Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Background
Camara Education is a non-profit international educational organisation dedicated to delivering real impact through technology and by inspiring and empowering a young generation to improve their own life opportunities.
Our mission is to transform education using technology to empower disadvantaged students.
Our vision is a world-class technology-enabled education accessible to all.
Camara has built a proven model of ‘education delivery’ that is both sustainable and highly scalable. Camara is a registered charity in the US, Ireland, and the UK. It currently operates five Education Hubs in Africa (Ethiopia, Zambia, Zambia, Lesotho, and Tanzania). Each Camara entity operates as a social enterprise designed to serve local market needs through a sustainable business model.
Our Values
Camara has four values that are the essence of our organisation, and we demonstrate through all of our work. When you represent Camara you will be expected to demonstrate these values:
Committed: We deliver results
Caring: We care for our people and those we serve
Creative: We innovate to solve problems
Collaborative: We achieve more by working together
The Role
The role of Programmes Coordinator is to lead the Camara Zambia team to ensure all project activities are completed and achieve the organisation’s strategic objectives in Zambia. The Programmes’ coordinator will be required to be actively involved in the overall planning, management and delivery of all operations of the hub within the required timescales.
Key Responsibilities:
• Planning and Coordination: Identify, manage and coordinate project activities and timelines to support the deployment of Camara Education programmes in Zambia
• Financial Management: Forecast requirements and prepare budgets; schedule expenditures; analyse variances and initiate corrective actions as well as project finance tracking and reporting
• Develop and maintain project plans and associated communication documents
• Oversee and provide direction to the project implementation team in the different phases of projects
• Facilitate and coordinate the communication and reporting flow between Camara Zambia and Camara Education team
• Oversee Country Strategic Management: coordinating and facilitating the development of Country Strategic Plans (CSPs) and Annual Country Plans (ACPs) as well as supporting other annual and multi-annual strategic processes required by CEL management team.
• Provide the project management to meet project commitments in line with agreed metrics
• Team Management: Recruit, train, and manage staff members and support capacity development of team.
• Communications: Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and project partners/stakeholders in a clear and timely fashion.
• Facilitate learning and sharing processes to ensure continued improvement of the supports offered by Camara Zambia and that activities are completed to ensure best practices.
• Collate and collaborate on necessary donor and internal reporting with key Camara Education local and global staff on projects.
• Develop and maintain efficient partner communications and activities through active participation in management team meetings, technical, and education calls
• Providing monthly updates and any other management group tasks for Camara Zambia projects to senior management, project partners and funders.
• Business development- oversee new marketing initiatives for the social enterprise activities of the hub. Increasing the value of current clients while attracting new ones, to improve sales
• Any other Camara Education PMO supportive tasks as agreed with the supervisor
• Key Competencies:
• Demonstrates passion and enthusiasm for Camara’s vision, and motivates, leads, and empowers others to achieve organisational goals.
• Demonstrated Leadership skills, ability to lead teams within a project and give direction to fellow team members to complete tasks to a defined timeline.
• Proven experience of managing large scale projects working alongside national and international partners and ability to demonstrate successful financial management of projects
• Strong ability to resolve problems and determine system improvements whilst working to tight deadlines
• Knowledge and experience of the Project Cycle and the management tools for effective implementation.
• Knowledge of Monitoring and Evaluation framework
• Good understanding of the Zambian education and development context
• Excellent communication skills to establish and maintain positive working relationships with schools, partners, government, staff, and key stakeholders
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Personal commitment to organisational excellence; displays honesty, integrity, and a strong sense of ethics in all decision and actions
• Is resilient; remains calm and deliberate under conditions of stress
• Effective time management and ability to oversee and coordinate projects to ensure all activities are implemented within timescales.
Qualifications and Experience Required:
• Educated to a degree level (essential) in education, development, ICT or another relevant subject area.
• 4 years+ Project/Programme management experience (essential)
• At least 2 years experience in positions of leadership and staff management
• Demonstrable experience in donor relationship management, including grant management, proposal and report writing, ideally within the humanitarian context and/or with the major institutional donors.
• Show an understanding of policies, practices, and priorities of major institutional donors
• A track record of managing complex projects; with experience in financial management and donor compliance issues.
• Experience in data management & analysis with demonstrable capacity for delivering accurate work on time in a dynamic and multi-priority context.
• Must have previous experience working in a developing country (essential)
• Fluent in English (essential)
• Knowledge of local Zambian languages an advantage
• All ordinarily resident applicants who are not Zambian citizens must have the required work and/or permanent residency permits to be eligible for consideration (essential)
• Applications should be completed via the attached link on or before 10th September 2022

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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