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• Provide information to support the Resource Mobilization Unit and
  the National Programme Manager in developing proposals to facilitate the
  scale up of Education interventions
• With the support of the Resource Mobilisation team and the National
  Programme Manager, ensure that all education projects comply to donor
  guidelines.
• Provide monthly technical support and capacity building of Education
  project teams on financial management.
• Support representation and visibility of Plan International’s
  Education and ECCD work in consultation with the National Programme
  Manager – Education, including support the NPM at other district and
  national level meetings as necessary.
• Support the National Programme Manager in contributing to Plan
  International’s ECCD Global Network by sharing lessons from implementing
  the ECCD work in Uganda and ensure other global lessons are passed on to
  Uganda project teams
• Work closely with Country Manager for Advocacy and National
  Programme Manager Education to ensure alignment with Plan International’s
  Advocacy strategy including engaging youth in advocacy.
• Support the NPM – Education to provide technical backstopping to
  education and ECCD sponsorship projects
• Collating the Quarterly Education thematic reporting including
  narrative and financial reports from all the project teams, case studies
  and newsletter articles with support of the National Programme Manager.
• Support coordination of Education and ECCD project teams with the
  Human Resource and Operations, administration, procurement, logistics, and
  finance teams ensuring proper and timely Plan International Uganda
  accountability procedures.
• Support education projects to conduct periodic review meetings and
  subsequent action plans and their follow up and implementation.
• Support the NPM to ensure that gender transformative programming is
  embedded across all education projects. .
• Any other duties that may be assigned by the supervisor.

• The applicant for the Plan International Education Programme
  Coordinator job vacancy must hold an advanced university degree in one or
  more of the disciplines relevant to the following areas: Education
  specifically Primary Education, or a Social Sciences field relevant to
  international development assistance.
• At least five years of progressively professional work experience in
  design, implementation and evaluation of Education programmes. Experience
  working in international development organization an asset.
• Conversant with government systems and structures especially
  Ministry of Education and Sports, district local governments, and other
  line ministries, institutions, departments, and implementing agencies.
  Should be familiar with MoES Planning and policy formulation,
  implementation, budgeting, accountability mechanisms, Monitoring and
  evaluation processes etc.
• Excellent coordination and organization skills. Able to work in a
  matrix environment and keep track of multiple priorities and adhere to
  deadlines
• Demonstrated skills and experience in report writing, donor
  compliance and budget management.
• Ability to Identify and synthesis best practices and lessons learned
  to promote knowledge management and sustainability.
• Ability to work in hard to reach hard to stay areas and familiar
  with programming for vulnerable children especially young girls and boys.
• Promotes high performance among project staff and provides vision
  and direction.
• Establishes effective partnerships with external stakeholders
• Ability to coach and mentor project staff.
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal
  skills, with ability to work with people from diverse cultures
• Strong computer skills and knowledge of Microsoft software including
  MS Word processing, Power point presentation, Excel spreadsheets, e-mail
  and web based research.
• Experience of gender mainstreaming gender equality and inclusion in
  development programming
• Experience working with Education or Child protection programmes in
  a humanitarian context.

• Communicate Effectively: Speak, listen and write in a clear,
  thorough and timely manner using appropriate and effective communication
  tools and techniques. Strong verbal communication skills, including
  networking, negotiating ability and influencing others.
• Good team building skills with calm and diplomatic personality
• Creativity/Innovation: Develop new and unique ways to improve
  operations of the organization and to create new opportunities.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to positively influence others
  to achieve results that are in the best interest of the organization.
• Make Decisions: Assess situations to determine the importance,
  urgency and risks, and make clear decisions which are timely and in the
  best interests of the organization.
• Organize: Set priorities, develop a work schedule, monitor progress
  towards goals, and track details/data/information/activities.
• Plan: Determine strategies to move the organization forward, set
  goals, create and implement actions plans, and evaluate the process and
  results.
• Solve Problems: Assess problem situations to identify causes, gather
  and process relevant information, generate possible solutions, and make
  recommendations and/or resolve the problem.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with people
  from diverse cultures, ability to lead and motivate people to work in
  teams
• Good understanding and ability to use participatory approaches for
  involvement of stakeholders and creating program ownership.
• Able to work with children, facilitating child participation and
  gender equality.

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