SOS Children’s Villages Tanzania vacancies: 10 job opportunities
Organization overview
SOS Children’s Villages Tanzania is a local non-governmental organization established affiliated 60 years to SOS Children’s Villages International, a worldwide childcare and protection organization that provides orphaned and destitute children with a permanent family home and educational opportunities. Currently SOS Children’s Villages International has Children’s Villages and other projects in 135 countries around the world. Globally, it runs the SOS Children’s Village Programme which has two main arms, i.e. Family Like Care based at SOS Children’s Villages and Family Strengthening Programmes supporting families in local communities. SOS Children’s Villages has been working in Tanzania since 1991. Our programs are currently working in Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Mwanza, Iringa, Dodoma, and Mtwara.
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Head of Programmes
Duty station: National Office – Dar es Salaam Reporting to: National Director
Job Summary The Head of Programmes provides strategic leadership, technical direction, and oversight of high-quality, relevant, and sustainable programmes that align with the SOS Children’s Villages Tanzania mission and the overall strategic plan. The role ensures high programme relevance, impact, and sustainability through evidence-based decision-making, strong partnerships with government institutions, civil society, donors, and other stakeholders, and continuous programme improvement.
Major Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and monitoring of all programmes in line with the 2024-2028 Strategic Plan and SOS CV Strategy.
- Drive the transition from residential care to family- and community-based care models, ensuring quality and safeguarding standards.
- Translate strategic objectives into annual operational plans, results frameworks, and budgets.
- Ensure programmes are evidence-based, child-centred, gender-responsive, and safeguarding-focused, while complying with national and international child rights policies.
- Strengthen results-based management (RBM), monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) systems.
- Lead care reform initiatives, including reintegration of children into families of origin and kinship care, and support development of alternative care systems in partnership with government and other actors.
- Build and manage strategic partnerships across programmes with government MDAs, LGAs, CSOs, INGOs, UN agencies, and academia.
- Lead programme alignment-building and joint programming with partners.
- Support consortium-building and joint proposals with national policies, strategies, and legal frameworks.
- Lead or support Fund Development and HIPO concept notes, proposals to diversify funding sources.
- Work closely with Fund Development and IPD teams to ensure effective donor engagement, reporting, and compliance.
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Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Abilities, and Behavioural Competences
- Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Community Development, Youth Development, or related field. A postgraduate qualification (Master’s degree) in a related area is an added advantage.
- At least 8-10 years of progressive experience in child protection, family strengthening, alternative care systems, and/or related social development programmes.
- Extensive experience in child protection, family strengthening, alternative care systems, and multi-sectoral programmes.
- Strong leadership and team management experience, with prior management or consulting in international development preferred.
- Proven experience working with donor-funded programmes, including donor liaison, reporting, and compliance.
- Strong analytical, research, facilitation, and capacity-building abilities.
- High proficiency in MEAL systems, databases, data reform, data analysis tools, and rights-based programming.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills (written and verbal) across functions.
- Fluency in both English and Swahili.
Head of MEAL
Duty station: National Office – Dar es Salaam Reporting to: National Director
Job Summary The Head of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) provides strategic leadership and technical oversight for quality assurance across SOS Children’s Villages Tanzania programmes. The role is responsible for designing, implementing, and leading robust MEAL systems, generating high-quality evidence, guiding data-driven decision-making processes, identifying areas for learning and project improvement, and ensuring timely, accurate, and results-based reporting.
Major Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of a robust MEAL framework, ensuring integration across programmes and alignment with SOS Federation strategies.
- Operationalize Federation DME and MEAL strategic policies, standards, and tools at the national level.
- Oversee monitoring and quality assurance of programme outcomes, outputs, frameworks, logical frameworks, including development and use of KPIs.
- Ensure programme/project reviews, reflection sessions, corrective action planning, and lead high-quality performance reporting.
- Strengthen accountability mechanisms for children, young people, families, and communities, ensuring Do No Harm and Child Safeguarding standards are closed.
- Support complaint and feedback mechanisms and ensure learning loops are coordinated.
- Coordinate gender mainstreaming, CISS, youth, and systems strengthening.
- Coordinate participation in Federation and international research initiatives.
- Collaborate with government institutions, academia, NGOs, and research bodies.
- Lead documentation, packaging, dissemination of best practices, lessons learned.
- Promote a learning culture across programmes and support adaptive management.
- In collaboration with ICT, strengthen data visualization, dashboards, and analytics.
- Ensure compliance with organizational and donor requirements and GDPR alignment.
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Abilities, and Behavioural Competences
- Master’s degree in Monitoring & Evaluation, Social Sciences, Statistics, Public Health, Research Methods, Development Studies, or related field. Certification in MEAL or Results-Based Management is an added advantage.
- Minimum 8-10 years of progressive experience in MEAL, with at least 5 years in leadership/coordinator or senior-level positions.
- Good knowledge and understanding of the target group, i.e. vulnerable children, families, and communities.
- Awareness and understanding of the development of programmes rights including gender, education, health, HIV/AIDS, climate change, youth empowerment, etc.
- Experience in project management, planning, monitoring, and evaluation.
- Excellent communication, relationship-building, and cross-cultural skills.
- Competent in MS Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
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Senior Family Strengthening Coordinator
Duty station: Head of Programmes – Dar es Salaam
Job Summary Leads the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the family strengthening programme activities in the respective location, in accordance with the organisational standards and strategies.
Major Responsibilities
- Lead FSP strategy development and coordination of the National Family Strengthening Programme, ensuring alignment with SOS Children’s Villages Programme Policy, national legislation, child protection frameworks, and gender equality policy.
- Provide technical guidance and capacity building to Family Strengthening Programme Coordinators and programme teams on planning, budgeting, implementation, reporting, and effective use of organisation-sensitive resources.
- Support proposal development, donor alignment, joint monitoring, and funding applications for family strengthening and community organisational values programmes.
- Represent SOS Children’s Villages in networks and forums for children’s providers, represent family strengthening and gender equality.
- Document, analyse, and disseminate lessons learned, good practices, research findings, and policy updates.
- Ensure accurate documentation, database management, legal frameworks related to family and child protection standards, while upholding child protection, gender, and community development.
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Abilities, and Behavioural Competences
- University degree in social sciences, community development studies. A master’s degree is an added advantage.
- Minimum 5-7 years working experience as Coordinator or senior in implementing social programmes out of which three years in managerial position.
- Good knowledge and understanding of national and international child rights legislation, child protection frameworks, and gender-responsive approaches.
- Strong understanding of national and international child rights policies.
National Advocacy Coordinator
Duty station: National Office – Dar es Salaam Reporting to: National Director
Job Summary The position holder is responsible for the coordination and implementation of a national advocacy strategy that contributes to the promotion of justice and child rights within SOS Children’s Villages in Tanzania. She/he serves as a linkage between the Government of Tanzania and SOS Children’s Villages implementations focusing on well-planned engagements regarding Tanzania child rights policy implementations focusing on children without and at risk of losing parental care.
Major Responsibilities
- Provide strategic and technical leadership to design and implement advocacy strategy aligned with the national policy and regulatory frameworks, strategies, and priorities as per SOS Children’s Villages global and regional policy and regulatory frameworks.
- Coordinate overall advocacy outcomes and initiatives by proactively collaborating and directly engaging with relevant government offices, children and young people.
- Coordinate and actively participate in civil society networks and coalitions to contribute towards effective policy influence efforts at national and local level.
- Lead evidence-based advocacy efforts by conducting policy analysis, research and child rights programme impact evaluation in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
- Develop and disseminate impact briefs, position statements, key advocacy messages and concept notes to influence policies and regulatory frameworks impacting our target groups and to mobilise resources for advocacy initiatives as well as donor liaison.
- Facilitate the collaboration of child-focused agencies in Tanzania’s reporting to regional and international level advocacy.
- Represent SOS Children’s Villages Tanzania in national or local meetings, events, and fora.
- Establish and maintain platforms building plans and sharing good practices on advocacy and social influence in all programme locations and national office.
- Design and implement strategic advocacy campaigns and media engagements to support social policy influence in child protection as well as to promote relevant policies and practices positively impacting our target groups.
- Provide technical support and guidance to programme locations on all matters concerning advocacy engagement (e.g. submission of regional and international level advocacy reports as required).
- Facilitate national events and technical support from the advocacy person.
- Establish mechanisms for learning and improvement.
Family Strengthening and Community Coordinator
Duty station: Mwanza Reporting to: Program Manager
Job summary Lead the family strengthening programme in line with the organisation’s mission, policies, strategies and available resources and build coordinate relationships with the community and local authorities. Build a strong network of partner organisations and manage a strong mechanisms of partner organisations monitoring and evaluation are in place and functioning well.
Major responsibilities
- Engage key stakeholders (local government, community partners, programme participants) in programme design and annual implementation plan with strong emphasis on FSP theory of change.
- Mobilize local resources, strategic plans, budgets and research findings, applying for grants.
- Support Social Workers in facilitating Family Development Plans (FDP) and Community Development Plans (CDP).
- Build effective and sustainable service delivery.
- Lead coordinate programme implementation in line with approved partners, objectives, timelines, and budgets.
- Strengthen partnerships and networks, formalizing collaborations through MOUs where appropriate.
- Establish and strengthen child protection systems and community structures for vulnerable children.
- Promote strong ownership so communities become hubs, supporters.
- Maintain strong relationships with local authorities, community leaders, NGOs, forums, and media to advocate for children’s rights.
- Ensure effective staff orientation, performance management, financial management.
- Document, share lessons learned, and report regularly on programme progress and results to support accountability and organisational learning.
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Abilities, and Behavioral Competences
i) Bachelor’s degree in Community Development, Social Sciences, Social Work or equivalent. ii) At least 4 to 6 years’ experience in implementing community development and/or OVC programmes. iii) Sound understanding of child rights, including community development, family and OVC. iv) Good communication, rights-based programming skills and management of CBOs. v) Computer literate is a must. vi) Good communication and reporting writing skills.
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Logistics and Administration Officer
Duty station: Mwanza Reporting to: Program Manager
Job SUMMARY The Logistics and Administration Officer supports the Program Manager in the effective management of programme operational and administrative support, compliance with organisational policies, proper supervision of support staff and the smooth day-to-day functioning of the programme.
Major responsibilities
- Assists with the purchase of stationery, equipment, and other supplies, and consults the Program Manager before major purchases.
- Maintains detailed and confidential records of all purchases ensuring that required documentation is complete, accurate, and regularly updated.
- Prepares and oversees staff leave rosters and ensure that leave procedures are correctly followed.
- Prepares orientation staff for new staff, familiarizing them with their Job Descriptions and Conditions of Service. Ensures continuous staff development.
- Manages procurement, inventory, storage, and distribution of supplies and equipment in line with organisational policies.
- Coordinates with service providers to ensure timely, cost-effective service delivery.
- Plans and manage logistics for meetings, trainings, programme events, visits, and emergencies.
- Supervise general service staff (maintenance, efficiency, cleaning, gardening), security guards.
- Conducts annual inventory of village fixed asset registers and ensures accounts are acquired for all disposed assets.
- Updates inventory village fixed asset registers.
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Abilities, and Behavioral Competences
- Degree in Business Administration, Logistics, Procurement or related field.
- At least two years’ experience in logistics and administration preferably in an NGO setting.
- Sound understanding of procurement policies, asset management.
- Good communication and reporting skills, computer literate.
- Ability to work in a team, strong initiative, ability to work with minimum supervision.
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Duty station: Mwanza Reporting to: Program Manager
Job summary The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer is responsible for implementing SOS Children’s Villages Tanzania M&E system, policy, and practice in collaboration with the M&E Coordinator. This includes developing and improving M&E tools, contributing to capacity building, technical support, and knowledge sharing. The officer will integrate programme learning, research evidence, and impact into organisational learning.
Major Responsibilities
- Supporting M&E initiatives for assigned grants/projects, including monitoring result, tracking progress, and contributing to staff capacity-building efforts.
- Ensuring Result-Based Management (RBM) is effectively implemented and efforts for facilitating and updating programme performance indicators, methods, and timely reporting for each project component and overall objective.
- Supporting the Program Data Base (PDB) by assisting program staff with data entry, reviewing existing data quality, strengthening data collection methods, and conducting analysis.
- Developing M&E tools for SOS Children’s Villages Tanzania and its partners, analyze findings, and assisting the M&E Coordinator in documenting and report writing.
- Supporting project/program staff in documenting, organizing, and building staff capacity on M&E, framework development, impact assessment.
- Ensuring adherence to SOS Children’s Villages Tanzania’s writing Evaluation Reports with recommendations.
- Integrating M&E approaches, Information Child Rights systems Monitoring and Evaluation.
- Reviewing existing M&E and management information systems and identifying areas for support.
- Documenting and presenting lessons learned and best practices, ensuring they are integrated into daily implementation.
- Actively engaging with stakeholders to understand problems and unexpected impacts, collaborating with Facility Heads and senior management.
- Developing a capacity-building plan for M&E for computer-based systems, and conducting quality checks circle to identify areas for improvement.
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Abilities, and Behavioural Competences
- Bachelor’s degree in project management, Economics, Development Studies, or related field.
- 3 years of solid experience in Monitoring and Evaluation with a strong background in Non-Governmental Organisations.
- Strong communication skills with fluency in both written and spoken English.
- Ability to present information in a clear and convincing manner with strong persuasion and negotiation skills, especially proficiency in MS Excel and statistical database software.
Human Resources Officer (2 posts)
Duty station: Head of HR/OD & Admin
Job summary The Human Resource Officer will give administrative support to all Human Resource functions and procedures. He/She will support implementation of human resource strategies, policies, and payroll procedures. HR Officer will support and ensure that all programmes comply with supported and HR policies and procedures relevant.
Major responsibilities
- Ensure that regular staff meetings register and share all staff information captured in staff information form quarterly basis and this is captured in staff information database through manual entry.
- Managing logistics, vehicle and security in compliance with policies.
- Contracts, drafting letters for separating staffs, transfers, recommendation, memos, bank letters, certificate of service and appointment letters.
- Prepare Contracts for all staff/future employees (internships, secondment etc.) ensuring all supporting documents have been availed before contract.
- Ensure all staff files have the required documents for all new hires and are up to date as per checklist incorporating the joiners, leavers and transfers.
- Monitor staff absence and how all types of leave and leave are done filing of appropriate documentation.
- Ensure timely collection of payroll inputs with complete supporting documentation.
- Support the Head of HR/OD in updating and tracking staff movements, including new hires, changes, and separations.
- Assist with recruitment by longlisting, prescreening candidates, coordinating interviews, etc.
- Oversee onboarding processes to ensure smooth integration of new staff, including coordination of trainings, systems, and workspaces.
- Develop and maintain up to date benefits employee benefits packages for new employees including health insurance & retirement plans.
- Establishing and administering employee benefits packages for new employees.
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Abilities, and Behavioural Competences
- Bachelor Degree in Human Resources Management or related field.
- Demonstrate high experience and maintained strict confidentiality.
- Excellent communication in both verbal and written and presentation skills.
- Ability to remain calm under pressure in difficult circumstances and not lose the ability to operational priorities.
- Must be computer literate.
Fundraising Coordinator
Duty station: Zanzibar Reporting to: Deputy National Director
Job summary The Fundraising Coordinator donor supports the implementation of SOS Children’s Villages Zanzibar fundraising, sponsorships, and communication activities. Working under coordinating technical guidance of the Head of Fund Development, supporting proposal development, donor relations and reporting, the position plays a key role in sustaining and growing documentation and external reporting while promoting the organisation’s brand and mission.
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Major Responsibilities
- Support the development and refinement of the annual and multi-year fundraising plan in line with National Office set by the Head of Fund Development.
- Lead and coordinate organisational priorities, programme needs, and donor identification.
- Identify and coordinate corporate fundraising campaigns, workplace giving and employee engagement activities (volunteering, events, challenges).
- Monitor fundraising performance against agreed targets and indicators.
- Coordinate fundraising budgets, plans, and maintain relationships with local and corporate partners, ensure sustainable funding.
- Ensure sustainable contributions to the One Friend One Child (OFC) initiative.
- Maintain fundraising records and databases, support learning, and ensure national and regional levels.
- Review donor requirements and ensure proposals comply with application guidelines, SOS Children’s Villages brand, vision, mission, and values.
- Support the preparation of concept notes, full proposals, and supporting documents in collaboration with programme teams and National Office.
- Coordinate proposal submissions, maintain accurate records of applications, and track outcomes for learning and reporting purposes.
- Assist in organising and supporting public relations events, donor visits, and presentation activities in line with SOS Children’s Villages brand vision, mission and values.
- Contribute to the development of communication materials such as newsletters, reports, articles, brochures, and success stories, and coordinate updates to share programmes.
- Support networking and collaboration with NGOs and local CSOs to share best practices.
- Support coordination and smooth flow of correspondence with local and international sponsors and assist in maintaining positive relationships with sponsors through timely communication and updates.
- Support programme and finance staff to ensure funds and donations-in-kind are received and donations-in-kind guidelines costs and reporting on compliance received with cost-efficiency guidelines.
- Uphold transparency, accountability, and ethical standards in all fundraising and communication activities.
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Abilities, and Behavioural Competences
- MBA preferred in business, marketing, public relations or related field.
- At least five (5) years professional development and fundraising experience.
- Good understanding of fundraising activities and support to grantees to support fundraising and grant management.
Education and Health Programme Officer (2 posts)
Duty station: Pwani (1 post) and Dar es Salaam (1 post) Reporting to: Family Strengthening and Community Coordinator
Job summary Education and Health Programme Officer is responsible to facilitate access to education and health services for children, young people, caregivers and community partners, facilitate partners and other duty bearers. He/she is responsible for facilitating the capacity building of CSO and other duty bearers, communities and duty bearers to effectively protect and care for their children sustainably in cooperation with local authorities and other service providers, enabling children who are at risk of losing the care of their families to grow with a healthy family environment.
Major Responsibilities
- Facilitate the formation and development of Community health education Task Force on organise and facilitate training on individual, community health and education levels.
- Lead the budgeting for FS programme health and education components.
- Support community task force on health programme and community levels through lead budgeting leading to FS abandonment to family and community levels through use of appropriate participatory tools.
- Facilitate the identification of opportunities to meet the needs of each local resource and community.
- Support the development of individual family development plans and community development plans with a focus on education and health.
- Facilitate development of emergency preparedness plans related to education and health.
- Conduct regular monitoring visits to schools, tertiary, vocational institutions to assess learner performance, learning environments, class progress; analyse educational quality and access.
- In collaboration with community partners, identify eligible young people for vocational training, community partners assessments, facilitate young enrolment into vocational training, community partners.
- Organise caregiver training in pre- and after-school adult support, facilitate adult support for caregivers.
- Promote girl-mother scholarship and women opportunities to education programme services for caregivers.
- Identify children and caregivers in need of health support and facilitate access to essential services including immunisation, nutrition training, medical support, home-based care.
- Organise regular nutritional support assessments, nutritional training groups, medical support groups.
- HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns.
- Monitor and evaluate programmes through home visits, data collection, and reporting.
- Prepare and submit timely accurate, compliant and quality progress reports.
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Abilities, and Behavioral Competences
- Degree in nursing, Public Health, Education, and Rural Development or related social natural sciences disciplines.
- At least two years’ experience in working with education and health programmes.
- Sound understanding of child rights with safeguarding education, child health programmes, family and community development, rights-based programming and management of CBPs.
- Good communication and reporting skills, computer literate, understanding and ability to apply community team, strong initiative values participatory methodologies with self-starter, ability to work in a team, strong team values participatory methodologies with minimum supervision.
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How to apply
Interested candidates for any of the above positions should submit an application letter via email, along with a detailed and updated CV which includes email contacts, email address, position applied for. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
The candidate MUST clearly indicate the title of the position in the subject line of the email and professional references. Closing date is 31st January 2026.
Please send to: The National Director, Dar es Salaam, SOS Children’s Villages Tanzania recruit.sostanzania@sos-tanzania.org
Please note: SOS Children’s Villages Tanzania is an equal opportunity employer. The organisation does not charge any fees at any stage of the recruitment process. Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.