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.
PROGRAMME OFFICER (2)
Location - Lusaka Reports to- Assistant Project Coordinator .

Duties and Responsibilities
• Coordinating and compiling the preparation of annual work plan and budget for assigned region;
• Receive KGS-MIS Checklist from assigned Districts accordingly validate them in readiness for payments of school fees:
• Compile implementation reports in assigned Districts;
• Collaborate with monitoring and evaluation team in tracking KGS indicators in KGS Districts;
• collaborate with other specialists in effectively and efficiently delivering on KGS mandate;
• Lead, motivate and supervise all Provincial and Districts attached staff of the Project in the implementing regions according to the Project guidelines
• Ensure a flow of regular and complete information on the status of the activities planned and implemented in the implementing regions;
• Manage the organisation of conferences, seminars, workshops, training sessions and meetings in collaboration with technical support of expert and represent the Project in various meetings in regions of jurisdiction;
• Perform other duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor as part of the implementation of the Project;
• Check the status of the Project on daily basis in assigned Districts.

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/Gender Studies or equivalent will be an added advantage;
• Over 3 years' experience supporting field work of a large, complex development programme:
• Experience developing and overseeing capacity building approaches for decentralised teams:
• 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;
• Membership to relevant Professional Bodies;
• 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 lead teams to the achievement of objectives and results:
• Excellent ability to time management and good organisational skills:
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines;
• Experience in working on similar Project will be an added advantage

Job Education Requirements: Degree Economic, Business Administration,

Job Experience Requirements: Over 3 years

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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