Plan International jobs in Tanzania for October 2026 offer opportunities for qualified candidates interested in youth development, gender equality, sexual and reproductive health, community engagement, and project management. The latest Plan International Tanzania vacancies include Community Engagement and Gender Officer, Project Manager, Sexual Reproductive Health and Right (SRHR) Specialist, and Youth Engagement Officer. These opportunities are associated with a proposed project focusing on young people, particularly young women, in Tanga Region. Interested applicants should review the qualifications, work experience requirements, and application deadlines before applying through the official recruitment links.
1: Community Engagement and Gender Officer
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
- Lead the capacity strengthening of local CSOs under Work Package 4, including training on grant writing, proposal development, and implementation of gender-transformative interventions.
- Manage and technically accompany the competitive grant process, including support to selected organisations and monitoring of grant implementation, results, and use of funds.
- Provide technical guidance to CSOs on gender-transformative approaches, inclusion, and safeguarding, and facilitate linkages with schools, health facilities, youth clubs, and community structures.
- Support the integration of gender-transformative and inclusive approaches into school and youth club activities under Work Package 1, including advice on training content and facilitation methods.
- Contribute to coordination, reporting, and documentation of learning related to community engagement and gender equality, in close collaboration with the Team Leader and other experts.
Technical expertise, skills and Knowledge
- Bachelor’s degree in gender studies, social sciences, public health or development studies
- Knowledge of English:
- 5 years of professional experience in community engagement or gender equality
- 3 years of experience in the implementation of gender transformative interventions,
- 3 years of professional experience working in an international organisation.
2: Project Manager
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
3: Sexual Reproductive Health and Right (SRHR) Specialist
Accountabilities
- Lead the planning and implementation of school- and out of school youth-club-based SRHR and life-skills interventions under Work Package 1, including training of teachers and youth facilitators on sexual and reproductive health education, life skills, and gender and inclusion.
- Ensure high-quality, age-appropriate SRHR knowledge transfer to adolescents and young people, aligned with national health guidelines and youth-friendly service standards.
- Support and technically guide structured cooperation between schools, youth clubs, and health facilities, including mutual visits and outreach by health workers, to strengthen access to SRHR services and referral pathways.
- Together with the Team Leader, design and facilitate structured, gender transformative dialogue processes with local opinion leaders under Work Package 2, using health-based evidence to address social norms affecting young people’s access to SRHR services and to contribute to the reduction of teenage pregnancies.
- Coordinate the implementation of repeated dialogue cycles and support the organisation of baseline, midline, and endline assessments in collaboration with the external service provider.
- Support the orientation of Ward Education Coordinators and Village/Ward Executive Officers on key SRHR topics to strengthen local ownership, monitoring, and sustainability.
- Ensure coherence between youth-focused interventions and community-level norm change activities, and contribute to reporting, documentation of lessons learned, and safeguarding compliance.
Technical expertise, skills and Knowledge
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- Master’s degree in public health, medicine, nursing, social sciences, education or gender studies
- 5 years of professional experience in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) or adolescent and youth health programmes and 5 years of experience in the design and implementation of SRHR knowledge transfer interventions for adolescents and young people
- 5 years of experience engaging community leaders, opinion leaders, religious leaders or other gatekeepers on sensitive SRHR topics and 5 years of experience applying gender-transformative approaches,
- 5 years of professional experience working in an international organisation.
- Knowledge of English and of Kiswahili
4: Youth Engagement Officer
Accountabilities
- Provide a youth perspective in the design, implementation, and adaptation of project activities across all work packages, ensuring relevance, acceptability, and accessibility for adolescents and young people.
- Support the implementation of school- and youth-club activities, including trainings, events, peer-learning formats, and extracurricular activities.
- Contribute to the co-creation and review of SRHR messages, training materials, and IEC products to ensure youth-friendly language and formats.
- Support community engagement activities, including dialogue processes with opinion leaders, by providing insights on youth realities, barriers to access, and effective messaging.
- Participate in monitoring and learning activities, including feedback collection from young people and documentation of lessons learned from a youth perspective.
- Act as a liaison between the project team and youth participants, helping to ensure safeguarding, inclusion, and respectful engagement.
Technical expertise, skills and Knowledge
- Advanced Certificate of Secondary Education Examination (ACSEE)
- 2 years of engagement in youth-led or youth-focused initiatives, such as school or youth clubs, community organisations, advocacy groups, or volunteer programmes.
- Experience in developing social media content related to youth issues, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), health promotion, or gender equality
- Knowledge of English
This role is open to those that have the pre-existing right to live and work in Tanzania only
Location: Tanga Tanzania
Reports to: Project Manager
Closing Date: 31st October, 2026
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