About Imagine Worldwide

All children have immense potential, but hundreds of millions don’t have access to the learning they need. Imagine Worldwide believes that every child should be empowered with the basic right to literacy and numeracy. We provide an innovative education technology solution and implementation model to the global literacy/numeracy learning crisis using the onebillion application and various toolkits and systems to support implementation. Our model is massively scalable, evidence-based, and can deliver foundational learning to millions of the most marginalized children.

Imagine Worldwide partners with governments, organizations, and communities to provide child-directed, tablet-based learning that is accessible, effective, and affordable. We are incorporated in California (United States) as a nonprofit organization, but operate in Sub-Saharan Africa through locally-registered entities in Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania. Learn more on our website.

About the Role

The Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Manager plays a critical role in ensuring Imagine Worldwide delivers measurable learning impact to children through data-driven decision-making, accountability, and knowledge sharing. This position helps shape how evidence informs scaling decisions and long-term sustainability through government partnerships.

The successful candidate will provide technical leadership and coordinate with implementing partners and education sector stakeholders (e.g., Ministry of Education and decentralized structures) to ensure high-quality program planning, monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and knowledge management.

The MEAL Manager will join a highly committed and collaborative team dedicated to helping every child reach their full potential. 

Key Responsibilities

The MEAL Manager will work closely with Imagine’s Program Director and local implementing partners to ensure effective monitoring and execution of program activities in Tanzania. Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Evidence-Based Program Improvement

• Provide technical leadership for the implementation and continuous improvement of Imagine’s MEAL tools, systems, and methodologies.
• Support rigorous evidence generation to inform scale, nationwide adoption, and institutionalization within government systems.
• Analyse qualitative and quantitative data to generate lessons learned and apply them to improve program implementation.

Capacity Building & Staff Support

• Build capacity of Imagine and partner staff in setting and using MEAL plans, tools, and strategies.
• Supervise and provide technical oversight to MEAL staff, enumerators, or consultants engaged in research and data collection.

Data Management & Quality Assurance

• Oversee and manage quality data collection to monitor program activities against quality benchmarks.
• Conduct and supervise surveys, assessments, and impact evaluations.

Communication, Reporting & Dissemination

• Collaborate with program and communications teams to document and disseminate impact stories.
• Support the preparation and submission of timely, comprehensive reports for donors and stakeholders.
• Plan learning events (e.g., learning summits, reflection sessions) and contribute to donor engagement.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Development Studies, Social Sciences, Education).
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation in development programs, including working with diverse partners and stakeholders.
• Experience working on programs with a significant technology or digital learning component is preferred.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Strong project and data management skills.
• Fluency in English  and Swahili (written and spoken);
• Excellent interpersonal, facilitation, and training skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and data visualization/reporting tools.
• Experience developing and tracking KPIs for education or child-focused programming.
• Familiarity with digital data tools (e.g., KoboToolbox, CommCare, Power BI, Tableau, DHIS2)
• Experience managing multi-site and multi-partner projects.
• Proven ability to influence partners and adapt plans to changing needs.
• Understanding of evaluation methodologies and data-driven decision-making.

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with mobile data collection tools and digital learning analytics.
• Experience in designing and supporting knowledge management frameworks.

Qualities

•  Passion for Imagine’s mission and vision 
•  Demonstrated commitment to equity in educational access and outcomes
• Passion for project management
• Demonstrated ability to think independently and solve problems
• Collaborative team player; clear and proactive communicator
• Flexible, adaptable, and able to work in a fast-paced, changing environment

Location

Candidates must be based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Compensation & Benefits

Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis

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Imagine Worldwide is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Position Overview

Educate!, Educate!, a high-growth and award-winning non-profit social enterprise, is seeking a strategic Chief Financial Officer (CFO)/Global Director of Finance to serve as the architect of our financial health and to build the organizational infrastructure needed to support our ambitious scale.

Educate! views finance not just as a compliance function, but as a strategic engine for impact. The right person will be a "strategic architect" who can look beyond the numbers to craft the narrative of our financial future, ensuring our staffing, systems, and processes are built to match our organization and strategy. You will be obsessed with efficiency and eager to design bespoke financial systems that are lean, actionable, and specifically tailored to match the unique stage of each of our products—from pilot to massive scale.

Educate! has grown 3x over the last 4 years, and keen to keep going. The right person will love solving complex strategic problems and coaching teams to internalize cost-consciousness and data-driven decision-making in order to make continued growth a reality. Uniquely, this role does not require a traditional CFO background; we are also open to finance-oriented management consultants, general managers, or strategy/operations leaders.

What You’ll Do🌟

Financial Oversight (20%)  

• Provide strategic leadership over financial operations and restrictions management to ensure a strong, sustainable cash position across all countries.
• Oversee accurate, timely financial reporting and maintain internal controls that keep the organization fully audit-ready at all times.
• Champion a culture of cost consciousness and financial discipline, ensuring teams use resources efficiently and responsibly.
• Ensure financial information is consistently reliable, on time, and actionable for leaders and stakeholders to make sound, data-driven decisions.
• Drive swift and effective resolution of all audit recommendations, ensuring financial integrity and compliance remain a non-issue and never disrupt organizational success.

Systems building (20%)

• Design and build lean financial systems and processes that are specifically tailored to match the product stage and business model of each program model
• Collaborate with program leaders to review and develop country-level finance systems that support optimum field delivery operations while establishing and promoting an appropriate control environment.
• Your work will ensure teams in the field can deliver with excellence, supported by robust financial practices.
• Develop financial systems that empower product and implementation teams to focus on what matters most at each stage: speed, quality, or scale by eliminating unnecessary procedures and enabling operational clarity.
• Create systems that evolve with the organization’s growth, ensuring efficiency without unnecessary complexity, and enable us to build and scale products that measurably improve the lives of millions of youth.

Strategic Financial Analysis (20%)

• Define and prioritize key financial metrics: Partner with the CEO, COO, Chief Education and Innovation Officer (CEdIO), and CPO to identify the most critical financial metrics for each product and stage of growth.
• Design and implement actionable systems: Lead the rollout of systems that translate complex financial data into clear, strategic insights for leadership decision-making.
• Enable leaders with practical financial tools: Equip operational and product leaders with intuitive financial models and core metrics they can actively use.
• Drive sustainable growth: Empower teams to make confident, strategic decisions that maximize financial sustainability and long-term impact for each product and program

Compliance (10%)

• Partner with country teams to implement and monitor strict adherence to all risk management measures, internal controls, and financial regulations, including tax and human capital laws.
• Act on key reports and recommendations to strengthen and improve the organization’s financial ecosystem.
• Strategic Compliance Leadership: Ensure all critical compliance requirements are fully met, and lower-priority obligations are managed strategically, so that compliance matters never undermine organizational success.

External Reporting (15%)

• Lead financial forecasting and the creation, review, and analysis of reports to support strategic decision-making.
• Develop and review budgets for proposals and funder/payer reporting, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and timeliness.
• Deliver financial reporting to funders and the board that is reliable, transparent, and strategically framed, presenting complex budgets in the simplest, most understandable way for organization-wide clarity and efficiency.
• Streamline complex reporting processes to minimize time and effort while maintaining accuracy and insight.

Technology Leadership for Finance & Administration (15%)

• Drive continuous improvement of finance and administration systems by assessing team needs, auditing current processes, and researching industry best practices.
• Ensure global and country-level finance and admin functions leverage the most effective technology to operate efficiently, reduce costs, and strengthen overall financial sustainability.
• Lead technology initiatives that optimize workflows, increase productivity, and enhance the organization’s operational resilience.

Who You Are 🦸‍♀️🦸‍♂️ 

• Experience: 6-10 years of strategic leadership experience, including oversight over strategic finance and operational systems. Specific finance leadership is NOT required - however oversight over finance systems and reporting and strategic financial management experience is. Finance oriented management consultants, general managers and strategy/operations leaders are encouraged to apply.
• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills for working with global leaders
• Strategic problem-solving and problem ownership orientation
• Ability to apply financial modeling and simplicity in solution design to build lean finance systems that align with the organization's strategy. Resonate with our Five Cultural Tenets (see What is Educate! About? below) and learn more by looking at Educate!’s culture deck here.

Terms💼

• A vibrant, mission-driven environment with a supportive and fun team. 
• Competitive salary based on market factors and commensurate with experience.
• Benefits will align with the country of hire (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, or, Rwanda) and typically include medical and travel insurance, Learning & growth opportunities, flexibility on work hours when needed and hybrid work, paid leave plus one week of office closure over the December holidays, and more.
• African candidates strongly preferred. 
• We will also consider applications from exceptional candidates based outside East Africa and the UK, where we do not have a physical office. For these candidates, the role will be remote and will involve substantial travel.

About Imagine Worldwide Tanzania

Imagine Worldwide Tanzania (Imagine-TZ) is a non-profit organization affiliated with Imagine Worldwide (IW), a global NGO committed to transforming education through innovative technology. Imagine-TZ seeks to demonstrate that children — when provided with access to personalized, tablet-based learning — can acquire foundational literacy and numeracy skills with minimal adult supervision. By leveraging evidence-based digital learning solutions, IW partners with governments, schools, and communities to expand access to quality education for underserved children across the country.  Literacy and numeracy skills are the basis for a better life and the positive benefits to health, wealth, and social outcomes are multi-generational. However, 9 out of 10 children across Sub-Saharan Africa cannot read and understand a simple text by age 10. Imagine works with partners worldwide to confront this crisis, using data and research to continuously refine and scale its foundational learning solution.

Imagine- TZ has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST), the President’s Office - Regional Administration and Local Government (PO-RALG), and the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT) in Zanzibar to implement a program known as MsingiTek. This program will be rolled out in five regions of mainland (Morogoro, Manyara, Shinyanga, Tabora, and Ruvuma) as well as across 11 districts of Zanzibar. The first phase of the program, launching in May 2025, will reach 533 public primary schools (500 in mainland Tanzania and 33 in Zanzibar) over the course of 15 months. If MsingTek  demonstrates improvements in literacy and numeracy outcomes, it will be scaled nationwide in close collaboration with the government. This initiative has the potential to transform the learning journey for millions of children across Tanzania.

About the Role

The Director of Government Partnerships will play an instrumental role in carrying out Imagine’s mission, to design, deliver and scale tablet-based learning solutions that enable children to become literate and numerate in Tanzania, and secondly institutionalizing the program within the government for long-term sustainability. The Director will join a highly committed and collaborative team that is working together to empower every child, everywhere to achieve their full potential. They will work directly with the Executive Director of Imagine Tanzania and Imagine’s Head of Government Partnerships, to manage Imagine’s path to the national adoption of our edtech program, in Tanzania. 

Mission and Objectives

Lead and manage all interactions with government entities to ensure alignment, compliance, and strategic collaboration for program implementation, policy influence, and institutionalization

Key Responsibilities

The responsibilities of this role include, but will not be limited to, the following:

Collaboration between Imagine Tanzania and MoEST, PoRALG and MoEVT:

• Develop government engagement plans, setting clear objectives, and activities;
• Setup regular meetings with different government stakeholders to discuss program progress and resolve any challenges with implementation;
• Support and facilitate functional teams or working groups between IM, MoEST, PoRALG and MoEVT and ensure effective joint planning and delivery of activities between the  IM, MoEST, PoRALG and MoEVt personnel to build government capacity;
• Oversee workstreams, assess resource requirements and plan adequately to support government engagement activities;
• Support the Executive Director engagement with MoEST, PoRALG and MoEVT officers at different levels to ensure capacity building and ownership of the program;
• Support program implementation governance arrangements and ensure they operate efficiently between the program and the government;
• Collaborate with the  MoEST, PoRALG and MoEVT to implement the program with a clear goal of devolving power and ownership to government actors over time.

Institutionalization of the Program:

• Uphold principles of system strengthening where Imagine plays a temporary role in program implementation with a clear goal of driving  MoEST, PoRALG and MoEVT full ownership of the program;
• Lead in-country government engagement strategies in liaison with Imagine Worldwide to ensure continued alignment with Government on key program related matters;
• Liaise with  MoEST, PoRALG and MoEVT  's policy and planning units to drive integration of program activities in the Ministry's primary operating systems for enhanced support;
• Contribute to designing metrics and criteria to measure, monitor and report on progress towards institutionalization goals;
• Explore critical partnerships within the government education delivery system and secure their alignment and support for the program.

Stakeholder Management:

• Collaborate closing with global Imagine Worldwide on government engagements and efforts to manage stakeholders;
• Develop and manage detailed stakeholder mapping of all relevant government stakeholders and categorise each stakeholders potential influence and impact on our programs and the institutionalization thereof;
• Contribute to and maintain systems (equivalent to a customer relationship management system) to manage stakeholder contact information and track engagements and required actions to enable proactive and considered engagements and mitigate against disruptions in relationships with key government stakeholders;
• Develop and implement engagement plans with prioritized stakeholders to solicit support and secure buy-in through meetings, school visits, special events, hosting workshops, making financial and non-financial contributions to government projects, supporting local edtech hubs etc.

Advocacy and Policy Alignment:

• Develop networks and relationships with key stakeholders in  MoEST, PoRALG and MoEVT and other relevant ministries whose decisions or influence has a bearing government’s buy-in to the program such as curriculum pedagogy and energy;
• Organise and coordinate itineraries of school tours for government stakeholders, donor visits and special guests;
• Build and maintain local political and industry relationships to support the program;
• Raise Imagine Worldwide local profile and stature with government bodies and other key education stakeholders through thought leadership and proactive engagement;
• Keep abreast of relevant policy developments in Tanzania and conduct research as required to guide country office program roll out activities;
• Lead advocacy for new policies or policy changes required to enable long-term sustainability of our programs; 
• Support local engagements with multilateral organizations such as GPE and World Bank; 
• Support dissemination of project outcomes and learnings with stakeholders.

Program Implementation:

• Lead collaboration with government stakeholders to achieve alignment on the program implementation, management and governance processes; 
• Support ISP’s presence at district levels to direct program monitoring in collaboration with  MoEST, PoRALG and MoEVT and the District Education Offices;
• Leverage government relationships to manage project risks with creative problem-solving and escalations as required.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Advanced degree in political science, education, or social science; 
• A minimum of ten (10) years of working experience in government affairs, preferably in a leadership role within international multicultural organisations (commercial or non-profit).

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Ability to take knowledge and link governments and policy influencers with the technical resources and messages needed.
• Significant experience in government relations, an extensive knowledge of federal politics, legislative process, and administrative actions on education, climate and/or energy.
• Able to identify viable administrative pathways for implementation priorities as well as major challenges, and develop effective, creative strategies to influence government stakeholders.
• Ability to listen, communicate, and develop trusting relationships with internal colleagues and external stakeholders to bring together multiple perspectives into a cohesive effort.
• A skilled internal and external relationship builder, with the ability to construct and maintain strong networks of policy influence within the industry and governing institutions.
• Experience in a global environment working with governments and government agencies; in the policymaking process with a strong record of leading and delivering effective results.
• Sincere commitment to work collaboratively with all constituent groups, including staff, board members, RSPO members, stakeholders and other supporters.
• High energy, maturity, and leadership with the ability to serve as a unifying force and to position communications discussions at both the strategic and tactical levels.

Additional Skills 

• Passion for Imagine’s mission and vision
• Demonstrated commitment to equity in educational access and outcomes
• Strong writing and communications skills
• Relationship builder with the flexibility and finesse to ‘manage by influence’
• Team-oriented, collaborative, flexible, adaptable, and comfortable working in an inclusive, low-ego, matrix-management environment
• Self-starter, able to work independently, and enjoys creating and implementing new initiatives.
• Collaborative team player; clear and proactive communicator
• High integrity, conscientious and willing to take responsibility

Qualities

•  Passion for Imagine’s mission and vision 
•  Demonstrated commitment to equity in educational access and outcomes
• Passion for project management
• Demonstrated ability to think independently and solve problems
• Collaborative team player; clear and proactive communicator
• Flexible, adaptable, and able to work in a fast-paced, changing environment

Compensation & Benefits

Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience.

Location

The Director of Government Partnerships must be based in Dar es Salem, Tanzania.

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Imagine Worldwide is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

About Sand

Sand Technologies is a global Physical AI company using data and AI to make critical industries work better. We partner with governments, cities and enterprises to improve how essential systems operate across healthcare, water, energy, telecommunications and infrastructure.

Our work delivers proven real-world impact. We have built AI systems that help manage London’s water supply, supported telecom network planning across hundreds of cities, and developed digital healthcare platforms serving tens of millions of people across Africa. From intelligent command centers to AI-powered infrastructure platforms, we help organizations sense, analyze and act in complex environments.

Our people are ambitious, curious and relentlessly practical. Our teams work alongside clients in the field, solving hard problems and deploying solutions that last. With colleagues across Africa, Europe, the UK and the US, we operate across the full stack - from research and engineering to deployment and capability building.

Our mission is simple: to harness AI to solve humanity’s most pressing challenges.

About the role

Sand is scaling rapidly across Africa, partnering with Ministries of Health to deploy the Health Operating System (HOS) — a decision-support and execution platform that transforms how health systems sense, analyze, and act on data. The HOS is already operational across multiple countries, with plans to expand to 15 countries by end of 2026, supported by 80+ Forward Deployed Engineers.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you are the technical spearhead of our client engagement in Tanzania. Unlike our roaming FDE roles, this is a permanently embedded position. You will be based full-time within the Ministry of Health in Tanzania, becoming a long-term extension of the client's operational team. Your mandate is to build deep institutional relationships, develop comprehensive understanding of the national health system, and deliver sustained value over an extended engagement — not just rapid sprints, but lasting transformation.

This is not staff augmentation. You are an amalgamation of three roles:

1. The Software Engineer — Deep technical acumen to build and deploy production-grade solutions using Sand's product suite
2. The Product Manager — Strategic foresight to understand client problems, influence business objectives, and identify expansion opportunities
3. The Consultant — Client-facing finesse to navigate complex stakeholder relationships, manage scope, and transfer knowledge

Your primary mission is to prove our value fast, delivering functional solutions rapidly using Sand's products, playbooks, and tools, and then maturing those solutions into mission-critical infrastructure that the Ministry depends on daily. Over time, you become the institutional memory of the deployment — the person who understands the data landscape, the stakeholder dynamics, and the operational realities better than anyone.

Who We're Looking For

The Forward Deployed Engineer is a highly ambitious individual. You are someone who is deeply keen on learning — someone who dives in headfirst to solve some of the hardest, most complex problems in global health. You thrive on understanding the technology, understanding the stakeholders, understanding our product suite, and weaving all three together to deliver solutions that change how health systems operate.

This role is not for someone looking for comfort or routine. It is for someone who wants to step outside of their comfort zone, build something they can be proud of, and grow faster than they thought possible. The FDE programme is a career accelerator — an intensive rotation that exposes you to technical depth, strategic thinking, and client leadership in equal measure, all while working on problems that matter for millions of people.

For this permanently embedded role, you also need the maturity and resilience to sustain deep client relationships over months and years — not just weeks. You will become the face of Sand in Malawi, and that requires patience, cultural fluency, and the ability to navigate institutional complexity while maintaining momentum.

Key Responsibilities

Serve as Sand's Permanent Technical Presence in Tanzania

• Embed full-time within the Ministry of Health, becoming a trusted member of the client's extended team
• Develop deep, longitudinal understanding of the national health data landscape, institutional dynamics, and operational priorities
• Build and maintain relationships across all levels of the Ministry — from frontline data officers to senior leadership
• Act as the primary technical point of contact for all Sand activities in-country, coordinating with launchers, country directors, and visiting FDE teams

Drive On-Site Value Delivery

• Rapidly unlock, explore, and integrate client data sources (e.g., DHIS2, SCADA systems, network management platforms, operational databases)
• Understand client problems through prototyping and rapid value delivery — deploying POCs and MVPs using Sand's product components and playbooks
• Transition initial solutions into hardened, production-grade systems that the Ministry relies on daily
• Own the long-term health of deployed solutions — monitoring adoption, troubleshooting issues, and iterating based on user feedback
• Deliver and track value generated through deployment of Sand products

Enable Product-Led Growth

• Lead with Sand's existing product suite — know the products by heart and where each solution is most effective for the domain you're deployed in
• Document learnings, client challenges, and successful solutions as reusable patterns for the broader FDE community
• Drive discovery and expansion by uncovering new opportunities on the ground

Build Local Capacity and Sustainability

• Work alongside Ministry teams to co-create solutions and progressively transfer knowledge, ensuring they can operate and maintain systems independently
• Identify, recruit, and mentor local data engineers, scientists, and analysts to build sustainable in-country capacity
• Develop training materials and documentation tailored to the local context, language, and skill level
• Be the continuity that ensures handover isn't a cliff — you bridge the gap between Sand's deployment and the Ministry's long-term ownership

Feed the Platform Feedback Loop

• Channel field learnings back to improve the core product through structured mechanisms (Technical Deep Dives, Solution Swarms, pattern documentation)
• Turn "gravel roads" into "paved superhighways" — document solution patterns so the next FDE can move faster
• Contribute field feedback that influences 30% of the product roadmap

Requirements — Essential

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, data science, system deployment, or technical leadership
• Proficiency in at least one of: Python, SQL/PostgreSQL, JavaScript — with ability to write production-grade code
• Strong problem-solving skills with a bias toward action and rapid prototyping
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills — comfortable presenting to senior government or corporate stakeholders and translating between technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience working with or deploying to government, public sector, or large institutional clients
• Proven ability to lead local technical teams and build capacity
• Willingness to relocate and be permanently based in Tanzania for the duration of the engagement (12-24+ months)
• Language: Local language proficiency is a significant advantage

Requirements — Preferred

• Experience with data integration, ETL pipelines, and working with diverse data sources
• Experience in one or more of Sand's focus domains: health informatics/digital health, water utility operations, telecommunications network operations, or energy systems
• Familiarity with domain-specific platforms (e.g., DHIS2, OpenMRS for health; SCADA, GIS for water/energy; OSS/BSS for telecom)
• Experience with BI and dashboarding tools, particularly Apache Superset
• Experience with data transformation tools such as dbt or Airflow
• Comfort working with data dictionaries, reporting requirements, and identifying common data quality issues
• Knowledge of data security, privacy, and interoperability standards (e.g., FHIR for healthcare, GDPR, local data sovereignty requirements)
• Experience operating in resource-constrained environments (unreliable power, limited connectivity)

Work Environment

This is a permanently embedded role. You will work on-site at the Ministry of Health in Tanzania 4 days per week, with 1 day for focused remote work, internal collaboration, and knowledge sharing with the broader FDE community. You should expect to be based in Zanzania for a minimum of 12-24 months.

You must be self-driven, comfortable operating as Sand's primary technical representative in-country, and disciplined with online collaboration tools to stay connected with the broader Sand team across geographies. Cultural sensitivity, adaptability, and genuine interest in the local context are essential — you are not passing through, you are putting down roots.