About this role
The Organisation Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected. Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face.
We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge. For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries. We won’t stop until we are all equal.
BACKGROUND This is an anticipated project to be implemented by GIZ in cooperation with the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Prime Minister’s Office for Regional Administration and Local Government (PMO-RALG) as key partners. Implementation will focus on Tanga Region. Subject to award, the contractor will implement all activities of outputs 2 and 3 of the project as indicated below Young people are empowered in dealing with sexual and reproductive health issues The environment for empowered choices is improved These activities aim to support young people, particularly young women, to make informed and confident decisions about their health and future.
In many communities, access to reliable information on health and relationships remains limited, and social norms may discourage open discussion or seeking professional support. As a result, young women may lack the knowledge and confidence needed to access appropriate services and claim their rights.
The contractor will be responsible for providing the following work packages and for achieving the corresponding milestones. The intervention is structured around two outputs with a total of four interlinked work packages that jointly contribute to strengthening the reproductive empowerment of young people, particularly young women, through improved access to information, services, and enabling environments. Work Package 1 – Youth Empowerment - focuses on strengthening young people’s knowledge, skills, and linkages to services through school-based and out-of-school youth clubs.
Work Package 2 – Community engagement - addresses the broader social and institutional environment through engagement with opinion leaders Work Package 3 – Communication campaigns - focuses on implementation of coordinated social and mass media campaigns Work Package 4 – Civil society support - focuses on support to local civil society organisations through a small-grants-mechanism for gender-transformative approaches ACCOUNTABILITIES Overall responsibility for the advisory packages of the contractor Ensuring the coherence and complementarity of the contractor’s services with other services delivered by the project at local and national level Design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of capacity development measures for local partners in the following areas Adolescent SRHR, Life Skills, and Gender-Transformative Approaches.
Securing buy-in and ownership for all activities at national and local level, including proactive engagement with key stakeholders (such as RMOs, REOs, DEOs, WEOs,VEOs, and District Cultural Officers); with particular responsibility for Work Package 2 and the engagement of local opinion leaders Oversee Work Package 3, including coordination with partners, management of short-term experts, and quality assurance of communication products in line with and national guidelines Responsibility for taking cross-cutting themes into consideration (for example, gender equality) Staff management, in particular identifying the need for short-term assignments within the available budget, planning and managing the assignments and supporting experts Ensuring that monitoring procedures are carried out Regular reporting in accordance with deadlines Responsibility for checking the use of funds and financial planning in consultation with the commission manager at GIZ Supporting the commission manager in updating and/or adapting the project strategy, in evaluations and in preparing a follow-on phase Technical Expertise, skills & Knowledge Masters degree in public health, gender studies or social science Bachelor degree in medicine, nursing, public health or social science 7 years of professional experience in designing and implementing large youth-focused health programmes 5 years of professional experience in working with gender transformative approaches, Leadership/management experience 5 years of management experience in an international organisation, including line-management responsibility and oversight of programme budgets exceeding EUR 650,000 annually.
International professional experience outside the country/region of assignment 5 years of professional experience working in an international organisation Knowledge of English and Kiswahili Location: Tanga Tanzania Reports to: Head of Program Implementation Closing Date: 31st October, 2026 Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.
We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas. We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.
Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk. A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.
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