Deadline: 11 March, 2023
Location: Freetown, Sierra Leone
Save the Children International (SCI) has opened applications for the role of Project Director for the Community Engagement for all Children’s Improved Education (CECIE) project.
The organisation works to ensure children around the world get health care, food and shelter as well as learning and child protection services.
Responsibilities
- Ensure intended outcomes are met in accordance with the overall agreement and internationally recognised quality standards
- Lead the project implementation team and consortium partners, maintaining a work environment that promotes teamwork, trust, and mutual respect
- Coordinate and communicate with relevant high-level stakeholders throughout the project
Requirement
- Degree in Development Studies, Social Sciences or a related field (desirable)
- Postgraduate degree/postgraduate diploma will be a plus
- Ten years, minimum, of relevant programming experience, with five years in management roles
- Five years, minimum, of experience in community-centred programming, which may include community engagement, community mobilisation, social/behaviour/norms change, and social accountability
- Experience in managing consortia or working with partners, managing partner contracts and relationships, ensuring mutual and institutional capacity building, joint monitoring, etc
- Significant experience in programming that substantively integrates components of gender equality, social inclusion, and social accountability
- Proven experience in all aspects of programme management, including design, planning, implementation, and monitoring/evaluation
- Financial management of programme grants and budgets of over $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 will be a plus
- Substantial experience in maintaining external relations with government and community stakeholders
- Experience in managing programme teams across multiple geographic sites, including staff development, coaching, and performance management
- Experience in monitoring and evaluation, use of qualitative and quantitative data to analyse progress in programmes, and the use of logical or results frameworks, theories of change, etc
- Fluency in written and spoken English; excellent documentation and report-writing skills
- Proficiency in using Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Excel
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
- Strong analytical and conceptual skills and the ability to think and plan strategically
- Commitment to Save the Children’s aims, values and principles
To apply and for more information, click here.
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