CAMFED Overview

CAMFED (the Campaign for Female Education) is internationally recognised as a leader in education for girls, for its child protection policy and practise, and as a voice for girls’ education and women’s empowerment at the highest levels. Founded in 1993, CAMFED supports young women throughout their primary and secondary schools’ years, into economic training and further education, and onto leadership, as role models, activists, and philanthropists. CAMFED Tanzania is looking to recruit Monitoring& Evaluation Officers (3) and Transport Officers (4) to fill vacant position in various region.

Job Title:                      MONITORING &EVALUTION OFFICER (3 posts)

Reporting to:               Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Location:                      Dar es Salaam, Dodoma and Morogoro.

Job purpose:

This position is anchored at capturing and strengthening our evidence to show the impact of the 2024 – 2030 CAMFED strategic vision to reach 5 million secondary school girls across the consortium by expansion of our programs and scaling our best practices in collaboration with the government and the CAMFED countries of operations.

Specific Accountabilities:

A: A comprehensive support system targeted at the most marginalized girls. 

• Coordinate development /revision of monitoring and evaluation tools for marginalized girls benefiting from CAMFED education programmes.
• Keep CAMFED database updated with records of students benefiting from CAMFED education programmes.
• Co-develop national or regional school monitoring with the government and other stakeholders and oversee its implementation and integration of findings in programme designing.
• Build knowledge and skills on education data submission, analysis and usage of data by stakeholders at various level to inform decision making.
• Conduct periodic analysis of school and students monitoring data and share findings with key stakeholders, district education officers, teachers, and programme staff.
• Build knowledge on child protection and safeguarding to CAMFED staff and education stakeholders.

B:  Young women transition to secure livelihoods and join a powerful peer network of leaders.

• Periodically update database of young women’s agency, further employment, further education, and leadership.
• Identify and build capacity of resource teams to support the department’s plans.
• Provide periodic updates on guides programme progress from monitoring submitted reports to inform program design and implementations.
• Coordinate, design and implementation of surveys and research to measure impacts of programmes to young women and communities we serve.

C: Adoption of best practices in national education systems at scale.

• Engage with peer monitoring and evaluation personnel across the consortium and for learning, sharing, championing best practices, co-creation, and implementation.
• Engage with Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Technical Working Group (MEL-TWG), government structures from school to national level for better understanding of how the system works and identify organizational entry points for education system transformation.
• Oversee integration of data from internal/external research findings in the design of programmes and monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) framework.
• Package research and monitoring findings for dissemination to the government, partners, and community to strengthen our advocacy and sharing of best practices to influence change in the education system and other sectors.

D: Other responsibilities

• Support the management of CAMFED’s M&E system including ensuring quality, timely and accurate consolidation of program data.
• Develop and review programme /project monitoring and evaluation tools.
• Conduct data collection, verifications, and cleaning with relevant program staff and stakeholders.
• Support development team during project proposal development and project reporting.
• Proactively Identify potential risks and champion mitigation strategies in collaboration with other team members.
• Any other tasks related to the field of engagement, experience, and expertise as and when required by the organization and assigned by the supervisor.

Knowledge, Experience & Skills Required 

• Bachelor’s degree or above in social sciences, education, planning & management, heath informatics, public health, biostatistics, epidemiology, demography, information system or a similar relevant course of study.
• Minimum of 3 (three) years demonstrated experience in planning, monitoring, and evaluation with reputed organizations preferably in education, health, or enterprises sector.
• Knowledge on both qualitative and quantitative research methodology
• Competency in application of data collection, analysis, and visualization software (ODK, Kobo, Advanced MS Excel, SPSS, GIS, Power BI) is essential.
• Excellent analysis and writing analytical quality report skills are crucial.
• Effective communication skills, pro-activeness, positive attitude, and professional integrity.
• Experience of working with stakeholders (Local Government Authorities (LGAs), schools, young women, community groups and health facilities)

Application Details

Please submit applications to [email protected] by 18^th March 2024, including your most recent CV (indicating three traceable referees- (should be current/previous line manager/HR Manager) with valid email addresses) and covering letter, indicate Title of the job in the subject line of the email. Due to the volume of responses, only successful candidates will be contacted.