Programme Officer at The Education Partnership (TEP) Centre

Job Summary

• We seek to fill the role of Programme Officer - Consultancy & Advisory.
• 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.