Programmes Officer
Position Circumstances
- Career Category: Social Work, Child Protection, Educate/Train/Teaching
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: Negotiable
A Cambodian national and passionate about working with children
Department: Education Program
Location / Duty Station: Lumphat and Kon Mom, Ratanakiri with frequent travel to school projects in remote communities
Role Purpose / Summary
The Programme Officer will lead and implement school partnership programs in collaboration with district education officers (DoE) in line with the work plan, targets and budget of project activities. These include building capacity to teacher, school principal, commune leaders, district authorities for improving foundation learning outcomes of students in all target schools.
He/She will be responsible for the overall engagement and coordination works at the district level through networking and working closely with district education officers, school principal, commune leaders, NGOs partners, and private sector partners to effectively coordinate and collaborate to develop education planning and monitoring and resources mobilizations ensuring the sustainability of school operations and management.
Reports To Education Program Manager
Type of Contract Full – Time, Renewable (Annually according to performance)
Working Hours 40 hours per week
Remuneration Negotiable according to qualifications and experience
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Capacity Development:
- Responsible for leading and implementing UWS program activities in assigned schools/cluster targets in line with school assessment results.
- In collaboration with DoE, School Cluster leader, facilitate cluster teacher training and provide ongoing coaching target teachers
- Facilitate training and dialogues with girl club (GC), mothers’ group (MG) and school management committee (SMC)
- Support and facilitate the engagement of GC, MG & SMC in the annual school development plan (AOP) process with ensuring meaningful participation in the process.
- Provide timely response to the needs and feedback on school’s performance and progress
- Lead and support on data collection, monitoring, and capacity building in related topics.
- Program Delivery and Support:
- Collaborate with the District Education Office, School Principal to align UWS’s plans with the target district’s annual operational plan, ensuring the integration of school governance, advocacy efforts, and transition activities to achieve ZEP (Zero Education Poverty)
- Lead and mentor to schools’ targets with collaboration with partners, offering technical and operational guidance to ensure they consistently achieve the highest performance standards.
- Organise workshops, meetings, events in district targets with government and stakeholders to share best practices and build strong collaboration with relevant stakeholders and partners.
- Develop and oversee the work plans and budgets, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery of activities
- Develop and manage monthly/quarterly work plans and budget to ensure program activities are delivered on time in good quality.
- Establish/maintain relationships with networks and collaborate with various educational stakeholders such as government bodies, NGOs, international organisations, and communities.
- Act as the primary UWS representative at district-level education meetings, fostering collaboration with local government bodies and other stakeholders.
- Program Quality Assurance:
- Coordinate with the MEAL team to conduct the UWS School Development Report and other M&E tools to monitor teaching quality
- Conduct monitoring trips and spot checks across target schools for quality checking and to identify training needs.
- Coordinate and participate in the development of quarterly reports for provincial education departments and UWS Cambodia country reports in targeted schools.
- Mobilise community resources by actively engaging and collaborating with local authorities and the commune level for mobilising local funding for the schools’ development, inclusive education
- Budgeting and Planning
- Support Line managers, related departments, and school departments to build and plan.
- Support Education program team in conducting budget planning, activity planning, conduct cash advances, and reviewing the settlement with reassurance the compliance with UWS financial policy.
- Support the line manager in conducting monthly, quarterly, and annual reports. Nevertheless, it is a focal point for report writing for stakeholders.
- Child Safeguarding and Reporting
- Responsible for being the key contact person in the province to raise concerns and continue to work with the line manager.
- Support the GESSI to respond to cause for concerns in the province in collaboration with the local authority and the local authority on children’s social care services.
- Building and uphold the UWS CPS Policy, ensuring school is on track to achieve school-level CPS implementation targets.
- Adhere to the guidelines laid out in the UWS Child Protection Policy,
- Collaborate with the National Inclusion Lead Support school to implement inclusion and child protection, and safeguarding procedures and policies in schools.
- Any other reasonable tasks as required by the line manager.
Expected Profile of Candidates
Languages:
- Khmer - Fluent
- English - Fluent
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in the field of Education, Development Study, Social Science, or related fields.
Work History:
- At least experience working in social work, child protection, youth development, gender and social inclusion, education program, sector, in particular primary education for 3 years
Skills & Knowledge:
General & Technical Skills
- Experience managing capacity building programme as well as training staff and local government partners
- Good Command in English
- Ability to document a case study and produce a narrative report in English
- Ability to produce high-quality reports, presentations, and other communications to a range of current and potential stakeholders.
- Computer literate, Excellent verbal and written communication skills (in Khmer and English)
- A degree in education and have at least three years of experience working in the education sector, in particular primary education.
- Good documentation skills and be ability to write a report in English
- Has good technical skills in project cycle management
Soft Skills
- Strong communications, coordination, and passionate in working with governments and schools’ stakeholders
- Open-minded person, flexible and willing to travel in long distances
- Enthusiastic, adaptable, patient, innovative, understanding, team player
- Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply
- Good people management and leadership skills
- Sounds interesting in development works, in particular, primary education in remote areas
- Flexible and Open-minded person, willing to learn new things
- Strong initiative, innovative and creative
- High commitment and demonstrates good accountability
