Position Title: Team Lead
Location: Adamawa State (100%)
Report to: Education Manager
Deadline: 20/03/2020 (interviews will be offered as applications are received)
Specification: Nigerian Nationals Only
Starting from: 1st April
Contract duration: 18 months
Position Requirements
Operational/Context Role
Street Child is looking for a dedicated Team Lead for our Girls Education Project in Adamawa State, North East Nigeria. The project is an 18-month GiZ-funded project. The goal is to address these problems, Street Child will leverage our experience implementing integrated Education in Emergencies and Child Protection in Emergencies programmes to tackle the complex, interlinked barriers to learning for different children. Building on existing relationships with government and NGO stakeholders to ensure coordination and complementarity will form the basis for targeted support to meet the educational needs of vulnerable and at-risk girls in Adamawa. For example, coordination with existing GIZ livelihoods and entrepreneurship programming for older learners who wish to receive vocational training will build a more holistic, accountable and needs-based intervention.
The ideal candidate would have experience in implementing projects in Education, especially with a focus on Girls Education and Child Protection issues. Good communication and team-working skills are essential, and the candidate must also be able to work independently. Analytical thinking, problem-solving and flexibility are expected.
Key Responsibilities:
Programme Delivery
- Responsible overall for the implementation of Street Child’s Education programme in Adamawa State, including monitoring of activities progress against target & supervising and recording project activities expenditure against budget.
- Create Costed Work Plans together with the SC Finance Manager, to ensure that Monthly BVA expenditure is done and completed.
- Preparation of narrative and financial reports weekly & monthly, as required for management team and donors
- Identifying, troubleshooting and reporting issues with programme implementation to the Education Manager as necessary
Partner Supervision & Mentoring
- Responsible for effective management of implementing partner including progress of activities, financial and narrative reporting
- Overseeing partner monitoring to identify and respond to any issues as they arise
- Liaising with the Learning & Partnership Manager to identify partner training/capacity building needs and to conduct capacity building trainings when necessary
- Project delivery: monitoring of activities progress again target, supervising and recording project activities expenditure against budget,
- Identifying, troubleshooting and reporting issues with project implementation to the Nigeria Programme Manager as necessary
Coordination
- Responsible for coordination and liaison between Street Child and other agencies/local government in Adamawa State (with support of Programme Managers)
- Coordinate the support of SC technical expertise together with SC Head of Base
Leadership Behaviours:
- Excellent interpersonal, listening and communication skills.
- Ability to positively influence others and successfully reconcile differences.
- A self-starter with a strong results orientation and with high levels of integrity, credibility and dependability.
- An energetic team player who can effectively collaborate, and who can stand alone when necessary.
- Demonstrated ability to work and deliver under pressure and tight deadlines.
Core Values:
- Commitment to Street Child mission, vision and values, and the ability to convey with enthusiasm Street Child’s role in accompanying and serving forcibly displaced people and in advocating for their right to protection and a life in dignity.
- This role will involve working with vulnerable people and children, and requires relevant knowledge of safeguarding principles
- High integrity, honesty and confidentiality; ability to deal tactfully and discreetly with situations, people and information.
- Acceptance of diversity and inclusion as a core value.
- Willingness to work in flexible, sub-optimal, stressful and unstable environment.
Experience:
- Experience (at least 5 year) of working in Nigeria on Education
- Experience of working in Adamawa State (an advantage, but not a requirement)
- Demonstrated experience and commitment to working with marginalized communities
Language:
Fluency in English and excellent writing skills.
Technical skills
- Strong analytical, reporting, strategic thinking and planning skills.
- Strong monitoring and evaluation skills/experience
- Knowledge of project cycle management.
Terms and Conditions:
Contract is for 18 months, with an initial probationary period of 3 months. The salary will be proportioned to the candidate experience and balanced to the Street Child salary scale
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