Job Objective
TEP Centre is a pioneer in the emerging field of Education Partnership, specialising in the research, design, implementation, support, and evaluation of education programmes, projects, and initiatives across the public, private and non-profit sectors. We seek to fill the role of Programme Officer – Assessment & Learning Programmes (ALP). The ideal candidate will have strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills and a demonstrable ability to plan and implement projects from inception to completion. The successful candidate will coordinate the core implementation teams responsible for seamlessly delivering all the organisation’s projects.
Job Title: Programme Officer
Department: Assessment & Learning Programmes
Reports to: Lead, Assessment & Learning Programmes
Key Roles and Responsibilities
The Programme Officer will be responsible for:
- Collaborate across all the units in the organisation to implement projects/ programmes
- Develop and maintain all aspects of assessment and curriculum design, documentation of project requirements, developing reports and budgeting.
- Develop accurate and efficient tests to be used in surveys that are to be carried out
- Review and draft test development tools with developers.
- Develop training schedules and training notes.
- Lead projects/programmes deliverables and preparation of various programme documents, such as work plans, budgets, reports, and proposals on programme implementation arrangements
- Monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realised benefits as programme progresses
- Contribute to development of articles, research papers, and lessons learnt from projects.
- Develop instructional manuals for trainings, toolkits, and activity reports.
- Identifying and maintaining an active risks and issues log, meeting notes and journal of lessons learnt from projects.
- Developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders in the public sector (federal and state), civil society and in the international development community.
- Organise Test tools development workshops; seek expert opinion on tools developed.
- Organise training for partners, volunteers and other stakeholders.
- Coordinate and manage the recruitment, training and management of partners at the state, local government and community levels.
- Defining programme’s implementation processes and templates.
- Develope programme’s budget, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realised benefits as the programme progresses
- Ensure the project is delivered on time per the workplan and within the budget
- Track project implementation processes and milestones in correspondence with the allotted timeline for the projects
- Proactively monitor and evaluate the progress of the different project activities and submit regular reports on the progress, accomplishments, difficulties, lessons learnt, etc.
- Identify sources and gather and compile data and information to prepare documents, guidelines, and other material as required.
- Identifying risks to the programme’s successful outcome, proactively resolving issues, and initiating appropriate precautionary and corrective action
- Managing third-party contributions to the programme, and communications with all stakeholders.
- Managing both the dependencies and the interfaces between projects
- Representing and making presentations on behalf of the organisation and unit from time to time at events
Technical and Behavioural competencies
- Organised and able to participate in and lead physical and virtual teams
- Proven ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team with respect for diversity
- Team player with effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills, and able to build value-adding relationships with stakeholders at all levels across the public, private and civil society sectors
- Excellent analytical skills with advanced proficiency in systematic writing written and spoken English
- Advanced experience and proficiency in writing for professional and academic purposes e.g scholarships, grants, proposals, technical report, workplan
- Knowledge of assessment tools development, and test administration
- Good knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling programmes
- Knowledge of Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL)
- Ability to create a sense of community amongst the members of the project teams
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite or related software.
- Support in planning, monitoring, and controlling programmes
- Ability to plan logistics and budgeting for programmes
- Excellent in creating project implementation processes.
- The ability to find ways of solving or pre-empting problems.
- Good understanding of the procurement process including negotiation with third parties
- Good knowledge of programme and project management tools and softwares like Gantt chart, Asana, project, Survey cto, Kobo collect etc
- The ability to find ways of solving or pre-empting problems
Experience/Qualification
- Post-secondary education from a recognised university in a field such as Education, Research, Development, Social Work, or any other relevant field
- 3 + years of Programme/Project Management experience in areas such as assessment, partnership development, education programmes and interventions, research and policy advocacy
- Experience in working in the international development sector is desirable
- Experience in working on education, development and/or donor/grant-funded programmes will be an added advantage
- Multilingual speaker desirable: ability to speak Hausa, Ibo, or Yoruba is an added advantage
- Based in Lagos and willing to travel nationally and internationally
Benefits:
- Hybrid work mode: we work 3 days remotely and 2 days on-site
- Health coverage: medical insurance for staff and dependents (spouse and up to 4 children), health and wellness awareness
- Training opportunities: we encourage personal development and provide learning platforms to help team members grow and thrive in their career
- Team events: we cultivate team building through social events and happy hours
To apply, candidates should send a copy of their Curriculum Vitae with the email heading, ‘Programme Officer – ALP’ to recruitment@tepcentre.com. Only successful applicants will be contacted.