MFUKO WA WANAWAKE TANZANIA(WFT-T) WATANGAZA NAFASI ZA KAZI,MAOMBI MWISHO JUNI 30,2022
Interesting Career Opportunities at WFT-Trust
WFT-Trust is the first and only women’s
rights fund in Tanzania that
has been in existence since 2008 and has
been at the forefront championing gender equality, equity and women and girls’ rights through a funding mechanism that features
strong capacity enhancement, strengthening linkages and collaboration
among women’s rights organizations and mobilising resources. WFT -Trust is seeking to engage women,
especially young feminists in different job positions to be based in Dar Es Salaam Headquarters.
Are you passionate about doing
your work differently?
Do you have an understanding of
feminist approaches to delivering substantive changes for women girls and
children’s rights in Tanzania? Will you bring feminist lens and thought
leadership in your position of work and less traditional approaches that will
contribute to movement building processes with an empowering agenda of change?
Are you in sync with the roles of women rights organizations and their
movements in different sectors and across sectors, and an interplay of
empowering mechanisms employed to delivering their work?
We are looking for you! To
contribute in achieving the mission and vision of WFT-Trust and its impact on
gender equality and women empowerment from the grassroot to the national level.
1. Job Title: Senior Program Officer –
Capacity Strengthening
Functionally Reports to: Head of Program
Job Purpose
The Senior Program Officer-
Capacity strengthening will be working closely with the program team, to lead
the implementation of the organizational capacity strategy that provides
feminist framework and a guide to WFT-Trust capacity enhancement needs and,
that of its partners and women and girls’ movement actors. The position will
also strengthen the feminist culture of learning and accountability of our work
and beyond. The position will also be responsible in developing capacity
enhancement plans, tools and materials to support and addressing the needs of
WFT-Trust and partners, and provide ongoing technical assistance and monitor
learning progress. For coordinated function and better results the position
will link and work with the all departments within the Fund and especially
Grant Making team.
Key Responsibilities:
·
Providing conceptual leadership and technical
inputs in guiding the framing, designing, implementation and monitoring of
organizational capacity enhancement strategy with transformative feminist
results at various levels.
·
Ensuring that organizational feminist approach
to capacity building stems from the realization that own self-transformation
emanates through development of individual agency and work towards social
transformation that challenge the existing social structures and power
relations.
·
Strengthening a framework that promotes a
process of strengthening individual abilities, organizations, and systems to
perform core functions sustainably, and to continue to improve and develop over
time.
·
Providing day to day leadership in provision of
relevant technical trainings, tools, mentorship and coaching support aimed at
developing and strengthening WFT-Trust work and that of the grantees’ organizations
and their constituent.
Capacity development program and Reflection spaces
·
Review, assess and update
capacity development framework, systems and tools for the WFT-Trust continued
learning and adaptation by grantee partners and for their ongoing technical
assistance.
·
Design safe spaces for women and girls’
trainings and reflection meeting that will strengthen their technical skills
and a greater sense of solidarity with each other.
·
Work closely with Monitoring
Evaluation, Learning and Accountability and the Communication programs to draw
on WFT-Trust experiences and lessons as a national Women Rights Fund working on
promoting transformative social change issues with women’s rights organizations
and Networks/Platforms at different stages of organizational growth.
Strengthen the feminist culture and ethos
·
Strengthening feminist
organizational cultures- together with other staff and our key
partners/stakeholders exploring questions of power, inclusivity and diversity,
building the agency of staff and the people that organizations is engaged with,
and in nurturing the growth of organizations with a ‘soul’.
Advocacy Support
·
Work closely with feminist movement building
program to conceptualize
strategic advocacy campaign plans and monitoring performance
progress.
Required Skills and Experience
- Bachelor degree in women/gender/feminist studies, social sciences,
communications, or another relevant field.
- Demonstrated experience, knowledge, and skills in
training and capacity building, as well as in deploying creative learning
modules.
- Strong
communications and partnership building experience.
- Proficiency in
written and spoken English and Kiswahili, including presentation skills.
- A keen
analytic, with an eye for detail and good problem-solving skills.
·
Strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to motivate
and inspire change.
2. Job Title: Senior Program Officer- Feminist Movement
Building and Partnership Building
Functionally Reports to: Head of
Program
Job Purpose
The Senior
program officer- Feminist Movement Building and Partnership Building provides conceptual
leadership in strengthening and promoting our organizational feminist
strategies and approaches in women and girls’ transformation, collective voice
and action for changes at various levels including: policies, legal,
structures, negative cultural and public discourses and narratives meant for
disempowering women and girls in Tanzania. The position plays an exciting and pivotal role in
the execution of WFT-T’s mission and the attainment of its vision through
strengthening of strategic alliances and links between women’s rights
organizations and women’s movement (s) in Tanzania and beyond for collective reflection,
strategizing and taking action in achieving women' and girl’s rights.
The
position is also responsible for leading initiatives that support and sustain
feminist movement building in Tanzania, which includes organizing and
supporting WFT-T’s role as a convener and thought leader, develop advocacy
resources, coordinating networks, coalitions and bringing together diverse
actors to form strategic alliances built on the foundations of inclusion,
diversification and intersectionality.
Key Responsibilities
·
Support WFT-Trust staff, Board members, Women
Rights Organizations (WRSOs), grantee partners to enhance their feminist
conceptual clarity and technical inputs through putting in place effective
mechanisms for joint learning, experience sharing and peer support.
·
Strategically support WROs and grantee
partners to position feminist approaches at the center of their programming
design based on intersectional, inclusivity and intergenerational approaches to
ensure robust feminist movement building processes are implemented.
·
Study and analyze the social economic
political context and produce position papers to support WROs, and grantee
partners to articulate and advocate for women and children rights based on
empirical evidence.
·
Build and maintain collaborative relationship
with governance and coordination structures that affects rights of women’s,
their political and social participation and inclusion in the broader women
rights’ spheres across the country.
·
Connecting women rights organizations with
each other and cross-border social justice movements in fostering solidarity, activist mobilizing and collective
decision making.
·
Contribute to
the further growth of an effective body of knowledge and analysis in feminism
and women’s rights issues in Tanzania and beyond.
·
Support development and implementation of
collective care, activist wellbeing and emotional/ mental health program work
and activities within WFT-Trust and grantee partners.
Strategic Alliance and Linkages
·
Play a (pro) active role in linking up with other
Women funds and like-minded social justice organizations and networks in
Tanzania and beyond through active participation, organizing for joint action
and learning.
·
Provide leadership in strengthening feminist
strategies and approaches in women empowerment, collective strategizing, and
decision making for the enhancement of women’s and girls’ rights.
·
Representing WFT-Trust in key external
engagements and foster mutually beneficial linkages and networks in policy and
advocacy spaces, feminism, and collaborate with donors, social movements and
allies.
Knowledge Management and Advocacy
·
Working closely with
the coalitions and wider women movement actors to produce feminist conscious information
for internal and external use, support feminist analysis, advocacy and
documentation for increased women transformative empowerment, advocacy and
agency.
·
Work closely with
the Grants and Communications programs to produce feminist-based information
and analysis about grant making and grants managed in relation to movement
building
·
Raise the visibility
of WFT-Trust through convening and information sessions in liaison with the
Communication team
Required Skills and Experience
·
Minimum 5
years of work experience, in a similar role in a nonprofit organization and
exposed to feminist either by research, training or organizing social justice
work
·
Bachelor degree
in social sciences studies women/gender and feminism studies or another
relevant field. Master’s degree in similar field will be an added advantage
·
Demonstrated experience,
knowledge, and skills in feminist organizing and movement building, as well as
how to build a community of practice through partnership building.
·
Strong communications experience
and passionate on feminism, women and girls’
rights and social justice agenda
·
Proficiency in written and spoken
English and Kiswahili, including presentation skills.
·
A keen analytic, with an eye for
detail and good problem-solving skills.
·
Strong interpersonal skills, and
the ability to motivate and inspire a team.
3. Job Title: Communication Officer
Functionally Reports to: Head of
Resource Mobilization and Communication
Job
Purpose:
Reporting to the WFT-Trust Head
of Resource Mobilization & Communications, the Program Officer
(Communications) will steer effective and interactive communication of
across different mediums, as well as through the design, writing, production
and distribution of communication materials. They will ensure that effective
communication flows to and with WFT-Trust’s different partners throughout the
year. This position will also contribute in growing and strengthening the
communication unit of our Fund for effective sharing of its mission,
achievements, herstories and popularize the work of our grantees as women and
girls’ heroes in the country.
Key
Responsibilities:
·
Providing
conceptual and technical inputs in developing, framing organizational
Communication strategy, tools and processes in this programming area
·
Developing
and fostering high standards of publications and other communication in and
across WFT-Trust, in line with communications standards.
·
Encouraging
a ‘knowledge atmosphere’, where information flows well and freely across the
organization.
·
Writing
and producing high quality communication materials, and effectively
communicating these across key audiences, promoting the image and objectives of
the organization
·
Monitoring
WFT-Trust in the media, analysing emerging trends to learn, and to inform WFT-T
internal communication planning
WFT-T
website and online presence
·
Working
with the Program Officer (IT/Digital) to update and manage the WFT-Trust
website and social medica pages, ensuring regular updates and posting of
information with content that is up to date, accurate, and compelling.
·
Devising
and implement strategies to reach out to more people, increase website traffic
and provide stakeholders with interesting and informative content
·
Linking
WFT-T rust achievement and fundraising efforts to WFT- T’s social media
presence
·
Identify
ways and means to build linkages between WFT-Trust website and social media
channels and increase members participation at all these forums
Advocacy
Support
·
Support
local, regional and international advocacy engagement of the Fund by working
with like-minded organizations, especially Women Funds at regional and
international level, to identify key spaces, target audience and key messages,
including social media presence during advocacy engagement.
·
Editing
materials (papers, briefs, power point presentations, etc) in English and
Kiswahili.
Knowledge building and resource platform
·
Communicating
clearly and in a timely fashion with external audiences, face-to-face, through
email and telephone, conferences where appropriate, and other forms.
·
Developing
and maintaining good links with the media, organising media events, and sharing
press releases.
·
Managing
knowledge documentation, supporting documentation and publication of work and
lessons.
Provide across the board administrative support
·
Provide
administrative support for both in person and virtual meetings including by
taking minutes and documenting actions and outcomes
·
Attend
movement events and WFT-trust own events such as retreat to support with
administration, communication and photography
Required Skills & Experience
·
Bachelor degree in Media and Public relations,
Information Communication, and Technology, Mass communication, Development
Studies or related degree in the similar field preferred.
·
At least 5 years of experience related to a
communications function with exposure to feminist journalism either by
training/short courses or practical work experience.
·
Demonstrated interest in issues related to women rights,
economic and social justice, gender studies, human rights and or related field
- Proficiency in written and spoken English
and Kiswahili languages,
·
Computer
proficiency including web-based applications.
·
Flair
for working with visual materials, and a very creative eye able to present
information in a visually-appealing format.
·
Keen
understanding of traditional media, social media and uses of new technologies
for communication.
·
Experience in
using Google analytics and developing monthly and quarterly communication
reports, collecting data ad producing nalysis and recommendations
- Creative thinker, with ability to
exercise judgment and be a proactive problem solver
- Excellent interpersonal and team player
skills
4. Job Title: Grants Finance Officer
Functionally Reports to:
Director of Finance and Operations
Job
Purpose
Reporting to the WFT-Trust Head of Finance &
Administration, with a dotted reporting line to the Head of Grants on functions
pertaining to the management of grants.
The Finance and Grants Officer will be responsible for WFT-Trust’s
portfolio of grants, including overall financial management such as budgeting,
reporting, compliance assurance, and audit coordination. In addition, this
position will be responsible for grants accounting and General Ledger
reconciliations, cash flows as well as institutional financial reporting
various other on line statutory filings. The Grants Finance Officer ensures timely financial disbursements, compliance with
grants’ financial management policies, monitors all grant expenses, and
provides regular updates on grant status. The role also provides operational
and technical assistance as required to build capacity of local partners &
grantees. This position also requires an individual with high level of
intergrity and committed to feminist agenda around feminist grant making.
Key
Responsibilities:
Grants Reporting,
Accounting and Compliance:
- Responsible
for financial grants management including projections and planning,
performance analysis, budgeting, reporting and oversight for the
WFT-Trust’s grants portfolio.
- Compiling,
reviewing, and submitting quarterly reports to respective donors
- Assisting
in the development of budgeting and reporting tools, templates, and
realignments
- Supporting
with development of proposal budgets.
- Liaising
with the field offices on the financial management component of
grants-i.e. the Shinyanga office.
- Preparing
a ledger of ‘at risk grantees’ (assessing their reporting timeline and
quality of the reports) and working closely with them to reduce their
risk.
- Preparing
quarterly status of accounts receivable, annual General Ledger (GL), and
project control worksheets (PCW) reconciliation for all grants. Record GL
entries for grants expenses and income as per the donor codes.
- Coordinating
with relevant entities, completing the entire cycle of processing donor
reports and its submission on a periodic basis as required by various
donor agencies.
- Reviewing
vouchers and payment requests, and processing payments for grants.
Financial
Projections, Planning, & Adaptation
- Supporting the development and implementation
of processes and controls to ensure compliance with donor rules and
regulations as well as WFT-Trust protocols in close coordination with the Director of Finance and Operations, and grantmaking team.
- Working with the relevant departments and
field offices on integrated management of all project finances to ensure
effective use of resources to achieve programs objectives in compliance
with all donor requirements.
- Developing budget tools, templates, and
guidance.
- Designing and implementing systems and
procedures following WFT-Trust’s quality assurance standards and
conditions yet ensuring adequate internal controls and minimizing risks;
Government Audit
& Statutory Filings
- Assisting with the annual/semi-annual filings,
audits, and preparing various audit schedules.
- Assisting with statutory online filings such
as PAYE, WHT, NSSF, SDL, WCF,P9&10
- Compiling timesheets and allocating expenses
to various cost centres in line with the budget.
- Obtaining year-end audit confirmation for all
grants and third parties as requested by the auditors.
- Assisting with data entry, filing, and report
preparation as requested by the management together with processing of
payments and allocating all costs to proper budget codes.
- Assisting with developing the WFT-Trust annual
budget related to grants.
- Completing accounting entries in the WFT-Trust
accounting software for expenses and revenues of grants.
- Training grantees on good financing practices
and compliance.
- Preparing various schedules for filing and
reconciliations at the end of the month.
Required Skills
and Experience
- Minimum 5 years
of work experience in a nonprofit organization.
- Bachelor’s
Degree in Accounting or Finance or equivalent and a CPT(T) is mandatory.
- Experience working with Sage Evolution
accounting software is a plus and highly desired;
- Demonstrated
knowledge, skills in accounting, data entry, and donor grants management.
- Nonprofit
accounting, IPSAS, and grants experience.
- Proficiency in
written and spoken English and Kiswahili, including presentation skills.
- Ability to
work independently in a fast-paced and culturally diverse environment.
- A keen
analytic, with an eye for detail and strong problem-solving skills.
- Strong
interpersonal skills, and the ability to work as part of a team.
How to Apply
Remuneration will
be in line with the set staff
scheme of work of the organization which considers the experience and
qualifications of the candidate.
Applications: Interested
applicants should send their application letter accompanied by resume with
names and addresses of 3 professional referees (including telephone and e-mail)
Applications are by e-mails only, sent to: info@wftrust.or.tz
Please indicate on the subject line the position you are applying for, Deadline
for submission of applications is on 30th June 2022
Please note: Only
complete applications will be reviewed and only candidates who have been
selected for interview will be contacted. Young feminist women & women
living with disability are encouraged to apply.
WFT-Trust is an equal
opportunity employer and has a Zero Tolerance policy to all forms of Corruption
including sexual corruption, sexual exploitation, abuse, harassment and
discrimination.
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