The Project Director, based in Save the Children’s Mozambique Country Office in Maputo will be responsible for the overall management, implementation, and monitoring of a coordinated project model across multiple provinces. S/he will be the project’s key representative to the Government of Mozambique (GoM), representing Save the Children in national early childhood forums.
Duties
- Work closely with the Project Managers in multiple provinces to ensure that the project’s implementation schedule and targets are met, by providing support to launch materials development, training-of-trainers activities, and community-based activities as well as to ensure on-going consistent quality implementation, communication, documentation, and reporting
- Will be responsible for maintaining oversight of overall budget tracking and compliance with donor reporting and requirements
- Will coordinate with the Project managers to arrange the provision of in-country and Washington-based STTA
- Help to facilitate ongoing communication between the implementing provinces to share lessons and help to discuss and develop creative solutions to challenges that may arise
- Please note this position is contingent upon funding
Requisites
- Masters degree in Education, International development or related field
- Minimum of 5-7 years of managing education, early childhood or community-based development projects with preferred expertise in areas such as community-based education, student assessments, teacher training, parenting education educational materials development, educational management, and educational monitoring and information systems
- Portuguese language skills are critical (both oral and written); fluency in English as well
- Outstanding project management and project cycle skills
- Strong personnel leadership skills, particularly mentoring skills
- Solid communication and facilitation skills
- Excellent collaboration skills with local, national, and civil society stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience managing results-based disbursement contracts
- Extensive experience working in Africa ‐ Mozambique experience preferred
- Ability to travel frequently within Mozambique
Notes
Save the Children provides an attractive benefits package including competitive salaries, a matching retirement plan, health and welfare benefits, life insurance, an employee assistance program, generous time off and much more. Save the Children provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.