Position description
Role Purpose:
- Oversee Street Child’s rolling school construction programme in Liberia and Sierra Leone;
- Support in-school, community engagement, and economic empowerment activities;
- Work closely with local partners to manage the construction of 50-100 primary and secondary schools annually;
- Frequent travel to rural communities to monitor projects and gather updates for internal and donor reporting.
Key Responsibilities:
Reporting & Programme Funding Engagement – 30%
- Review narrative and financial quarterly reports from country teams and provide feedback;
- Lead the consolidation of narrative reports for various donors;
- Ensure regular information flow to communications and fundraising teams;
- Support income-generation efforts, including drafting funding proposals and donor visits.
Programme Management – 35%
- Collaborate with national partners, Government, and community stakeholders to identify and assess school construction needs;
- Ensure quality and timely implementation of school construction programming;
- Develop systems to track progress against key milestones and address challenges;
- Train and guide partner staff to ensure the effective use of programme documents and tools;
- Monitor safeguarding policies and support feedback loops with partners and participants.
Finance & Procurement – 20%
- Oversee the procurement process, ensuring value for money in selecting contractors;
- Work with finance colleagues to compile financial reporting for programme donors;
- Support teams in compiling requisitions in line with programme forecasts and budgets;
- Coordinate the tracking of donor and match funding requirements.
Other – 15%
- Provide surge support across Street Child’s programme portfolio;
- Coordinate staff, stakeholders, and donor visits;
- Represent Street Child appropriately both internally and externally;
- Carry out other reasonable requests within the broad remit of the role.
Qualifications
Experience and Knowledge:
- Relevant field experience in development programming with local partnership respect;
- Successful delivery of team objectives through collaboration;
- Experience with data collection, cleaning, and analysis;
- Experience working in education, community engagement, and livelihoods programming;
- Strong knowledge of the Liberia and/or Sierra Leone context;
- Experience with donor reporting and budget management;
- German Language skills (preferred but not essential).
Skills and Abilities:
- Excellent organizational and administrative skills;
- Strong coaching and capacity strengthening skills;
- Good time management, able to meet deadlines under pressure;
- Relationship management and communication skills.
Other:
- Excellent written and spoken English;
- A “can-do” attitude and problem-solving skills;
- Strong motivation to succeed and ability to work independently.
Education/Qualifications:
- Degree or higher in International Development or related field;
- Relevant training in MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning).
Application instructions
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