Position: Program Associate  

Organization: Foundation for Social Transformation

Location: Assam

Programme Management:

• Ensure that the project delivers evidence based practices to improve equity and access to education for girls from feminist perspectives.
• Define and regularly updates project work plans to reflect a changing environment.
• Understands the project management cycle and utilizes tools (including detailed implementation plans) effectively to implement and achieve project results, and comply with donor requirements, government, and partnership agreements.
• Achieves project results, and monitors appropriate benchmarks, targets and performance indicators.
• Coordinates technical inputs on education, WASH, child protection in emergency and gender to support a high quality of implementation ensuring that programmatic strategies are of high quality, based on best practices and in line with donor standards.
• Articulates changes in project activities (if any) clearly and produce clear documents justifying changes, analysis of change impact, and budget impact.
• Systematically reviews risks and challenges to quality implementation and compliance and develop clear and timely mitigation strategies including resources required.
• Develops and implements a clear plan to strengthen programme quality and compliance in the project delivery.
• Produce well-documented, accurate, and quality narrative/financial reports in line with donor reporting requirements.
• Creates an efficient knowledge management system/approach that helps learning, sharing, scaling up, and innovation.

Influencing and Visibility:
• Represents FST at different forums influencing the agenda of girls rights to education.
• Establish working relationship with Right to Education network in the country.
• Conduct budgetary and policy level analysis on girls access to education aspects and organise the different campaigns.
• Supports with technical documentation of evidence from the project and produce stories of change when required.
• Ensures that the project is fully aligned with the SDG

Communication and Working Relationships:
• Builds strong relationships with various partners especially the district local government, target communities, other partners, and government stakeholders
• Engages and effectively represent FST in strategic partnerships with relevant NGOs to maximize use of our resources
• Effectively networks with donors, and other partners implementing similar programs in project locations.
• Develops appropriate internal and external working relationships (and partnerships) to support quality project delivery and compliance.

Expertise, skills and knowledge:
• Master in development studies or social work
• At least 8 years of progressively professional work experience in design, implementation and evaluation of education programmes.
• Must have deep understanding of feminist perspectives; issues of social barriers that prevent girls in accessing education.
• Demonstrated experience in managing, mentoring and coaching staff.
• Conversant with government education programmes
• Demonstrated skills and experience in report writing, donor compliance and budget management.
• Ability to Identify and synthesis best practices and lessons learned to promote knowledge management and sustainability.
• Willing to travel and ability to work in hard to reach hard to stay areas and familiar with programming for vulnerable children especially young girls and boys.
• Promotes high performance among project staff and provides vision and direction.
• Establishes effective partnerships with external stakeholders