Forestry, Land Use, and Value Chain Development in Tanzania (FORLAND) is a four-year bilateral project between the governments of Finland and Tanzania (2025-2029). The Project area includes the Iringa, Njombe, Ruvuma, and Lindi regions, which are rich in natural and plantation forest resources. The main headquarters is at Forest and Wood Industries Training Centre (FWITC) in Mafinga. FORLAND helps small woodlot owners establish and manage tree plantations, as well as rural communities manage their Miombo Village Land Forest Reserves using Community Based Forest Management. The project also strengthens the value chain, assisting communities, tree producers, and micro, small, and medium enterprises in adding value to their goods. It builds on the success of the Participatory Plantation Forestry Programme (PFP 2) and Forest and Value Chain Development Programme (FORVAC) to ensure the long-term viability of the achievements and institutions supported. It also closely aligns with the development strategies and priorities of the Finnish and Tanzanian governments, helping to alleviate poverty, create jobs, and strengthen climate resilience.

The FORLAND project is recruiting a Project Administrative Assistant who will be responsible for the following duties:
• Act as receptionist and answer telephone
• Monitor the office website, ensure it is kept up to date and deal with enquiries to the programme website
• Take care of the all programme correspondences, consultant reports, meeting minutes and other important records ensuring that they are properly managed and that hard copies are made available as needed and that the soft copies are correctly archived on the network attached storage.
• Manage store and stocks of office supplies and initiate procurements when needed.
• Support consultants in their research and data entry and management
• Support office events management
• Maintain programme contacts information complete and up to date
• Other duties as may be assigned from time to time

Business area:
Development Consulting

Qualifications required:
Minimum Diploma / Bachelor degree in Business, Administration, Public relations and Secretarial services.

Professional experience required:
Minimum of 3 years’ experience in busy donor funded projects. Possession of Good communication skills Fluent English and Swahili (reading, writing and comprehension) and must be able to write in both English and Swahili to internal technical reporting standard)

Position length:
>Temporary

Position length:
38 months each with duty station in Mafinga

Commencement:
04/2025