Senior Expert On Reporting Planning Bottom Up Costing And Transition To Formal Education-12-months

Scope of work:
The main operational and implementation support tasks are as follows:

1. Reporting & Planning
a. Drafting key reports under TREF, including, inter alia, the M&E, TREF Urgent Results Framework and Narrative progress report on priority programs and outputs
b. Supporting TREF planning and budgeting process for the years 2023-2025 and delivering the TREF strategic log-frame with its result framework and the two-year activity costed plan. Ensure alignment and potential synergies with other programs and plans at MEHE.
c. Preparing specific costed plans related to MEHE activities, within a crisis context to sustain the education service provision and supporting the DG to communicate and mobilize resources based on those costed plans, such as back-to-school and official exams plans with the budget and funding gap.
d. Updating TREF actions & deliverables tracker and preparing specific inputs for the monthly Strategic Management Board meetings
e. Supporting the establishment of a Monitoring & Evaluation function within MEHE as part of the implementation support functions for the 5-year plan annual policy development cycle.
2. Bottom-Up Costing
a. Work closely with IST and BDO on school level financial reporting as main source for shifting from top-down unit cost to bottom-up costing.
b. Contribute to the design and implementation of the School Financial Management Information system and its roll out at the school, REO and MEHE level.
c. Review and analyze demographic and financial data to demonstrate impact of public expenditures on education via the analysis of the School-Level Expenditure Reports from Schools and MEHE budget.
3. Transition to Formal Education
a. Collaborate closely with TREF Window 2 (multiple flexible pathways) IST members to design and prepare transition strategy to formal education.
b. Liaise with internal MEHE stakeholders to prepare and design the formal education sector to accept vulnerable children that successfully passed the placement test to transition to formal education.