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ROLE PROFILE
Title
District Coordinator
Functional Area
Programmes
Reports to
Regional Coordinator
Location
North East Region, Savana, Bono East
Travel required
Yes
Effective Date
A.s.a.p
Grade
C2
ROLE PURPOSE
Plan International in partnership with Instiglio and the Jacobs Foundation will implement the Education Outcome Fund Programme (EOF) under the Ghana Accountability and Learning Outcomes Programme (GALOP). The programme aims to improve the quality of education in low performing basic education schools and strengthen education sector equity and accountability in Ghana. The Programme will run for a period of 4 years and will be implemented across 3 regions in Ghana (North East, Savana and Bono East) and 11 districts. The Project will support a total of 240 communities/schools.
The Lead District Coordinator will work with the Regional Coordinator and Project Coordinators on all community level activities, including monitoring, stakeholder engagement, and working with parents to ensure pupilsโ regular participation in Programme activities. The Lead District Coordinator will play a key role in ensuring teaching and learning activities take place at the school/community level as planned. The jobholder will support the CPD of project facilitators and support their mentoring.
Dimensions of the Role
The Lead District Coordinator will work with stakeholders at the districts/municipal and community level to support the implementation of the Projectโs activities to support learning outcomes for out of school and in-school student. The Lead District Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating quality programming and results, financial management and compliance, stakeholder and partner relations, and donor deliverables at the district and community level.
He/she will coordinate the establishment of Accelerated Learning Programme and school Remedial sessions in the region. He/she is responsible for program planning, implementation, and reporting in compliance with donor and government agreements. The post-holder will be based in North East, Bono East/ Savanna Region and travel to project communities where the project operates.
The job holder will be able to support the CPD of teachers and school management and supervision. It is expected the lead district coordinator will conduct regular monitoring on lesson delivery, teaching quality, as well as tracking enrolment and attendance of beneficiaries.
Accountabilities
Community Engagement and Project delivery
- Responsible for communitiesโ involvement and the implementation of project activities in the designated districts
- Provide CPD support to Project facilitators and follow up on their teaching needs
- Conduct regular lesson observations of teachers
- Arrange and implement animation for CBE programme in conjunction with the Ghana Education Service, the Complementary Education Agency and the District Assemblies,
- Coordinate 6 Project Coordinators to strengthen School Management Committees and Parent Teacher Associations to engage selected schools to establish a more inclusive, resourceful and informed support network for parents
- Secure venues for events and activities of project at the district and community level
- Deliver all forms of invitations to stakeholders both at district and community level
- Mobilize students for after school sessions
- Support Regional Coordinators and Project Coordinators on other Programme activities
- Engaging with GES, Municipal Assembly, traditional authorities and school authorities when requested.
- Identify and work with local service providers to deliver school snacks
Monitoring and Reporting
- Support tracking the progression of pupils as they transitioned to the next level of education
- Conduct routine follow up visits to meet with parents and guardians whose wards have not attended school regularly
- Undertake routine monitoring and collect school registers for attendance data entry.
- Support the identification of local role models
- Conduct routine checks on school security
- Input and collect data within time
- Monitoring lesson delivery
Staff Relation and Recruitment
- Responsible for appraisal and Performance Management procedures for Project Coordinators
- Coach and supervise Project Coordinators to ensure quality delivery and performance
- Support Programme Manager in identification of talents and recruitment process to fill gaps in the workstream
- Ensure close collaboration with other Programme Team members for efficient project delivery
Responsibilities
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision. Ability to solve problems and plan changes based on M&E data. Ability to prescribe and implement innovative solutions to challenges found in a complex learning education project with marginalized students and out of school children. Ability to support the teaching capacity of a wide range of stakeholders face to face and remotely. Ability to anticipate risks and mitigate them. Ability to manage remote staff. Ability to understand the challenges that marginalized beneficiaries encounter in educational settings and capacity to propose solutions to overcome them. Ability to analyse issues for decision making to strengthen and support project delivery and refer to higher manager for approval
Ensures that Plan Internationalโs global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan Internationalโs Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.
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