PROGRAM MANAGER POSITION

Background
Tanzania Media Foundation (TMF) is a new organization that emerged out of the successful implementation the Tanzania Media Fund project from June 2008 until September 2015. It formally began operations in October 2015. TMF is currently implementing its 2015-2018 strategic plan, Strengthening Media for Accountability, towards three basic objectives. The first two are concerned with increasing the professional capacity of media organisations and stakeholders while also increasing the quality, quantity and diversity of investigative and public interest journalism products in the media sector. The third objective is focused on ensuring the organisation’s relevance, growth and sustainability.

Purpose of the Job
The purpose of this job is to provide efficient and effective programme management in line with the TMF 2015-2018 strategic plan and ensure expected impact, outcomes and outputs are delivered timely. The job requires managing media transformation for sustainable accountability and quality media content delivery through media outlets, media organisations, media associations, independent producers and individual journalists.  It also entails overseeing proper use of the Flexi-grant management information system at all levels and ensure sound and transparent programme management procedures are followed at each stage as well as management of related risks.

Reporting Line: The Programme Manager will report to the Executive Director.
Supervisory Role: He/she will supervise senior programme officers, programme officers and assistant programme officers.
Employment category: The successful applicant will be employed on a renewable contract basis subject to work performance and availability of financial resources.
Starting date: Effective from 1 February, 2016
Educational/Professional Qualification:
Master’s degree in Mass Communication or Journalism. Graduate or post graduate in journalism with any other Masters in any field is also acceptable.
Skills, experience and competence
• Minimum 5 years working experience in programme administration and project management
• In-depth knowledge of the media sector
• Visionary with strong leadership skills
• Strong management skills
• Financial management skills

• Diverse networking capabilities in a proactive manner

• Strong capacity-building experience 

• Ability to develop ideas and write proposals

• Critical and analytical skills

• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills in both English and Swahili

Mode of applications

Interested candidates, please apply through this email address: info@tmf.or.tz. Your application should include cover letter explaining your suitability for the position and how your qualifications, education, skills, experience and competence fit the purpose of the job. Updated CV must be attached with contacts of at least three referees.

 

Application deadline

Deadline for submitting an application is on 4th January, 2016.

Note

Qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

Detailed specific duties and responsibilities

1. To oversee implementation of both institutional and individual media projects in line with the strategy operationalisation plan of activities in an effective, efficient and timely manner. 

• Develop in collaboration with programme portfolio officers a results action based operation plan in line with the main strategy approved programme implementation activities.

• Oversee implementation of both institutional and individual programme activities in line with developed results based operation plan.

• Regularly monitor and track the implementation of both institutional and individual programme activities.  

2. To ensure TMF’s media transformation strategy is well implemented.

• Facilitate understanding of TMF’s media transformation model to both TMF team and grant applicants.

• Provide guidance to the TMF team so that their activity implementation is in line with the media transformation model of TMF.

• Examine the TMF media transformation model assumptions regularly and determine what works and how it works and then use the findings for internal and external learning.

3. Flexi-Grant Management Information System is properly executed.

• Review programme management procedures and identify requirements for a TMF grant management information system.

• Develop, in collaboration with the Management Information System expert, a user-friendly grant management information system for TMF. 

• Facilitate management information systems user understanding to both internal and external users

• Regularly monitor the use of the grant management information system at each stage of the grants management cycle.

4. Review grant applicants’ risk assessments for quality assurance and risk mitigation strategy implementation.

• Provide support during the process to engage and manage  firms and/or individuals to undertake applicants’ risks assessment

• Provide support to firms and/or individuals contracted to undertake applicants’ risks assessments.

• Review applicants’ risks assessment reports and make recommendations to the Senior Management Team (SMT) on all programme related risks.

• Oversee all programme related risk management

• Provide inputs into risk management report in line with programme related risks

5. Human resource management 

• Supervise subordinates to ensure the duties delegated to them are executed as expected.

• Develop individual performance objectives, targets and standards in consultation with immediate superior as part of performance agreement.

• Conduct staff performance appraisal of subordinates and recommend areas for improvement/capacity building.

• Undertake any other responsibilities, tasks or activities as reasonably required by the supervisor. 

6. Budget formulation and management 

• To guide and oversee budget formulation on each programme portfolio activity.

• Overall in-charge (main budget holder) of the programme budget in terms of planning, organising, coordination, execution and controlling to ensure planned activities are always in line with the approved budget.