South Sudan: Project Manager-Educate A Child-Roving - South Sudan

Project Manager-Educate A Child-Roving - South Sudan
Norwegian Refugee Council

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water,sanitation and hygiene sectors.
The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs one of the world’s largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has been operational in South Sudan since 2004 providing assistance to IDPs, returnees, refugees and host communities in areas affected by displacement. NRC currently operates an integrated programme focused on six sectors (core competencies): Education, Shelter, Food Security, WASH, Camp Coordination/Camp Management (CCCM) and Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA).
NRC programmes are designed to provide protection and durable solutions for IDPs, refugees and returnees. In South Sudan NRC focuses both on emergency humanitarian responses and early recovery work.
The job purpose is for the Educate a Child Roving PM to lead education interventions in South Sudan for the regional Educate a Child project NRC has secured, overall planning and implementation of the Education project and for the development and capacity building of the national staff working on the project.
S/he will contribute to programme design and implementation, budget holding, coordination, and support recruitment and procurement and link with other sectors as appropriate.
This same advert may be used to deployment to other Country offices other than one initial published for.

Job description

• Generic responsibilities
• The PM will be responsible for the overall quality and effective implementation of the Educate a Child programme in the respective locations (Central Equatoria, Lakes, Jonglei, Unity, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Warrap states)
• Manage, train and develop the capacity of the Education teams
• Ensure high technical quality and transparent processes
• Adherence to tools and handbooks and other NRC policies
• Responsible for project documentation
• Contribute to the development of NRC's country strategy, action plan and priorities in the Education sector and prepare monthly, quarterly or annual reports as required
• Develop, manage and monitor the budget(s) related to Education according to Financial Handbook and donor requirements.
• Transparent and cost efficient procurement of goods
• Contribute to the development of synergies among the different NRC core competencies
• Capacity building of national staff
• Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees and explore and asses new and better ways to assist
• Implement project specific protection priorities
• Coordinate closely with the regional Educate a Child project coordinator in Nairobi, especially on M&E and donor reporting
• Specific responsibilities
• Provision of strategic direction and analysis of desired education interventions responding to the education needs based on assessments (in areas of operation and/or areas of expansion)
• Liaise and maintain excellent working relationships with the Education Cluster members, representing NRC at meetings and Education forums, particularly participate and/or co-lead the Education Cluster in the area of work.
• Technical monitoring and management of the Educate a Child projects: Accelerated Learning Programme and Education in Emergencies
• Actively identify methods to make any education project more sustainable and to enhance retention of adolescent girls; pilot innovations and design approaches in collaboration with Education Specialist
• Actively participate in design and implementation of baseline, mid-term and final evaluations and ensure follow-up of recommendations to improve quality of the project programming
• Support documentation and dissemination of lessons learnt and best practices as well as emerging issues in the implementation of the education project; share good practices with other Area programs
• Contribute to the development Education related project proposals, reports and technical and financial documentation for submission to donors, internal and other external requirements
• Continuously monitor and analyze potential education needs and lead the team in conducting gap analysis and assessments of hard to reach areas with a view to implement Education response.
• Lead on practical implementation of community based programming with strong community participation and involvement, with a focus on accountability to affected populations using a child- and youth-friendly approach
• Contribute to protection and Advocacy work

Qualifications

• Relevant university degree or higher education.
• Experience with Educate a Child funding implementation will be an advantage
• Minimum 5 years of experience from working as a Project Manager in a humanitarian/recovery context and specific experience in Education
• Experience of applying relevant interagency humanitarian frameworks and standards in education in emergencies (for example INEE Minimum Standards) and experience in Accelerated Learning Programmes
• Working knowledge of the logical framework approach to project design, monitoring and evaluation/ project cycle management
• Excellent skills in financial project management, ideally with Educate A Child donor
• Experience in protection mainstreaming and prevention of SGBV in schools
• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal
• Knowledge and experience working in the context of South Sudan
• Experience with start-up, exit or similar
• Solid understanding and experience of crisis contexts and working in complex emergencies.
• Valid driver’s license

Education field

• Education

Education level

• College / University, Bachelor's degree

Personal qualities

• Managing resources to optimize results
• Managing performance and development
• Empowering and building trust
• Handling insecure environments

We offer

• Commencement: Begining of January, 2017
• Contract period: 12 months
• Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s general directions
• Duty station: Juba/Akobo
• Approved health certificate will be requested before contract start.
• Application procedures and CV registration: Please note that you are required to enter the geographical location for all your previous positions while registering your CV. There is no specific field for this information in our CV form, but you can use the "Company name" field for both company and location

Miscellaneous info

• Travel: Some travelling must be expected

Please, apply through www.nrc.no, then vacancies