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Jigawa Kaduna Kano |
Posted 3 years ago |
JOB TITLE: Programme Officer, Inclusive Education
JOB LOCATIONS: Jigawa and Kano, Nigeria
Contract: 2 years Fixed Term Contract
JOB DETAILS:
- Sightsavers is recruiting Programme Officers in Jigawa and Kano states in Nigeria to enhance the quality of their Inclusive Education Program (IEP).
- The program focuses on the education of persons with disabilities through formal Education.
- The post holders will ensure the programme is planned, implemented, monitored, and evaluated to the highest possible quality standards.
About the Role
- Building effective partner relationships, engaging new partners to help fulfil the Program and Organisation’s strategic objective of ensuring people with disabilities have equal rights to education
- Supporting long term partner relationships that go beyond the longevity of the program through the dissemination of information, knowledge share and advocacy
- Providing technical support to partners to help identify their technical and organisational capacity needs.
- Managing all aspects of the programme, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, financial and asset management
- Assisting partners with programme reporting and documentation
- Helping with budgeting and forecasting. Monitoring project financial resources expenditure.
- Exampling quality case studies and materials in support of fundraising activities
- Providing relevant fundraising materials and information to Sightsavers Head Office in the UK for donor reporting purposes
Essential Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Social Sciences, Education or Development Studies
- Proven working experience within Inclusive Education programs within an INGO essential
- Knowledge of current issues and best practices in disability, Inclusive Education and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) essential
- Strong experience in project implementation, ideally relating to Education within the disability sector
- Previous experience designing, managing and acting as an advocate for Inclusive Education/Disability programmes
- Strong IT, especially MS Word and Excel
- Strong networking and communication
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English
- The Programme Officer, Inclusive Education, is a highly varied and involved role and the above is not an exhaustive list of duties or required professional skills.
Salary
- Local Terms and Conditions apply.
Interview Date
We intend to conduct interviews from 10th January, 2022.
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Note
- Please be aware that due to an expected high response to this role we may close the ability to submit applications before the above mentioned close date.
- Sightsavers works to eliminate avoidable blindness and promote the rights of people with disabilities. Our vision is of a world where no one is blind from avoidable causes, and where people with disabilities participate equally in society.
Deadline: December 12, 2021
Job Features
Job Category | Software/ Programming / Web development |