Program Officers (138 Positions) at BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania

Program Officers (138 Positions) at BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania

Position: Program Officers (138 Positions)

Organization: BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania

Program: Accelerating Impact for Young Women and Adolescent Girls (AIM) – MasterCard Foundation Partnership

Position: Programme Officer (PO), AIM (138 Positions)

Reports To: AIM Branch Manager

Duty Station: 57 Branches across 8 Regions (Tanga, Tabora, Mbeya, Iringa, Dodoma, Mwanza, Morogoro & Dar es Salaam)

Job Type: Contractual / Full-Time

Posting Date: September 2026

Application Deadline: September 30, 2026

Job Purpose

Reporting to the AIM Branch Manager, the Programme Officer (PO) is responsible for direct field-level implementation across the AIM program’s three core pillars: Social Empowerment, Economic Empowerment (Livelihood and Education pathways), and Creating an Enabling Environment for Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW). Under a 4-PO branch model, each PO manages a defined catchment portfolio of 3 neighboring club spaces (approx. 300 participants, 9 mentor-led groups, 3 EA groups, 6 VSLA groups, 1 intervention school, and up to 210 livelihood participants) while delivering SOP V3.0 visit and follow-up standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Social Empowerment Pillar: Lead community inception, participant/club selection, and club setup. Recruit, train, and onboard mentors. Form and manage AIM safe spaces/clubs, conduct household (HH) surveys, monitor participant attendance, and submit monthly/bi-monthly dropout reports.

• Economic Empowerment (Livelihoods & VSLAs): Facilitate participant-specific livelihood selection, organize technical and entrepreneurship trainings, oversee asset/input transfers, and manage immediate home follow-ups. Collect livelihood cost-sharing installments, form and monitor VSLA savings groups, and ensure a minimum 80% transition of livelihood participants to formal microfinance institutions.

• Education Pathway: Select participants for the AIM Education pathway, organize peer-mentor study circles (PLCs), support the distribution of school-related materials/costs, monitor school attendance, and identify out-of-school very young adolescents (VYAs) for re-enrollment.

• Enabling Environment & GESI: Form and train Youth Development Committees (YDCs), map local service providers, facilitate referrals for Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Sexual & Reproductive Health (SRH), and integrate Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) principles across all activities.

• Portfolio & Supervision Standards: Execute efficient monthly field plans delivering SOP V3.0 standards: visit mentor groups monthly, conduct weekly EA group sessions, visit VSLAs twice monthly, and complete monthly home visits for livelihood participants (achieving at least 90% completion). Enter live data into the BInsight MIS mobile application during field visits.

• Cohort Transition & Cohort 5 Preparation: Complete remaining Cohort 3 activities (asset transfers, cost recovery, microfinance transition) while supporting Cohort 5 startup activities (community mapping, transect walks, HH surveys, club setup) between October 2026 and June 2027 as assigned.

• Safeguarding & Compliance: Actively promote BRAC’s safeguarding policies, protecting participants and team members from harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation.

Candidate Specifications & Qualifications

• Education: Graduate Degree or Post-Secondary Diploma in Development Studies, Social Sciences, Agriculture, Business Administration, Education, or a related discipline.

• Experience: Minimum of 1 year of hands-on field experience in the international development sector working with marginalized communities (implementing education, microfinance, livelihood, food security, or women’s empowerment programs).

• Added Advantages: Prior experience as an AIM club mentor, community facilitator, or experience managing VSLAs, asset transfers, and cost-recovery collections.

• Technical Skills: Computer literacy and proficiency with mobile devices; hands-on experience using digital data collection/reporting tools (BInsight MIS, KoBo, Google Forms, SurveyCTO, or CommCare).

• Key Competencies: Excellent community mobilization skills, strong time-management/field-routing ability, willingness to spend extended time in the field, and ability to travel within the branch catchment.

• Mobility: Flexibility to be assigned or reassigned between Cohort 3 and Cohort 5 communities as directed.

Application Instructions

Qualified candidates (preferably residing within the respective application region) should follow the submission guidelines below before the deadline:

• External Candidates: Submit your CV and Cover Letter (detailing educational grades, years of experience, current/expected salary, and clearly stating your targeted region/address) through the official BRAC online portal.

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• Internal Candidates: Email your updated CV (including all BRAC assignments and PIN) and Cover Letter to [email protected] (copying your immediate supervisor) with the subject line format: Programme Officer, AIM - [Target Region].

• Application Deadline: September 30, 2026