NAFASI YA KAZI NA AJIRA PROGRAM OFFICER POSITION KAMPUNI YA Women Fund Tanzania

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:

• Send in only your achievement focused CV (3 pages max including two referees) and cover letter (1 page max) addressed to the Executive Director, via APPLY NOW
• Other documents will not be considered at this stage
• Complete the Experience Summary as in the job description document
• Only short-listed candidates will be contacted before the 20th of December 2015; if you have not been contacted, your application has not been considered this time

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Women Fund Tanzania (WFT) is a not for profit organization and the first women’s rights fund in the country. As movement builders, and as an activist and feminist [1]organization, WFT’s overall goalis to contribute towards women’s rights and empowerment, and to women’s movement building through implementing a functional funding mechanism for women in Tanzania. Its strategic focus area is to implement this overall goal through making grants, strengthening women’s capacity, building strategic alliances and mobilizing resources.

Therefore, WFT promotes a grant making model, which offers an inclusive package of support to give voice and visibility to marginalized women on controversial issues. It does this through its two-way approach focusing on local level grant-making and on strategic national coalition building. This complementary and mutually reinforcing approach is not only strengthening the women’s movement in Tanzania in unprecedented ways, but is rapidly becoming an important driver in organizing for change through the coalitions under its strategic alliance building program.

To implement the 4 years Strategic Plan 2016 – 2019 (SP 16-19), WFT seeks for committed, self-driven, dynamic and competent qualified candidates to fill the vacancy of :

PROGRAM OFFICER

WFT is looking for a Program Officer to support its programs on advocacy, women’s movement building and strategic alliances building. As part of this, she/he will provide leadership in WFT’s processes on Learning, Monitoring & Evaluation (LM&E) and in facilitating other programming areas with a major focus on coordinating WFT’s initiated coalitions. In addition, she/he will be responsible for supporting the WFT team to further strengthen its LM&E skills for making the impact of WFT’s work visible, for applying lessons learnt and for opening up innovative opportunities to implement its SP 16-19.

The ideal candidate should have at least a first degree in social sciences. It will be to her/his advantage, if she/he comes with at least two years experience combined with skills and exposure in the following areas: monitoring and evaluation, advocacy and networking, good analytical and writing skills for reporting and other communication purposes, experience with working in a NGO-environment, exposure to gender/women studies. It is essential that the candidate shares the vision and mission of WFT, is able to work as part of a team, has the ability to build effective relationships. The candidate should be self-motivated, well-organized and be able to work on her/his own in terms of agreed upon targets (specific and measurable deliverables).

APPLYING:

For all interested candidates:

· Send in only your achievement focused CV (3 pages max including two referees) and cover letter (1 page max) addressed to the Executive Director, via email: info@wft.or.tz

· Other documents will not be considered at this stage

· Complete the Experience Summary as attached below

· Only short-listed candidates will be contacted before the 20^th of December 2015; if you have not been contacted, your application has not been considered this time

The deadline for application is 10 December 2015 before 5 pm.

Applications received after this date and incomplete applications will NOT be considered.

WFT is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity

Experience Summary

Name	Contact Details (email & phone)	Highest Certification	Experience
Name	Contact Details (email & phone)	Highest Certification	Time Period	Organization	Role