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Description
Kupanda Project Manager: Job Description
Summary:
The Kupanda Project is a hostel-based program designed to comprehensively support girls (128) in lower secondary school to improve school completion rates in rural Tanzanian communities . ASAP is seeking to hire a full-time Kupanda Project Manager (KPM) to reside in the hostel with the girls and oversee all programs associated with the initiative and to serve as the instructor of a Girl’s Leadership & Empowerment curriculum. The job is to begin January 2022. The KPM will report directly to the ASAP Program Manager and the ASAP Executive Director (located in Denver CO, USA) and will be expected to report by phone and email on a regular basis.
Kupanda Project For Girls Overview:
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Tanzania struggles to achieve acceptable secondary school completion rates for girls. The lower secondary completion rate for girls in Tanzania is 8%, and the number drops to 4% in rural areas. ASAP believes something must be done to address the high drop out rate of adolescent Tanzanian girls during their most vulnerable years and improve lower secondary completion rates. For this reason, ASAP has created The Kupanda Project for Girls, an innovative approach to comprehensively support girls to gain a quality lower secondary school education in rural Tanzania. The idea is simple – bring together, under one program, myriad supports for Tanzanian girls so they can safely access school and complete their lower secondary education (Forms 1-4). Major elements of the program include 1) safe housing (dormitories); 2) increased personal well-being; 3) increased academic performance; 4) leadership & empowerment, 5) student and community health) and; 6) community education and engagement.
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Job Duties:
The Kupanda Project Manager (KPM) will live in the dormitory full-time (except during school breaks/weekends). A government employed matron will reside on the school campus. While the matron will be responsible for the daily oversight of the girls, the KPM will be responsible for ensuring that all the programs associated with the Kupanda Project are properly implemented. Major elements include (but may not be limited to):
● Nutrition & Water: Cooks will be responsible for cooking/serving 3 meals per day according to the government meal schedule. In addition, the dorm water supply for will ensure adequate water for bathing/cooking/drinking and a schedule will be followed for water use. The KPM will be responsible for ensuring nutrition and water plan is being accurately executed.
● Menstrual Support: The KPM will be trained on the use of reusable sanitary pads and each girl will be given sanitary pads for personal use. The KPM along with ASAP’s Community Health Educator will train the girls on their use, how to make their own pads, and to ensure they are properly used/sanitized according to a regular schedule.
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● Computers: Computers will be available in the dorms for girl’s use. The KPM and all Kupanda girls will be provided computer training to allow for effective use of computers. There will be a schedule for use and restrictions on how/when/why the computers may be used. The KPM will ensure the computer rules are being followed and that the equipment is working properly.
● Tutoring: The tutoring Program will provide regular remedial education and tutoring to Kupanda girls to bring them up to grade level in their studies, better preparing them to learn effectively going forward. There will be a tutoring schedule for each girl per week; tutors will be hired separately by ASAP. The KPM will oversee the program and ensure the girls are being tutored according to the schedule.
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● Security: The KPM will retain a set of keys to the dormitory perimeter gate and to other important storage facilities (food storage, solar equipment storage, computers). The KPM will be responsible for watching over the personal safety of the girls and all equipment/supplies associated with Kupanda Project.
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● Classroom visits/teacher accountability:
In addition to ensuring that the programs are implemented and daily/weekly schedules for the girls are being followed, the KPM will serve as the instructor for the girl’s Leadership & Empowerment program. The girls will be divided into 4 groups of 32 girls and each group will participate in 1 two-hour meeting per week during the school sessions. Therefore, the KPM will be teaching the Leadership & Empowerment curriculum four days per week, Monday-Thursday from 4-6 pm. Full training will be provided to the KPM and all teaching curriculum & materials will be supplied by ASAP (or an implementing partner).
The dormitory is equipped with electricity, toilets, showers, laundry facilities, kitchen, dining hall, common rooms for socializing/eating/studying, computer rooms, a fully enclosed secure perimeter and 24-hour security guards.
Job Requirements:
The right candidate will be a young Tanzanian woman with strong interest in the empowerment of young Tanzanian girls. She must be personally engaging, be committed to seeing each of the girls succeed in secondary school, be a positive role model to the girls, and be self-motivated to identify ways that the Kupanda Project that can be improved during the pilot phase. The following are specific skills that are required and/or preferred of candidates:
● University degree;
● Willingness to live full-time at a rural secondary school in Mwanza region;
● Strong English and Swahili language skills (spoken and written);
● Strong critical thinking/problem solving skills;
● Computer skills, including the use of Microsoft Word and email;
● Kisa Scholar Program graduate preferred;
● Counseling skills preferred;
● Highly motivated
● 1 to 3 years of experience working with NGOs
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Benefits:
ASAP is offering the following employee benefits in addition to a probationary initial gross monthly salary of 1,000,000 TSH (potential for salary to increase after 6 month probationary period):
● ASAP will pay the required 10% NSSF taxes on behalf of the employee;
● ASAP will provide free housing (in the dormitory) and all daily meals/drinking water;
● ASAP will pay up to 60,000 TSH per month for phone and internet expenses;
● Moving expenses (negotiable);
● Generous paid time off is offered during school breaks (2 weeks each June, 2 weeks each December, possibly more);
● Weekend time off;
● Laptop computer provided while employed by ASAP;
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Location
Idetemya Secondary School is located in Idetemya Village, Misungwi District, Mwanza Region. It is about a one hour drive SW of Mwanza, very near the banks of Lake Victoria (the lake is visible from the school). It is about 10km down the paved road from Usagara Village and 40km miles from Misungwi Village (District seat). The school is easily accessibly by car, dala dala, and boda boda.
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