Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic, and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 500,000 children to go to school and learn and supported over 33,000 caregivers to set up businesses so they can afford the cost of educating their children.
Education Project Manager (based in Kabul) shall be responsible for managing ongoing Education Projects of CIC/SC in Urozgan province. The incumbent shall be responsible for Project Management and Coordination, Knowledge Management and Representation, Stakeholder Management, Donor Reporting and Other Organizational Responsibilities.
Generic Responsibilities:
A strong commitment to Street Childs vision, mission and values.
Adhere to all Street Child’s policies and procedures.
Able to represent Street Child appropriately both internally and externally.
Carry out all reasonable requests that are within the broad remit of the role.
Specific Responsibilities:
Lead the management and implementation of education and child protection projects according to policy, strategy, work plan, budget. Ensure the success of the project meeting its objectives, outcomes and aims as set out in the project proposal.
Supervise and support a team community mobilisers, team leaders and teachers; prepare weekly and monthly work-plans and report on their activities; and ensure the project team is in regular coordination and communication with all project stakeholders.
Follow up with team members on staff progression and support team members with professional development.
Oversee project budget and financial monitoring; ensure compliance against donor reporting requirements; prepare financial reports and budget forecasts and realignments when necessary; and coordinate with CiC/SC Finance Manager.
Supervise the M&E Officer and ensure each project has an up to date and effective M&E plan in accordance with the project logframe and indicators.
Review data collection processes and compile and analyse data with project planning and tracking tools. Review data to inform project development and readjustment, when necessary.
Manage internal reporting deadlines to CiC/SC HQ and other CIC/SC reports to donors, including Unicef, US State Embassy and OCHA; review the success and challenges of the projects; and report to CiC/SC Country Director/UK Programmes Manager any challenges faced in in achieving the project’s expected results.
Maintain existing positive working relationships with relevant government ministries, including Ministry of Education (MoE) and Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MoLSAMD); child protection stakeholders; international donors; and NGOs and local civil society.
Actively participate as a CiC/SC Representative at relevant education meetings, including the Education in Emergencies Working Group.
Develop appropriate materials and tools in order to promote knowledge among project team.
Develop the quality of the education programme e.g. monitoring and supervision of CBE, teacher training courses, life skills training, and other child rights activities.
Ensure quality of the project through regular field visits, technical follow ups and evaluations.
Analyse the education data and share analytical reports/recommendations with CiC HQ on improving qualitative aspects of the education projects.
Liaise and collaborate with local authorities and community stakeholders.
Coordinate with CiC/SC Director and UK Programme Manager on project design, strategies and monitoring and evaluation approaches.
Knowledge and full complaiance of education activities with government laws, policies, procedures, rules and regulations.
Participate in field assessments and donor liaison, as appropriate, and feedback information to CiC/SC HQ.
Attend weekly and monthly staff meetings and share learning across the organization.
Carry out duties entrusted to him/her impartially and in accordance with the best professional practices.
Maintain complete independence in relation to all individuals, organisations and government bodies.
To respect all confidential information and not use it for personal profit or for the profit of a third party while executing the present contract.
To report any fraud, abuse or neglect related to a CiC project or activity to the Country Director in writing.
To assist in any other areas as identified by the Country Director/ SPM.
Bachelors/Masters’ Degree in Social Work, Education, Social Science or Development Studies.
At least 5 years experience of Project Management within an international or national NGO and a strong track record of developing and inspiring teams to achieve outstanding results.
Skills and abilities:
Sound knowledge and understanding of financial management, including preparation of budgets, financial reports and ongoing monitoring of expenditure.
Experience in implementing Education in Emergencies (EiE) projects in conflict affected areas . Prior experience of managing education projects in southern region highly desirabale.
Proficiency in report writing skills.
Proven knowledge on community-based education, accelerated learning, education in emergencies, psychosocial support and life skills, and child rights based programming in Afghanistan.
Experience in delivering training to teachers, social workers and community mobilisers.
Proven knowledge and experience of monitoring and evaluation.
Experiences attending external meetings e.g. cluster meetings, meetings with donors.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills and capacity to deal with different rural communities, ability to take initiatives, and pursue work proactively without being intensively supervised.
A flexible approach to working and willingness to work as part of a team.
Good supervisory, leadership, analytical and troubleshooting skills.
ICT Skills including skills in using the Microsoft Office Package.
Fluency in English, Dari and Pashto, written and spoken;
Fluency in Pashto (reading, writing, speaking) is mandatory.
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their CV (03 pages maximum) and Cover Letter (01 page maximum) to the following email address hr.afg@street-child.org not later than the deadline. Please indicate the position title and Vacancy Number in the e-mail subject line. Any application without position title and vacancy number will not be considered. Also, please do not send additional documents.
Interested and qualified candidates should also fill Children in Crisis Recruitment Form (MANDATORY) through below link:
https://forms.gle/Vwm8XhfYkQSMMRB49
Only short-listed candidates whose education and experiences correspond to the above criteria will be contacted for further consideration and in case you did not hear from us after 3 weeks of deadline, please consider that as a rejection.
NOTE: CANDIDATE’S APPLICATION SHALL NOT BE CONSIDERED IF THE CHILDREN IN CRISIS/STREET CHILD RECRUITMENT FORM OR CV IS NOT SUBMITTED.
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