World Vision Tanzania Technology & Innovation Manager

World Vision Tanzania is seeking to recruit a suitable candidate to fill the following position:

Job Ref No: WVT/P&C/FY13/66

Job Title: Technology & Innovation Manager

Reports to: Innovation & Strategic Partnership Director

Location: Head Office Arusha

Purpose of the position:

To provide management and support to  the Technology and Innovation Unit in ensuring the identification, piloting, introduction and scaling-up of innovative technology solutions that make sense to the people with whom we work and ensuring that they become embedded in World Vision Tanzania culture and programmers.

Observe mission and core values of World Vision and demonstrate a quality of spiritual life that is an example to others

Major Responsibilities:

1: Facilitate identification and piloting of innovative technology that support effective WVT’s  design and implementation work in baseline, evaluations and monitoring as well as aggregation of results for child well-being indicators and their reporting that will increase donor engagement and transparency. 

2: Facilitate in collaboration with partners identification and application of mobile technology innovations, radio technology solutions and weather-forecasting technology in communities

3: Facilitate mapping out of World Vision Tanzania (WVT) areas of operations, including the natural and social characteristics of the intervention areas, to help WVT better understand the nature of the communities and their particular areas of vulnerability, as well as household demographics.

4:Facilitate implementation of mobile technology interventions as a means of communicating with small-holder-farmers essential information on markets and market-prices, farm inputs, farm practices etc, to help farmers make appropriate farming decisions. 

5: Facilitate in collaboration with partners development of a short, medium and long-range weather forecasting system and ensure accessibility of this information to staff and partners to inform them prevailing climate change trends and enable farmers and all partners make better and more informed choices about the type of seeds, planting and harvestings of their crops. 

6: Work in collaboration with partners to establish a database for household information of individual participating farmers in WVT’s programmes.  To help in tracking  actual progress and development of farming communities using real, household-level data including under five children, youth and families well being.

7: Facilitate in collaboration with partners who works with local radio stations to develop and broadcast interactive radio programmers’ for rural communities to provide information and learning opportunities to farmers in order to enhance their knowledge and skills to improve their economic opportunities. 

8: Facilitate scaling-up of Community Knowledge Centers (CKC) model and vision in 30 more ADPs to provide a technology hub in a rural community that can offer technology services as well as provide economic and employment opportunities for young people. 

9: Facilitate implementation of  WVT Knowledge Management (KM) operational framework to ensure all WVT operation’s data, information and knowledge is stored in a central location accessible to all staff and partners anytime anywhere over the cloud-based server. 

Qualifications:  Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience

The following may be acquired through a combination of formal or self-education, prior experience or on-the-job training:

Minimum Qualification required:  Masters Degree in Management Information Systems (MIS) Business Administration or Project Management.  

Experience:  The ideal candidate will be a self-directed with 5+ years of business experience with a proven, measurable track record of success and display strong interest in the power of creativity and innovation to positively impact business and organizations effectiveness.

• Preferred:

Understanding of global technological trends

• Technical Skills & Abilities:
• Advanced Computer skills
• Programmers and Project’s Programming skills
• Demonstrated ability in supervision
• Good planning and organizational skills
• Tact and diplomacy in dealing with staff-related to work environment needs
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with all levels of staff and public

Other Competencies/Attributes:

• Must be a committed Christian, able to stand above denominational diversities.
• Must be able to provide spiritual leadership within but not limited to chapel and daily devotions;
• Must have outstanding oral and written communications and relationship skills and;
• Must be willing to perform other duties as required.

Working Environment / Conditions:

• Work environment:  Office-based with frequent travel to the field
• Travel:  20% Domestic/international travel is required.
• On call: 20% 

How to apply: 
Interested candidates who meet the above criteria should submit their applications letter (addressed to People and Culture Director) together with an updated CV and copies of relevant credentials, contacts and three referees one of them being a church leader towvt_jobs@wvi.org OR wvt_recruit@wvi.org 

Deadline October 2,2013