EPforR Coordinator - Shule Bora (Quality School) Tanzania

Lead on data support to EP4R coordination unit and SB team, data governance, verification for performance-based funding, MIS oversight and integration with government data systems. 

Leads strategic data management and system integration. Ensures compliance with EPforR funding requirements. Focuses on large-scale data verification, quality assurance and government system strengthening. 

• Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) Leadership: Ensure alignment of program data with government and internal standards. Support integration of government and partner data systems. 

• EPforR Data Verification & Claims Management: Verify and prepare data for performance-based EPforR disbursement claims. Conduct audits on government and partner data systems to ensure compliance 

• Data Quality Assurance: Implement EPforR data verification and validation protocols. Lead efforts to maintain clean, accurate, and timely EPforR data across program stakeholders. 

• M&E support: bring support to M&E team to do data analysis, integrating SB indicators into GoT systems. 

• Results based management: Work with EPfR manager in delivering TA, dissemination of EpfR results to Ministries, Regions and LGAs 

• EP4R capacity building: support EP4R manager in implementing the sustainability strategy and bring support to strengthen GoT skills on data at national, regional or local levels.  

Skills  

• Ability to work with Government officials across all levels  

• Ability to prioritise and work under pressure.  

• Ability to work in a collaborative team setting.  

• Proficient in using MS packages, particularly Word, Excel and PowerPoint  

• Strong organisational skills, reliability, and adherence to ethical standards  

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills  

• Fluency in written and spoken English, Kiswahili preferred.   

Experience  

• More than five years’ experience in development work in education sector is essential  

• Experience in results-based financing programmes   

• Experience in the fields of child protection, inclusion and safeguarding  

• Experience in supervising short term sub consultants working to deliver programme goals  

Knowledge  

• Knowledge of Tanzanian education system  

The UK aid funded Shule Bora programme aims to improve the quality of pre-primary and primary schools in Tanzania. The programme’ s Impact Statement is: Shule Bora will deliver improved quality, inclusiveness, and safety of learning for boys and girls. There are four outcomes:   

1. Learning: All children* are learning in school.  

2. Teaching: UKAID supports the strengthening of Tanzania’s teaching workforce.  

3. Inclusion: All children are in schools that are safe, offer an environment conducive to learning and that this enables children to complete primary education and progress to secondary education.  

4. Systems building: UKAID supports government in strengthening the value for money** of education provision at school, local and national level.  

* The term ‘all children’ infers particular attention to the most disadvantaged: girls, the disabled and those living deprived areas **Value for money is defined as a composite of economy, efficiency, effectiveness and equity  

The programme will:  

1. Work with Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MOEST) and the President’s Office Regional Administration and Local Government (PO-RALG) to test, adapt and implement at scale quality, gender-transformative, disability-inclusive, and safe to learn education approaches in 9 regions, generating learning and evidence on how to achieve these outcomes affordably and at scale.   

2. Support GoT with the timely and effective implementation of the PforR mechanism through technical assistance and capacity building, with a strong focus on data verification, financial management and risk management. Support lesson learning processes from PforR so that these can be embedded into government processes and shared with development partners and other key stakeholders. Ensure that lessons and best practice from (1) are used to inform PforR mechanism.   

3. Manage and coordinate programme activities, with a strong focus on (i) ensuring a high-quality programme, financial and risk management oversight, (ii) working with an independent Learning and Evidence (L&E) provider on establishing regular, rigorous, and community-driven monitoring and evaluation activities, and (iii) developing and implementing a strategy for effective communication of Shule Bora objectives, results, and lessons learned to a range of target audiences.