Job Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical leadership to drive activities that ensure maximum impact toward achieving project objectives, incorporating effective youth participatory approaches.
• Collaborate with key project staff to develop, review, and monitor annual work and performance plans, ensuring alignment with both long-term and short-term priorities.
• Offer comprehensive technical and implementation support to field-based education staff and partners, including guidance on work plans, approval of expenses and procurement, recruitment processes, and reporting, in close coordination with team members.
• Ensure adherence to Safe and Inclusive Programming (SIP) guidelines in alignment with NRC and WB standards, promptly addressing and resolving any reported breaches or concerns.
• Advocate for and promote enhanced inclusion and accessibility within all education-related activities.
• Hold overarching responsibility for the effective and efficient management of the Education project, ensuring alignment with the project management cycle, including high-quality reporting in collaboration with Finance, Somalia Logistics, external technical partners, and consultants.
• Manage the overall project budget, maintaining appropriate burn rates and implementing solutions to address over- or under-expenditure issues.
• Ensure compliance with NRC’s contractual commitments and program quality standards throughout project implementation, with a focus on enhancing education and vocational skills training standards.
• Oversee subcontracted partners by providing financial and operational support, ensuring optimized resource use through sound budgeting, consistent financial tracking, and timely donor reporting.
• Ensure adherence to NRC’s policies, guidelines, and procedures.
• Coordinate and manage project implementation activities, budgets, and documentation in line with proposals, strategies, and donor requirements.
• Take charge of risk management across all project aspects, including fiduciary and implementation risks, while upholding the principle of "do no harm."
• Ensure that financial and logistical systems and procedures, including supply chain management, are effectively followed by the project team.
• Oversee the timely development and updating of procurement, recruitment, and spending plans for the project and ensure these are communicated to relevant colleagues.
• Accountable for the timely submission of monthly project-specific cash forecasts to Finance and relevant Procurement Requests to Logistics.
• Submit reports to MoECHE and the State Ministry of Education through both formal and informal debriefings, including quarterly, annual, and semi-annual reports.
• Provide leadership and guidance to ensure a robust youth participatory approach in the project, leveraging the insights, networks, and expertise of local youth partners and TVET service participants.
• Foster and maintain active, cooperative relationships with key stakeholders such as government officials, project partners, implementing agencies, and relevant institutions.
• Represent the project and the organization publicly, ensuring the dissemination of information on project achievements and lessons learned.
• Support donor relationship management by participating in routine and ad-hoc donor meetings, and collaborating with project staff, Grants and Partnership teams, and subcontractors to prepare necessary updates.
• Ensure the use of existing monitoring and evaluation processes with the Education team and collaborate with the Country Office to develop or streamline new Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) tools to support a responsive and effective programming approach.
• Facilitates learning through reviews of progress against benchmarks, collecting lessons learnt and best practices and facilitating dissemination of the same across the country office, partners, and external stakeholders.
• Provide line management for the project coordinator, TVET specialist, GBV officer, and consultants.
• Foster a supportive work environment that encourages teamwork, trust, mutual respect, and a participatory approach to engaging with youth, while empowering staff to take ownership and responsibility.
• Oversee performance management and capacity building for all direct reports through regular one-on-one meetings and the establishment and completion of clear goals and performance plans.
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