Programme Coordinator at Street Child

Location: Maiduguri, Borno with frequent travel within Nigeria
Contract Type: 12–24 month fixed term contract, full-time
Reporting to: Head of Programmes

Background

• 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 650,000 children to go to school and learn and supported over 33,000 families to set up businesses so they can afford the cost of educating their children.

Others:

• Position open for national and international staff.

Role Purpose

• The Programme Coordinator will focus on the management of the Northeast programme portfolio, ensuring alignment with global and national strategy and mission.
• Supporting the Department and Programme Managers, he/she will ensure quality and compliance in programmes planning, delivering & management towards timely achievements of outcome indicators.
• Based on context, needs, gaps, capacity and opportunities, he/she will contribute to build long lasting and healthy relationship with donors and developing new proposals.
• The ideal candidate would have a good background in humanitarian context used to work with multiple donor and budgets. The successful candidate will also have proven coaching, teamwork and communication skills, and excellent leadership ability.
• Analytical thinking and the capacity to research innovative intervention methods, as well as creativity and flexibility, are also expected.
• The person should prove his/her capacity to build strong network and relationship with donors, government and other stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities
Programme Management (75%):

• Work with Programme & Project Managers to ensure timely and quality delivery of activities in line with work plan, M&E framework and expenditure plan
• Lead on programme reviews with managers to ensure consistency and integration across programmes
• Conduct regular programmes monitoring to identify opportunity for programme enhancement and ensure alignment with programme objectives
• Identifying areas of improvement of programmes with integration of new trends, knowledge aligned with needs and gaps that might arise during implementation
• Oversee the process for timely quality programme reports in line with donor requirements.
• Build and maintain good relationships with UN, clusters and government agencies in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states.
• Coordinate across projects within the country programme to ensure efficiency, value for money and integration.
• Work with M&E manager to ensure an effective M&E framework with timely submission of accurate project data, assessments and reports. Build a strong feedback and communication loop with project teams to inform project decision-making.
• Work with Operations Manager to ensure procurement and logistics support are in line with project plans

Business Development (25%):

• Support proposal development, ensuring use of participatory methodologies.

Person Specification
Education / Qualifications:

• Educated to Degree or higher in International Development, Human Rights or related field.

Experience and Knowledge: 

• Demonstrable experience in a program management position with progressive responsibilities for an international NGO.
• Proved experience in grants management for large and complex programmes, including project design, budget preparation, expenditure tracking, monitoring and evaluation, reporting, etc., for projects funded by multiple public donors with relevant budgets.
• Experience engaging partners and strengthening partnerships.
• Staff management experience
• Experience coaching and mentoring senior program staff.
• Ability to provide technical leadership &/ strategic direction.

Beneficial:

• Previous experience in Humanitarian Response
• Education background

Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent spoken and written English skills.
• Ability to effectively represent the Agency in a variety of public and private forums.
• 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.
• Ability to work in international settings and with various departments to implement successful approaches to Education.
• Demonstrated ability to work and deliver independently and under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Excellent spoken and written English skills.
• Ability to effectively represent the Agency in a variety of public and private forums.
• 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.
• Ability to work in international settings and with various departments to implement successful approaches to Education.
• Demonstrated ability to work and deliver independently and under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Excellent spoken and written English skills.
• Ability to effectively represent the Agency in a variety of public and private forums.
• 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.
• Ability to work in international settings and with various departments to implement successful approaches to Education.
• Demonstrated ability to work and deliver independently and under pressure and tight deadlines.

Street Child’s commitment to Safeguarding

• Street Child is committed to the safeguarding and protection of the communities we serve, our partners, our volunteers, and our staff.
• As part of this commitment to safeguarding, all offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate background checks, including a Criminal Records check.
• Street Child also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.