Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, January 13, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Keeping Girls in School (KGS) Initiative is a component under the Girls' Education and Women's Empowerment and Livelihood (GEWEL) Project which is currently being implemented by the Government of Zambia with support from the World Bank. The Project which is being implemented in three Ministries namely the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS), Ministry of Gender (MOG) and Ministry of General Education (MOGE) has three components. The first component is the Supporting Women's Livelihoods initiative, while the second component supports the keeping Girls in School Initiative, and the third component supports institutional strengthening and system building in MOG and MCDSS for women's empowerment and social protection.
PROJECT BACKGROUND
The goal of the Girls' Education and Women's Empowerment and Livelihood (GEWEL) Project is to increase access to livelihood support for extremely poor rural women and access to secondary education for disadvantaged adolescent girls in extremely poor households in selected districts. The objective of KGS is to help adolescent girls in extremely poor households to access secondary education, by providing support to cover secondary school fees for adolescent girls in extremely poor households that are benefitting from the government's existing Social Cash Transfer.
KGS was designed in response to the fact that very few adolescent girls in rural areas are enrolled in school and increase in school dropout due to:
(i) the inability of the poorest families to bear the costs (or opportunity costs) of educating girls and
(ii)the lack of options available to girls to develop the skills needed to generate sufficient income to lift themselves and their families out of poverty. KGS will therefore increase the opportunities available to these girls to improve their living standards in the long run by ensuring that they acquire the needed education.
The Ministry of General Education is inviting applications from interested persons who meet the minimum requirements to fill the following positions. Kindly note that those who responded to our earlier advertisement are advised to apply again.
ASSISTANT PROJECT COORDINATOR (1),
Location - Lusaka Reports to- Project Coordinator .

Duties and Responsibilities
• Provide operational support to the Project Coordinator in managing the day to day operations of KGS
• Assist Project Coordinator to coordinate, monitor and oversee the project implementation as well as provide supervision for consultants, seconded and attached staffin the implementation of the KGS Project
• Oversee budget development and adjustment, submitting Annual Workplan and Budget (AWPB) to the World Bank;
• Lead the KGS team to conduct quarterly AWPB progress meetings and assessing calendar adjustments as needed;
• Support Project Coordinator to provide continuous progress reviews, situation reports and programmatic/operational updates to the Ministry Management and cooperating partners to enable informed decisions;
• Manage the logistic aspects of conferences, seminars, workshops, training sessions and meetings in collaboration with the technical support experts and represent the project in various meetings:
• Interface with other Ministries implementing GEWEL on issues related to project implementation:
• Develop and oversee capacity building initiative for and improved communication channels with provincial, districts and school levels
• Support the Project Coordinator to prepare the required technical progress reports and ad hoc reports on the status of project planning and implementation for submission to Government and cooperating partners;
• Work with the Gender and Communication Specialist and Project Coordinator to generate high-level communications to increase project visibility at the national level
• Liaise with the World Bank task team leader of GEWEL project and other key stakeholders to ensure effective coordination with other project components:
• Perform other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor
• Develop project guidelines and Terms of reference as maybe needed during the course of the project implementation

Job Skills: Not Specified

Qualifications, Experience and Key Attributes
• Degree Economic, Business Administration, Development/Gender Studies or equivalent;
• Masters degree in Economics, Business Administration, Development Studies or equivalent will be an added advantages:
• Over 3years experience supporting operations of a large, complex development programme;
• Strong proven track record in overseeing operations and acting in an assistant or deputy role:
• Experience developing and overseeing capacity building approaches for decentralised teams;
• Experience generating, monitoring and adapting Annual Work Plan and Budgets
• Experience using innovative training, management and communication methodologies
• Strong writing and communication skills, including ability to prepare quality, focused reports
• Understanding of drivers of School-Related
• Gender-Based Violence (SRGBV)
• Experience leading initiative to actively prevent and respond to SRGBV, including Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA), would be an added advantage;
• Working on a similar project would be an added advantage;
• Team player:
• Analytical;
• Highly motivated;
• Decision making skills:
• Good communication skills;
• Good leadership skills:
• Trustworthy and ethical;
• Result oriented, problem solving skills;
• Good organisational skills:
• Ability to maintain good relationship with all project stakeholders;
• Ability to under time pressure and meet deadlines:
• Proficient in basic computer (Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Adobe Reader) and ability to use other software packages required by the Office
• Ability to work independently with minimum of supervision;
• Ability to prepare quality reports:
• Experience working on a similar project is an added advantage

Job Education Requirements: Degree Economic, Business Administration, Development/Gender Studies or equivalent

Job Experience Requirements: Over 3years

Work Hours: 8

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Job application procedure
Interested candidates who meet the minimum qualifications should apply through the address below not later than 14th January, 2021.
The Permanent Secretary-A .
Ministry of General Education 89 corner of Chimanga & Mogadishu Road.
P.O.Box 50093 .
LUSAKA

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