Voluntary Service Overseas Recruitment 2017…. Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), is the world’s leading independent international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries.

Our high impact approach brings people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action to change lives and make the world a fairer place.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Programme Manager (Education)
Location: Abuja
Duration: Fixed Term, 3 yrs
Full Time, 36 hours per week
Responsible to: Head of Programs
Job Purpose

The job holder is expected to lead in the strategic design, development and implementation of VSON Education Program in line with the country office strategic plans and priorities.
Provide comprehensive programming, management and coordination support in the implementation and measurement of VSON Education programs.

Responsibilities
Programme Development, Planning & Budgeting:

To ensure proper annual planning and budgeting of VSO Nigeria education programme is undertaken in a timely and cost effective manner and the process is aligned with the defined overall priorities set by the donor as well as VSO.
Ensure project outcome delivered to quality required by the programme (with specified risks and benefits), to schedule within set budgets and scope. Provide a key co-ordination and implementation role, ensuring project management standards are followed and deadlines met.
Prepare management products – including project outcome description, benefits review plan, project initiation documentation, exception plans, project controls.
Establish and manage project procedures – risk and issue management, change control, communications.
Manage project financial budgets and targets, providing accurate and timely information on expenditure.

Stakeholder Management and Communications:

Build effective working relationships with project stakeholders, engaging them at each projects stage, ensuring communications have appropriate content and tone.
Manage information flows between the directing and delivering levels of the project.
Ensure organisational communications about projects benefits, progress and outcomes suit audience and are timely. Anticipate
project risks and issues, communicating them to stakeholders, taking action to resolve.
Inspire enthusiasm, momentum and commitment for outcomes project will deliver.
Ensure project activity, outcome progress, issues, risks, exception reports are available to Stakeholders and management teams as appropriate.

Project Team Management:

Establish, lead and motivate the project team, ensuring regular progress review meetings in place and behavioural expectations established. Liaise with external suppliers as necessary.

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