About Twaweza
Twaweza East Africa | RISE
Program Associate
Twaweza is an ambitious
initiative, started in 2009, working on enabling citizens to exercise agency,
promoting governments to be more open and responsive, and improving basic
learning for children in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda.
Twaweza is hiring immediately
for a Dar es Salaam-based Program Associate on the RISE
Tanzania Research Project.
RISE aims to broaden
the evidence base on education systems, with the ultimate goal of improving
learning outcomes.
The Programme is funded by
the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and Australia’s
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).
RISE’s work in Tanzania is
led by the Tanzania Country Research Team (CRT), a group of 12 expert
researchers from Georgetown University, the University of Dar es Salaam,
Twaweza, Amsterdam Institute for International Development, The University of
Virginia, and the World Bank.
In Tanzania, the CRT will
conduct research to document the process and impact of recent and emerging
education reforms.
Roles and Responsibilities
The RISE Tanzania Program
Associate is responsible for coordinating and implementing the CRT’s research
and engagement activities in Tanzania.
The Program Associate will work closely with the CRT and Program Coordinator to execute a variety of tasks related to research management, policy outreach and stakeholder engagement.
Although a Twaweza staff
member, the Program Associate will receive direction from and collaborate
closely with all members of the Country Research Team.
The Program Associate will
report to the CRT Team Lead, James Habyarimana at Georgetown University.
The PM’s duties include but
are not limited to:
- Manage,
supervise and oversee data collection activities;
- Develop survey
instruments and lead study piloting;
- Conduct
preliminary data analysis using a statistical software package (STATA, R);
- Ensure data
quality through high-frequency checks;
- Manage
relations with government, stakeholders and research partners;
- Compile and
identify list of suitable survey firms to conduct different types of field
research;
- Conduct
supervisory and/or training travel to research project sites;
- Organize
bi-annual stakeholder meetings and conferences; draft meeting summary
reports
- Coordinate logistics
for CRT visits and regular team conference calls
- Draft knowledge
products such as policy briefs and research notes that will be shared with
the RISE and Twaweza communications teams
- Report on any
new developments in the education policy or implementation spaces
- Attend key
policy and partner engagement events on behalf of the CRT
Other responsibilities:
- Successfully
implement above responsibilities and assigned activities in work plans and
budgets, consistent with Georgetown and Twaweza Policies.
- Contribute
effectively to planning, monitoring, reporting and information
dissemination of Twaweza’s work
- Collaborate
with Twaweza staff across units and countries in a spirit of mutual
respect and cooperation to get things done
- Communicate
your work through active use of internal platform (SalesForce), electronic
calendar (Gcal) and being accessible on electronic chat (Skype) as per
Twaweza requirements,
- Participate
actively in organization-wide learning and other joint activities.
- Comply with and
foster adherence to the established Twaweza values, policies, regulations,
guidelines and procedures.
- Undertake any
other lawful tasks as may be assigned by your Supervisor and/or Executive
Director.
Requirements
- Master’s or
Doctoral degree in Economics, Public Policy, Political Science, Education
or similar
- Familiarity
with social science research, particularly impact evaluation methods.
- Minimum of
three to five years of project management experience; preferably at an
international development organization
- Excellent
analytical, team management, and communications (verbal, written and
interpersonal) skills;
- Ability to
effectively interact with public, private, and civil society leaders;
- Ability to work
independently
- Proficiency in
spoken and written Kiswahili (preferred)
- Prior
experience working in Tanzania (preferred)
- Knowledge of
STATA or similar statistical software package
Applying
Interested applicants should
send a CV and statement of interest to Shardul Oza and Varja Lipovsek at shardul.oza@georgetown.edu andvlipovsek@twaweza.org cc. to jobs@twaweza.org by 15th January 2017.
Applications will be reviewed
on a rolling basis.