Job advert for the position of Early Childhood Development
Project
Posted on: 14 Jun, 2024.
Project Overview:
The
overall purpose of ECD position is to provide strategic leadership and
management of early childhood development activities integration into ACHIEVE
household case management services. The Early Childhood Development Officer
(ECD Officer) will work closely with a local government authority, community
workers and existing ECD stakeholders in Mbeya DC, Chunya DC, Busokelo DC and
Rungwe DC to ensure achievement of the objectives of the CNHF-funded activity.
The ECD Officer will ensure the CNHF-funded interventions are implemented with
high technical quality and are efficiently and effectively integrated with
ACHIEVE project activities and platforms.
Project: Early
Childhood Development Project
Job Title: Early
Childhood Development Officer (7 positions)
Reporting To: Program Manager
Office Location: Mbeya
Duration: 1year Renewable
Essential Duties &
Responsibilities:
·
Coordinate on-ground
identification, implementation, and monitoring of ECD activities to ensure
quality delivery of CNHF-funded ECD activities and ensure implementation is
integrated into the ACHIEVE case management platform and/or other suitable community
platforms in the assigned councils.
·
Work closely with
CMO/CMCs to provide overall
leadership, technical guidance,
and management of Community Case Workers (CCWs), Lead Community Case Workers
(LCCWs) and Community Health Workers (CHWs) as they deliver early childhood
development services to ACHIEVE enrolled households.
·
Disseminate guidance,
standard operating procedures (SOPs), and other job aids to implement high
quality, age-appropriate services to children and caregivers in the assigned
councils.
·
Create community linkages for
broader community engagement of parents/caregivers
(at HH or group level) to strengthen nurturing care giving services to children
under the age of 3 years old.
·
Closely follow up to ensure
that all referrals issued on health and social services are completed and beneficiaries receive appropriate services
including support to
children 0-3 with developmental delays, experienced
abuse/violence, in need of nutrition support etc.
·
Regularly monitor ECD data
trends including following up with CCWs and data clerks to ensure consistent
data reporting, conduct data analysis, visualization, and use data to improve
project quality and implementation; proactively identify implementation challenges
and help develop and implement practical solutions promptly under the technical
guidance from Pact ECD team.
·
Work in partnership with
local government authorities and council level ECD stakeholders to ensure the
designed ECD programming aligns with the government of Tanzania's guiding
framework for providing a comprehensive and holistic package of early care and development
initiatives.
·
Conduct monthly supportive
supervision and mentoring visits to all community caseworkers in the field to
ensure activities and data reports adhere to guidance and SOPs and high-quality
services reach the targeted children and caregivers.
·
Conduct quarterly supportive
supervision with local government authorities at the communities implementing
ECD to assess program progress,
provide technical support, draw best practices and addresses implementation
challenges.
·
Coordinate council level
trainings to ensure efficient preparations and logistics are done on time and
accordance to the guidance.
·
Submit monthly written
updates to the Program Manager showing monthly progress and allow troubleshoot
of implementation challenges.
·
Participate in local level
meetings related to ECD to show case project work, ensure coordination,
technical quality, and learning.
·
Document and
share lessons learned and
best practices in
ECD for experience sharing and replication.
·
Perform any other relevant
duties as assigned by the Program Manager.
Experience:
·
At least 2 years’ experience
in an ECD-focused field position.
·
Experience in providing
support on M&E-related remotely or
physically including data monitoring, evaluation and reporting, data quality
assessment, data analysis, visualization, and use for decision making.
·
Experience strong working
relationships with, including local Government, CSOs, and community members.
·
Experience in Home Based
(HBC), National Integrated Case Management Systems (NICMS), PEPFAR OVC/MVC
differentiated care of services etc. is preferred.
·
Experience creating strong
working relationships with diverse stakeholders, including local government,
CSOs, and community members.
·
Excellent written and oral
communication skills in Kiswahili and English, including writing high- quality
reports.
Job Application Procedure:
Please
send your application letter along with the updated curriculum vitae (CV) in
one document to recruitment@pasada.or.tz. In your CV, please indicate three
reputable referees. Send your application before 23rd June, 2024.
The
application letter should be addressed to.
Executive Director,
PASADA Tanzania,
P. O. Box 70225
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania.
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