Deadline: 22 February, 2022
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is seeking to fill the position of Education Project Manager.
CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries without regard to race, religion or nationality.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical, budget management, monitoring and reporting of activities
- Effectively manage talent and ensure supervision
- Manage team dynamics and staff well-being
- Provide coaching, strategically tailor individual development plans, contribute to the recruitment process of project staff, and complete performance management for direct reports
- Ensure learning properly accompanies project activities throughout the project cycle
- Support accountability through coordinating project evaluation activities, following MEAL policy
- Proactively identify issues, report them to inform adjustments to plans and implementation schedules
- Engage and strengthen partnerships relevant to education project, applying appropriate application of partnership concepts, tools and approaches
- Represent the organisation at meetings/events with donors, INGO working groups, UN, relevant local partners and relevant local government and community actors
- Coordinate activities required for ensuring the financial, material, and human resources for the quality implementation of the project
- Conduct periodic budget reviews and preparation of financial reports to facilitate proper tracking of resource use
- Identify staff capacity and technical assistance needs and contribute to capacity-strengthening and required interventions to support quality project implementation
- Assist with preparation of trend analysis reports and disseminate results
- Review project documentation to ensure project file is complete with all required documentation and is filed per agency and donor requirements
- Support compliance with agency and donor MEAL requirements
- Provide input to MEAL system design and review discussions
- Contribute to simple analyses and reflective discussions on continuous monitoring of data
- Contribute initial findings and implementation-based insights to project discussions
- Carry out other related duties, as assigned
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- Master’s degree in International Relations or Education will be a plus
- Five years, minimum, of work experience in project management, ideally in education
- Relevant grant management experience
- Staff supervision experience
- Experience working with stakeholders at various levels and strengthening community partnerships
- Experience in budget management, procurement, and MEAL monitoring
- Ability to contribute to the development of technical proposals will be a plus
- Experience analysing data and contributing to evaluation reports
- Experience in using Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and information management systems
To apply and for more information, click here.
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