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TEAM/PROGRAMME: Education Cannot Wait Multi-Year Resilience Programme (ECW- MYRP II)
LOCATION: Addis Ababa
GRADE:
POST TYPE: National
Child Safeguarding:
Level 3 - The post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
ROLE PURPOSE:
SCI Ethiopia is a grantee and consortium lead for the Education Cannot Wait Multi-Year Resilience Program (ECW-MYRP II) in Somali, Amhara and Tigray Regions with a total ECW seed fund of 24 million USD (SCI directly implements $6million).
The MYRP II Education Senior Project Manager will be responsible for overseeing and ensuring proper use ECW-MYRP II funds allocated to SCI. Within his/her capacity, the Manager will work closely with Deputy Director of Program Operations and PDQ-Education Technical Team and the MYRP Consortium Director. S/he will have a range of contact and communication with a number of collaborates mainly consortium members (HI, NRC, TDA, FAWE, DEC and OWS-DF). MYRPII Consortium Management Unit (CMU), the education cluster, REBs and Woreda Education Offices and schools in Amhara, Tigray and Somali Regions.
The Senior Project Manager is in charge of managing the Save the Children part of the MYRP II program implementation through results-based monitoring, evaluation and quality assurance mechanisms and ensures quality delivery of the program as stipulated in the program document adhering to quality standards and donor expectations. He/she will be responsible to lead program annual plan, annual reports, program evaluation, communication with member office and donor and collaborate with stakeholders. The Senior Project Manager is accountable for budget management of the SCI share of the program and partner management, which includes development through capacity building and support.
Background
Ethiopiaās Multi-Year Resilience Programme (MYRP II 2024-27) in the long run aims to improve learning through equitable access, crisis-sensitive and quality relevant education for 173,311 emergency-affected children (60% girls, 10% children living with disabilities) in 10 zones/17 prioritised woredas and 5 refugee camps/settlements in Ethiopia. MYRP II program will be implemented in Amhara, Tigray and Somali Regions of Ethiopia.
The MYRP II is an ambitious plan jointly designed by the Ministry of Education together with Education sector stakeholders. SCI plays the role of grantee and consortium lead. The MYRP II consortium includes two INGO members (HI, NRC) and four Local NGOs (TDA, FAWE, DEC and OWS-DF).TDA, DEC and OWS-DF are responsible for direct implementation of the program on the ground, while SCI, HI, NRC and FAWE will mainly provide technical support to the implementing partners. NRC is also involved in small-scale implementation work.
The proposed MYRP includes immediate actions to address critical educational needs of IDP, returnee, and relocated and refugee children and medium to long-term interventions to build resilience of the education system to support the (re)integration of returnee, relocated, refugee children and their host communities. The MYRP II interventions will be scaled up to reach more emergency affected children in prioritized emergency-affected woredas in Oromia and Gambella Regions as more additional resources are mobilized and anchor the MYRP into national programmes.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to (direct): Deputy Director of Programme Operations
Indirectly reports to: MYRP II Consortium Director
Dimensions: Communication and relationship management with a wide range of stakeholders, including the SCI-hosted Consortium Management Unit, Consortium members, the Refugee Education Working Group, the Education Cluster and Sub-National Clusters in the regions, the Donor, Somali, Amhara and Tigray Regional Education Bureaus, Woreda education offices, schools, Refugees and Returnees Service, and Teacher Training Colleges in the three Regions.
Staff directly reporting to this post: None
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Project Oversight, Coordination, Management, and Technical Support.
Represent SCI as a consortium member in the SCI-hosted Consortium Management Unit
Ensures that the SCI-part of MYRP II activities is implemented in ways that are responsive to the targeted communities and children, in line with MYRP II program strategies; Save the Children principles, values and compliance procedures.
Coordinate program implementation by MYRP II implementing partners and consortium members, the Education Cluster, teacher Training Colleges and members of the Consortium management Team
Work closely with RRS, UNHCR, Ministry of Education and Somali, Amhara and Tigray Regional Education Bureaus and the Education Cluster to facilitate the training of teachers/facilitators and emergency education providers
Support the education cluster in the execution of activities under Outcome 4 of the MYRP II program through facilitating logistics and providing administrative and technical support
Work closely with Consortium Management Unit and Save the Children Member Office during annual planning, implementation of activities and reporting.
Provide oversight and technical support to the SCI Area/Field Office Education staff and the program managers of local implementing partners in planning, implementing and managing the programme.
Support the SCI field staff in Amhara, Tigray and Somali regions in the development of feasible programme implementation plan and budget jointly with the Program Managers of implementing partners.
Budget management
Serve as overall budget holder for the SCI portion of the programme.
Lead the budget planning, budget revision, phasing and rephrasing of the program
Review periodic financial report and BVA of the program, identify bottle necks on budget expenditure and discuss with finance, award and operation team for timely solution
Manage proper budget coding and monitor coding errors
Provide support to award and finance team to prepare annual budget report based on donors requirements
Regularly monitor budget and ensure effective and efficient utilization of programme budget and other resources for the intended purpose.
Ensure that partner finance planning and reports are in line with the project agreement and requirements
from donors and governments.
Ensure that plans are implemented as per agreed and approved budgets,
Monitoring, Documentation and Learning
Partner management, capacity building and Representation
Risk Management
Ensure developing and instituting mechanisms for identification, prevention and mitigation of risks in SCI operation areas. Ensure regular updates of risk register matrix in collaboration with SCI field team.
Ensure roll out of Safer Partnership initiatives.
Ensure robust Safeguarding Framework, including Child Safeguarding guidelines, policies and procedures are implemented and monitored at the MYRP II team and activity level and amongst all SCI staff at all levels, with strong community accountability mechanisms in place.
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
Ambition:
Collaboration:
Creativity:
Integrity:
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.
Equal Opportunities
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and
Diversity policies and procedures.
Child Safeguarding:
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.
Health and Safety
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.
How To Apply
Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations.
Use the below link to apply:
https://hcri.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1
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