Programme Officer - Assessment and Learning Programmes at The Education Partnership (TEP) Centre

Job Objective

• TEP Centre is a pioneer in the emerging field of Education Partnership, specialising in the research, design, implementation, support, and evaluation of education programmes, projects, and initiatives across the public, private and non-profit sectors.
• We seek to fill the role of Programme Officer - Assessment & Learning Programmes (ALP) The ideal candidate will have strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills and a demonstrable ability to plan and implement projects from inception to completion.
• The successful candidate will coordinate the core implementation teams responsible for seamlessly delivering all the organisation’s projects.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

The Programme Officer will be responsible for:

• Collaborate across all the units in the organisation to implement projects/ programmes
• Develop and maintain all aspects of assessment and curriculum design, documentation of project requirements, developing reports and budgeting.
• Develop accurate and efficient tests to be used in surveys that are to be carried out
• Review and draft test development tools with developers.
• Develop training schedules and training notes.
• Lead projects/programmes deliverables and preparation of various programme documents, such as work plans, budgets, reports, and proposals on programme implementation arrangements
• Monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realised benefits as programme progresses
• Contribute to development of articles, research papers, and lessons learnt from projects. Develop instructional manuals for trainings, toolkits, and activity reports.
• Identifying and maintaining an active risks and issues log, meeting notes and journal of lessons learnt from projects.
• Developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders in the public sector (federal and state), civil society and in the international development community.
• Organise Test tools development workshops; seek expert opinion on tools developed.
• Organise training for partners, volunteers and other stakeholders.
• Coordinate and manage the recruitment, training and management of partners at the state, local government and community levels.
• Defining programme's implementation processes and templates.
• Develope programme's budget, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realised benefits as the programme progresses
• Ensure the project is delivered on time per the workplan and within the budget
• Track project implementation processes and milestones in correspondence with the allotted timeline for the projects
• Proactively monitor and evaluate the progress of the different project activities and submit regular reports on the progress, accomplishments, difficulties, lessons learnt, etc.
• Identify sources and gather and compile data and information to prepare documents, guidelines, and other material as required.
• Identifying risks to the programme's successful outcome, proactively resolving issues, and initiating appropriate precautionary and corrective action
• Managing third-party contributions to the programme, and communications with all stakeholders.
• Managing both the dependencies and the interfaces between projects
• Representing and making presentations on behalf of the organisation and unit from time to time at events.
• Technical and Behavioural competencies
• Organised and able to participate in and lead physical and virtual teams
• Proven ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team with respect for diversity
• Team player with effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills, and able to build value-adding relationships with stakeholders at all levels across the public, private and civil society sectors
• Excellent analytical skills with advanced proficiency in systematic writing written and spoken English
• Advanced experience and proficiency in writing for professional and academic purposes e.g scholarships, grants, proposals, technical report, work plan
• Knowledge of assessment tools development, and test administration
• Good knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling programmes
• Knowledge of Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL)
• Ability to create a sense of community amongst the members of the project teams
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite or related software.
• Support in planning, monitoring, and controlling programmes
• Ability to plan logistics and budgeting for programmes
• Excellent in creating project implementation processes.
• The ability to find ways of solving or pre-empting problems.
• Good understanding of the procurement process including negotiation with third parties Good knowledge of programme and project management tools and softwares like Gantt chart, Asana, project, Survey cto, Kobo collect etc
• The ability to find ways of solving or pre-empting problems

Experience/Qualification

• Post-secondary education from a recognised university in a field such as Education, Research, Development, Social Work, or any other relevant field
• 3 + years of Programme/Project Management experience in areas such as assessment, partnership development, education programmes and interventions, research and policy advocacy
• Experience in working in the international development sector is desirable
• Experience in working on education, development and/or donor/grant-funded programmes will be an added advantage
• Multilingual speaker desirable: ability to speak Hausa, Ibo, or Yoruba is an added advantage
• Based in Lagos and willing to travel nationally and internationally

Benefits:

• Hybrid work mode: we work 3 days remotely and 2 days on-site
• Health coverage: medical insurance for staff and dependents (spouse and up to 4 children), health and wellness awareness
• Training opportunities: we encourage personal development and provide learning platforms to help team members grow and thrive in their career
• Team events: we cultivate team building through social events and happy hours