Psychosocial & Health Coordinator
About the role
The Psychosocial & Health Coordinator leads the wellbeing side of the Scholarship Program, focusing on psychosocial support, case management, safeguarding, family engagement, and health coordination for orphaned and vulnerable children in Tanzania. The role ensures scholars are safe, healthy, and able to thrive academically, socially, and personally, working closely with scholars, caregivers, schools, health providers, government authorities, and community stakeholders. Responsibilities: - Monitor scholars’ social, emotional, and psychological wellbeing through regular assessments, provide direct psychosocial support within professional limits, and design individualized wellbeing plans, referring to specialist services where needed. - Lead scholar case management from intake through confidential documentation, multidisciplinary case reviews, and resolution, including tailored pathway and mentorship planning built around each scholar’s strengths. - Implement TFFT’s Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy: identify and respond to concerns, coordinate investigations with government authorities where required, and build safeguarding awareness among scholars, staff, caregivers, and partner schools. - Conduct home visits, build strong relationships with caregivers and community stakeholders, and run family meetings and caregiver forums that strengthen the support around each scholar. - Coordinate health assessments, referrals, and emergency support, and maintain accurate health records in collaboration with local providers. - Partner with school leaders, teachers, and counsellors to address wellbeing, behavioural, and attendance concerns, and strengthen school capacity on safeguarding and psychosocial support. - Support engagement and enrichment activities, and bring a wellbeing lens to recruitment, selection, onboarding, and school transitions across the Scholarship Program. - Design and deliver training on safeguarding, child protection, and psychosocial support for TFFT staff, caregivers, and school personnel, and develop supporting resource materials. - Maintain wellbeing and case management data, track key indicators, prepare regular reports for TFFT Tanzania and TFFT US, and help document scholar impact stories. - Work across TFFT’s teams, represent TFFT in stakeholder engagements, and support organizational priorities such as continuous improvement, fundraising, and donor reporting as needed. How to apply: Send your CV and cover letter to jobs@thefoundationfortomorrow.org Subject line: Psychosocial & Health Coordinator Application
Key requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counselling, Sociology, Community Development, Guidance and Counselling, or a related field.
- Professional certification in counselling, child protection, safeguarding, or case management (preferred).
- At least 3 years’ experience in child protection, case management, psychosocial support, social work, or youth development programs.
- Child safeguarding, protection, and case management
- Psychosocial support, counselling, active listening, and mental health promotion
- Family and community engagement
- Health referral and coordination
- Training and facilitation
- Project Design, Strategic Planning, and Management
- Monitoring, evaluation, reporting, and confidential data management
- Stakeholder relationship management and excellent interpersonal skills
- Conflict resolution and problem-solving