Position Title: Education Manager – GPE
Activation Date: 31 January, 2024 Announced Date: 31 January, 2024 Expire Date: 06 February, 2024
Job Location: | Kunar |
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Nationality: | National |
Category: | Program |
Employment Type: | Full Time |
Salary: | As per SCI Salary Scale |
Vacancy Number: | 5866 |
No. Of Jobs: | 1 |
City: | Kunar |
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Organization: | Save the Children |
Years of Experience: | 5 Years |
Contract Duration: | Fixed Term |
Gender: | Male/Female |
Education: | Bachelor degree in Education or Social Science, Masters degree in relevant field is preferred |
Close date: | 2024-02-06 |
About Save the Children:
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We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated
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We know that great people make a great organization and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
SCI – Afghanistan
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Our way of working close to people and on their own terms has enabled us to deliver lasting change to tens of thousands of children in the country. The UN Convention of the Rights of the Child is the basis of our work.
We are helping children get a better education, we make it possible for more boys and girls to attend school, we help children protect themselves and influence their own conditions. We work with families, communities and health workers in homes, clinics and hospitals to promote basic health in order to save lives of children and mothers.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
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Reports to: Deputy Head of Office, dotted line to the Sr. Education Manager
Staff reporting to this post: Education Coordinators
Budget Responsibilities: Yes
Role Dimensions: MEAL, HR, Supply Chain, Programme Operations, Finance, PDQ
Key Accountabilities
The main responsibilities of the position holder:
Program Implementation and Monitoring:
- Provide strong leadership, vision, and direction to education projects staff to ensure the delivery of projects targets
- Take decisions were required to implement education projects in highly fluid environments
- Ensure that effective monitoring and performance management systems are in place for achieving prior agreed program activity targets, budget allocations, and financial expenditures, ensuring that value for money can be effectively demonstrated to the donor and activities and expenditures are compliant with donor requirements.
- Maintain efficient and effective operating systems that are compliant with all Save the Children standards, including safety and security management and child safeguarding
- Lead the preparation, review, and regular revision of the detailed implementation plan, taking into account agreed milestones, log frame, and budget.
- Collaborately set and review monthly targets and weekly work plans for projects staff to ensure that the DIP’s are delivered.
- Monitor projects progress through field visits and meetings with projects staff, communities, the local and provincial government and other key stakeholders.
- Where required, commission, design or participate in field-based needs assessments and gap analyses, including risk and vulnerability assessments.
- Lead on revisions of core implementation documents (milestones, log frame, procurement plan, budget, DIP)
- Strongly ensure that internal controls in the fields of Finance, community-based staff recruitment, selection of children and CBE classes are satisfactory and that fraud, corruption, nepotism, and diversion is minimized
- Provide assistance and support to partners as per need to maintatin quality and timely implementation of project.
- Insure that reports are colleacted from partners and projects coordinators to contribute to projects required reports including donors reports, EiE WG/education cluster reports and sectorial ministry reports.
Technical Capacity:
- Ensure quality implementation of projects components with a focus on inclusiveness (community-based education, teachers learning circles), budget development, budget management and policies
- Identify needs for inclusive education; including equipment for children and adults with disability
- High-level understanding of community-based education, special education, SIP, CP, and community mobilization guidelines
Budget Management:
- Ensure the effective and donor-compliant management of the projects budgets through close collaboration with Awards, Finance and Supply Chain.
- Identify potential ariances of expenses verusus budget, and recommend appropriate adjustments at AIR meetings
Reporting and Documentation:
- Lead the team on Generating Donor narrative and financial reports, submission of budget revisions, and other donor-required documentation on time.
- Ensure that key project documentation is archived at provincial and field level, field staff aware of what needs to be kept and recorded.
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Human Resource Management:
- Ensure that the projects are appropriately staffed with diverse experienced employees.
- Ensure that all direct reports have updated job descriptions, work plans, objectives, development goals, and clear lines of communication and reporting.
- Support the capacity building of staff in report writing; budget tracking and utilization; indicator tracking; supervision, and implementation of detailed implementation plans
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BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
- widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
- Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external and supporters
- Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- Willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor degree in Education or Social Science, Masters degree in relevant field is preferred
- Atleast 5 years of relevant managerial experience with international organizations
- Strong understaning of Pashto, Dari and English language
Submission Guideline:
Qualified applicants are highly encouraged to apply for the position by filling in the online application form Returning users will need to enter their username and password, first time users will need to create a user account.
It is recommended that you save your username and password for future job applications through the online system.
Submission Email:
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