position:
POSITION: Programme Officer (PO), AIM – 138 Positions
REPORTING TO: AIM Branch Manager
The Programme Officer (PO) is responsible for the implementation of direct field-level programme activities across the three programmatic pillars: Social Empowerment, Economic Empowerment (Livelihood and Education pathways) and an Enabling Environment for AGYW.
Under the four-PO branch model, the PO carries a defined portfolio of three neighbouring club spaces — approximately 300 participants, 9 mentor-led groups and 3 EA groups, 6 VSLA groups, 1 intervention school and up to 210 livelihood participants — and is accountable for meeting the SOP V3.0 visit and follow-up standards within that portfolio.
The PO leads participant selection and club set-up and is in charge of the day-to-day management and supervision of the clubs, including mentor selection, training, onboarding and continuous follow-up. The PO is also responsible for livelihood option selection, asset purchase and distribution, cost-sharing instalment collection, VSLA formation and follow-up, transition to microfinance, selection and support of education pathway participants, and school-level follow-up.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Social Empowerment Pillar
• Lead the AIM programme community-level inception activities, including community and participant selection, club selection and setup, club launching, participant enrolment activities, mentor selection, training and onboarding, community mobilization, linkage services, and value chain mapping. • Lead the implementation and supervision of activities in assigned clubs as per programme design, activity plan, and budget. • Conduct household (HH) and other surveys, as per programme requirement. • Form and manage AIM safe spaces/clubs as per programme target in selected communities. • Ensure achievement of club-level programme targets as per implementation guideline and report any operational/management issues to AIM-BM. • Follow-up closely with participants to minimize attrition and prepare monthly attendance reports and bi-monthly drop-out reports. • Ensure manual and digital attendance collection by the mentors.
AIM Livelihoods Pathway
• Conduct participant-wise livelihood option selection, organize livelihood technical training, entrepreneurship training and other need-based training/refreshers. • Provide enterprise development support, and coordinate all market development and facilitation activities in the community. • Ensure assets/inputs transfer and other livelihood-related activities. • Conduct participant follow-up through initial/immediate home visits after receiving livelihood assets, home visits, and group visits to ensure asset safety and growth, increase household income, and confidence building. • Collect the livelihood shared cost portion installments from the livelihood participants and deposit them accordingly to the branch office. • Form and follow-up VSLAs to create a savings culture among participants and to serve other programme activities by leveraging this platform based on the programme design. • Help with conditional cash transfers of assets and cost recovery of such assets. • Ensure a minimum 80% transition to formal microfinance institutions for AIM livelihood participants.
Education Pathway
• Select participants for AIM - Education, mobilize, and support the set-up of a peer mentor study circle. • Ensure education-related support to eligible participants. • Support and follow-up activities of ongoing peer-mentor study circle. • Support with distribution or provision of school-related costs (in-kind or cash) and monitoring use of resources, as well as school attendance of AIM education participants. • Support in creating linkages between enabling environment activities and school management activities. • Support identifying out-of-school very young adolescents (VYAs) and adolescent girls (AGs) who are interested in completing their education. • Support in conducting household (HH) and other surveys, as per programme requirement.
Enabling Environment Pillar
• Formation of the Youth Development Committee (YDC), training, meetings and other community-level activities/meetings as per programme design. • Conduct local-level service provider mapping and support Branch Managers to establish rapport with relevant service providers mapped. • Support in GBV and SRH referrals and other relevant referrals of AGYW to relevant service providers. • Support to ensure gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) related activities. • Support in identifying AIM youth and mobilising for AIM community dialogues and action planning.
Portfolio Management and Supervision Standards
• Carry and manage an assigned portfolio of 3 neighbouring club spaces, approximately 300 participants, 9 mentor-led groups and 3 EA groups, 6 VSLA groups, 1 intervention school and up to 210 livelihood participants. • Deliver the SOP V3.0 follow-up standards within the assigned portfolio: every mentor-led group visited at least monthly, EA group sessions delivered weekly, every VSLA group visited twice a month, and every livelihood participant home-visited monthly. • Deliver education follow-up standards for the assigned intervention school, including quarterly attendance verification, monthly peer-mentor study circle (PLC) follow-up and an annual home visit for each education participant. • Prepare and follow a monthly work plan that routes visits efficiently within a compact catchment. • Achieve at least 90% completion of due home visits each month and alert the Branch Manager immediately where the portfolio exceeds 210 livelihood participants or completion falls below that level. • Enter programme data live in BInsight during visits rather than retrospectively. • Report monthly, per portfolio, on home visits done against home visits due, group visits held, instalments collected and the overdue rate. • Cover group and VSLA visits in a colleague’s portfolio when directed by the Branch Manager during absence or peak activity periods.
Cohort Transition and Cohort 5 Preparation
• Complete the remaining Cohort 3 activities in the assigned communities, including livelihood asset transfer and post-transfer follow-up, cost-sharing recovery, VSLA follow-up, education support and transition to microfinance. • Support, or take charge of, Cohort 5 start-up in new communities as assigned. • Sequence and balance Cohort 3 and Cohort 5 activities with the Branch Manager and, where applicable, the Assistant Branch Manager. • Shadow and be inducted by experienced Cohort 3 colleagues during the handover period before taking independent charge of a portfolio. • Hand over a complete and documented portfolio when reassigned between cohorts or communities.
Procurement, Coordination and Supervisory Support
• Select, train, and supervise AIM club mentors and ensure continued follow-up coaching and mentoring for their capacity improvement. • Help to ensure all branch-level procurement, logistics and supplies and keep all programme-related documents, files, and registers as per design. • Support with school improvement planning and execution, follow-up of teacher development activities, and supervision of school-related activities. • Manage and strengthen management information systems (MIS), programme/management data collection, and reporting through manual and digital (BInsight) platforms. • Ensure internal monitoring within the programme to assess the quality of service delivery, data collection and integrity, and documentation in the clubs. • Ensure appropriate, timely and accurate data collection against agreed indicators to enable consolidation of branch internal and external reports. • Attend monthly coordination meetings organized at the branch level and provide updates on club activities. • Ensure cash flow by submitting cash requisition timely for smooth day-to-day project activities. • Prepare and input quality programme data using both relevant manual and digital programme management information systems. • Prepare financial and other reports, as needed, and submit them on time.
SAFEGUARDING RESPONSIBILITIES
• Promote a safeguarding culture within the team and across the organisation. • Ensure the safety of team members from harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation to achieve project goals on safeguarding implementation. • Act as a key source of support, guidance, and expertise on safeguarding to establish a safe working environment. • Practice, promote, and endorse safeguarding policy among team members and ensure implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action. • Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do so.
EDUCATIONAL & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
• Graduate Degree or Post-secondary Diploma in any relevant discipline. • At least 1 year of experience in the international development sector, including experience working with marginalized communities to implement community development programs, including education, microfinance, livelihood, agricultural and food security, and/or girls’, women’s empowerment programs and other related programmes/projects. • Experience as an AIM club mentor, or in a comparable community facilitation or group mobilisation role, is an added advantage. • Experience in managing savings groups (VSLA or equivalent), cash or asset transfers and cost recovery or instalment collection is an added advantage. • Willingness to be assigned, and where necessary reassigned, between Cohort 3 and Cohort 5 communities within the branch catchment.
REQUIRED COMPETENCIES
• Ability to spend extended periods of time in the field and travel within the country. • Computer literacy and proficiency in using mobile devices and computers, particularly Microsoft Office. • Experience in the use of digital reporting and/or survey platforms such as KoBo, Google Forms, SurveyMonkey, CommCare, SurveyCTO, etc. is preferable. • Strong sense of teamwork and collaboration and demonstrated ability to build relationships with individuals from diverse backgrounds. • Personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and dedication to the mission of BRAC. • Community mobilization skills, including good communication and facilitation skills. • Ability to plan, route and deliver an independent monthly field work plan covering a portfolio of about 300 participants, and to keep to visit standards without day-to-day supervision. • Ability to enter and verify data live on a mobile device during field visits, including in the BInsight MIS. • Ability to prioritize and to escalate early when workload, distance or participant numbers put the visit standards at risk.
EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Contractual
SALARY: Negotiable
JOB LOCATION: 57 branches in 8 regions – Tanga, Tabora, Mbeya, Iringa, Dodoma, Mwanza, Morogoro and Dar es Salaam.
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Qualified candidates from the same region where the position is based are highly encouraged to apply.
External candidates need to email their CV with a letter of interest mentioning educational grades, years of experience, current and expected salary via the respective job application link. The application should clearly indicate the address/region where the candidate is applying.
Internal candidates are recommended to apply with their latest resume including all job assignments in detail and a cover letter mentioning core competence and career aspiration with BRAC PIN and email to recruitment email [email protected], copying their immediate reporting manager.
Please mention the name of the position and region in the subject bar.
Only complete applications will be accepted and shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
APPLICATION LINK: https://career44.sapsf.com/sfcareer/jobreqcareer?jobId=1788&company=brac
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 30 SEPTEMBER 2026
BRAC is committed to safeguarding children, young people and adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share the same commitment. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation, regardless of age, race, religion, gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin.
Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedure include extensive background checks and disclosure of criminal records in order to ensure safeguarding to the fullest extent.
BRAC is an equal opportunities employer.