Job Detail

Key Accountabilities
The main responsibilities of the position holder: 
Program Implementation and Monitoring:

•    Provide strong leadership, vision, and direction to 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. 
•    Collect reports 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:
•    Generate Donor narrative and financial reports, the 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.
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
Coordination, Business Development & Representation:
•    Establish meaningful working relationships with projects stakeholders such as government departments, UN agencies, and other international organizations working for displaced populations, district-level authorities, and community members.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
    Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
    Holds the team to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
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