Reports to: The EUD- Chief of Party will report to Save the Children Sudan Education Director. S/he will work under the overall guidance of the Education Director will full support from the heads of CP and CRG, and Nutrition at operation, as well as the support from PDQ on all the technical aspects of this EUD program.
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Programme Development and Planning:
- Review refine and finalize strategies, methodologies, and inputs in consortium partners.
- Review partner plans on an annual basis for operational and technical quality and provide feedback, ensuring that the program moves as one consolidated program, avoiding duplication and overlap.
- Provide strategic guidance and answering to requests of Consortium's implementing partners, particularly in planning and implementing a coherent, quality, and innovative education program.
- Institute a practice of joint project planning and reviewing with consortium partners.
- Ensure that the program adapts, document, and facilitate the dissemination of findings, good practices, and knowledge gained.
- Support the Consortium partners in identifying opportunities for improving the quality and scope of the program.
- Advice the Consortium partners on effective ways of coordinating education based on a thorough analysis of the current practices, challenges, and opportunities.
Programme Implementation:
- Overall oversight of programme implementation; indirectly responsible for a budget of 30 million Euro through both direct implementation and partners Lead on the kick-off and ensure all partners are on the same page, particularly on the Donor's Compliance and technical guidance in addition to chairing the PMU.
- Identify challenges and delays faced by partners and work collaboratively and supportively with partners and other stakeholders to identify and implement solutions.
- Ensure the development and application of harmonized approaches for implementing the program, including the development/adapting/agreeing on of standards and frameworks for monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL)
- Ensure that technical support areas of implementing consortium partners are identified and addressed to ensure quality programme delivery by the team designated for consortium management
- Coordinate the process of developing joint action plans with the involvement of all partners of the consortium
- Ensure that all consortium partners implement the Action as per jointly developed and agreed-on plans, approaches, and principles and intended targets met.
- Provide support to implementing partners of the consortium and ensure that they apply appropriate project implementation strategies and approaches as indicated in the project documents
- Ensure that implementation of the programme across all consortium partners is regularly monitored; and that shreds of evidence, results, and lessons are documented and communicated; challenges are tracked and addressed promptly
- Travel to project sites and regularly monitor projects with the project team to ensure the set quality is met across consortium partners.
- Ensure cross cutting issues such as gender, child participation and protection, inclusion of children with disabilities, and social accountability are incorporated in the implementation and monitoring of EUD project both at SC and consortium level.
- Organize (bi-)annual joint review/ coordination meetings involving all essential Education, Child Protection, Nutrition, and Child Rights Governance actors and ensure that the outcomes of the reviews inform the planning/implementation of projects.
- Encourage timely communication through various modes, including calls to build trust with partners and field staff.
- Keep regular contact with the SC member on matters relevant for programme implementation and challenges faced as well as compliance and programme quality.
Reporting:
- Provide technical support to help better understand f the reporting format of the donor.
- Coordinate with the Awards and SCF PM to conduct regular workshops on preparing reports to ensure quality reporting
- Oversee review of reports submitted by partners for consistency and quality; provide feedback to ensure high-quality reports
- Compile the partner and SC reports into one donor ready report package and submit it to the Member in order to submit to donor.
- Institute a practice of producing a harmonized quality programme report by consortium partners (develop relevant tools and request the awards to share the feedback for improvement)
- Ensure the production and timely submission of evidence-based and high-quality technical/narrative and financial reports to be submitted to the donor and shared back to consortium partners
- Keep the member and donor up to date with any potential irregularities and obstacles that may promptly hamper the action's implementation.
- Ensure that all programs implemented by the EUD partners meet donor compliance, expectations, and regulations, including visibility and procurement regulations.
- Facilitate the organization of regular coordination meetings and provide updates/reports.
- Work with Save the Children field team and partners in synthesizing critical progress and challenges; key mainstreaming issues such as centrality of protection, Gender disability and inclusion, child rights governance present issues that require decision-making by the Steering Committee and propose actions.
Coordination & Representation
- Ensure that all consortium partners, both at the field and Khartoum levels, coordinate and regularly represent this Consortium (Education, Nutrition, Child Protection, and Child right Governance)at the coordination and technical working group meetings, and other relevant fora, such as CP sub sector and GBV meetings.
- Strengthen and maintain links between these thematic areas in areas of operation, mainly with education and FSL, nutrition, protection, gender and child rights governance.
- Representation of the EUD Consortium and the program to internal and external stakeholders when relevant/opportune, including donors, partners, Child Protection, MHPSS and GBV sub Sector TWG and line ministries related to these four thematic areas.
Advocacy
- Work closely with the Children Rights Governance Technical Specialist, advocacy, and communication to produce plan for this EUD advocacy parts. This plan is to ensure that the demand barriers to education are well addressed.
- Ensure that evidence is adequately produced and use learning to advocate for good practices with key education, protection, nutrition and FSL stakeholders (international agencies, local government, civil society, and communities).
- Ensure that the team is disseminating effective interventions at a broader scale.
- Liaise with the CRG TS to organize and facilitate budget advocacy sessions with the government ministries and departments on increased budgets allocations for education and protection for children.
Capacity Building:
- Support identifying the knowledge and technical gap in four thematic areas: Education, Nutrition (School Meal), Child Protection, and Child Rights Governance.
- Coordinate closely with HR to provide chances for training as per the identified needs of Save the Children staff and partners.
- Ensure the allocation is made for closer capacity building in swell utilized.
- Ensure coordination with the National Cluster Coordinator (Save the Children) and support the capacity building for Cluster members.
- Support the capacity building of school meals, Child protection, and Child Rights Governance key sector and sun sector members.
Innovation:
- Ensure the innovation in data management at the locality and school levels are well-supported, aiming to reduce the dropout and having good data on the minor status of the education system(school)
- Support innovation about school meals and Child protection at the level of multipurpose centres also records the progress made in Child Right Governance.
- Provided support to ensure the innovation is embedded in all the programme activities and contributed to having impactful orgasming.
- Link the innovation with the community engagement strategy for sustainability
Risk Management:
- Where challenges or risks cannot be managed at field-level and require high-level, national attention, escalate risks to the Senior Management
- Identify any risk of, or suspected incident of child safeguarding, sexual exploitation, abuse, fraud, etc., and report
QUALIFICATIONS
- Post-graduate degree in education planning and management or a related field with additional training in project planning and control techniques
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Essential
- Knowledge of current global and regional debates on quality and employment-oriented education, School Meals, Child Protection, and Child Rights Governance policies and models
- Strong leadership, management, and coordination skills, including experience leading an extensive program and team
- Recommended a minimum of ten years of relevant experience, including at the senior level
- Proven experience in developing and managing big grants and high-quality, innovative, and cost-effective technical education projects in complex environments, preferably in Sudan and with International NGOs
- Proven experience and skills in research and advocacy and influencing institutional, private, and corporate donors, and writing up high-quality donor reports
- Experience working with local/national governments and capacity building of systems, partners, and staff
- Ability to extensively travel for project monitoring and provide on-site technical support to field teams
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills, including influencing, negotiation, steering, and coaching
- Experience in management of finance and budget monitoring, and risk management.
- Experience in solving complex issues through analysis, the definition of a clear way forward, and ensuring buy-in
- Highly numerically articulate with a track record of data manipulation and reporting systems.
- Highly diplomatic with strong oral and written communication skills (English)
- Commitment to Save the Children values.
Desirable
- Substantial experience working in the Horn of Africa
- Cluster coordination training and experience
- Demonstrable understanding of EUD guidelines and other donors' agendas.
- Ability to coach and mentor partners.