Team Leader & Capacity Development Expert - Consultancy

The main responsibilities of the Team Leader and Capacity Development Expert include:

1. Leading a multi-disciplinary team of consultants to deliver technical assistance to the Ministry of Education
2. Ensuring that the programme workplan is designed in accordance with the needs of MEHE and in accordance with agreed long term objectives
3. Delivery of workplan, including planning, sequencing and task allocation within the team.
4. High level overview of recruitment processes where the core team is not able to deliver planned outputs
5. Managing a diverse team of consultants effectively to ensure successful delivery of technical assistance
6. Coordination with other donors and their implementation partners in the sector
7. Support the MEHE in coordination of selected external donor programs
8. Performing quarterly performance reviews of allocated members of the team
9. Support in the preparation of different reporting relevant to the project.
10. Close liaison on programme progress, risks, and team structure
11. Institutionalising and sustaining interventions within the Ministry after project closure

Capacity Development

1. Identifying individual, organisational and institutional development opportunities and to draw up appropriate training sessions/action plans agreed with GoL counterparts.
2. Working with colleagues on the for more specific capacity building and training on functional issues (PFM, data etc) and ensure that specialists design and deliver these sessions
3. Managing, planning and supporting the capacity development process under S2R2 to serve the priorities of MEHE. This will involve building of trusting relationships with senior officials, high-level on-the-job mentoring and building feedback loops to assess capacity transfer since project inception.
4. Conducting individual/small group coaching sessions on various aspects of planning and executing sector implementation plans.
5. Assisting Team Members (Core, STTA) to align their technical expertise to the current environment.

Planning, management and delivery

1. Supporting government counterparts to deliver the annual work plan
2. Pinpointing system weaknesses, drawbacks, and reform/re-engineer processes accordingly
3. Contributing to the set up systems and processes that lead to the improvement of the sector
4. Ensuring coherence on education specific information and processes between the CNA (design and results) work with the wider technical assistance team, to avoid duplication
5. Ensuring coherence and complementarity between the education management and other elements of the CNA.
6. Work collaboratively with stakeholders to encourage engagement with the questionnaires and interviews, and provide specific information regarding areas for further support and training.
7. Collect, analyze and report on data collected through questionnaires and interviews.

PROFILE AND SKILLS:

• Master’s degree in education, management, public administration, planning or any relevant field.
• At least 10-years’ experience in implementing and managing complex projects, including experience with donor-funded projects;
• Demonstrated ability to interact at the most senior levels of government;
• Extended experience of public service delivery in Lebanon or other similar context;
• Expertise in the capacity development of government officials, including senior civil servants;
• Theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of models of implementing and measuring capacity development over time, including executive coaching, competency frameworks and institutional development strategies;
• Ability to implement a range of models of provision of Technical Assistance to both individual/team levels within MEHE
• Substantive work experience at a leadership level in project management, evaluation, program design and delivery;
• Experience of a variety of methods to sustain the benefits of technical assistance interventions after programme closure
• Knowledge of the current structure and challenges facing the education system in Lebanon;
• Demonstrated ability to stimulate focused and productive dialogue at government senior level;
• Strong leadership skills and team management abilities;
• Excellent inter-personal skills and emotional intelligence
• Strong public presentation and communication skills one or more of Arabic, English and French

Interested candidates should send a resume and cover letter to [email protected] with the following in the subject line: “Short-term Team Leader and capacity development Expert”. The deadline to apply is Thursday, August 15, 2019. Additional details about this vacancy will be provided at a later stage.