MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Under direct supervision of the Portfolio Manager, Coastal and Ocean Resilience – Tanzania, the Senior Programme Officer, Coastal and Ocean Resilience (SPO) will work closely with designated focal points from relevant Ministries, Government Institutions, Academic and Research Institutions, partner NGOs and donor. The Senior Programme Officer, Coastal and Ocean Resilience, will provide senior-level technical, operational and programme coordination support to the Coastal and Ocean Resilience team.

The SPO will play a central role in ensuring coherence, quality, and integration across the COR portfolio, translating strategic direction into coordinated implementation frameworks, systems-based programming approaches, and high-quality delivery standards.

SPECIFIC DUTIES:

The specific duties and responsibilities for the SPO:

Portfolio Coordination and Integration (30%);
Support operationalization of the Coastal and Ocean Resilience–Tanzania strategy and Theory of Change.
Ensure coherence and alignment across all coastal and marine projects (biodiversity, MPAs, restoration, pollution, fisheries governance, institutional strengthening).
Facilitate cross?project coordination, learning sessions and identification of synergies to reduce duplication.
Support integration of systems-thinking tools into programme design and implementation for adaptive management reviews and reflection processes.
Coordinate integration of ecological, socio-economic and governance data to identify leverage points for scaling impact.

Programme Delivery and Performance Monitoring (30%);
Support day-to-day delivery of portfolio projects
Strengthen oversight of portfolio workplans, budgets, implementation schedules and performance targets.
Consolidate programme-wide performance data and ensure reporting meets IUCN, donor, and portfolio-level standards.
Support risk management, safeguards monitoring and documentation of compliance requirements.
Maintain oversight of reporting calendars, monitoring systems and portfolio-level data portals.

usiness and Financing Development (20%)
Contribute to development of funding concepts, proposals, budgets and results frameworks.
Support development of multi-year resource mobilisation pipelines.
Support engagement with government ministries, institutions and policy platforms through preparation of briefs, technical notes and coordinated inputs to national consultations.
Support identification of opportunities presented by other projects and accommodate them, where possible, to bolster any business opportunities and models created beyond the focus project
Maintain updated stakeholder mapping, partnership tracking and support strengthening of institutional relationships.
Support fundraising efforts through identifying and securing funding opportunities to operationalise the GBW and private sector engagement, as a continuation or leverage to the ongoing projects.

Knowledge Management and Communications (20%);
Develop and coordinate knowledge products (technical briefs, lessons learned, case studies) and ensure learning feeds into national, regional, and Great Blue Wall processes.
Support creation of high?quality communications outputs and regional/global reporting contributions.
Provide technical backstopping to project teams and contribute to team capacity building in programme management and systems-approach tools.
Assist with preparation of annual workplans, consolidated budgets and alignment between country and regional COR priorities.

Any other duties;
Carry out other relevant tasks assigned by and mutually agreed with the line manager.