Education Specialist

BRAC is an award-winning international non-governmental development organisation, with the vision of a world free from all forms of exploitation and discrimination, where everyone has the opportunity to realize their potential. BRAC is a leader in developing and implementing cost- effective, evidence-based programmes to assist poor and disadvantaged communities in low- income countries, including in conflict- prone and post-disaster settings. It is an organisation of and for the people of the Global South, pioneering new development and social enterprise approaches to equip communities to achieve prosperity. As well as being the world’s biggest NGO by number of staff and people directly reached, BRAC has regularly been ranked the number one NGO in the world by the Geneva-based NGO Advisor, an independent organisation committed to highlighting innovation, impact and governance in the non-profit sector. BRAC retained the top spot in 2020 among the top 500 NGOs for the fifth consecutive year.

BRAC was founded in Bangladesh in 1972 by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed. It started its first programme outside of Bangladesh in Afghanistan in 2002, and has since reached millions of people in 11 countries in Asia and Africa. BRAC has a holistic approach to development that uses a wide array of programmes and social enterprises, including in microfinance, education, health, agriculture, gender and human rights. BRAC believes that every person has inherent potential, and when an enabling environment is created and that potential is unleashed, even the poorest can become agents of positive change in their own lives, for their families and their communities.

BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania is part of a leading development organization that started its operations in 2006 in Tanzania, focusing on thematic areas of Agriculture, Youth and Women Empowerment, Food Security and Livelihood

About the AIM Program

The Mastercard Foundation Accelerating Impact for Young Women (AIM) in Partnership with BRAC is equipping 2 million adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) with age-appropriate entrepreneurship, employability, and life-skills training, as well as the tools to start and scale their own businesses. The nine-year program (2021-2030) applies BRAC’s proven model using microfinance, youth empowerment, agriculture, education and skills development to improve lives and livelihoods. It currently operates in seven African countries: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and Kenya. Based on the AGYW age, needs, and circumstances, AGYW are placed on one of two pathways in the AIM program: an education pathway or a livelihood pathway.

About the AIM Education Pathway

The AIM Education pathway is designed to increase access to and completion of quality secondary education for adolescent girls, aged 12-17, across the AIM countries: Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Uganda. The program seeks to achieve three core objectives: (1) to empower 400,000 adolescent girls by increasing their agency, voice, and life skills; (2) to support adolescent girls to complete at least lower secondary school; and (3) to improve gender-responsive education in at least 2,000 secondary schools, positively impacting an estimated 2.4 million students.

This AIM education pathway is closely aligned with the Mastercard Foundation’s strategic priorities under its Young Africa Works initiative, particularly the emphasis on improving the quality and accessibility of secondary education to better prepare young people for meaningful work. Through a set of integrated interventions, AIM Education targets structural and social challenges that often hinder girls’ education—including financial barriers, inadequate infrastructure, undertrained teachers, harmful gender norms, lack of community support, and weak school governance systems.

BRAC International is seeking applications from competent, dynamic and self-motivated individuals to fill the following position in BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania.

Position: Education Specialist

Job Location: Dar Es Salaam, Country Office.

Reports to: AIM Program Manager

Purpose of this job:

The Specialist, Education, AIM will be responsible for managing and providing technical leadership for the AIM Education pathway in BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania. The role includes planning, coordination, oversight of program implementation, staff capacity building, budget and partnership management, and ensuring safeguarding is integrated across activities. Reporting to the AIM Program Manager and working closely with BRAC International’s Early Childhood Development and Education team. The Education Specialist will serve as the technical focal point for education and support stakeholder engagement and communication.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, Contextualize and Manage the AIM Education Pathway for Adolescent Girls (AGs):
  • Lead the overall planning, coordination, and implementation of the AIM Education pathway, ensuring measurable impact for VYAs and AGs.
  • Adapt and implement contextually appropriate program designs and operational manuals in line with political, cultural, and community expectations.
  • Manage and strengthen stakeholder coordination with schools, communities, and government authorities at district and national levels.
  • Oversee timely delivery of education interventions, budget management, and compliance with BRAC and donor regulations.
  • Supervise and provide coaching to AIM Technical Sector Officers and program staff to ensure quality delivery and gender-responsive pedagogy.
• Ensure the Implementation of a Robust, Inclusive Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) System:
  • Enhance quality programming in the education pathway through incorporating quality planning and system monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
  • Ensure appropriate, timely, and accurate data collection against agreed indicators to enable both internal and external reporting.
  • Work closely with the MEL and knowledge management teams to collate lessons learnt, best practices, and incorporate suitable accountability mechanisms for the AIM education pathway
  • Regular visits to monitor and verify program performance.
• nafasi za kaziManage Stakeholder Coordination, Advocacy, and Networking:
  • Lead internal coordination, especially with the schools, district, and national level education officials, education partners in the countries implementing similar kinds of programs, and other global technical/functional teams.
  • Collect different levels of government approval needed for the implementation of the AIM Education pathway.
  • Manage day-to-day coordination with country support teams in areas of human resources, finance, procurement, administration, IT, communications, etc.
  • Support the AIM program manager to oversee BRAC and relevant partner staff involved in the education pathway to ensure effective coordination of integrated programming and multi-sectoral interventions.
  • Support technical donor reviews and external engagement activities, including meetings with implementation partners, government agencies, civil society, and local community-based Organizations, organizing learning and knowledge-sharing sessions.
  • Strengthen/create a local and national-level advocacy network to support VYAs and AGs education goals.
  • Support the AIM program manager with linkages between the internal and external stakeholders and the AIM program in-country.
• Grants, Knowledge, Risk management and Reporting:
  • Proactively monitor the AIM education pathway performance, identifying and mitigating programmatic and organizational risk, and escalate as necessary.
  • Support the AIM program manager in the implementation of standard award contracts, coordinate approval of agreements and sub-agreements, amendments, and extensions, where applicable related to the AIM education pathway.
  • Support and coordinate with country-level Grants Managers, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Finance teams to ensure timely submission of quality narrative and financial reports quarterly.
  • Support the AIM program manager in the AIM program database management, including updates for pipeline reports, grant stewardship, and prospect research relevant to the AIM education pathway.
  • Lead and contribute to the capturing and documentation of the AIM education-related knowledge and learnings, and contribute to process development and documentation
• Team management and overall stewardship:
  • Support and coordinate the AIM education team, ensuring competent and motivated staff, as well as manage the performance of the AIM education staff, and encourage on-the-job coaching, identify and address learning and training needs and opportunities.
  • Support the development of capacity-building plans for the AIM Education team
  • Manage external technical consultants and partners involved in the AIM education pathway in the country.
  • Support the AIM communication team with up-to-date content to create presentations and marketing materials to showcase program and project successes.
• Safeguarding Responsibilities:
  • Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the program’s goals on safeguarding implementation.
  • Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
  • Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
  • Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do the same.

Educational Requirements, Skills, and Abilities:

• Master’s degree in Education/Development Studies/Anthropology/Sociology/Business Administration and/or other relevant fields
• Minimum 8 years work experience with at least 3 years of managerial/leadership experience in managing and implementing education program(s), international development, working with ultra-poor and marginalized communities to implement education and/or girl’s and women’s empowerment programs
• Experience in project management and coordination, including supervision and monitoring, administration, finance, and logistics.
• Proven aptitude in proposal development and writing including advanced budgeting skills
• Experience in representation and negotiation with government, donors, partners and other stakeholders
• Ability to interpret financial data and prepare budgets and financial grant reports
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel
• Strong problem-solving skills, highly organized, strategic thinker with a strong attention to detail.
• Strong sense of teamwork and collaboration and demonstrated ability to build relationships with individuals from diverse backgrounds.
• Diplomatic and highly effective on an interpersonal level in addition to cross-cultural sensitivity
• Personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and dedication to the mission of BRAC.

Employment Type: Contractual

Salary: Negotiable

If you feel you are the right match for the above-mentioned position, please follow the application instructions accordingly:

Candidate needs to email their CV with a letter of interest mentioning educational grades, years of experience at: bimcf.tanzania@brac.or.tz

Please mention the name of the position in the subject bar.

Only complete applications will be accepted and shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Application deadline: 26th September 2025.

BRAC is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share the same commitment. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation – regardless of age, race, religion, and gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment process includes extensive reference and background checks, self-disclosure of prior issues regarding sexual or other misconduct and criminal records and our values are a part of our Performance Management System.

BRAC is an equal opportunities employer