Country: Bangladesh
Closing date: 30 Jul 2019
The Opportunity
The Education Director leads Save the Children in Bangladesh’s education sector, consisting primarily of Early Childhood Care and Development and Basic Education programs. The Director plays a lead role in setting the strategic direction for the education sector, designing new programs and projects, and identifying and pursing strategic partnerships. S/he is responsible for ensuring program quality and donor accountability for a range of projects, and directly supervises project directors and implementation teams. S/he plays a senior representational and advocacy role with the Government of Bangladesh, Donors, and key national and international stakeholders, and works on a regular basis with SC members and internal stakeholders to maximize program delivery. The Director ensures that program learning, research and evaluation findings are channelled towards advocacy, continuous improvements, and new program design.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Direction, Program Design and Development
* Take lead role in formulating CO’s vision for long term programming in Education in Bangladesh
* Introduce innovative ideas and approaches to support children’s education in Bangladesh; Identify needs and opportunities for potential programs, through situation analyses/feasibility studies, networking, and leveraging research and evaluation findings from both internal and external sources
* Work with Save the Children staff to develop funding strategies and proposals to expand the Education portfolio in line with strategic priorities and technical best practice from a range of sources. This will involve continuously developing concepts and innovations and packaging them for a range of donors, both for proactive and reactive fundraising efforts
* Continuously assess staffing patterns and competencies to ensure that right staff are in place to support sector needs and development
* Identify and pursue opportunities for synergistic, inter-sectoral programs to address the holistic needs of children, especially the most deprived. Ensure the integration of Early Childhood Care and Development across sectors and education program areas
* Ensure that Education activities (as relevant) contribute to sponsorship goals and meet agency significant benefit standards
Programme Management
* Direct line management and supervision of COP/Program/Project Directors overseeing Education programmes, and ongoing support, guidance and leadership to managers and staff working on those programmes
* Ensure that Save the Children complies with donor and SCI regulations on all projects, including submission of high quality and timely reports
* Lead in the development of a planning cycle for the Education sector, including annual, quarterly and monthly planning and work plan follow up
* Ensure that all programs have an effective Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning (MEAL) practices throughout the program cycle
* Ensure tight financial oversight of project and thematic budgets, maintaining timely expenditure in line with agreed priorities and donor guidelines
* Build the capacity of staff in programme management, technical excellence and policy analysis and influencing related to Education
* Build and nurture effective teamwork within education sector both at central and field levels and ensure a cohesive workplace environment for optimum staff retention
* Supervise team and provide necessary guidance to ensure that program targets are met
Programme Quality
* Identify internal and external capacity building opportunities and resources to provide high quality technical assistance to Education projects, supporting technical staff, partner agencies and others to build knowledge and technical competence
* Integrate programme learning across the Education sector, ensuring coherence of technical approaches across programmes, identifying best practice, and ensuring inter-sectoral complementarity
* Ensure that regular field based project review meetings take place and are attended by the relevant staff; Ensure that monitoring systems provide information in the appropriate form and at the right time (in different levels) to allow for effective decision making
* Provide on-going and one-off technical support and advice to programs and partners as needed
* Organize workshops, seminars, Program Learning Group meetings at local, national, regional and international levels
* Develop and implement strategies to ensure gender equity, child participation and beneficiary accountability in all Education programmes
The Organisation
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
Application Information
Please apply using a cover letter and up-to-date CV as a single document. Please also include details of your current remuneration, salary expectations, notice period and visa status in your country of work. A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/careers
Closing Date for Application: 30 July 2019
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
How to apply:
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