Education & Child Protection Programme Manager

Education & Child Protection Programme Manager

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JOB Vacancy Announcement #: 7843

Job Title: Education & Child Protection Programme Manager

Application deadline: 25.12.2022

Duty Station: Raqqa/Menbij

Job Requirements:

  • At least 4 year of proven experience with Education and Protection Programming;
  • Strong grasp of all stages of programme cycle management and quality standards in humanitarian programming including safeguarding and accountability mechanisms;
  • Experience with budget management such as preparation and updating project budget forecasts and budget
  • Proven experience with team management;
  • Proven experience with liaison with local authorities and external stakeholders;
  • Excellent communication skills, including fluent spoken and written English and Arabic, including ability to write high quality reports for donors and other stakeholders
  • At least 2 year’s professional experience on a position of Team Leader/Coordinator or other position with similar level of responsibilities and requirements in humanitarian and/or development organization;
  • Experience with proposal writing is an advantage;

Job Description:

With supervision from the Head of Education & Protection and other senior management staff, the Program Manager will have a vital role in leading a programme team in Manbij, Raqqa and Deir Ezzor, achieving timely implementation and ensuring overall quality of the Education & Protection (mainly non-formal education in Temporary Leaning Centres and Psycho Social Support) programming in all CVT’s areas of operation in Northeast Syria.

The Education & Child Protection Programme Manager is responsible for implementation of the following components:

  • (Non-Formal) Education,
  • Capacity and technical support to teachers and schools
  • Psychosocial Support (PSS)
  • Other programming with Education and Child protection aspects managed under the Head of Education & Protection portfolio

Duties and responsibilities:

Programme implementation

  • Ensure quality and timely implementation of CVT’s Education & Child Protection programming in NES;
  • Together with the Head of Education & Protection, provide technical guidance and backstopping to the programme team;
  • Conduct regular field monitoring visits to key sites to draw recommendations for improvements in technical quality and adherence to key standards and processes;
  • Develop implementation plans for field activities and track progress to date on outputs and activities;
  • Coordinate on complementary programming in the field, in particular with the WASH & Shelter teams (WASH & Shelter in schools);
  • In cooperation with MEAL team, develop and regularly update the MEAL plan, ensure accountability to affected populations is in place and that the activities are appropriately monitored and evaluated and feedback is reflected in current programming;
  • Ensure all existing program quality related tools that were agreed with the Head of Education & Protection are well understood and used by programme team;
  • Develop program procurement plans so that these and related activities feed into project procurement plans and liaise with relevant support departments to ensure that activities are carried out according to plan, including participation in supply chain processes, ensuring goods are in line with quality and cluster/education standards;
  • Regularly update budget forecasts and money requests for project activities and staffing, and monitor budget vs actual on a regular basis and take timely corrective action to prevent over/under spending.

Team Management

  • Manage a team of about 70-80 national project staff – direct line management of Education & Child Protection Team leader & Program Officers in Raqqa, Manbij and Deir Ezzor and coordination (with support from the PO) of the TLCs staff;
  • Monitor and provide feedback in to Team planning, development and restructuring as and when required.
  • Participate in recruitment of additional staff as needed and budgeted in line with CvT recruitment procedures;
  • Assess training and development needs within the programme team, feed into project capacity building plan managed by the Head of Education & Protection /HR.
  • Leading & supervising recruitment processes related to Education and Child Protection team, in addition to overseeing coordination with the support departments regarding this.

Programme Development

  • Participate in data/information collection, and contribute to education/protection and multi-sectoral proposals with education/protection components development by providing field specific context analysis, technical sector specific analysis, beneficiary information, description of the proposed activities etc;
  • Contribute to development and updating of CVT’s Education and Protection Strategy;
  • Participate in identifying opportunities to increase scope and quality of CVT’s education/Child protection programming, analyse and reflect upon feedback and lessons learnt in program implementation;
  • Maintain up to date knowledge of education/child protection related issues in Northeast Syria, and share this information with Head of Education & Protection, senior management, relevant coordination groups and other actors;
  • Work to increase the profile of CvT as an Education actor in Northeast Syria;
  • Reflecting upon field experience, support Head of Education and Protection Projects and feed into the development of relevant tools, SOPs and technical standards for the programme relevant activities.

Reporting and Documentation

  • Prepare high quality and timely drafts for narrative reporting for monthly, quarterly, semi-annual reports and final reports as and when required from the field activities for donors;
  • Oversee and ensure timely uploading of relevant programme documentation for approval by Head of Education & Protection (approving in the absence of the Head of Education & Protection), senior Management team and finance teams, and comprehensive archiving of programme documents, as outlined in CVT’s archiving guidelines and in line with donor compliance requirements.

Representation

  • Support the Head of Education & Protection in coordination with Education WG, Protection/Child Protection WG, consortium partners and other education/protection actors (representation divided between PM and Head of Education & Protection depending on internal capacities);
  • Ensure coordination with local authorities including, but not limited to Local Councils and the HAO in relation to ongoing projects is in place and working (direct liaison or delegating as relevant);
  • Stand in for the Head of Education & Protection when they are on leave or otherwise unavailable.

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