Director of Government Partnerships - Tanzania

Director of Government Partnerships
- 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 Msingi Tek. 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 Msingi Tek 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.

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.

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

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

• 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 work streams, 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.

• 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…