About US:
Twaweza is an independent East African initiative that was established in 2009 by Rakesh Rajani, a Tanzanian civil society leader who founded HakiElimu and served as its first executive director until the end of 2007. Twaweza’s approach and theory of change is built on the lessons from the HakiElimu experience, as well as wide ranging conversations across East Africa conducted through 2008 and a review of the literature. Hivos provided the incubation space for Twaweza’s development, and currently houses the initiative before it becomes fully independent by 2014. Hivos is registered in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda as a non-profit company (company limited by guarantee with no share capital).

Job Summary: The Program Officer will render support in the design and implementation of the What Works in Education program in Uganda/Kenya. The incumbent will be responsible to generate evidence, ideas, data and stories of effective interventions through reference to global and local experience, experimentation and analysis. In your work you will collaboration closely with particularly the Data and Voice and PPE units.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
With support from the Manager WWE, implement the WWE program in Uganda/Kenya.
Work in liaison with team members, gather and organize knowledge of rigorous, locally relevant and credible evidence of what works in improving learning outcomes.
Create a knowledge database consisting of an accessible and well referenced system of experiences, studies and literature reviews mostly from Uganda/Kenya, but also global.
Work closely with the Public and Policy Engagement, create a forum for interveners, researchers and policy makers, where crucial evidence can be presented and discussed.
Drawing on the academic as well as a practical body of work, set up Twaweza’s Positive Deviance program in education: systematically searching, validating and testing successful locally led solutions that deviate from the norm.
Manage small scale research projects that are informed by our learning from existing knowledge. Aim is to find potential solutions that are articulate and simple in design and are in principle scalable.
Support the Public and Policy Engagement unit in specific campaign style activities to achieve the Twaweza formulated successes leading to learning.
Document lessons in a structured fashion on all aspects of WWE.
Manage the production of compelling written products on a regular basis, including high quality policy briefs, analyses, research papers, blogs and other social media for local and global audiences.
Present findings at various events, locally, regionally and globally.
Independently represent WWE in contacts and negotiations with interested third parties.
Successfully implement above responsibilities and assigned activities in work plans and budgets, consistent with Twaweza Policies.
Actively contribute effectively to planning, monitoring, reporting and information dissemination of Uwezo’s/Twaweza’s work.
Collaborate with Twaweza staff across units and countries in a spirit of mutual respect and cooperation to get things done.
Communicate your work through active use of internal platform (SalesForce), electronic calendar (Gcal) and being accessible on electronic chat (Skype) as per Twaweza requirements.
Participate actively in organization-wide learning and other joint activities.
Comply with and foster adherence to the established Twaweza values, policies, regulations, guidelines and procedures.
Perform any other lawful tasks as may be assigned by the Manager WWE, respective Director and/or Executive Director.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
The applicant should hold a Bachelors of Arts/Science qualification in social sciences, public policy or related area.
A minimum of four years of relevant work experience in education, research and analysis.
Good working knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research.
Excellent communication and writing skills in English and Swahili with demonstrable attention to detail.
Demonstrable computer proficiency including web based applications.
Possess good management skills and ability to work independently and as a part of a team.
Possess the ability to deliver on short notice where necessary and with minimum supervision.

How to Apply:
All candidates are strongly encouraged to send their applications including an updated CV (max 4 pages) to: jobs@twaweza.org with a cover letter explaining your interests/motivations to work for Twaweza, and two samples of your written work and names of three referees, in MS Word or PDF file. In the subject of your email write your name and the position you are applying for.