Country: South Sudan
Closing date: 08 Jul 2016
PROJECT MANAGER: PRIMARY SCHOOL LEADERSHIP AND INSPECTION IN SOUTH SUDAN
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Role Purpose:
The Project Manager will provide strategic and operational leadership and assume the overall responsibility for the implementation of a large-scale ($5.94m), consortium based education project. This is a senior role providing leadership to a consortium of four NGOs. The post-holder provides overall direction and functional management to the programme, as well as coordinating the relationship and information flows between all the key stakeholders: MoEST, UNICEF, and consortium partner agencies
Contract Duration: 6 months
Location: Juba, with minimum 30% travel to field sites
Qualifications and Experience
Essential
- Exceptional project management skills (finance, budgeting, managing staff, planning, donor-management)
- Solid international experience (minimum 2 years) working with an international NGO or a Ministry of Education, with a proven ability working in insecure environments
- Outstanding skills in leading consortia of INGOs and Teacher training colleges
- High-level communications, diplomacy, and interpersonal skills for working in multi-cultural teams and with the Ministry of Education
- Technical understanding of school leadership and / or School Inspection
- Master's degree in related field (or an equivalent high-level professional qualification)
- Willingness to travel extensively across all areas of South Sudan
- Commitment to the values and principles of Save the Children
Desirable:
- Demonstrated experience of managing large milestone based projects
- Strong technical knowledge of policy and practice in the field of education and states affected by conflict, with the ability to provide education technical guidance at policy and implementation levels
- Experience in working with primary education
- Previous experience in South Sudan
- Previous experience in managing a UNICEF payment-by-results contract
- Experience in leading, designing and implementing Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability Learning systems
Please apply in English saving your CV and covering letter as a single document, including your salary expectations for this role. This role closes on 8th July 2016.
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Disclaimer:
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How to apply:
Application Email: Please apply with a covering letter and up-to-date CV to: 'MKogi.35069.3830@savethechildrenint.aplitrak.com'