National Program Manager NGO Jobs - Educate! ~ Ugandan Jobline Jobs

Reports to: Program

Director
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Educate!’

develops young leaders and entrepreneurs in Africa. Educate! provides a proven

mix of a leadership and entrepreneurship course, long-term mentoring, and

practical experience starting an enterprise for secondary school students.

Educate! is working with over 20,000 diverse youth across Uganda, growing to a

staff of 53 in just five years, and has already incorporated its curriculum

into Uganda’s national education system to reach 25,000 students annually. The

organization has received the Ashoka Fellowship and several international

awards and grants, proving out a program model that can be replicated across

Africa.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

1.

Program Development Strategy (20%): 

Educate! coordinates Uganda program innovations, design, and training

work through consistent evidenced-based management and government reform

integration.

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Ensure program strategy is aligned with national

education strategy.

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Regularly review D&T and Innovation annual work

plans and termly goals.

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Organize the learning agenda for the Internal

Advisory Board meetings.

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Manage the annual Program Development Retreat to

ensure integration of M&E, Innovation, and D&T lessons and

recommendations. This retreat will include Global Director to inform

international best practices.

·        
Manage cross-department communication with M&E,

Program Managers and Admin for logistics of pilots, innovations, and D&T

updates.

·        
Take notes at Strategic Team Meetings and manage

follow up on action items with program managers on behalf of the Program

Director.

·        
Work in liaison with the Program Director and APM to

ensure program development is aligned to 5 year strategy and government

advocacy agenda.

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Approve D&T and Innovation budgets.

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Critically review budget allocations and priorities

to find areas for savings, reallocation according to priority, or emerging

needs for investment.

·        
Design new reports, procedures, measurement tools,

and systems as needed for program development.

2.

Partnerships (30%): Educate! manages partnerships with 5-10

organizations that provide specific program expertise, school recruitment,

graduate opportunities, or resource benefit to Educate!.

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Develop and manage 5-10 partnerships, including all

agreements, MOUS, budgets, reports, and formalities.

·        
Ensure at least 1 partner organization per the 4

current Uganda needs; 1. Program expertise in teacher training or agriculture,

2. Graduate opportunities for business, awards, or continued studies, 3. Access

to networks of schools for program recruitment, 4. Increasing program cost

effectiveness by either improving impact or decreasing costs (such as BRAC,

STIR, JIBU Water and Teacher a Man to Fish)

·        
Ensure partnership communications and logistics down

to the field level.

·        
Create HM newsletter and review HM communications

for proper tone.

·        
Manage all reporting between Educate! and Accenture

for Lira partnership.

·        
Build strategic learning partnerships with

organizations operating within the National education reform space in Uganda

·        
Manage partnership and support for Top 5 graduates

annually.

3.

National Reform Management (35%): Educate! manages a network of consultants and

resources to implement Uganda national reform pilots, trainings, and design

projects.

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Manage the design consultants to meet government

deadlines.

·        
Manage all Uganda-based reform pilots (such as with

PEAS in 2016).

·        
Manage the design of national programs, including

NCDC-related projects and projects related to national teacher training

(per-service and in-service).

·        
Work closely with M&E and APM, set pilot

curriculum, training, management procedures, and monitoring tools. This may

include exchange and integration with reform programs outside of Uganda.

·        
Manage the design of tools that can be used by

teachers and students as related to national program strategy and national

curriculum reform.

·        
Meet bi-weekly with Africa Program Managers and/or

Program Director to review national reform goals.

4.

Quality Assurance Oversight (15%): Educate! maintains an 80% or above program quality

rating from partner schools by ensuring program materials, trainings, and

procedures pass through a series of checks for quality both during design and

implementation. 

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Carry out 1:1 meetings to ensure that D&T and

Innovation team is on track to achieve goals and communicating effectively.

·        
Conduct termly site visits and lead focus groups

with teachers and administrators specifically on program quality.

·        
Make timely recommendations based on HM ratings and

reports.

·        
Coordinate with Program Managers to determine

quality assurance questions and strategies for using information from the

field. Contribute QA tab to Programs Report.

·        
Quickly resolve and document solutions to all

challenges with input from Program Director that arise from experiment-specific

conditions.

·        
Manage BML monitoring tools and procedures.

·        
Keenly review all training curricula specifically

and provide feedback to the design team.

·        
Manage strategy for improving the skill set of field

staff in regards to their training ability.

·        
Closely monitor and provide solutions for capacity

of the D&T and Innovation departments as projects emerge. Ensure there is

enough capacity to manage workload and meets their goals. Continuously source

for designers and trainers.

·        
Ensure the program materials, trainings, and

procedures (such as mentor recruitment) are pre-tested and monitored.

Qualifications, Skills and

Experience: 

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The ideal candidate should hold a Bachelor’s degree

required Degree in education preferred.

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At least four years of professional experience. 

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Prior experience designing curriculum and training

teachers. 

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Past experience working in East African education

field preferred.

·        
Curriculum design skills

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Prior management experience.

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Skills in M&E and / or organization learning

systems.

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The applicant must be a trainer of trainers. 

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Exceptional organizational and planning skills

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Keen attention to detail

All suitably

qualified candidates should visit the web link below and create a profile on

the NFT Consult website by entering their e-mail addresses. Please visit web

link below and click Apply now if convinced you have the job requirements. The

applications/CVs should be prepared in English and submitted in either MS Word

or PDF format will be considered.