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Norwegian Refugee Council Education Project Manager Yemen NRC Jobs 2024

Norwegian Refugee Council looking for “Education Project Manager”. Applicants with a Bachelor’s degree may apply on or before 15-Jul-24.

The Norwegian Refugee Council has published a job vacancy announcement on 30/06/2024 for qualified applicants to fill in the vacant post of Education Project Manager to be based in Aden , Yemen. For more jobs, please visit https://unjoblink.org

Company Name: Norwegian Refugee Council

Job Title: Education Project Manager

Duty Station: Aden , Yemen

Country: Yemen

Application Deadline: 15-Jul-24

Responsibilities:

In this position you will:

• Ensure high quality project management and compliance to NRC policies, CC and PCM tools, handbooks and guidelines.
• Contribute to the development of new funding proposals and budgets as well as strategic development of new projects and partnerships.
• Implement technical direction while maintaining high technical quality in project execution.
• Ensure timely and accurate project monitoring and evaluation, indicator tracking and donor reporting.
• Drive efficient and effective use of financial resources (activities and salaries) in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements
• Develop and maintain strong partnerships with key stakeholders.
• Coordinate and manage the South Area Education portfolio including demonstrating it in initiation planning , execution and implementation.
• Consolidate and integrate lessons learned from previous programming into new projects in coordination with M&E and the Education Specialist.
• Ensure capacity building of project staff and transfer key skills. Mainstreaming best practice into the education teams building a culture of critical analysis.
• Promote the rights of NRC’s target beneficiaries in line with the NRC Yemen Country and Area office Strategy.
• Represent NRC to internal and external fora, such as the education partner meeting, and to authorities such as local ministries and relevant municipalities.

Requirements: 

• A Bachelors degree in education or relevant field.
• Minimum 7 years of experience from a senior level Education project implementation position in a humanitarian/recovery context with extensive experience of Formal/ nonformal education/ Youth Skills and emergency education responses.
• Excellent project management skills specifically in strong budget management (with knowledge of ECHO, USAID and other donor regulations) and analytical outcome monitoring with a demonstrated ability to synthesize multiple data points.
• Experience with managing youth programs and youth responses is essential
• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts as well as post-conflict/recovery/long term projects recovery.
• Knowledge of the humanitarian context in Yemen and Education trends and needs in Yemen.
• Previous experience working on ECHO-funded projects is mandatory. Should have knowledge of ECHO and USAID donor compliance and reporting system/ requirements
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal