Programme Officer - Tanzania

Partnership Management

·        Identify partner organisations with whom the organization can work with to achieve the organisation’s strategic priorities of the prevention of avoidable blindness and the social inclusion of people with visual impairment, through both service delivery and advocacy work.

·        Develop and support longer term relationships with these partners that go beyond the duration of individual projects.

·        Support partners in the identification of their own capacity building needs and help facilitate the provision of these needs.

·        Disseminate information about the organization and its work to partners

·        Establish partnership agreements with partners where appropriate

·        Promote shared learning and collaboration between partners by facilitating partner networks and meetings.

Information building and technical Support

·        Provide the regional information and liaison officer with additional information, case studies, interesting news stories etc relating to the projects the officer is responsible for.

·        Ensure that the fund-raising and communication department receive appropriate materials and information as required.

·        Participate in all PR activities within the programme.

·        Represent the organization at various forums, meetings and advocate for the organisations philosophy and policies

·        Attend to visitors to and from the projects and partners.

Programme management

·        Supporting partners to manage all aspects of the project cycle including planning, implementation and monitoring & evaluation.

·        Working with partners to identify needs for technical support.

·        Supporting the partner to ensure that all project documentation and reports are made available in a timely and accessible way

·        Take the lead in certain programmatic areas within the  programme team

·        Assist the Country Representative and Programme Manager to compile the Quarterly Bulletin and the Annual country strategic plan progress report. 

·        Assist in the development of the programme country strategic plan

Financial & Resource Management

·        Assist project partners in the preparation of budgets and forecasts.

·        Monitor expenditure of project financial resources and liaise with the finance officer where necessary.

·        Ensure that partners submit timely financial returns.

·        Ensure that partners manage and utilise project assets as per the organisation policy.

·        Follow up with partners any actions arising from audits carried out by the finance officer or by external auditors.

Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

·        Participate in the development of PME framework for the programme which should include annual reviews, participatory impact assessments, process/operations monitoring and linking & learning forum