DFID and British Council Project Careers – Partnerships Manager at STIR Education

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Organisation: STIR Education
Project Funding Source: ARK,
DFID and British Council
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
About STIR:
Over the last decade, substantial progress has been made across the
developing world in improving access to education. Yet such improvements in
access and resources have not been matched with an equivalent increase in
education quality and outcomes. In India, where STIR launched its pilot in
2012, 60% of second year children are unable to read a simple paragraph, and
70% cannot perform simple mathematical tasks such as long division. In Uganda,
90% of grade 3 children are unable to read and understand an English story text
of grade 2 level difficulty; 70% of grade 3 children are unable to solve
numerical written division sums of grade 2 level difficulty.
STIR Education is based on the belief that the most effective method of
change is to build on what the best teachers and schools. As such, we are
creating a movement of Teacher Changemakers.
Having completed a successful pilot project in India (with the support
of ARK, the British Council and DFID), we are now testing the STIR model in
Uganda, where we are training and supporting a strong group of partner
organisations (including PEAS, Educate!, Volunteer Uganda and Build Africa) to
embed the Teacher Changemaker approach into their existing programmes and
school networks.
Job Summary: The STIR Uganda
Partnerships Manager will manage relationships with existing partners and
support them to integrate STIR effectively into their programmes and ensure
high quality delivery of the model.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities: 
  • Manage and grow relationships with pilot
    partner organisations such that they remain committed to working in
    partnership with STIR after the pilot
  • Work with partner organisations to ensure
    effective delivery of the STIR programme
  • Work closely with partner organization to
    adapt the STIR programme to the Ugandan context and to their own programme
    context
  • Manage and develop two STIR Programme
    Managers
  • Oversee support provided to partner
    organisations by STIR Programme Managers to ensure it is high quality and
    consistent
  • Ensure all necessary data is gathered from
    partners in a timely manner
  • Liaise with STIR India team members to
    share lessons about the most effective means of managing STIR partnerships
  • Create opportunities for partners to learn
    from and share approaches to leading networks with each other
  • Develop a knowledge base to support the
    effective running of future teachers’ networks in Uganda
  • Work closely with partner organisations
    about the effectiveness of their field staff and provide additional
    support to individual partner staff members as is necessary
  • Work in liaison with the central team to
    ensure feedback from partners is taken into account with programme design
    and data gathering processes
  • Offer additional support to STIR as an
    organization as required – be willing to ‘muck-in’ – and share learning with
    the India and UK teams
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience: 
  • The ideal candidate will have at least
    four years’ experience (with at least 2 years in grassroots education), a
    good knowledge of the East African education context, clear leadership
    skills, good ‘start-up’ experience and a strong commitment to working in
    partnership.
  • The Uganda Partnerships Manager will have
    an exceptional ability to influence and motivate people (some of whom will
    not be formally reporting to them); and an ability to work with people
    operating in different organisational cultures and in challenging
    contexts; and a very strong focus on quality implementation.
  • Crucially, they will have a very strong
    belief in the possibility and potential of teachers leading change in the Uganda
    education system.
  • Prior experience of overseeing multiple
    partnerships simultaneously
  • Past exposure and experience in ensuring
    quality implementation in a range of settings
  • Experience in managing a team based ‘in
    the field’ for the majority of the time
  • Possess a detailed understanding of the
    challenges teachers and schools face in Uganda
  • Past exposure and experience in managing
    the collection of data
  • Possess the ability to influence people
    without direct authority over them
  • Ability to gather and act on feedback
    swiftly to enable programme improvement
  • Highly skilled in project management – to
    ensure deadlines are met and that momentum is created for the STIR
    movement
  • Strong commitment to excellent education
    for all and a belief in teachers and school leaders as people with the
    capacity to lead change in the system
  • Positivity and optimism such that you can
    motivate others during challenging times
  • Very strong leadership skills
  • Very implementation focused – a real ‘can
    do’ person
  • Flexibility and a willingness to adapt (in
    order to set-up the most appropriate structure for each STIR partnership)
  • Willingness to learn from and collaborate
    with partner organisations
  • Humility as you work with people from a
    wide variety of backgrounds and experiences and openness to learn from
    their experience
  • Resilience in the face of the challenges
    of impacting public education in Uganda
  • Creative – especially in terms of
    motivating people and finding ways to overcome the challenges of working
    in schools in low-income communities – and in overcoming challenges faced
    by partners
  • Confident in wide variety of social
    settings
  • Open and keen to learn and improve as a
    manager
  • Highly organized and professional in
    approach to managing partnerships
  • Enjoyment of travel and opportunity to work
    ‘on the go’ in rural areas
  • Highly sensitive to local context and
    particularities and able to adapt to work effectively in different
    contexts
How to Apply: 
If interested, please send a cover letter please share with us why you
are interested in becoming a STIR Uganda Partnerships Manager and why you think
your experience makes you a suitable candidate. Please also send a copy of your
CV and details for two referees to eakers@stireducation.org

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