Education Programme Coordinator - EU, Kano

at  Save the Children

TEAM: EDUCATION – EU-INTPA - OPERATIONS

LOCATION: Kano

QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in education or other related fields . Experience in managing integrated programmes across different thematic areas such as education, teacher education, Teacher Professional Development (TPD), child protection, child rights or governance is an advantage.

ROLE PURPOSE :

Save the Children is a leading independent organization creating lasting change for children in need around the world. With its headquarters in London, UK, SC works in over 120 countries globally, including Nigeria, helping children survive, learn and be protected by improving their education, health, nutrition, protection and economic opportunities, and in times of acute crisis, mobilizing rapid life-saving assistance to help children recover from the effects of war, conflict and natural disasters.
Save the Children International in consortium with Plan International have been selected as implementing partners to implement education and youth empowerment project funded by EU over a 36 months period in the North-West Nigeria across states of Sokoto, Kano and Jigawa. The project is focusing to provide youth, in particular girls in rural underserved and nomadic communities, with access to inclusive gender transformative and conflict sensitive equitable quality education and skill development. The project will support the governments’ efforts to address the challenge of Out of School Children and Youth (OOSCY) to access Accelerated Basic Education Programme (ABEP) in the 3 states. The project will also support the efforts of the Federal and respective State governments to empower youth with green jobs and vocational skills through vocational training as well as address the barriers that girls and women face to access education and livelihood opportunities.
The Education Programme Coordinator will lead the delivery and implementation of the EU funded project while providing technical guidance to the implementing partner(s) on the project. S/he will provide both operational and technical oversight on project management delivery of results of Education component synergy and integration across other thematic areas. S/he will provide operational and technical support to the team under the leadership of the Deputy Consortium Manager to implement all Education activities for the project. Further, the job holder will provide capacity strengthening, monitoring and evaluation and reporting both internally and externally, the development of the Detailed Implementation Plan, participating in stakeholders’ meetings, and contribute to narrative reporting in line with donor requirement. S/he will be responsible for ensuring stakeholders are involved throughout the project management cycle while ensuring collaboration with other consortium members.
Under the operational guidance of the Deputy Consortium Manager and the technical guidance from the Head of Education, the Education Programme Coordinator will ensure that the EU-INTPA project is implemented in a coordinated, harmonized and aligned manner, in line with SCI standards, donor requirements, project agreement and commitments. S/he will ensure that quality reports are submitted in timely manner.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Directly reports to Deputy Consortium Manager

ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
• Holds the team and partners accountable 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.

ADDITIONAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.