Programme Officer at The Education Partnership (TEP) Centre

• 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
• Provide supervisory support for the Consultancy unit team
• Supervise in organising, curating, and hosting The Education Unscripted Podcast series.
• Researching, planning, and organising the annual Education Innovation Summit (NEDIS), NICE Community engagement.
• Develop sponsorships and partnerships strategy, logistics, and speaker management.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key education sector partners in government and within the international donor community.
• Monitoring and reviewing activities in the state and ensuring preparation of monthly progress reports on this.
• Defining the programme's implementation processes and templates.
• Developing programme's budget, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realised benefits as the programme progresses
• Identifying gaps and initiating extra activities and other management interventions
• Develop knowledge products in specific areas of research assigned, development of toolkits, manuals, and activity reports.
• Preparing and making presentations on behalf of the organisation and unit from time to time
• Ensure the project is delivered on time per the workplan and within the budget
• Lead projects/programmes deliverables and preparation of various programme documents, such as workplans, budgets, reports, and proposals on programme implementation arrangements
• Identify sources and gather and compile data and information to prepare documents, guidelines, and other material as required.
• Track project implementation processes and milestones in correspondence with the allotted timeline for the projects
• Coordinate with implementing partners and monitor closely their implementation, and ensure the timely delivery of the activities;
• Proactively monitor and evaluate the progress of the different project activities and submit regular reports on the progress, accomplishments, difficulties, lessons learnt, etc.
• 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

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
• Good knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring, and controlling programmes
• 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
• Excellent in creating project implementation processes.
• Good knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation procedures
• The ability to find ways of solving or pre-empting problems.
• Sound business case development and approvals skills
• 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, etc
• Good knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation procedures
• Sufficient seniority and credibility to advise project teams on their projects in relation to the programme
• 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 fundraising, 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