TANZANIA NATURAL RESOURCE FORUM
JUMUIKO LA MALIASILI TANZANIA
Position: Monitoring and Learning Coordinator
Deadline: 27th October, 2015
Duty Station: Arusha
Reporting To: Executive Director
1. Overview
The
Tanzania Natural Resource Forum (TNRF) is a network organization
registered in 2006 as a Non- Governmental Organization. It aims to
achieve improved natural resource governance for sustainable rural
livelihoods and better conservation outcomes. TNRF bridges the gap
between people’s local natural resource management needs and
practices, and national natural resource management priorities,
policies, laws and programs. As a network organization, it brings
together members to change policy and practice in the natural resource
sector for the better by:
Building and sharing a knowledge base of practice; and
Strengthening citizen voice and skills for improved natural resource governance.
TNRF
supports its members by improving communication, sharing information,
promoting collaboration and strengthening collective action. It remains
flexible so it can effectively respond to emerging natural resource
issues in Tanzania, while at the same time TNRF has identified key
strategic areas of engagement where it seeks to bring about positive
change. TNRF facilitates platforms to strengthen dialogue and
information sharing and to enable advocacy and strengthen citizens’
voices. In facilitating platforms, TNRF focuses its attention on three
key strategic areas: Community Based Natural Resource Management
(CBNRM), Land Based Investment (LBI) and Communicating Climate Change
(CCC).
Through
the ArdhiYetu Programme(AYP) and Pastoralist Programme(PP), TNRF seeks
to recruit a Monitoring and Learning Coordinator for the Organization.
The Monitoring and Learning Coordinator will be responsible for
developing, maintaining and implementing TNRF’s monitoring system at the
institutional level and providing direct support to the ArdhiYetu and
Pastoralist Programmes. This monitoring system will play an essential
role at TNRF as it will serve as the tool to ensure accurate monitoring
and analysis of all TNRF programs and projects, which will allow TNRF to
continuously improve learning for advocacy work and improve TNRF
services to members and partners.
The
Pastoral Programme(PP) is one of the rangeland programs being jointly
managed by TNRF and CARE, which runs for four years and is funded by
Irish Aid. TNRF is essentially responsible for providing policy,
communications and technical support to the program. The program
was designed to be implemented through partnership with registered
Tanzanian civil society organizations (CSOs) and national level advocacy
NGOs that work to improve the capacity of communities to overcome
poverty, reduce vulnerability and strengthen the rights of men and women
for sustainable livelihoods as well as clear focus on advocacy and
policy work.
Purpose of the position
To
develop, maintain and implement TNRF’s monitoring system to ensure
accurate monitoring and analysis of all programmes and projects of TNRF,
including the core programme in order to continuously improve learning
for advocacy work and TRNF services to members and partners.
The
MLC should have a sound understanding of the natural resource sector in
Tanzania, and have the skills to generate thematic syntheses of topical
or controversial issues. Additionally, the MLC must be able to identify
lessons learned through a systematic monitoring system and coordinate
the use of those lessons for future advocacy and field work.
2. Core responsibilities
To
develop and coordinate the implementation of participatory learning,
advocacy and monitoring approaches and processes, institutionalising and
making strategic use of outcome monitoring as a methodology
In
collaboration with TNRF Pastoralist Programme Manager, the Monitoring
and Learning Coordinator will collect, analyse monitoring data and
produce reports on a quarterly basis for the programme.
To
establish and maintain a learning and advocacy framework for TNRF
interaction with partners and members in collaboration with the
Communications and Advocacy Coordinator with the support of the
Strategic Area Coordinators(LBI & CBNRM) and Executive Director
To develop and maintain outcome monitoring journals; update and maintain a monitoring database.
To oversee proper use of the M&E tools by the field staff and other stakeholders.
To
organise internal training workshops and other interactive sessions to
build capacity in relation to the learning and advocacy framework
To review existing monitoring management information systems of implementing partners and identify where support is needed.
To coordinate collection of data by the partners and TNRF officers from the field
To process and analyse the information and generate appropriate reports for management and other stakeholders.
To
prepare monthly, quarterly and annual reports (in collaboration with
the Strategic Area Coordinators and project Officers), for submission to
the Executive Director and presentation at regular quarterly staff
meetings on outcome monitoring for validation and integration into
learning mechanisms
To analyse information and document lessons learned from the monitoring reports and suggests areas for improvement
To assess institutional performance in achieving strategic objectives in all program areas
To identify the need, drawing up the ToR, and conducting/or supervising all evaluation and Impact studies.
The
Monitoring and Learning Coordinator will report to the Executive
Director and work closely with the LBI Coordinator, CBNRM Programmes
Coordinator, the Communications Team, Pastoralist Programme Manager and
other Special Projects officers and supported by bi-weekly meetings with
the team to oversee the implementation of the projects.
3. Outputs
The Monitoring and Learning Coordinator will be responsible for the following outputs:
Promote the TNRF vision and objectives of the LBI programme and PP to stakeholders
Learning,
advocacy and monitoring approaches and processes developed and a
learning and advocacy framework for TNRF established and in use by the
Working Groups, projects and programmes
Assessments of the natural resource sector functioning and strategies developed
Thematic synthesis of topical/controversial issues generated
Lesson learnt from previous advocacy and learning experiences in Tanzania and the regions generated
The
lessons from the LBI programme/projects are shared with the relevant
stakeholders (i.e. local government, central government, parliament,
CSOs)
Effective programme monitoring and evaluation
Effective, timely and accurate donor reporting
Institutional programme for monitoring and learning carried out
4. Required Qualifications and desirable attributes
The Monitoring and Learning Coordinator will have the following broad skill-set and attributes:
Advanced
degree in relevant discipline (e.g. natural resource management, rights
based development/advocacy, Community/rural Development).
First degree with relevant, excellent proven experience may also be considered
A thorough knowledge of Logical Framework Analysis, and knowledge of Organisational Development Issues
Knowledge of outcome monitoring
Good contextual knowledge of local issues, community priorities and social and cultural constraints and realities.
Knowledge
of the latest developments in the M&E field, including proven
experience in participatory methodologies such as PLA
Experience in inter-institutional collaboration, at both government and non-government levels, in a local and national setting
At
least two years of experience in: participatory assessment and
monitoring, community training, data collections, and monitoring and
design experience.
Excellent facilitation and training skills and experience including participatory and interactive methodologies.
Excellent
interpersonal skills, with the ability to network and to develop and
maintain strong relationships at all levels with local communities,
government agencies, the business community, the not- for- profit
sector and the TNRF network.
A
strong communicator in English and Kiswahili, able to support the
advancement of the TNRF Membership as a broad civil-society community in
the pursuit of improved natural resource management, sustainable
development and better conservation outcomes.
Keen
interest in and commitment to advancing the rights of
minority/indigenous communities, particularly in relation to their
territories, areas and natural resources
Willingness to travel on a regular basis and work with local organizations and communities in remote areas
Adaptable, flexible, able to take initiative and prioritize amongst competing demands
Computer
literate in word processing, Excel, Power Point, Research packages and
data processing or analysis Experience in using web-based tools to
enhance communication capacity is an added advantage
5. Behavior Competencies
Core Competencies
Communication
Communicating
orally in a clear manner and adjusting one’s use of language to the
receiver’s level. Showing one absorbs and understands important (non)
verbal information and asking further questions when necessary.
Integrity
Maintaining high ethical standards both personally and professionally: being incorruptible.
Working with others
Taking responsibility to build and maintain positive relationships and valuing the opinion of others.
Flexibility
Adaptable;
receptive to new idea. Willing and able to adapt/change one’s behaviour
and/or views to changing circumstances in order to attain a set goal
Self- development
Having
insight in one’s identity, values, strengths and weaknesses, interests
and ambitions and taking action in order to enhance one’s competences
where and when possible.
Job related Competencies Vision
Distancing
oneself from daily routine, exploring ideas for the future, regarding
facts from a distance and seeing them in a broader context or in the
longer term.
Leading groups
Providing
group/team with direction and guidance and encourages cooperation
between group/team members in order to attain an objective.
Networking
Developing
and maintaining relations, alliances and coalitions within and outside
the organization and using them in order to obtain information, support
and cooperation.
Planning and organizing
Setting goals and priorities, indicating the required actions, time and resources to achieve those goals.
Management control
Controlling the progress of employees’ processes, tasks, or activities and of one’s own work and responsibilities.
Written communication
Expressing
ideas and opinions by way of appropriately structured documents in
clear, grammatical correct writing, employing language and terminology
tailored to the reader.
Developing others
Reviewing
and analysing employees’/partners’ strengths and weaknesses,
distinguishing their talents and development needs, and making sure they
are enhanced appropriately through offering coaching and mentoring.
6. Terms of contract
A
full and attractive package commensurate with the nature of the
position will be offered, renewable on the basis of performance and
availability of funds. Interested Candidates for this job are kindly
requested to send their CV accompanied by a cover letter to
recruitment@tnrf.org and clearly indicate the post you are applying for.
Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for this position.
How to Apply:
Interested
Candidates for this job are kindly requested to send their CV
accompanied by a cover letter to recruitment@tnrf.org and clearly
indicate the post you are applying for.
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