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

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

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.

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, workplan
• 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.

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.