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• Lead
  in the technical aspects of program management, including content,
  methods, and materials for classroom instruction, learning assessment
  strategies, facilitator training and support modalities, content, and
  activities, and overall evaluation of impact.
• Guide
  Implementing Partners in their mastery of the NUEP Speed School program
  and their support of facilitators in its delivery.
• Lead
  in the design, coordination, implementation, and evaluation of all Speed
  School training activities—setting objectives, mobilizing partners,
  establishing the strategy and agenda, preparing materials, etc.—,
  including equally formal multi-day workshops, the continuous “holistic
  training” operations, and the interactions of facilitators (and other
  stakeholders) in permanent Education Communities of Practice.
• Contribute
  to the development of the program budget and adhere to program budget
  requirements, ensuring the financial management of the program and all
  necessary project and program documentation is provided and the Geneva
  Global database is kept up-to-date.
• Work
  with community-based organizations, local and government officials
  (notably, Gulu Primary Teachers College and the northern District
  Education Offices), local implementing organizations, other key stakeholders,
  and, potentially, local collaborators in Northern Uganda to ensure the
  high-quality delivery and outcomes of the Speed School program and to
  advocate for and support the model’s adoption by government schools and
  other education initiatives, as appropriate.
• Monitor
  and support Implementing Partners in their conduct of regular school
  visits to undertake facilitator/teacher monitoring, observation, and
  support as relate to lesson plan delivery, overall school operations,
  collection of statistics and tracking forms, classroom size, and
  attendance.
• Complete
  project and program monitoring assignments, including regular contact with
  grant recipients via telephone, in-person, and through project site
  visits.
• Support
  technically the delivery of auxiliary interventions such as economic
  empowerment, pre-school education and community schools to sustain formal
  school attendance and improve enrolment.
• Support
  GG-U efforts to introduce Speed School to more areas of Uganda and to
  cultivate new education opportunities for GG-U in the North and
  nationwide.
• Participate
  actively in initiatives managed by GGI (headquarters) to strengthen the
  Speed School model, methods, and materials and to capture these as formal
  technical documents, media products, research studies, and more; and to
  contribute more widely to the consolidation of GGI’s overall education
  assets.

• Keenly
  review and analyse all data required of GG-U and GGI on the teaching and
  learning aspects of the program, contributing to the design of data
  collection tools, in consultation, coordination, and collaboration, as
  relevant, with the contracted research partner (Pincer Group), the IPs,
  DEOs, Gulu PTC, GGI, and other partners.
• Write
  the education sections of the quarterly and annual program reports in line
  with reporting requirements and deadlines.
• Conduct
  or lead landscape studies in potential implementation areas and use the
  results to inform the program design, planning, implementation, and
  partner engagement.
• Contribute
  to the impact assessment of the program including data collection,
  stakeholder mobilization and analysis of results.
• Provide
  input and expertise when working with our research and any academic
  partners before, during, and after their program evaluation activities.

• With
  the other Program Managers, provide continuous supervision, monitoring,
  and support to Implementing Partners in their overall operations and
  administration of the grants they receive from GG-U, including equally:
  their training, monitoring, and support of Speed School classrooms,
  Self-Help Groups, pre-school classrooms, community schools, and formal
  primary school capacity-strengthening; their data collection and delivery
  to GG-U; their program reporting; their financial accounting and
  reporting; and more.
• Work
  with the GGI Client Services and Marketing departments to provide local
  development expertise for client materials, and coordination, planning,
  and participation in client (donor or potential donor) visits in-country.
• Cooperate
  and collaborate with members of the Geneva Global team in other countries.
• Participate
  in Geneva Global training and sector research activities.
• Assist
  in identifying and training in-country staff or consultants, as needed.
• Assist
  in the development of additional opportunities, as needed.
• Contribute
  to and improve Geneva Global’s understanding of the region and
  sector-specific issues.
• The
  Program Manager, Education shall perform such other duties, tasks and
  activities as GGU/GGI may assign or specify from time to time.

• The
  applicant must hold a Master’s Degree in Education, Development Project
  Management, or related fields, or other relevant background with
  significant (10 years or more) experience in education programming in
  leadership positions.
• Significant
  knowledge of Uganda’s education system and curriculum.
• Should
  have significant past experience as a classroom teacher and teacher
  trainer.
• Must
  be fluent in Acholi and English, with strong English writing skills.
• Must
  be comfortable in being a pro-active member of the Senior NUEP team.
• Must
  be a leader who seeks to identify and communicate potential problems and
  propose solutions to solve them.
• Must
  be able to function effectively in a loosely structured but complex work
  environment that is constantly and rapidly changing as a result of project
  development in other sectors.
• Must
  have the flexibility to deal rapidly with problems which require a range
  of skills and priorities.
• Must
  have strong facilitation skills and work as a team player in problem
  solving.
• Must
  understand and be aware of other managers’ scope of responsibilities and
  be willing to discuss with and when required defer decisions to these
  managers to ensure coordination of projects’ implementation.
• Ability
  to carry out responsibilities and make decisions independently.
• Must
  be a patient and good communicator who can function in an organization
  working with multi-national staff; and whose sites are located in regions
  of the country difficult to access during wet season.
• Must
  be willing to spend significant time in more inaccessible areas of the
  region.
• Computer
  literate including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and E-Mail.
• Must
  be patient, diplomatic, and professional.

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