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Senior Program Manager, Schools Program

Location

Greater Vijayawada District

JobType

full-time

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QUEST Alliance

Website: questalliance.net
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About the Role :

The State Lead will lead the intervention in the state by working closely with a team of Education Specialist Program Managers, coordinators and officers. The State lead will be responsible for ensuring implementation of all project deliverables. We are looking for an experienced person who has prior experience having worked in Education programmes while having a perspective on the content thematics (coding/ computational skills) of the program. The role will anchor all govt relations, and oversee content development, and capacity-building programmes. The manager should be well versed in understanding analysis and drive reviews using the same.

The position will be responsible for developing and managing relationships with non-profits, policy makers and govt. Stakeholders at the state and district level.

State Strategy - Design, Operationalisation and Review

Anchor the state strategy aligning it to program and organizational priorities and systems change lens
Develop the state plan and ensure its operationalisation and achievement of goals with quality
Ensure all state strategies have clear operational plans detailed out as quarterly milestones and monthly plans (curriculum development, chatbot, capacity building)
Develop the long term state strategy and plan with clear budgets and team structures for the state from 3-5 year lens
Support the BD team with proposal development, donor engagement and identifying state specific fundraising opportunities
Monthly field visits to interact with the learners, teachers, headmasters and district officials to gauge the effectiveness of the program from the stakeholder lens

Project and Budget Management

Contribute to overall program processes - funder engagement, research, communication and dissemination
Ensure project deliverables are met as per program plan and donor commitments
Ensure donor reporting happens as per timelines and with quality - capturing project learning and insights
Ensure financial forecasting is in place for each project and the spent plan is as per forecast (no underspent/overspent) with maximum focus on the key constituency when it comes to prioritizing spent decisions
Anchor the financial management to ensure audit compliance, review of the monthly project spent report to check for consistency and discrepancies,

Advocacy and Thought Leadership

Identify opportunities at the state level from an advocacy and strategic partnership lens to deepen Quest’s thought leadership work
Drive the advocacy agenda for the state as per the program plan - relationship building with Andhra SSA and SCERT and other relevant departments
Develop a clear action plan for advocacy for mainstreaming the curriculum in the education ecosystem and facilitating policy level change,
Ensure every 6 months JPRMS are conducted and become strategic spaces for multi stakeholder dialogue - including the donor and the govt officials
Participate actively in all consortiums and external forums as Quest’s representatives and integrate the org agenda into the different spaces
Streamline the planning, implementation and review process with the partners in Andhra Pradesh

Knowledge Partnerships

Anchor the program strategy and execution for knowledge partnerships
Align the KP strategy with the org strategy
Manage the IELE team

Monitoring and Evaluation

Ensure that the team has a good understanding of the monitoring tools and dashboards
Ensure that the data coming in from monitoring tools is reviewed jointly by the team and is integrated in reviews with partners and within the team
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Skills

compliance

content development

forecasting

relationship building