Education Programme Manager

The Education Programme Manager of TDH in Libya is responsible for the successful management and supervision of TDH Education Programme in Libya. The education programme is currently composed of three actions funded by ECW and Unicef, which are the following:
– ECW MYRP– Education Cannot Wait – Multi-Year Resilience Programme for Libya
– ECW FER – Emergency Response for Libya Education Sector to Daniel storm
– UNICEF: Provision of combined services at TDH Baity centers for the most vulnerable children and adolescents
The Education PM ensures TDH is appropriately represented at the Country level regarding its Education strategy and relevant networks/stakeholders. In addition, primary responsibilities include the organization of projects’ activities for the achievement of the planned targets, the management of the key staff appointed to the Education Programme’s projects, and developing new proposals, needs assessments and narrative reports. The Education PM is the leading education team member responsible for the overall integrity and coherence of the programme and its compliance with TDH and the donor’s strategies and procedures in Libya.

Specifically, the Education PM is in charge of:

Programme implementation
• Participating in and coordinating with the senior management team, ensuring regular information flows and timely decisions;
• Accountable for people management of field staff; this includes – hiring & firing, objective setting, probation, performance appraisal, development of staff, managing performance, including poor performance, etc.;
• Ensuring the overall provision of and adherence to the TDH’s policies, procedures, guidelines, systems and standard practices;
• Revision/evaluation of monthly activities concerning projects implementation with Head of Programme and Country Delegate;
• Suggestions for adjustment in project activities;
• Responsible for monitoring project/programme progress and guaranteeing the quality of the implemented activities and projects;
• Leading member of overall project evaluations, assessments, and baselines;
• Responsible for submission of internal reports to Country Delegate and Head of Programme and adjustments of programmes if necessary.

Team management, coaching and project supervision
• Monitoring and planning of project activities, ensuring effective delivery in line with donor requirements and the TDH’s mission;
• Overall management and coordination of education programme – ensuring results and objectives as per project documents are achieved within the given budget and time-plan;
• Collects internal and external reports to ensure effective information flows and to harmonize and finalize programme reports to be submitted to donors, being sure that reporting deadlines are met;
• Ensure timely information on progress and results is available by compiling, organizing, analyzing, monitoring, and preparing data for situation reports, fact sheets, donor reports, briefing notes, and other reporting products;
• Set up of tools for qualitative and quantitative indicators in collaboration with key staff;
• Undertake field visits – whenever possible – to gather the information on results related to the Education response activities to ensure that all data from the field is captured, documented and reported in a results-based and timely manner for donors and internal purposes;
• Supervise and/or coordinate with area team to better ensure the information flow, monitoring and reporting on project implementation, and provide financial and strategic oversight where required.

Financial responsibilities
• Responsible for monitoring the total budget of the education programme in the country and its implementation;
• Responsible for informing Head of Programme and Country Delegate of issues with an impact on the budget and suggesting reallocations;
• Preparing the budgets for project proposals (with the support of field and admin staff);
• Consult on level of expenditure of project budget lines and comparison to actual implementation on the ground at global level;
• Supervising the preparation of financial reporting on projects performance and evaluation.

Programme development
• In collaboration with Country Delegate, Head of Programme and technical staff, shall implement an appropriate the defined strategy related to the Education/Child Protection Sector, setting clear objectives and indicators;
• Supporting the development of new proposals for Libya and Tunisia, aligned to TDH’s Country Strategy, in collaboration with Country Delegate, Head of Programme, the Child Protection Programme Manager and technical coordinators, applying a multisector approach;
• Supporting donor relations by contributing to the production of various communication products for donors and accompanying donors during field visits, in coordination with programme and field office colleagues;
• Providing strategic and technical guidance on key components of TDH’s work to foster good practice and ensure that minimum standards are met in all sectors.

Strategic partnership and networking/representation
• Supporting the development of the country strategy document;
• Submitting relevant documentation and data for project proposal development;
• Participating in Cluster/Sector coordination meetings at the national level and other working groups or coordination meetings, as required, representing the organization and feeding back to the Head of Programme and Country Delegate on relevant issues, and following up on relevant action points;
• Developing and maintaining appropriate, regular, transparent and supportive communication with the assigned project staff, technical coordinators as well as other relevant stakeholders (e.g. beneficiaries, community leaders, local and national government officials, ECW and UN agencies and other NGOs), to ensure good cooperation and partnerships;
• Attending donor and other partners meetings, representing the progress of activities in field offices (planned, implementation, planned changes, achievements, new project possibilities);
• Ensuring collaboration and coordination with the other Operation Managers to ensure programmatic integration, sharing of lessons, best practices;

The parties may mutually agree on additional tasks to be assigned to ensure the smooth and correct implementation of the assigned role.

Coordination and Line Management
The Line Manager within TDH in Libya is the Head of Programmes.
For contractual matters, the reference person is the Country Delegate.

Requirements

Mandatory:
• University degree (minimum BA) obtained for at least 2 years;
• At least 3 years of experience in similar positions;
• Previous experience in managing Protection and Education (EiE) projects
• Excellent knowledge of English, both written and oral; knowledge of the Arabic language will be a rewarding requirement;
• Excellent knowledge of the Office application package with particular focus on Excel and Word;
• Excellent organizational and human resource management skills;
• Ability to adapt to difficult contexts;
• Excellent ability to understand gender issues in a complex environment;
• Adherence to the principles and values of the Terre des Hommes Italia Onlus Foundation.

Desirable:
• Experience in managing emergency projects;
• Interest and motivation to work in a non-profit organization.