Save the Children Project Director - Girl Education Challenge Jobs in Tanzania

Save the Children Project Director - Girl Education Challenge Jobs in Tanzania


Job Details

  • Save the Children is recruiting for an experienced Project Director (PD) to lead a flagship girls’ education program in Mozambique.

  • The four-year $10m program started in April 2017 and works across 3 provinces, rolling out at scale a variety of interventions Save the Children has piloted both in Mozambique and around the world.

  • Project implementation is accompanied by a strong impact assessment component which aims to demonstrate how these interventions specifically help the most marginalised girls to access education, stay in school and achieve improved learning outcomes. .

  • The Project Director will be responsible for the planning, financial oversight, monitoring and evaluation (in coordination with the DPDQ and Senior Meal Manager), and coordination with the 3 PPMs for the successful implementation of this project across the three provinces.

  • Although Save the Children is the principle implementer of the project, some elements of the project will be sub-granted to local partners, and hence the PD need to have strong project sub-granting, partner management and budget monitoring skills, PBR expertise, as well as technical skills in education.

  • Research and monitoring and evaluation, will be a particular focus of this role, since project implementation and payment by the donor is contingent on reaching output and outcome related milestones.

    Qualifications and experience

    Essential

    • Prior experience of delivering results based education programming (preferably in a socio-cultural and political context similar to Mozambique)

    • Good knowledge of children's rights and specifically girls related issues in education

    • Experience of project and financial management of multi partner or agency consortia

    • Proven experience in research, learning focused monitoring and evaluation and knowledge management

    • Demonstrated experience of developing and managing relationships with donors (DFiD and others)

    • Demonstrated experience in handling budgets in excess of £5m and working with PBR

    • Skills in navigating complex donor requirements and ensuring donor compliance – understanding of Value for Money (VfM) and Payment by results (PbR)

    How to Apply

    For more information and job application details, see; Save the Children Project Director - Girl Education Challenge Jobs in Tanzania

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