The Organisation
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.
We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.
Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.
We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.
We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 75 countries.
Project design, implementation and reporting
- Ensure the technical soundness, appropriateness and general quality in project design and planning
- Provide leadership into the project planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation; assess the outputs, outcomes and impact of program interventions and activities in the program area.
- Oversee project implementation
- Prepare and develop in consultation with appropriate stakeholders annual work plans and project plans.
- Under the Country Lead leadership contribute to the development of concept notes and proposals.
- Ensure effective and efficient management of financial resources, including review and check project budgets, monitoring expenditures, and implementing cost control measures.
- Ensure M&E and learning in close collaboration with the M&E team.
- Ensure quality and timely reporting and documenting of project activities including preparation of quarterly/yearly program progress reports;
- Ensure the mainstreaming of CP, Inclusion and DRR in your program area.
- As part of your responsibility support the ECCE key intervention area.
Policy engagement and networking
- Serve as a principal representative to regional education thematic networks and clusters to promote effective program implementation, to create collaborative and positive partnerships and alliances, and to influence policy that maximizes the impact of the country program.
- Establish links and good relationships with relevant government authorities, NGOs, academic and research institutions and the media, in the area of education to draw information and knowledge for program efficiency and effectiveness.
- Makes follow up and proper documentation of regional government policies, strategies and plans with respect to education.
Partnership development and strengthening
- Periodically collect information on information about other organizations working within the region to gain institution knowledge of the environment.
- In support of the regional manager, manage the partnership in a holistic and reciprocal manner.
- Make it their business to know about other reorganization in the region.
- Seeks opportunities for different kinds of partnership for enhanced quality program implementation.
- Provide support to partner staff, coaching for results and support to the education thematic area team as well as in their individual development and performance management.
- Facilitates communication and interaction between partners/collaborators and Program Unit finance team.
- Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Child Protection (CPP) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.
Dealing with Problems:
- Resolves challenges which typically occur in education programme management at the PA level, while introducing innovations as needed to meet the demands of a dynamic and sometimes unpredictable operating environment while ensuring Plan systems and policies are adhered to.
- Coordinates the program area portfolio to ensure the highest level of project quality and its link with the overall country program. This will encompass strengthening accountability, planning, management, adherence to policies and procedures, and promoting a culture for delivery of results, both short and long term.
Key relationships
Externally: Initiate, develop and maintain a range of working relationships, including with government counterparts, implementing partners and other development organizations with the region.
Internally: Effective working relationships within the program unit and frequent communication with Plan staff and various internal staff networks.
Technical expertise, skills and knowledge
Essential
- Bachelor Degree in education with at least 5 years of relevant experience of which at least two years’ experience with NGOs.
- Demonstrated experience in the management of education projects.
- Proficient in computer skills and use of relevant software and other applications
Desirable
- Knowledge of the education sector
- In-depth knowledge of project cycle management and child centred community development programming
- Knowledge of development issues, trends, challenges and opportunities and implications to community development
- Knowledge of effective participatory Monitoring, Evaluation and Research systems and processes
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to build relationships with colleagues.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including presentation
- Strong negotiation, influencing and problem solving skills.
- Numeracy and the ability to interpret financial data, in order to understand budgetary processes including planning, monitoring and reporting.
- Ability to analyse information and evaluate options including planning skills
- A predisposition to collaboratively positive engagement with all other parts of the organisation
- A commitment to communicate in a timely manner.
- Relates to people in a friendly, open manner and engenders trust from other staff
- Creates strong sense of purpose within organisation and with stakeholders
- Humble, supportive, ethical and service oriented
- Promotes innovation and learning
- Pleasant and polite attitude at all times; ability to reflect professional standards
- Able to work with minimum supervision.
- Ensure the technical soundness, appropriateness and general quality in project design and planning
- Provide leadership into the project planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation; assess the outputs, outcomes and impact of program interventions and activities in the program area.
- Oversee project implementation
- Prepare and develop in consultation with appropriate stakeholders annual work plans and project plans.
- Under the Country Lead leadership contribute to the development of concept notes and proposals.
- Ensure effective and efficient management of financial resources, including review and check project budgets, monitoring expenditures, and implementing cost control measures.
- Ensure M&E and learning in close collaboration with the M&E team.
- Ensure quality and timely reporting and documenting of project activities including preparation of quarterly/yearly program progress reports;
- Ensure the mainstreaming of CP, Inclusion and DRR in your program area.
- As part of your responsibility support the ECCE key intervention area.
Policy engagement and networking
- Serve as a principal representative to regional education thematic networks and clusters to promote effective program implementation, to create collaborative and positive partnerships and alliances, and to influence policy that maximizes the impact of the country program.
- Establish links and good relationships with relevant government authorities, NGOs, academic and research institutions and the media, in the area of education to draw information and knowledge for program efficiency and effectiveness.
- Makes follow up and proper documentation of regional government policies, strategies and plans with respect to education.
Partnership development and strengthening
- Periodically collect information on information about other organizations working within the region to gain institution knowledge of the environment.
- In support of the regional manager, manage the partnership in a holistic and reciprocal manner.
- Make it their business to know about other reorganization in the region.
- Seeks opportunities for different kinds of partnership for enhanced quality program implementation.
- Provide support to partner staff, coaching for results and support to the education thematic area team as well as in their individual development and performance management.
- Facilitates communication and interaction between partners/collaborators and Program Unit finance team.
- Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Child Protection (CPP) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.
Dealing with Problems:
- Resolves challenges which typically occur in education programme management at the PA level, while introducing innovations as needed to meet the demands of a dynamic and sometimes unpredictable operating environment while ensuring Plan systems and policies are adhered to.
- Coordinates the program area portfolio to ensure the highest level of project quality and its link with the overall country program. This will encompass strengthening accountability, planning, management, adherence to policies and procedures, and promoting a culture for delivery of results, both short and long term.
Key relationships
Externally: Initiate, develop and maintain a range of working relationships, including with government counterparts, implementing partners and other development organizations with the region.
Internally: Effective working relationships within the program unit and frequent communication with Plan staff and various internal staff networks.
Technical expertise, skills and knowledge
Essential
- Bachelor Degree in education with at least 5 years of relevant experience of which at least two years’ experience with NGOs.
- Demonstrated experience in the management of education projects.
- Proficient in computer skills and use of relevant software and other applications
Desirable
- Knowledge of the education sector
- In-depth knowledge of project cycle management and child centred community development programming
- Knowledge of development issues, trends, challenges and opportunities and implications to community development
- Knowledge of effective participatory Monitoring, Evaluation and Research systems and processes
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to build relationships with colleagues.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including presentation
- Strong negotiation, influencing and problem solving skills.
- Numeracy and the ability to interpret financial data, in order to understand budgetary processes including planning, monitoring and reporting.
- Ability to analyse information and evaluate options including planning skills
- A predisposition to collaboratively positive engagement with all other parts of the organisation
- A commitment to communicate in a timely manner.
- Relates to people in a friendly, open manner and engenders trust from other staff
- Creates strong sense of purpose within organisation and with stakeholders
- Humble, supportive, ethical and service oriented
- Promotes innovation and learning
- Pleasant and polite attitude at all times; ability to reflect professional standards
- Able to work with minimum supervision.
Location: Afar diffrent location/woreds
Type of Role: Education
Reports to: Emergency Response Manager
Grade: D1
Closing Date:August 20,2022
Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.
We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.
We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.
Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.
A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.
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