UKaid-
Girls’ Education Challenge
Deputy
Project Director, WWW Project
CfBT
Education Trust is looking for a qualified and suitable person to support the
Wasichana Wote Wasome (WWW) project work for a short term contract of seven (7)
months as a Deputy Project Director.
Job
Purpose: The
Deputy Project Director will work closely with Project Director to provide
leadership and coordination of the project ensuring quality and timely delivery
of the project activities.
The incumbent will work closely with a wide range of stakeholders, including clients, schools, consortium partners/donors and Consultants in support of the overall project implementation.
She/he
will maintain the networking relationships with clients including government,
civil society and other stakeholders to ensure efficient project delivery and
synergy within the consortium and across with other initiatives being
undertaken in the country.
Job Objectives:
- Provide
support to the Project Director and partners to identify, plan and manage
implementation of project activities including learning lessons to inform
quality project improvements, sustainability, and policy outcomes.
- Support
effective coordination and synergies between national level, county level,
and school based, and community based activities for timely approach to
achieving project deliverables.
- Maintain
oversight of implementation, monitoring, evaluation and learning to ensure
relevant project data is collected analyzed in compliance with CFBT and
DFID/PWC reporting requirements.
- Provide
oversight of technical and/or operational products such as success stories
and other products for communications to internal and external clients.
- Maintain
oversight of Child protection policy and implementation activities to
ensure compliance with CFBT and DFID/PWC requirements.
- Ensure
timely and quality processing and delivery of all donor reports, research
reports and quarterly reports
- Represent
the Project in meetings with donors and partners whenever assigned and as
acting Project Director as necessary.
Person
Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- A
Master’s degree or higher in education or a related field, and a minimum
of 12 years of relevant professional engagement in the education sector or
related sectors and with a minimum of three years in senior management or
similar roles
- Prior
experience and familiarity with donor project management policies,
procedure and reporting requirements, particularly DFID.
Experience
Essential:
- Proven
management and implementation of large education projects or similar
project and prior experience managing large-scale projects of US $5
million or more with geographically dispersed teams
- Strong
leadership skills across various levels of staff and locations.
- Strong
ability to work across technical and operational areas.
- Strong
communication, both oral and written, strong interpersonal skills, and the
ability to develop excellent relations with key stakeholders.
- Excellent
interpersonal and cross-cultural communication and interpersonal skills
demonstrated by ability to interact professionally with culturally and
linguistically diverse staff, clients and consultants.
- Demonstrated
ability to set priorities
- Concise
and accurate report writing
How to
Apply
Interested
and eligible candidates should submit a detailed CV and Cover letter including
three referees and the expected salary to recruitment@cfbt-africa.com ONLY with
the subject line of the name of the post applied for.
Applications
will be reviewed on a rolling basis with the successful candidate expected to
report in September, 2016.
Applications must be received on or before 26th August, 2016.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.