Vacancies at The Tanzania Red Cross Society,

The Tanzania Red Cross Society is a voluntary humanitarian organization established by Parliamentary

Act no. 71 of 1962. The TRCS is guided by the Seven Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross and
Red Crescent Movement. The Society is well established in all regions of Tanzania mainland and
Zanzibar and has a well- coordinated volunteer based network. Tanzania Red Cross Society is looking
for the dynamic persons to fill the following Positions

1. Job Title: Economic Strengthening and Livelihoods Officer
(ESLO) – 8 positions (Shinyanga MC, Shinyanga DC, Kahama TC,
Ushetu DC, Msalala DC, Kishapu DC, Busega DC, and Maswa DC)
Reports to: Regional Coordinator

Roles & Responsibilities:
 Directly supervise Empowerment Workers (EWs) and National Peer Educators.
 Recruit and train EWs in the Village Savings and Loan Groups (VSLG) model and oversee EWs
establishing and supporting new groups and supporting inherited VSLGs.
 Ensure that EWs provide facilitation support for VSLGs to ensure that destitute household
members (lower savings levels and interest) are able to join VSLGs.
 Ensure that VSLGs establish Community Resource Mobilization Committees to map community
resources for social protection.
 Conduct overarching mapping of economic strengthening service providers in implementation
areas.
 Work with district-level TASAF to ensure USAID Kizazi Kipya is aware of new expansion areas.
 Ensure TASAF can refer TASAF beneficiaries to USAID Kizazi Kipya for screening and
enrollment.
 Roll out a Household Financial Literacy and Money Management curriculum to EWs and ensure
a quality roll out to VSLG members.
 Lead the creation of trade networks and learning and sharing cohorts within industry types.
 Train EWs to roll out a self-assessment tool with mature groups; establish relationships with propoor
financial institutions.
 Serve as the lead for youth related activities including conducting an organizational youth
assessment, implementation action items from the assessment, ensuring establishment and high
quality support to in and out of school Teen Clubs, and ensuring delivery of youth focused
curriculums.
 Provide continuous supportive supervision to EWs to ensure quality economic strengthening
programming and to NPEs to ensure quality youth programming.
 Submit timely economic strengthening and youth updates to the Program Coordinator for
inclusion in the quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports.
 Document lessons learned and best practices for experience sharing and replication.
 Perform any other relevant duties as assigned by the Project Coordinator.

Required Qualifications and Experience
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Sociology, Economic Development, or Community
Development relevant degree.
• At least 2 years’ relevant experience.
• Experience in at least one of the following technical areas: Economic strengthening, Youth
and Adolescent work, Case Management, Bi-Directional Reference, ECD, or Child protection.
• Fluency in English and Kiswahili.
• Understanding of OVC core OVC services including child protection.


2. Job Title: Case Management Officer (CMO) – 8 positions
(Shinyanga MC, Shinyanga DC, Kahama TC, Ushetu DC, Msalala
DC, Kishapu DC, Busega DC, and Maswa DC)
Reports to: Regional Coordinator

Roles & Responsibilities:
 Oversee Case Worker Coordinators and provide overall leadership for case management activities.
 Share direct supervision responsibilities of Community Case Workers (CCWs) with Case Worker
Coordinators.
 Disseminate and ensure adherence to case management, child protection, referral and linkages,
parenting, and M&E guidance, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and other job-aids that
facilitate holistic case management at the household/community levels.
 Ensure that case management services delivered address the holistic needs of OVC and caregivers
including health, nutrition, education, protection, livelihoods, and psycho-social well-being.
 Conduct quality step-down trainings to Case Worker Coordinators and CCWs.
 Regularly monitor case management activities and use the information to improve case
management quality and implementation.
 Ensure CCWs complete required case management forms and ensure case filing system is
developed and maintained
 Work in partnership with local government authorities as appropriate, including but not limited
to District Executive Directors, Council Health Management Teams, District Social Welfare
Officers, and Ward-level officials.
 Create community linkages for broader community engagement of youth and caregivers in case
management, child protection, parenting, etc.
 Map existing community cadres (Community Health Workers, Home-Based Care Workers, ParaSocial
Workers, etc.) in communities and assist government officials to recruit and select CCWs
for the National Integrated Case Management Training for CCWs.
 Ensure that all CCWs are oriented to the Child Protection Policy and Code of Conduct; take all
cases of child abuse seriously and follow national protocols to ensure timely reporting.
 Ensure CCWs are coordinating with local structures including health facilities and Child
Protection Committees (formerly known as Most Vulnerable Children’s Committees).
 Lead the development of a service directory for social services (in coordination with the Health
and HIV services Officer) in implementation areas; update the directory at least once a year.
 Ensure that Case Management Coordinators are providing continuous mentoring and support to
CCWs; directly conduct supportive supervision to Case Management Coordinators and CCWs.
 Submit timely updates to the Program Coordinator for inclusion in the quarterly, semi-annual, and
annual reports.
 Document lessons learned and best practices for experience sharing and replication.
 Perform any other relevant duties as assigned by the Project Coordinator.


Required Qualifications and Experience
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Sociology, or Community Development.
• At least 2 years’ relevant experience.
• Experience in at least one of the following technical areas: OVC case management, Youth and
Adolescent work, Bi-Directional Reference, ECD, or Child protection.
• Fluency in English and Kiswahili.
• Understanding of OVC core services including child protection.


3. Job Title: Health and HIV Services Officer (HHO) – 8 positions
(Shinyanga MC, Shinyanga DC, Kahama TC, Ushetu DC, Msalala
DC, Kishapu DC, Busega DC, and Maswa DC)
Reports to: Regional Coordinator

Roles & Responsibilities:
 Represent the CSO and coordinate with the Council Health Management Team regarding HIV
and health related activities.
 Hold monthly coordination meetings with Care & Treatment Centers (CTC) in implementation
area to support shared confidentiality, facilitate case conferencing, improve the bi-directional
referral system, and ensure HIV positive beneficiaries receive needed services.
 Support Early Childhood Development (ECD) corners at targeted health facilities, including
regular monitoring and supportive supervision.
 Support Community Case Workers (CCWs) to work with high pediatric volume CTCs to trace
HIV positive OVC who miss appointments, enroll them into Kizazi Kipya project, and link them
back to CTCs.
 Support CCWs to conduct HIV risk assessments for OVC during case management; refer and
link at risk OVC to HIV Testing and Counseling (HTC).
 Schedule quarterly Sexual Reproductive Health Education outreaches to teen clubs and organize
HTC outreaches for adolescents with high risk behaviors.
 Work with EGPAF to roll out a supplemental HIV curriculum to CCWs and ensure CCWs
provide appropriate support to HIV positive OVC and caregivers.
 Support CCWs to strengthen the capacity of caregivers to support HIV positive OVC and ensure
CCWs refer HIV positive OVC and caregivers to PLHIV support groups.
 Ensure screening of caregivers for depression and link them to appropriate services.
 Support the roll out of evidence based curriculums relating to HIV (e.g. Stepping Stones, Sexual
Reproductive Health Education, Care for Child Development, etc.)
 Support the establishment of a bi-directional referral system to monitor beneficiaries through the
HIV continuum of care as well as service completion for other health and social services.
 Monitor implementation, bottlenecks, and performance metrics of the bi-directional referral
system; pro-actively offer solutions, conduct quality improvement activities, and implement
adjustments to improve referral outcomes.
 Coordinate quarterly district level quality improvement meetings with relevant bi-directional
referral system stakeholders; ensure actions from the meetings are implemented and the bidirectional
referral system is improved.
 Work with the M&E officer to ensure all bi-directional referral data are accurate and produced
weekly; use data for decision-making.
 Lead the development of a service directory for health, nutrition, and HIV services in
implementation area; update the directory at least once a year.
 Support CCWs to conduct nutrition activities, including nutrition assessments, counseling, and
linkage to other nutrition service providers.
 Provide continuous supportive supervision to CCWs to ensure provision of health-related services
and referrals and linkages to beneficiaries.
 Submit timely updates to the Program Coordinator for inclusion in the quarterly, semi-annual, and
annual reports.
 Document lessons learned and best practices for experience sharing and replication.
 Perform any other relevant duties as assigned by the Project Coordinator.

Required Qualifications and Experience
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Public Health, Sociology, or Community Development.
• At least 2 years’ relevant experience.
• Experience in at least one of the following technical areas: HIV/AIDS, OVC case
management, Youth and Adolescent work, Bi-Directional Reference, Child protection against
HIV related issues.
• Fluency in English and Kiswahili.
• Understanding of OVC core services including HIV/AIDS related services.

4. Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer – 8 positions
(Shinyanga MC, Shinyanga DC, Kahama TC, Ushetu DC, Msalala
DC, Kishapu DC, Busega DC, and Maswa DC)
Reports to: Regional Coordinator

Roles and Responsibilities:
 Coordinate implementation and provide oversight of monitoring and evaluation activities in
the supported councils, including data collection, management, and reporting,
 Perform simple data analyses and visualization to promote data use at all levels
 Generate and contribute to quarterly or other reports, as needed
 Support Cluster M&E staff to conduct routine internal data quality assessments (DQAs)
 Conduct regular data monitoring site visits to caseworkers; review and provide feedback on
caseworkers performance
 Review critically reports submitted by caseworkers and perform data verification as needed
 Set up and maintain data entry and management systems including applications
 Supervise data entry by data clerks
 Other tasks as assigned

Required Qualifications and Experience
 Diploma in in public health, sociology, demography, statistics, or other social science area;
Bachelor’s Degree preferred
 Academic qualification in monitoring and evaluation will be an added advantage.
 The ideal candidate will have at least 1 year experience working in Monitoring, Evaluation
and reporting,
 Proficient with MS Excel
 Work experience supporting technical or programmatic activities in orphans and vulnerable
children
 Experience with DHIS2 preferred other software a plus
 Experience with mobile data collection
 Report writing and publication skills
 Excellent written, oral and presentation skills in English and Kiswahili
 Ability to work effectively with multiple teams, partner agencies and community members.
 Availability and willingness to travel up to 50% time
5.

Job Title: Case Worker Coordinator (CWC) – 13 positions (2
Shinyanga MC, 2 Shinyanga DC, 2 Kahama TC,2 Ushetu DC, 2
Msalala DC, and 3 Maswa DC)
Reports to: Case Management Officer

Roles & Responsibilities:
 Supervise Community Case Workers (CCWs) and provide continuous mentoring and support to
ensure delivery of high quality case management services.
 Disseminate and ensure adherence to case management, child protection, referral and linkages,
parenting, M&E guidance, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and other job-aids that facilitate
holistic case management at the household/community levels.
 Ensure case management services delivered address the holistic needs of OVC and caregivers
including health, nutrition, education, protection, livelihoods, and psycho-social well-being.
 Conduct quality step-down trainings to CCWs and facilitate monthly meetings in the field to
introduce new topics, improve quality, and reinforce guidelines and procedures.
 Ensure CCWs complete required case management forms and case filing system is well maintained
 Work in partnership with local government authorities as appropriate, including but not limited
to District Executive Directors, Council Health Management Teams, District Social Welfare
Officers, and ward level officials.
 Create community linkages for broader community engagement of youth and caregivers in case
management, child protection, parenting, etc.
 Assist in mapping existing community cadres (Community Health Workers, Home-Based Care
Workers, Para-Social Workers, etc.) in communities and assist government officials to recruit and
select CCWs for the National Integrated Case Management Training for CCWs.
 Ensure that all CCWs are oriented in the Child Protection Policy and Code of Conduct; take all
cases of child abuse seriously and follow national protocols to ensure timely reporting.
 Ensure CCWs are coordinating with local structures including health facilities and Child
Protection Committees (formerly known as Most Vulnerable Children’s Committees).
 Assist in the development of a service directory for social services (in coordination with the Health
and HIV services Officer) in implementation areas; update the directory at least once a year.
 Submit timely updates to the Case Management Officer for inclusion in the quarterly, semi-annual,
and annual reports.
 Document lessons learned and best practices for experience sharing and replication.
 Perform any other relevant duties as assigned by the Case Management Officer.

Required Qualifications and Experience
• Diploma in Sociology, or Community Development.
• At least 1 years’ relevant experience.
• Experience in at least one of the following technical areas: OVC case management, Youth and
Adolescent work, Bi-Directional Reference, Child protection.
• Fluency in English and Kiswahili.
• Understanding of OVC core services.


All Application Forms (attached) shall be submitted BY EMAIL ADDRESS
info@trcs.or.tz . The deadline for submission is 13
th February 2018 by 16.00 Hrs.
Only short listed candidates meeting the minimum set criteria will be invited for interview. If you do
not hear from us within two weeks after the application deadline you should consider your application
as unsuccessful.

Tanzania Red Cross Society is an equal opportunity employer and therefore qualified women are
highly encouraged to apply.

The Secretary General
Tanzania Red Cross Society
P.O Box 1133
DAR ES SALAAM.