Vacancy title:
Education Specialist

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Banking, Category: Admin & Office]

Jobs at:
BRAC

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, September 26 2025

Duty Station:
Dar es Salaam | Dar es Salaam | Tanzania

Summary
Date Posted: Monday, September 15 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Purpose of this job:

The Specialist, Education, AIM will be responsible for managing and providing technical leadership for the AIM Education pathway in BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania. The role includes planning, coordination, oversight of program implementation, staff capacity building, budget and partnership management, and ensuring safeguarding is integrated across activities. Reporting to the AIM Program Manager and working closely with BRAC International’s Early Childhood Development and Education team. The Education Specialist will serve as the technical focal point for education and support stakeholder engagement and communication.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Develop, Contextualize and Manage the AIM Education Pathway for Adolescent Girls (AGs):

• Lead the overall planning, coordination, and implementation of the AIM Education pathway, ensuring measurable impact for VYAs and AGs.
• Adapt and implement contextually appropriate program designs and operational manuals in line with political, cultural, and community expectations.
• Manage and strengthen stakeholder coordination with schools, communities, and government authorities at district and national levels.
• Oversee timely delivery of education interventions, budget management, and compliance with BRAC and donor regulations.
• Supervise and provide coaching to AIM Technical Sector Officers and program staff to ensure quality delivery and gender-responsive pedagogy.

1. Ensure the Implementation of a Robust, Inclusive Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) System:
   • Enhance quality programming in the education pathway through incorporating quality planning and system monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
   • Ensure appropriate, timely, and accurate data collection against agreed indicators to enable both internal and external reporting.
   • Work closely with the MEL and knowledge management teams to collate lessons learnt, best practices, and incorporate suitable accountability mechanisms for the AIM education pathway
   • Regular visits to monitor and verify program performance.

1. Manage Stakeholder Coordination, Advocacy, and Networking:
   • Lead internal coordination, especially with the schools, district, and national level education officials, education partners in the countries implementing similar kinds of programs, and other global technical/functional teams.
   • Collect different levels of government approval needed for the implementation of the AIM Education pathway.
   • Manage day-to-day coordination with country support teams in areas of human resources, finance, procurement, administration, IT, communications, etc.
   • Support the AIM program manager to oversee BRAC and relevant partner staff involved in the education pathway to ensure effective coordination of integrated programming and multi-sectoral interventions.
   • Support technical donor reviews and external engagement activities, including meetings with implementation partners, government agencies, civil society, and local community-based Organizations, organizing learning and knowledge-sharing sessions.
   • Strengthen/create a local and national-level advocacy network to support VYAs and AGs education goals.
   • Support the AIM program manager with linkages between the internal and external stakeholders and the AIM program in-country.

1. Grants, Knowledge, Risk management and Reporting:
   • Proactively monitor the AIM education pathway performance, identifying and mitigating programmatic and organizational risk, and escalate as necessary.
   • Support the AIM program manager in the implementation of standard award contracts, coordinate approval of agreements and sub-agreements, amendments, and extensions, where applicable related to the AIM education pathway.
   • Support and coordinate with country-level Grants Managers, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Finance teams to ensure timely submission of quality narrative and financial reports quarterly.
   • Support the AIM program manager in the AIM program database management, including updates for pipeline reports, grant stewardship, and prospect research relevant to the AIM education pathway.
   • Lead and contribute to the capturing and documentation of the AIM education-related knowledge and learnings, and contribute to process development and documentation

6. Team management and overall stewardship:
   • Support and coordinate the AIM education team, ensuring competent and motivated staff, as well as manage the performance of the AIM education staff, and encourage on-the-job coaching, identify and address learning and training needs and opportunities.
   • Support the development of capacity-building plans for the AIM Education team
   • Manage external technical consultants and partners involved in the AIM education pathway in the country.
   • Support the AIM communication team with up-to-date content to create presentations and marketing materials to showcase program and project successes.
7. Safeguarding Responsibilities:

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the program’s goals on safeguarding implementation.
• Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do the same.

            Educational Requirements, Skills, and Abilities:

• Master’s degree in Education/Development Studies/Anthropology/Sociology/Business Administration and/or other relevant fields
• Minimum 8 years work experience with at least 3 years of managerial/leadership experience in managing and implementing education program(s), international development, working with ultra-poor and marginalized communities to implement education and/or girl’s and women’s empowerment programs
• Experience in project management and coordination, including supervision and monitoring, administration, finance, and logistics.
• Proven aptitude in proposal development and writing including advanced budgeting skills
• Experience in representation and negotiation with government, donors, partners and other stakeholders
• Ability to interpret financial data and prepare budgets and financial grant reports
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel
• Strong problem-solving skills, highly organized, strategic thinker with a strong attention to detail.
• Strong sense of teamwork and collaboration and demonstrated ability to build relationships with individuals from diverse backgrounds.
• Diplomatic and highly effective on an interpersonal level in addition to cross-cultural sensitivity
• Personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and dedication to the mission of BRAC.

Employment Type: Contractual

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 96

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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