KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Programme Management:

• Overseeing EiE programs provide ongoing support, guidance, and leadership to managers and staff working on those programs.
• Ensure that Save the Children complies with donor and SCI regulations on all projects, including submitting high-quality and timely reports. 
• Ensure that all programs have effective Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning (MEAL) practices throughout the program cycle.
• Ensure tight financial oversight of the project and thematic budgets, maintaining timely expenditure in line with agreed priorities and donor guidelines. 
• Build the capacity of staff in program management, technical excellence, and policy analysis and influencing related to Education
• Build and nurture effective teamwork within the education sector at central and field levels and ensure a cohesive workplace environment for optimum staff retention.
• Supervise team and provide necessary guidance to ensure that program targets are met. 
• Support the analysis of BvA and ensure the KPIs are on track

Programme Quality:

• Identify internal and external capacity-building opportunities and resources to provide high-quality technical assistance to EiE projects, supporting technical staff, partner agencies, and others to build knowledge and technical competence.
• Integrate program learning across the EiE, ensuring coherence of technical approaches across programs, identifying best practices, and ensuring inter-sectoral complementarity
• Ensure that regular field-based project review meetings take place and are attended by the relevant staff;   Ensure that monitoring systems provide information in the appropriate form and at the right time (at different levels) to allow for effective decision making
• Provide ongoing and one-off technical support and advice to programs and partners as needed
• Organize workshops, seminars, and Program Learning Group meetings at local, national, regional, and international levels
• Develop and implement strategies to ensure gender equity, child participation, and beneficiary accountability in all Education programs.

Reporting: 

• Assist in providing technical support to help better understand the reporting format of the donor.
• Coordinate with the Awards and SCF PM to conduct regular workshops on preparing reports to ensure quality reporting
• Oversee review of reports submitted by partners for consistency and quality; provide feedback to ensure high-quality reports
• Compile the partner and SC reports into one donor-ready report package and submit it to the Member to submit to the donor.
• Institute a practice of producing a harmonized quality programme report by consortium partners (Assist in developing relevant tools and request the awards to share the feedback for improvement)
• Ensure the production and timely submission of evidence-based and high-quality technical/narrative and financial reports to be submitted to the donor and shared back to consortium partners 
• Keep the member and donor up to date with any potential irregularities and obstacles that may promptly hamper the action's implementation.
• Organization of regular coordination meetings and provide updates/reports.
• Work with the Save the Children field team and partners in synthesizing critical progress and challenges; key mainstreaming issues such as the centrality of protection, Gender disability and inclusion, and child rights governance present issues that require decision-making by the Steering Committee and propose actions.

Coordination & Representation:

• Ensure that all consortium partners, both at the field and Khartoum levels, coordinate and regularly represent this Consortium (Education, Nutrition, Child Protection, and Child rights Governance) at the coordination and technical working group meetings, and other relevant fora, such as CP sub-sector and GBV meetings.
• Maintain links between these thematic areas in areas of operation, mainly with education and FSL, nutrition, protection, gender, and child rights governance.
• Representation of the EUD Consortium and the program to internal and external stakeholders when relevant/opportune, including donors, partners, Child Protection, MHPSS, and GBV sub–Sector TWG and line ministries related to these four thematic areas.

Advocacy:

• Work closely with the Children's Rights Governance Technical Specialist, advocacy, and communication to assist in producing the plan for the EUD advocacy parts. This plan ensures that the demand barriers to education are well addressed. 
• Ensure evidence is adequately produced and use learning to advocate for good practices with crucial education and protection stakeholders (international agencies, local government, civil society, and communities).
• Ensure that the team is disseminating effective interventions at a broader scale.

Capacity Building:

• Support identifying the knowledge and technical gap in EiE thematic areas and ensure support is provided/mobilized.
• Coordinate closely with HR to provide chances for training per the identified needs of Save the Children staff and partners.
• Ensure coordination with the Sub-National Cluster Coordinator (Save the Children) and support the capacity building for Sub-National Cluster members.

Innovation:

• Ensure the innovation in data management at the locality, and school levels are well-supported, aiming to reduce the dropout and having good data on the minor status of the education system(school)
• Support innovation about Child Protection for better mainstreaming.
• Link the innovation with the community engagement strategy for sustainability

Risk Management:

• Where challenges or risks cannot be managed at field-level and require high-level, national attention, escalate risks to the Senior Management 
• Identify any risk of, or suspected incident of child safeguarding, sexual exploitation, abuse, fraud, etc., and report 
• Pay special attention to the financial risk by analyzing the BvA and immediately address the challenges seen
• Follow on the unsafe programming and related Safeguarding ensure, ensure this is well communicated, and support sorting out and resolving.

Additional job responsibilities: 

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the post holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reason expected of their level of skills and experience

Equal Opportunities 

The role holder must carry out the duties per the Save the Children Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe, so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to protecting children from abuse.

Health and Safety

The role holder must perform the duties per SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

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The Organization
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

· No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
· All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
· Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

Application Information:
Please apply using a cover letter and up-to-date CV as a single document. Please also include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/jobs We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.