Palladium is delighted to seek applications for candidates interested in supporting a bright future for all children in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). The Education Pathways to Peace in Mindanao (Pathways) Program works closely with the transitioning government to support enhancing K-3 education outcomes and peacebuilding in the region.
About the position
The Deputy Team Leader - Programs is part of Education Pathways to Peace in Mindanao (Pathways) senior management team, accountable to the Team Leader for ensuring effective oversight, coordination, and leadership of program technical functions, and the delivery of a coherent technical strategy and implementation plans, aligned with the program results framework and implementation principles. The role leverages expert knowledge and understanding of the education sector and governance and accountability processes in fragile, conflict, or transition settings, adapting to a rapidly changing context and responsive to continuous political economy analysis.
The Deputy Team Leader - Programs manages a team of Technical Lead Advisers (Curriculum, Learning and Delivery; Teacher Development; Policy and Planning; Institutional Strengthening) and short-term specialists (other than those directly reporting to the Team Leader). He/she ensures that a coordinated and strategically coherent body of technical work, aligned with EOPOs, is carried out by the team and/or partner organisations working on Pathways technical delivery. He/she will strategically guide Technical Lead Advisers and ensure they work in a complementary and politically astute manner. He/she reports directly to the Team Leader and forms part of a senior management team with the Deputy Team Leader (Operations), the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability Research and Learning (MEARL) Lead, the Senior Education Adviser, and the Strategy Adviser, ensuring an integrated approach to program delivery.
The Deputy Team Leader - Programs is accountable for the quality of program technical deliverables, providing oversight of technical intervention activities, and responsible for providing guidance on how cross-cutting themes such as political economy analysis (PEA); gender, equity, disability and social inclusion (GEDSI), child protection, peacebuilding, and sustainability can be integrated in program activities, liaising with relevant specialists in these areas. He/she will support the Strategy Adviser in driving strategy for effective engagement between all key stakeholders, ensuring communication and engagement plans are informed by robust, up-to-date, objective and politically informed stakeholder analysis, and that the approach to engagement is sensitive to political and peace building/transition dynamics.
Type of engagement: Full time employment
Palladium is a child-safe organisation, and screens applicants for suitability to work with children. We also provide equal employment to all participants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or marital status.