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The Tanzania Environmental Sustainability Trust, doing business as Chakwetu, is a Trust under Tanzanian law making grants in support of conservation, biodiversity and climate change adaptation. The institution is in its start-up phase. The Trust seeks assistance from ICT professionals to fully implement a collaboration-focused ICT environment appropriate to a small team, based on an integrated Microsoft 365 environment (OneDrive, Outlook, Teams, Sharepoint) and a WordPress-based website
Background
The Trust is a grant-making nonprofit institution. It receives funds from a variety of sources interested in biodiversity conservation and related issues and issues grants to implementing organizations, primarily Tanzanian non-governmental organizations, universities and individual researchers, as well as occasional grants to international organizations.
It issues requests for proposals (RFPs) largely on-line and through social media (LinkedIn, the website) as well as its mailing lists, receives applications ideally on-line, and receives narrative and financial reports from grantees largely ideally on-line.Key professionals employed at the Trust include a CEO, primarily focused on client and government relations (as well as overall oversight), a Finance and Admin Manager, a Programme Manager and in time and Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, all of whom will supervise lower-level staff.
The Trust is overseen by a Board of Trustees, who need access to a “board portal”.
The primary practical business of the Trust includes:
1. Developing and circulating RFPs to interested parties
2. Receiving, cataloguing and acknowledging submissions
3. Evaluation and decision-making related to submissions, including engaging outside experts
4. Developing project-specific timelines, calendars, information flows, document repositories
5. Regular CRM-related functions (database of clients, suppliers, other parties; management of communications with same)
6. Updating website and social media (primarily LinkedIn) and other public communications.The Trust’s ICT must be largely manageable by competent general staff with occasional external expertise.
Microsoft 365 services
1. Microsoft 365. Transition from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365, including migration of documents, email addresses & messages, calendars, etc….
2. Project Management & Customer Relations Management. Propose and implement solutions fully compatible with Teams environment.
3. Integration with WordPress – see below
4. Integration as appropriate with the Trust’s financial management system.
WordPress-centered
1. Existing wordpress instance to be upgraded with necessary addons & configuration to improvise security.
2. “Customer”-facing pages to be developed, providing easy access to documents, updated information, online applications and similar functions.
3. Appropriate integration with Microsoft 365, particularly for client interface (e.g. response to RFPs, link to documents and CRM interface…).Additional Information/parameters
2. Two websites exist – www.chakwetu.org and www.chakwetutrust.or.tz . SEO parameters need to direct traffic to the or.tz site. The .org site will be closed. Chakwetu also own multiple domains which need consolidation. The website and domains are currently managed by
3. The Trust is not interested in bespoke or highly-customised solutions; the final system must be based on widely available software with strong support from external, Tanzania-based expertise.
4. The Trust requires specifically experienced assistance. Interested parties are required to have significant expertise with collaborative Microsoft 365 environments and integration of project management and CRM functions
Interested parties are required to have significant expertise with WordPress sites, security and integration.Please contact us at recruitment@chakwetu.or.tz with expressions of interest, summary of experience and qualifications, or for additional information.