Save the Children is hiring a Project Director, Early Childhood Care and Development Program, based in Maputo, Mozambique.
Duties
- The Project Director will 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
- Importantly, the Project Director will be responsible for maintaining oversight of overall budget tracking and compliance with donor reporting and requirements
- The Project Director 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
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
Candidates must apply via the link available on the right side of this page.