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  • Posted: Sep 21, 2022
    Deadline: Not specified
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    British Council is the UK's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. We are on the ground in six continents and over 100 countries, bringing international opportunity to life, every day.


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    Project Officer

    Role purpose:

    • To maximise the impact of our programmes and projects by effectively managing the delivery of education projects, ensuring that our programmes and projects are delivered to high-quality standards and with maximum effectiveness and efficiency.
    • Maintain and manage relationships with our stakeholders and comply with British Council policies and procedures, including financial admin, reporting, data collection and operational project delivery.


    Main accountabilities:

    • Relationship & Stakeholder management
    • Has relationships with delivery partners and stakeholders within country and can procure services and contract delivery partners.
    • Holds suppliers to account for delivering against contract.
    • Build strong internal relationships and networks


    Commercial and Financial Management  

    • Ensure sound financial planning, working closely with finance teams to ensure British Council and client financial year plans are up to date.
    • Ensure accurate and timely monthly (re)forecasting is in place,  by running regular reports in the SAP system on actuals, monitoring outstanding purchase orders, reviewing commitments, analysing and commenting on reasons for variances to plan and recommending corrective actions.
    • Monitoring monthly finances, including correct expenditure, ensuring the P2P process is being followed and correcting any mis-postings or journals needed.
    • Lead on British Council, partner or client reporting (including, with Finance Manager, financial reporting) and ensure reports are delivered on time, to budget and to a high standard.
    • Compliance to BC financial policies and procedures.
       

    Project Management

    • Contributes to development of, owns and delivers on Project Management Plan
    • Identifies risks in a project or programme and puts together mitigation strategies with SRO
    • Responsible for internal and client, procurement, contracting, compliance and reporting  
    • Checks on and reports on compliance
    • Manages procurement on a project/programme
    • Responsible for data management including timely data entry, quality assurance of data, undertaking basic analysis of monitoring data, and developing progress reports to meet funding needs
    • Undertaking programme-specific data collection as needed. This includes working with colleagues to identify indicators and tools for data collection, quality assuring all data, and undertaking basic analysis.
       

    Business Development

    • Supports the identification and development of professional networks, relationships and partnerships to increase the British Council’s impact and reputation.
    • Ensures high quality and accurate pipeline data for country/pillar.
    • Conducts specific pipeline and partner/competitor analysis to contribute to business development planning and prioritisation.
    • Provides support with development of new business proposals, ensuring that internal and external professional standards are met.
       

    Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)

    • To actively Contribute to an inclusive and anti-racist organisational culture, being aware of your own biases, and taking action to mitigate against these. Ensuring people feel valued and are treated equitably, with support for people’s well-being and mental health.
    • Understand the British Council’s approach to equality, diversity and inclusion and how it applies to your role and make time for learning and development relating to EDI and anti-racism.
       

    Role Requirements:

    • Candidates should have the right to work in Bahrain with a valid residency permit and have a solid and demonstrable interest in education and cultural relations with an excellent track record of experience in managing projects
    • Have excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Arabic
    • Role could require some domestic and international travel as required by the programme and some out of hours and evening work responding to or driven by programme/portfolio needs
    • Bachelor’s degree level
    • Proven working experience in project management in the education sector
    • Experience in budget management.
    • Experience in managing stakeholders.
    • Strong communication and presentational skills.  
    • Good knowledge and experience in project monitoring and evaluation.
       

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to British Council on careers.britishcouncil.org to apply

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