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• Provide strong and positive leadership to the field education
  technical program (TP) officers ensuring competent and motivated staff are
  hired and retained.
• Support professional and personal development of education technical
  staff through on-the-job coaching, identification of learning and training
  needs and opportunities.
• Ensure that education technical programme is managed and executed
  well as per plans within time, cost and budgets, meeting donor and
  community accountability.
• Offer support to the regional program managers and cluster managers
  to monitor operations budgets, funding, expenditures and execution.
• Ensure education technical program and all related projects achieve
  child well-being outcomes in line with the organization’s ministry
  framework and development approach, and national office (NO) strategic
  priorities and programme designs.
• Develop and implement strategies for intentional and mutual learning
  among technical program staff between projects and between other regions.
• Provide oversight of the technical program operational risk
  management, including ensuring timely responsiveness to issues that might
  compromise the effective implementation of the technical program.
• Actively contribute to the effective TP related disaster management
  and emergency functions, based on partnership protocols and standards.
• Ensure that technical program field level programming contributes to
  national level advocacy strategies.
• Supports the TPOs and program managers to have meaningful
  engagements with al partners across areas where the TP is implemented
  (especially districts) for realization of TP objectives.
• Ensure children’s sponsorship standards are adhered to in
  implementation of the education projects

• Work in close collaboration with regional program managers
  significantly contribute to the development of technical program detailed
  implementation plan (DIPs) and key priorities of WV operations (short,
  medium and long)
• Formulate a business plan for education TP in alignment with
  strategy and plans of other departments.
• Takes the needs of registered children into consideration in the
  design and plans of technical plans
• Support the regional program managers to develop budget for TP;
  provides rough budget estimates for each “Technical Project” implemented
  in each AP; estimate national-level activity and operation budget; make
  plan for funding portfolio and coordinate with area plan to negotiate with
  SOs/donors

• Support the associate director grants in education technical
  programs related grants start up and implementation
• Work with cluster/AP education teams to provide support of education
  grants and ensure the implementation is done in an integrated manner.
• Actively participate in grants reporting as well as reflection and
  ensures that projects are responding to the emerging issues in timely
  manner.

• In close collaboration with regional program managers, ensure
  provision of good quality services to technical program implementation
  (Model fidelity) and in turn follow partnership standards, policies and
  protocols, including all relevant sections of LEAP 3 implementation guidance.
• Support adequate quality assurance processes to ensure that programs
  meet defined program quality standards including indicator performance.
• Ensure that findings and recommendations from various accountability
  mechanisms such as reflection, operational and finance audits, technical
  program evaluations, technical program reviews, are acted upon in a timely
  and effective manner.
• Supports regional program managers to adapt technical programmes for
  implementation at the local level

• Responsible for education technical program baseline, indicator
  tracking table (ITT) and activity monitoring, semi-annual and annual
  reports and evaluation of technical program.
• Ensures results of technical programme is measured by outcome/output
  indicator achievements
• Leads the semi-annual and annual technical program reporting and
  ensures child wellbeing impact is adequately captured and presented in a
  manner that is supported by quality evidence and scale.
• Supports the area plans related annual reporting on education
  technical projects and ensures that it conforms to support offices
  fiduciary requirements as well as donor promise.
• Perform any other duties as required

• The applicant for the World Vision Technical Program Manager –
  Education job placement should preferably hold a Master’s degree in
  Education , Management or other field applicable to developing country
  context
• Post Graduate Qualification in Project Planning management is
  preferred
• Additional training or certification in Portfolio and/or Programme
  Management with accredited institutions such as PMI, or IPMA.
• At least five years of managerial experience in Portfolio and
  Program Management with a thorough understanding of all areas of project
  management cycles in a complex, international development organization.
• Ability to engage at a strategic level
• Good report writing skills is a prerequisite
• Strong budgetary and financial management skills.
• Good interpersonal, organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to maintain performance expectations in diverse cultural
  contexts, stressful environments and physical hardship conditions with
  limited resources.
• Able to work on a cross-cultural environment with a multi-national
  staff.
• Ability to solve complex problems and to exercise independent
  judgment.
• Computer literate in Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes or similar
  database, email and internet programs.
• Ability to travel within country, regional and internationally.

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