LIT TRAIN Pillar Lead
2025-05-23T03:23:35+00:00
British Council Uganda
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Kampala
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Uganda
Education, and Training
Management
2025-06-05T17:00:00+00:00
Uganda
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Role Context - About The Team:
This role sits within the Cultural Engagement (CE) Strategic Business Unit (SBU). CE brings together our portfolio of work in arts, education, English, and research. Our portfolio is delivered through a set of globally led programmes that locates our work and impact within our strategic framework. These programmes deliver our key performance indicators and impact ambitions.
English and School Education in Sub Saharan Africa
The aim of the English and School Education portfolio of work is to support the improvement of teaching and learning in formal and non-formal basic education systems. English and School Education’s work is organised into three globally-operating programmes, each of which has a range of projects all working towards common objectives and outcomes:
English Connects – open and online professional development opportunities, communities, events and resources for school leaders, teacher educators, teachers and other education professionals
School Systems – support to international basic education systems and governments, with particular focus on language policy and practice, foundational learning, professional development, equitable access to and utilisation of education technology, and supporting women and girls to access quality education
Empowerment – building English language, digital and core skills where it empowers disadvantaged girls and young women, displaced people, economically and ethnically marginalised youth and disabled people.
The English and School Education team delivers these programmes in country through policy advice, research and insight, and the delivery of grant, co-funded and full cost recovery contracts and programmes in more than 50 countries in collaboration with UK and international partners, ministries of education, education and donor agencies.
Country context
Uganda’s Ministry of Education and Sports is focused on curriculum reform to enhance the quality of education and address challenges in primary and secondary education. Key priorities include the effective rollout of the lower secondary curriculum to improve learner outcomes and performance in national exams, as well as ongoing early discussions on the development of the upper secondary curriculum to align it with the needs of students and the job market. The Ministry is also prioritizing teacher qualification and policy reform by developing frameworks such as the Teacher Qualification Framework (TQF) to ensure teachers possess the necessary skills and competencies. Efforts are underway to professionalize teaching, promote continuous professional development, and address teacher recruitment, retention, and equitable distribution, all aimed at improving teaching effectiveness and student learning outcomes. In this context, the British Council has been a critical partner, supporting the curriculum rollout and refugee education initiatives, and continues to play a vital role in helping the government achieve its education goals. This is supported by our MOU with the Ministry of Education and Sports.
Role Purpose - The Job:
This posting is NOT a current opening. It is an opportunity to indicate an expression of interest in a future opening. This role is contingent on a project contract award.
Mastercard Foundation’s Leaders in Teaching (LIT) initiative aims to transform secondary education across Africa by building the capacity of teachers and school leaders to enable young people to acquire skills, knowledge, and competencies necessary to access dignified and fulfilling employment. Using a multi-partner implementation model, LIT will address critical challenges in the teacher lifecycle through four key programmatic pillars: (1) Teacher Recruitment, (2) Teacher Training, (3) Education Leadership and Management, and (4) Teacher Motivation.
The British Council will lead the TRAIN pillar, and with downstream partners Luigi Giussani Foundation (LGF), Edukans and Brainwave, lead efforts in innovation, competency-based curriculum, gender-responsive pedagogy and career guidance.
Challenges that the TRAIN pillar aims to address:
- Lack of Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
- Teacher attrition and persistent challenges in education quality
- Misalignment between Pre-service Teacher Training and In-service Practice
As Pillar Lead, the postholder will be responsible for the overall quality delivery of all these components – both the downstream partners’ and the British Council’s. The post-holder will also be responsible for managing the pillar budget; client and internal reporting; managing senior level stakeholder relations; and establishing and leading the project technical team that will include full-time British Council and partner specialist advisors, regional technical experts, and external short-term technical assistance experts and professional development trainers.
Main Accountabilities:
The post-holder is expected to provide technical leadership in the design, delivery and management of LIT TRAIN’s portfolio of technical assistance components, and to be accountable for the project’s successful implementation, working closely with LGF, project partners, ministry officials and key stakeholders in the Ugandan education sector. The post-holder will lead a team of six technical and administrative staff with responsibility for delivering and co-ordinating all aspects of the pillar: scholarships, smart classrooms, pre- and in- service CPD, and low cost materials.The post-holder will report to the British Council Country Director and will sit on the senior level LIT Programme Implementation Unit board. The main duties and responsibilities will be in line with our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Safeguarding and other overarching corporate policies and include:
Planning
- Lead the TRAIN pillar technical teams in developing an effective project management plan (PMP) for the implementation of the project’s technical components. To ensure the PMP is approved by the lead partner and LIT Programme Implementation Unit . To review and update the PMP and its annexes at regular intervals during the project's lifetime.
- Lead the technical team in planning and recording envisaged project outcomes, outputs and audiences
- Work with the LIT Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning lead to put in place a fit-for-purpose system of MEL
- Plan and refine budgets for project income and expenditure ensuring replanning and reforecasting takes place at regular intervals in line with LGF, British Council, and client requirements
Leadership and management
- Represent the programme when required. Provide inspiring and motivational leadership that role-models the British Council’s values and behaviours, and empowers and enables staff to deliver excellence, whilst promoting equity, diversity and inclusion.
- Agree project deliverables with government partners (including the Ministry of Education and Sports, and other government bodies), the LGF Team Leader, the LIT Programme Implementation Unit and the client.
- Lead and coordinate the management and delivery of all of TRAIN’s technical components during the inception, implementation and closure phases.
- Manage the project according to the project management plan and ensure that it delivers and is in compliance with the following: monitoring, evaluation and learning plan; risk and change management plans; stakeholder management and communications plan; lessons management plan, contract guide; information management plan, supplier management and procurement plan; and consultancy management plan.
- Oversee and coordinate the delivery of TRAIN’s technical outputs, taking responsibility for overall progress and the deployment of resources, initiating corrective action where necessary.
- Lead and motivate the TRAIN technical team to develop a comprehensive and achievable project implementation workplan in line with client specifications and stakeholder requirements.
- Ensure workplans for the project’s individual technical components are appropriately integrated and that opportunities for cross-component collaboration and efficiency savings are identified and maximise
Financial management
- Ensure accurate financial planning and forecasting across implementation of all project technical components
- Monitor relevant project expenditure, ensuring re-planning and re-forecasting takes place as required and in a timely manner
- Plan the project’s technical staffing requirements and relevant costs, re-planning and re-forecasting as required
- Make sure all actual project staff time – including postholder’s own time – spent on the programme is recorded in line with British Council, LGF1 and client requirements
Communications
- Ensure project communications are provided to both external and internal audiences through relevant communications and media channels and in line with corporate and project standards
- Ensure key project achievements are communicated internally and externally
- Work with the Communications firm to develop a comprehensive communications strategy for the programme and ensure that programme activities and events are communicated effectively.
Reporting
- Report on project activities and progress as required and on a regular basis to the LGF Team Leader, the LIT Programme Implementation Unit and the Project Steering Committee, and other internal and/or external stakeholders
- Work with the LGF Team Leader on developing, inputting into, co-ordinating and finalising all reporting to the client and to other senior level stakeholders
- Ensure all milestone achievements and impact results are accurately reported and recorded to the satisfaction of the LGF Team Leader
Monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL)
- Work with the Programme MEL Lead to ensure that all of TRAIN’s technical components have a monitoring process embedded, that evaluations are conducted, and that lessons learned both feed into on-going project design and delivery and are disseminated through agreed channels.
- Agree TRAIN MERL deliverables with the Programme MEL Lead, the LGF Team Leader, and Ministry of Education and Sports partners/ stakeholders.
- Liaise with the Programme MEL Lead to ensure monitoring reviews of project activities take place on a regular basis. Work with LGF Team Leader, the project technical team, and other stakeholders in developing strategic responses to any perceived or actual shortcomings identified.
- Manage the quality assurance of MERL reporting and ensure that findings, success stories, case studies, and policy briefs are disseminated through agreed channels.
Risk and compliance
- Lead the technical team in identifying risks, issues. and possible changes to agreed project scope
- Escalate identified issues, risks, and proposed changes to the LGF Team Leader and LIT Programme Implementation Unit , and ensure all agreed actions and mitigations are implemented in line with agreed timeline and the LGF Team Leader’s/board’s expectations
Technical expertise
- Ensure strategic alignment and coherence of TRAIN’s technical components in line with project terms of reference, LGF Team Leader and client expectations
- Ensure project activity complements and builds upon achievements of previous and/or ongoing education reform programmes being implemented by the Ugandan government and/or other donors
- Apply areas of own technical expertise and project management to build capability, embed/champion good practice and improve performance
- Advise technical team on component delivery approaches and contents as required, drawing upon internal and external expertise when appropriate
- Work with technical team on ensuring technical components are suitably integrated and mutually supportive, taking advantage of opportunities for collaborative programme delivery
- Ensure technical team apply lessons from previous Ugandan and regional projects and programmes where relevant
- Lead on the review and quality assurance of technical inputs
- Advise the project team on ways to incorporate British Council content (and other partners’ content if required) into appropriate models of delivery
- Apply an evidence-based approach to the design and implementation of project activity, appropriate to the local context, and incorporating project MERL results
- Represent the British Council and/or the LIT project at relevant external and internal meetings, conferences, and/or policy dialogue
Relationship and stakeholder management
- Build and manage relationships with key decision makers in the Ministry of Education and Sports, UNITE, , teacher training colleges, and from other relevant branches of the Ugandan school education sector.
- Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with other donors, funders, and international and national organisations working in the education sector
Requirements Of The Role:
Minimum/essential
- First degree
- Postgraduate qualification in education, international development, or other relevant subject area.
- Successful track record in designing and leading large-scale transformative education projects in Uganda
- Project management experience in one or more specialist areas relevant to the project (i.e. CPD, ccore skills, gender responsive pedagogy)
- Experience of leading diverse multi-disciplinary teams, including teams spread across multiple locations
- Experience of overseeing monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL) within projects and incorporating lessons learned from MERL into programme strategy and delivery
- Experience of managing senior-level relationships with diverse stakeholders including multilateral agencies, donors, government officials, academics, and external consultants
- Extensive recent experience of working and living in Uganda
Desirable:
- Project management qualification
- Doctorate level qualification in education, international development, or other relevant subject area.
- Experience of working on transformative education and/or international development projects
- Experience of managing projects led by consortiums of two or more international development partners
- Experience of developing solutions for remote/blended programme delivery across low tech and low resource contexts
- Experience of working alongside and/or building the capacity of local non-governmental organisations (or equivalent) in developing contexts
Main Accountabilities: The post-holder is expected to provide technical leadership in the design, delivery and management of LIT TRAIN’s portfolio of technical assistance components, and to be accountable for the project’s successful implementation, working closely with LGF, project partners, ministry officials and key stakeholders in the Ugandan education sector. The post-holder will lead a team of six technical and administrative staff with responsibility for delivering and co-ordinating all aspects of the pillar: scholarships, smart classrooms, pre- and in- service CPD, and low cost materials.The post-holder will report to the British Council Country Director and will sit on the senior level LIT Programme Implementation Unit board. The main duties and responsibilities will be in line with our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Safeguarding and other overarching corporate policies and include: Planning Lead the TRAIN pillar technical teams in developing an effective project management plan (PMP) for the implementation of the project’s technical components. To ensure the PMP is approved by the lead partner and LIT Programme Implementation Unit . To review and update the PMP and its annexes at regular intervals during the project's lifetime. Lead the technical team in planning and recording envisaged project outcomes, outputs and audiences Work with the LIT Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning lead to put in place a fit-for-purpose system of MEL Plan and refine budgets for project income and expenditure ensuring replanning and reforecasting takes place at regular intervals in line with LGF, British Council, and client requirements Leadership and management Represent the programme when required. Provide inspiring and motivational leadership that role-models the British Council’s values and behaviours, and empowers and enables staff to deliver excellence, whilst promoting equity, diversity and inclusion. Agree project deliverables with government partners (including the Ministry of Education and Sports, and other government bodies), the LGF Team Leader, the LIT Programme Implementation Unit and the client. Lead and coordinate the management and delivery of all of TRAIN’s technical components during the inception, implementation and closure phases. Manage the project according to the project management plan and ensure that it delivers and is in compliance with the following: monitoring, evaluation and learning plan; risk and change management plans; stakeholder management and communications plan; lessons management plan, contract guide; information management plan, supplier management and procurement plan; and consultancy management plan. Oversee and coordinate the delivery of TRAIN’s technical outputs, taking responsibility for overall progress and the deployment of resources, initiating corrective action where necessary. Lead and motivate the TRAIN technical team to develop a comprehensive and achievable project implementation workplan in line with client specifications and stakeholder requirements. Ensure workplans for the project’s individual technical components are appropriately integrated and that opportunities for cross-component collaboration and efficiency savings are identified and maximise Financial management Ensure accurate financial planning and forecasting across implementation of all project technical components Monitor relevant project expenditure, ensuring re-planning and re-forecasting takes place as required and in a timely manner Plan the project’s technical staffing requirements and relevant costs, re-planning and re-forecasting as required Make sure all actual project staff time – including postholder’s own time – spent on the programme is recorded in line with British Council, LGF1 and client requirements Communications Ensure project communications are provided to both external and internal audiences through relevant communications and media channels and in line with corporate and project standards Ensure key project achievements are communicated internally and externally Work with the Communications firm to develop a comprehensive communications strategy for the programme and ensure that programme activities and events are communicated effectively. Reporting Report on project activities and progress as required and on a regular basis to the LGF Team Leader, the LIT Programme Implementation Unit and the Project Steering Committee, and other internal and/or external stakeholders Work with the LGF Team Leader on developing, inputting into, co-ordinating and finalising all reporting to the client and to other senior level stakeholders Ensure all milestone achievements and impact results are accurately reported and recorded to the satisfaction of the LGF Team Leader Monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL) Work with the Programme MEL Lead to ensure that all of TRAIN’s technical components have a monitoring process embedded, that evaluations are conducted, and that lessons learned both feed into on-going project design and delivery and are disseminated through agreed channels. Agree TRAIN MERL deliverables with the Programme MEL Lead, the LGF Team Leader, and Ministry of Education and Sports partners/ stakeholders. Liaise with the Programme MEL Lead to ensure monitoring reviews of project activities take place on a regular basis. Work with LGF Team Leader, the project technical team, and other stakeholders in developing strategic responses to any perceived or actual shortcomings identified. Manage the quality assurance of MERL reporting and ensure that findings, success stories, case studies, and policy briefs are disseminated through agreed channels. Risk and compliance Lead the technical team in identifying risks, issues. and possible changes to agreed project scope Escalate identified issues, risks, and proposed changes to the LGF Team Leader and LIT Programme Implementation Unit , and ensure all agreed actions and mitigations are implemented in line with agreed timeline and the LGF Team Leader’s/board’s expectations Technical expertise Ensure strategic alignment and coherence of TRAIN’s technical components in line with project terms of reference, LGF Team Leader and client expectations Ensure project activity complements and builds upon achievements of previous and/or ongoing education reform programmes being implemented by the Ugandan government and/or other donors Apply areas of own technical expertise and project management to build capability, embed/champion good practice and improve performance Advise technical team on component delivery approaches and contents as required, drawing upon internal and external expertise when appropriate Work with technical team on ensuring technical components are suitably integrated and mutually supportive, taking advantage of opportunities for collaborative programme delivery Ensure technical team apply lessons from previous Ugandan and regional projects and programmes where relevant Lead on the review and quality assurance of technical inputs Advise the project team on ways to incorporate British Council content (and other partners’ content if required) into appropriate models of delivery Apply an evidence-based approach to the design and implementation of project activity, appropriate to the local context, and incorporating project MERL results Represent the British Council and/or the LIT project at relevant external and internal meetings, conferences, and/or policy dialogue Relationship and stakeholder management Build and manage relationships with key decision makers in the Ministry of Education and Sports, UNITE, , teacher training colleges, and from other relevant branches of the Ugandan school education sector. Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with other donors, funders, and international and national organisations working in the education sector
Desirable: Project management qualification Doctorate level qualification in education, international development, or other relevant subject area. Experience of working on transformative education and/or international development projects Experience of managing projects led by consortiums of two or more international development partners Experience of developing solutions for remote/blended programme delivery across low tech and low resource contexts Experience of working alongside and/or building the capacity of local non-governmental organisations (or equivalent) in developing contexts
Requirements Of The Role: Minimum/essential First degree Postgraduate qualification in education, international development, or other relevant subject area. Successful track record in designing and leading large-scale transformative education projects in Uganda Project management experience in one or more specialist areas relevant to the project (i.e. CPD, ccore skills, gender responsive pedagogy) Experience of leading diverse multi-disciplinary teams, including teams spread across multiple locations Experience of overseeing monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL) within projects and incorporating lessons learned from MERL into programme strategy and delivery Experience of managing senior-level relationships with diverse stakeholders including multilateral agencies, donors, government officials, academics, and external consultants Extensive recent experience of working and living in Uganda
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Vacancy title:
LIT TRAIN Pillar Lead
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Education, and Training, Category: Management]
Jobs at:
British Council Uganda
Deadline of this Job:
Thursday, June 5 2025
Duty Station:
Kampala | Kampala | Uganda
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Date Posted: Friday, May 23 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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Role Context - About The Team:
This role sits within the Cultural Engagement (CE) Strategic Business Unit (SBU). CE brings together our portfolio of work in arts, education, English, and research. Our portfolio is delivered through a set of globally led programmes that locates our work and impact within our strategic framework. These programmes deliver our key performance indicators and impact ambitions.
English and School Education in Sub Saharan Africa
The aim of the English and School Education portfolio of work is to support the improvement of teaching and learning in formal and non-formal basic education systems. English and School Education’s work is organised into three globally-operating programmes, each of which has a range of projects all working towards common objectives and outcomes:
English Connects – open and online professional development opportunities, communities, events and resources for school leaders, teacher educators, teachers and other education professionals
School Systems – support to international basic education systems and governments, with particular focus on language policy and practice, foundational learning, professional development, equitable access to and utilisation of education technology, and supporting women and girls to access quality education
Empowerment – building English language, digital and core skills where it empowers disadvantaged girls and young women, displaced people, economically and ethnically marginalised youth and disabled people.
The English and School Education team delivers these programmes in country through policy advice, research and insight, and the delivery of grant, co-funded and full cost recovery contracts and programmes in more than 50 countries in collaboration with UK and international partners, ministries of education, education and donor agencies.
Country context
Uganda’s Ministry of Education and Sports is focused on curriculum reform to enhance the quality of education and address challenges in primary and secondary education. Key priorities include the effective rollout of the lower secondary curriculum to improve learner outcomes and performance in national exams, as well as ongoing early discussions on the development of the upper secondary curriculum to align it with the needs of students and the job market. The Ministry is also prioritizing teacher qualification and policy reform by developing frameworks such as the Teacher Qualification Framework (TQF) to ensure teachers possess the necessary skills and competencies. Efforts are underway to professionalize teaching, promote continuous professional development, and address teacher recruitment, retention, and equitable distribution, all aimed at improving teaching effectiveness and student learning outcomes. In this context, the British Council has been a critical partner, supporting the curriculum rollout and refugee education initiatives, and continues to play a vital role in helping the government achieve its education goals. This is supported by our MOU with the Ministry of Education and Sports.
Role Purpose - The Job:
This posting is NOT a current opening. It is an opportunity to indicate an expression of interest in a future opening. This role is contingent on a project contract award.
Mastercard Foundation’s Leaders in Teaching (LIT) initiative aims to transform secondary education across Africa by building the capacity of teachers and school leaders to enable young people to acquire skills, knowledge, and competencies necessary to access dignified and fulfilling employment. Using a multi-partner implementation model, LIT will address critical challenges in the teacher lifecycle through four key programmatic pillars: (1) Teacher Recruitment, (2) Teacher Training, (3) Education Leadership and Management, and (4) Teacher Motivation.
The British Council will lead the TRAIN pillar, and with downstream partners Luigi Giussani Foundation (LGF), Edukans and Brainwave, lead efforts in innovation, competency-based curriculum, gender-responsive pedagogy and career guidance.
Challenges that the TRAIN pillar aims to address:
- Lack of Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
- Teacher attrition and persistent challenges in education quality
- Misalignment between Pre-service Teacher Training and In-service Practice
As Pillar Lead, the postholder will be responsible for the overall quality delivery of all these components – both the downstream partners’ and the British Council’s. The post-holder will also be responsible for managing the pillar budget; client and internal reporting; managing senior level stakeholder relations; and establishing and leading the project technical team that will include full-time British Council and partner specialist advisors, regional technical experts, and external short-term technical assistance experts and professional development trainers.
Main Accountabilities:
The post-holder is expected to provide technical leadership in the design, delivery and management of LIT TRAIN’s portfolio of technical assistance components, and to be accountable for the project’s successful implementation, working closely with LGF, project partners, ministry officials and key stakeholders in the Ugandan education sector. The post-holder will lead a team of six technical and administrative staff with responsibility for delivering and co-ordinating all aspects of the pillar: scholarships, smart classrooms, pre- and in- service CPD, and low cost materials.The post-holder will report to the British Council Country Director and will sit on the senior level LIT Programme Implementation Unit board. The main duties and responsibilities will be in line with our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Safeguarding and other overarching corporate policies and include:
Planning
- Lead the TRAIN pillar technical teams in developing an effective project management plan (PMP) for the implementation of the project’s technical components. To ensure the PMP is approved by the lead partner and LIT Programme Implementation Unit . To review and update the PMP and its annexes at regular intervals during the project's lifetime.
- Lead the technical team in planning and recording envisaged project outcomes, outputs and audiences
- Work with the LIT Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning lead to put in place a fit-for-purpose system of MEL
- Plan and refine budgets for project income and expenditure ensuring replanning and reforecasting takes place at regular intervals in line with LGF, British Council, and client requirements
Leadership and management
- Represent the programme when required. Provide inspiring and motivational leadership that role-models the British Council’s values and behaviours, and empowers and enables staff to deliver excellence, whilst promoting equity, diversity and inclusion.
- Agree project deliverables with government partners (including the Ministry of Education and Sports, and other government bodies), the LGF Team Leader, the LIT Programme Implementation Unit and the client.
- Lead and coordinate the management and delivery of all of TRAIN’s technical components during the inception, implementation and closure phases.
- Manage the project according to the project management plan and ensure that it delivers and is in compliance with the following: monitoring, evaluation and learning plan; risk and change management plans; stakeholder management and communications plan; lessons management plan, contract guide; information management plan, supplier management and procurement plan; and consultancy management plan.
- Oversee and coordinate the delivery of TRAIN’s technical outputs, taking responsibility for overall progress and the deployment of resources, initiating corrective action where necessary.
- Lead and motivate the TRAIN technical team to develop a comprehensive and achievable project implementation workplan in line with client specifications and stakeholder requirements.
- Ensure workplans for the project’s individual technical components are appropriately integrated and that opportunities for cross-component collaboration and efficiency savings are identified and maximise
Financial management
- Ensure accurate financial planning and forecasting across implementation of all project technical components
- Monitor relevant project expenditure, ensuring re-planning and re-forecasting takes place as required and in a timely manner
- Plan the project’s technical staffing requirements and relevant costs, re-planning and re-forecasting as required
- Make sure all actual project staff time – including postholder’s own time – spent on the programme is recorded in line with British Council, LGF1 and client requirements
Communications
- Ensure project communications are provided to both external and internal audiences through relevant communications and media channels and in line with corporate and project standards
- Ensure key project achievements are communicated internally and externally
- Work with the Communications firm to develop a comprehensive communications strategy for the programme and ensure that programme activities and events are communicated effectively.
Reporting
- Report on project activities and progress as required and on a regular basis to the LGF Team Leader, the LIT Programme Implementation Unit and the Project Steering Committee, and other internal and/or external stakeholders
- Work with the LGF Team Leader on developing, inputting into, co-ordinating and finalising all reporting to the client and to other senior level stakeholders
- Ensure all milestone achievements and impact results are accurately reported and recorded to the satisfaction of the LGF Team Leader
Monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL)
- Work with the Programme MEL Lead to ensure that all of TRAIN’s technical components have a monitoring process embedded, that evaluations are conducted, and that lessons learned both feed into on-going project design and delivery and are disseminated through agreed channels.
- Agree TRAIN MERL deliverables with the Programme MEL Lead, the LGF Team Leader, and Ministry of Education and Sports partners/ stakeholders.
- Liaise with the Programme MEL Lead to ensure monitoring reviews of project activities take place on a regular basis. Work with LGF Team Leader, the project technical team, and other stakeholders in developing strategic responses to any perceived or actual shortcomings identified.
- Manage the quality assurance of MERL reporting and ensure that findings, success stories, case studies, and policy briefs are disseminated through agreed channels.
Risk and compliance
- Lead the technical team in identifying risks, issues. and possible changes to agreed project scope
- Escalate identified issues, risks, and proposed changes to the LGF Team Leader and LIT Programme Implementation Unit , and ensure all agreed actions and mitigations are implemented in line with agreed timeline and the LGF Team Leader’s/board’s expectations
Technical expertise
- Ensure strategic alignment and coherence of TRAIN’s technical components in line with project terms of reference, LGF Team Leader and client expectations
- Ensure project activity complements and builds upon achievements of previous and/or ongoing education reform programmes being implemented by the Ugandan government and/or other donors
- Apply areas of own technical expertise and project management to build capability, embed/champion good practice and improve performance
- Advise technical team on component delivery approaches and contents as required, drawing upon internal and external expertise when appropriate
- Work with technical team on ensuring technical components are suitably integrated and mutually supportive, taking advantage of opportunities for collaborative programme delivery
- Ensure technical team apply lessons from previous Ugandan and regional projects and programmes where relevant
- Lead on the review and quality assurance of technical inputs
- Advise the project team on ways to incorporate British Council content (and other partners’ content if required) into appropriate models of delivery
- Apply an evidence-based approach to the design and implementation of project activity, appropriate to the local context, and incorporating project MERL results
- Represent the British Council and/or the LIT project at relevant external and internal meetings, conferences, and/or policy dialogue
Relationship and stakeholder management
- Build and manage relationships with key decision makers in the Ministry of Education and Sports, UNITE, , teacher training colleges, and from other relevant branches of the Ugandan school education sector.
- Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with other donors, funders, and international and national organisations working in the education sector
Requirements Of The Role:
Minimum/essential
- First degree
- Postgraduate qualification in education, international development, or other relevant subject area.
- Successful track record in designing and leading large-scale transformative education projects in Uganda
- Project management experience in one or more specialist areas relevant to the project (i.e. CPD, ccore skills, gender responsive pedagogy)
- Experience of leading diverse multi-disciplinary teams, including teams spread across multiple locations
- Experience of overseeing monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL) within projects and incorporating lessons learned from MERL into programme strategy and delivery
- Experience of managing senior-level relationships with diverse stakeholders including multilateral agencies, donors, government officials, academics, and external consultants
- Extensive recent experience of working and living in Uganda
Desirable:
- Project management qualification
- Doctorate level qualification in education, international development, or other relevant subject area.
- Experience of working on transformative education and/or international development projects
- Experience of managing projects led by consortiums of two or more international development partners
- Experience of developing solutions for remote/blended programme delivery across low tech and low resource contexts
- Experience of working alongside and/or building the capacity of local non-governmental organisations (or equivalent) in developing contexts
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Experience: No Requirements
Level of Education: bachelor degree
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