Project Coordinator

Swisscontact

Date Listed: Aug 5, 2013
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Area: Mwanza
Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2013
Start Date: Aug 05, 2013


Position Description:
Swisscontact, the Swiss Foundation for Technical Cooperation is looking for an experienced, dynamic, team- and target-oriented Project Coordinator for its Mwanza office from 1 September 2013 onwards.

In Mwanza around the Lake Victoria we are implementing the internationally funded U-Learn Program that is empowering youth through a Learn, Earn and Save initiative. Local youth with a low educational background are going through a nine-month learning cycle consisting of on-the-job vocational training in local enterprises, complemented by life, entrepreneur and saving and lending skills training in collaboration with local authorities and resources persons. The U-Learn Program is ongoing since two years and continues till June 2016.  

The main tasks of the Project Coordinator reporting to the Country Manager are:

§  Liaise with local authorities, the private sector, MFI and commercial banks and other local stakeholders;

§  Regularly visit the field operation and assist the area-based Swisscontact facilitators in their work;

§  Assist is carrying out local economic surveys to identify occupations that are in demand and make contacts with the local business community;

§  Review and provide feedback to business plans developed by young entrepreneurs so that they can be presented to MFI and commercial banks;

§  Negotiate and develop training contracts, verify and approve payment requests and support the accountant in financial management;

§  Contribute to the development of loan products with commercial banks assisted by Swisscontact financial service experts;

§  Liaise with VETA for assessment and certifications of youth that completed the learning cycle;

§  Regularly monitor the project together with the Monitoring and Result Measurement (MRM) Coordinator that includes baseline, follow-up and evaluation surveys;

§  Share progress and lesson learned with other Swisscontact projects in East Africa and other implementing partners of the Learn, Earn and Save initiative;

§  Develop internal monthly and quarterly reports for the funding agency;

§  Assist the Country Manager in yearly planning and budgeting;

§  Assist in business development efforts to further grow the Swisscontact project portfolio in Tanzania.

Application Instructions:
The candidate should have at least five years of experience in international project management, business promotion and ideally also in youth training development and delivery.

We are looking for a pleasant and target-oriented professional with a business and management background who can lead a team of eight local employees and is fluently in spoken and written Kiswahili and English.

If you think you are the one then please submit your CV incl. contact details and gross salary expectations but no certificates to the Email Link above style="color: rgb(0, 104, 179); text-decoration: underline; /a> ASAP. Short-listed candidates will be informed and interviews will take place in Dar es Salaam or Mwanza.