Job Opportunities at Plan International
Driver – KAGIS
Location: Kibondo Tanzania, Tanzania
Company: Plan International
BACKGROUND
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. Plan has over 80 years’ experience and works in more than 75 countries across the world. We strive for a just world, working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners.
Plan International has been working in Tanzania since 1991. Our work supports marginalised children and youth, especially adolescent girls, to grow up physically and mentally healthy and ready to shape their future. We create an enabling environment and empower girls to be active drivers of change in realising their rights. We prioritise working with partners, and ensuring all of our work is evidence based
The Keeping Adolescent Girls in School (KAGIS) project is a 5-year Global Affairs Canada’s (GAC’s) funded project, aiming at addressing key barriers inhibiting adolescent girls from realizing their right to safe, quality and gender-responsive education, with a particular focus on their unique needs and barriers associated with participation in primary and lower-secondary school. The project’s Ultimate Outcome, ‘Adolescent girls realize their rights to safe, quality, gender-responsive education’, will be achieved by employing a three-pronged, rights-based, gender-transformative approach to tackle demand- and supply-side barriers, while strengthening local level governance and building improved linkages between education, health and child protection systems
ROLE PURPOSE
The role is operational level for the Keeping Adolescent Girls in School (KAGIS) Project, it will focus on the implementation of the day to day transport activities to ensure timely programme delivery, to provide transportation services to Plan KAGIS staff in a safe, courteous and timely manner to enable the programme effectively carry out its operational plan.
Dimensions of the Role
- Ensure vehicle is fit for purpose to deliver the projects and is actively managed
- Staff and material transportation
- Ensure fully compliance with the regulations, policies and procedures
- Maintain updated and accurate vehicle records
- Provides clerical duties for implementation of the programme
ACCOUNTABILITIES
Key Result Area (KRA) 1: Ensure vehicle is fit for purpose to deliver the projects and is actively managed:
- Ensure vehicle is always in good usable condition, well maintained and cleaned vehicle
- All time maintenance of vehicle in mechanically and technically good usable condition, well maintained vehicle, daily vehicle checking before use;
- Timely processing of service and maintenance request; and
- Maintaining vehicle operating books.
KRA 2: Ensure fully compliance with the regulations, policies and procedures:
- Abide to the required country regulations to avoid unnecessary problem with the law enforcers, updated the administration assistant with vehicle insurance status, safety week stickers and all time valid driving license.
- Adherence to Plan policies and standard operating procedures, laws and regulations
KRA 3: Maintain updated and accurate vehicle records:
Manage well and updated vehicle records, submit vehicle monthly reports, logbook, trips, and fuel records to the administration assistant.
KRA 4: Provides clerical duties for implementation of the programme:
Support smooth and quick dispatch and delivery of documents between Plan and other stakeholders;
KRA 5: Staff and material transportation:
Responsible for staff, visitors and materials safe and timely transportation to the required destination
Project Finance Coordinator
Location: Kibondo Tanzania, Tanzania
Company: Plan International
Required experience and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce or related field
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
- Minimum of 3 years proven skills in senior finance management in reputable and comparable organizations.
- Experience of no profit sector including management of grants
- Experience of managing grants within contractual conditionalities
- Proficiency with accounting software and excellent Excel skills.
- Knowledge of financial reporting
- Strong understanding and knowledge of Cash Flows, Budgetary Controls and government compliance
- Proven ability to make complex and time-sensitive decisions in the best interests of the organization.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
Essential
Knowledge
- In-depth understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
- Knowledge of gender transformative approach in budgeting
- Demonstrated knowledge in developing of grant budget
- Knowledge in supervising multiple partners with complex relationships
Skills
- Analytical and problem solving skills
- Proficient computer skills in Microsoft applications and accounting packages
- Ability to work under multidisciplinary and multicultural environment
- Meticulous attention to detail with superb organizational skills
- Excellent communication skills, with demonstrated ability to write financial reports
- Excellent communication skills.
- Fluent spoken and written English and Kiswahili
Communication & Advocacy Officer
Location: Kibondo Tanzania, Tanzania
Company: Plan International
Technical expertise, skills and knowledge
- BA in Journalism or Communications/Public Relations, or a related field from an accredited Institution.
- Minimum of 3 years working experience including working in in an INGO, media, journalism, or communications/public relations or in closely related external relations contexts.
- Experience in the design and production of visual content, such as photography, graphics, and video.
- Experience and proficiency in using content (graphic and video) production and editing software.
- A high degree of self-motivation and able to work independently and as part of a team.
- Exceptional attention to detail to deliver high quality and accurate content.
- A well-organised person, able to show the ability to initiate, monitor, prioritise, and complete project activities.
- Excellent communication skills, including social media and multimedia skills, plus strong interpersonal skills.
- Excellent command of English, (written, oral, comprehension) including highly developed drafting skills.
- Knowledge of Gender and Child rights issues
- Strong team-building and motivational skills
- Strong negotiating, facilitating and influencing skills
- Strong community facilitation skills
- Cultural sensitivity i.e. building and working effectively within a diverse working environment
- Plan International’s Values in Practice
We are open and accountable
- Promotes a culture of openness and transparency, including with sponsors and donors.
- Holds self and others accountable to achieve the highest standards of integrity.
- Consistent and fair in the treatment of people.
- Open about mistakes and keen to learn from them.
- Accountable for ensuring we are a safe organisation for all children, girls & young people
We strive for lasting impact
- Articulates a clear purpose for staff and sets high expectations.
- Creates a climate of continuous improvement, open to challenge and new ideas.
- Focuses resources to drive change and maximise long-term impact, responsive to changed priorities or crises.
- Evidence-based and evaluates effectiveness.
We work well together
- Seeks constructive outcomes, listens to others, willing to compromise when appropriate.
- Builds constructive relationships across Plan International to support our shared goals.
- Develops trusting and ‘win-win’ relationships with funders, partners and communities.
- Engages and works well with others outside the organization to build a better world for girls and all children.
We are inclusive and empowering
- Seeks constructive outcomes, listens to others, willing to compromise when appropriate.
- Builds constructive relationships across Plan International to support our shared goals.
- Develops trusting and ‘win-win’ relationships with funders, partners and communities.
- Engages and works well with others outside the organization to build a better world for girls and all children.
Physical Environment
The job holder requires 60 % field work in 3 camps and 40 % office-based environments.
Level of contact with children
High interaction with children
