Senior Program Manager - QITABI 2, World Learning

World Learning – QITABI 2: Senior Program Manager

Quality Instruction towards Access and Basic Education Improvement” QITABI 2 Program

Background

USAID’s “Quality Instruction towards Access and Basic Education Improvement” (QITABI 2) is a five-year program seeking to improve learning outcomes for all students in public primary schools in Lebanon. Its activity targets an estimated 200,000 girls and boys, including those who are registered in second shifts of public schools.

World Learning has an immediate vacancy for its Beirut-based “Senior Program Manager” for the USAID-funded Quality Instruction towards Access and Basic Education Improvement (QITABI II) in Lebanon. This position is for a Lebanese national.

To apply: Please send your resume to [email protected] with the post title on the subject line along with a cover letter (in English) explaining why you are best qualified for this position. Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis on a rolling basis and qualified candidates should apply as soon as possible.

Position Summary:

The Senior Program Manager supports the Director of Programs in field programmatic activities including the planning, design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation activities and ensuring interventions are in line with the Workplan and donor requirements.

S/He will work closely with the Director of Programs to ensure the smooth implementation of the field activities. S/He will be responsible for coordinating, overlooking, and ensuring day to day smooth implementation of project activities, including logistics and administration.

This full-time position is based at the World Learning office in Beirut, Lebanon, and will report to the Chief of Party.

Scope and Responsibilities

Program Management and Delivery

• Providing technical support for WL field team day to day activities to ensure the timely delivery of the program and facilitate implementation at the regional level.
  • Coordinate with WL Lead coordinators on the day-to-day field activities.
  • Coordinate with school principals to facilitate and communicate project activities and create a collaborative and positive environment for implementation at the school’s level.
  • Closely monitor the impact of the field intervention/challenges and implement mitigation measures.
• Closely coordinate with the Specialists Team and Partners’ Program Managers to integrate best practices tailored for effective data collection from the field and utilize the data to feed into the MERL team’s data repository, for decision making and analysis purposes.
• Support the annual planning and quarterly reporting process.

Program Quality 

• Ensure proper documentation and sharing of all the relevant documents with field staff, and management.
• Ensure proper documentation of best practices/lessons learnt/case studies, to shape strategies and approaches and contribute to broader teaching and learning.
• Compile and draft reports as needed, including workplan, quarterly report.
• Propose and manage the digitization process of field data collection/data entry quality and assuring its circulation to both programming and MERL for ongoing analysis, timely and adaptive decision making.

People Management & Development

• Coordinate the training and capacity building activities of the field team to ensure that management and accountability systems are in place.

Representation and Partnerships

• Represent WL team at meetings and conferences, as needed.
• Maintain close cooperation with the partners' regional coordinators to align implementation of field activities.

Other Responsibilities

• Perform additional tasks as needed and requested by the Chief of Party, including support of other WL projects.

Required Qualifications:

• An advanced degree in Social Sciences, International Development or Relations, or a related field
• Minimum of ten (10) years of relevant experience in international development
• Senior Leadership and management experience on Project management including planning and scheduling, process design, implementation and monitoring and evaluation, preferably in an INGO Environment.
• Experience in managing, coaching, and mentoring teams

Skills

• Strong organizational abilities; able to prioritize and manage short-term and continuing projects despite competing deadlines.
• Ability and experience in adapting to systems & processes.
• Excellent relationship building skills – networking, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in MERL systems, frameworks, and procedures.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with excellent command of spoken and written English and Arabic.