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Plan International is a development and humanitarian organisation that advances childrens rights and equality for girls. We strive for a just world, working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners.
PURPOSE
Plan International in partnership with Instiglio and the Jacobs Foundation will implement the Education Outcome Fund Programme (EOF) under the Ghana Accountability and Learning Outcomes Programme (GALOP). The programme aims to improve the quality of education in low performing basic education schools and strengthen education sector equity and accountability in Ghana. The Programme will run for a period of 4 years and will be implemented across 3 regions in Ghana (North East, Savana and Bono East) and 11 districts. The Project will support a total of 240 communities/schools.
The Lead District Coordinator will work with the Regional Coordinator and Project Coordinators on all community level activities, including monitoring, stakeholder engagement, and working with parents to ensure pupils’ regular participation in Programme activities. The Lead District Coordinator will play a key role in ensuring teaching and learning activities take place at the school/community level as planned. The jobholder will support the CPD of project facilitators and support their mentoring.
Dimensions of the Role
The Lead District Coordinator will work with stakeholders at the districts/municipal and community level to support the implementation of the Project’s activities to support learning outcomes for out of school and in-school student. The Lead District Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating quality programming and results, financial management and compliance, stakeholder and partner relations, and donor deliverables at the district and community level.
He/she will coordinate the establishment of Accelerated Learning Programme and school Remedial sessions in the region. He/she is responsible for program planning, implementation, and reporting in compliance with donor and government agreements. The post-holder will be based in North East, Bono East/ Savanna Region and travel to project communities where the project operates.
The job holder will be able to support the CPD of teachers and school management and supervision. It is expected the lead district coordinator will conduct regular monitoring on lesson delivery, teaching quality, as well as tracking enrolment and attendance of beneficiaries.
Accountabilities
Community Engagement and Project delivery
Monitoring and Reporting
Staff Relation and Recruitment
Responsibilities
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision. Ability to solve problems and plan changes based on M&E data. Ability to prescribe and implement innovative solutions to challenges found in a complex learning education project with marginalized students and out of school children. Ability to support the teaching capacity of a wide range of stakeholders face to face and remotely. Ability to anticipate risks and mitigate them. Ability to manage remote staff. Ability to understand the challenges that marginalized beneficiaries encounter in educational settings and capacity to propose solutions to overcome them. Ability to analyse issues for decision making to strengthen and support project delivery and refer to higher manager for approval
Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.
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