Education Project Manager - Aden

• Provide technical oversight of NRC education activities in the Area, ensuring quality standards; conducting field visits and ensuring that project implementation complies with donors’ agreed requirements, community expectations, global standards, and NRC policies; and managing assessments and evaluations. Ensure that education projects accord with the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies’ Minimum Standards for Education and Conflict Sensitive Education Principles.
• Train new Education staff on Education in Emergencies programming, including INEE Minimum Standards for Education; support staff capacity building by regularly leading training's and workshops.
• Support Education Specialist with proposal development, as required.
• Develop implementation and procurement plans for all projects and track weekly progress against targets.
• Maintain overall responsibility for monitoring budgets; ensuring project implementation staff are adequately trained in tracking expenditure; and working with project teams to improve value for money and cost efficiency.
• Ensure the effective, accurate and timely monitoring, supervision, evaluation and reporting of projects; providing M&E support to implementation staff; supporting the Support and Finance teams with tracking and compiling financial reports; compiling narrative reports for donors and any other project documentation; and ensuring learning from M&E activities is fed back to staff and stakeholders and used for continuous quality improvement of programming.
• Collaborate with relevant local authorities and other key stakeholders.
• Oversee the overall programmatic and financial performance of the consortium, including project planning and budget follow-up.
• Develop Ways of Working and Standard Operating Procedures, further integrating the operational delivery of the consortium on a sectoral and inter-agency level. Develop project proposals in collaboration with relevant consortium member staff and coordinate input for reporting to donors.
• Ensure full compliance in relation to grant management and project cycle management processes.
• Ensure quality control of donor applications and reports, for content and timeliness.
• Ensure that all grant files are up to date and that copies are kept in the field and sent to relevant parties in a timely manner.
• Oversee and be responsible of mainstreaming protection guidelines in the consortium’s related activities as per NRC’s Protection mainstreaming guidelines and ensure that all breaches/concerns reported are properly resolved.

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• Minimum 3 years of experience from a senior level project implementation position in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Experience from working in complex contexts
• Technical Education expertise with degree in education or other subject relevant to the role
• Experience in organizational representation at national or international levels
• Experience scaling-up projects and of working with ECHO, ECW funding mechanisms is a plus
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal
  
  

• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile 
• Valid driver’s license 
• Knowledge of Education in Emergencies programming
• Empowering and building trust

Contract Duration: 1 year, renewable subject to availability of funding
Job Grade:               8
Travel:                      30% within Yemen
Duty station:           Aden

* Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply*