Senior Program Officer

Title: Senior Program Officer

Supervisor: Senior Technical Advisor (STA)/CICan Consultant

Location: CICan South Africa Workplace

Begin Date: June 2024

Background

South Africa Expertise Coaching Enhancement Program (SASTEP) is a 4-year program funded by World Affairs Canada and applied by Schools and Institutes Canada (CICan) in collaboration with the Vocational Schooling division of the Division for Increased Schooling and Coaching (DHET) in South Africa’s Ministry of Increased Schooling, Science and Innovation. This system will result in elevated financial alternatives for female and male graduates of TVET schools within the Japanese Cape and Limpopo, South Africa. SASTEP will work with all fifteen public TVET Schools in Japanese Cape and Limpopo to strengthen the supply and inclusiveness of TVET coaching and to develop the coed assist companies that promote profession readiness for all learners, together with girls and folks with disabilities. Canadian schools and institutes will accomplice with the South African schools to boost 4 key areas of TVET programming central to making sure graduate success.

Job Abstract

Common Expectations

Reporting to and dealing carefully with the South Africa-based Senior Technical Advisor/CICan Consultant (STA), the Senior Program Officer (SPO) can be positioned in Pretoria, South Africa and can make sure the efficient implementation of SASTEP actions in South Africa. The SPO will work carefully with the Ottawa-based Director, Worldwide Partnerships in addition to the Ottawa-based Senior Program Officer (SPO) to make sure the general high quality supply of SASTEP actions in South Africa.

This place requires the power to carry out a wide range of complicated duties, together with the planning and implementation of a spread of challenge actions throughout a number of training and authorities companions. The place additionally requires important expertise and experience in monitoring, analysis, studying and data sharing.

The place is anticipated to contain some journey inside South Africa.

Tasks

• Coordinate challenge actions and occasions in South Africa.
• Monitor implementation of CICan members’ partnership challenge actions and suggest required actions.
• Take part within the improvement and drafting of annual work plans, analytical/narrative stories, Requests for Proposals, Phrases of Reference, handbooks, coaching manuals, workshop supplies and different core program paperwork.
• Work with the group to develop this system’s Monitoring, Analysis, Studying and Information Sharing (MELKS) technique and lead in its implementation.
• Lead related qualitative and quantitative knowledge assortment based on the necessities of each the Efficiency Administration Framework and the MELKS technique, making certain the consistency and high quality of challenge knowledge.
• Synthesize and analyze knowledge into succinct summaries for together with in ensuing stories and displays for challenge administration and communications functions.
• Assist the preparation of mid-year and annual stories by reviewing partnership narrative stories to synthesize knowledge.
• Assist partnerships and companions with all features associated to optimum functioning of monitoring and analysis methods and procedures.
• Work with Gender Advisor to make sure integration of gender in program actions.
• Work with Finance and Administrative Officer to make sure monetary and budgetary compliance within the implementation of South Africa-based actions and within the creation and upkeep of mandatory operational insurance policies.
• Assist the STA to take care of stakeholder relationships and have interaction with South Africa companions, together with DHET, accomplice TVET schools and different stakeholders to facilitate program actions and assist companions to attain challenge outcomes.
• Liaise with World Affairs Canada on challenge implementation as wanted.
• Coordinate numerous program committees, together with the Mission Steering Committee and different committee conferences.
• Characterize SASTEP and facilitate discussions at conferences and workshops with companions and different stakeholders as required.
• Assist the STA, Director, Worldwide Partnerships and Canadian-based SPO as wanted.

Reporting

The SPO will work below the path of the South Africa-based STA in shut collaboration with the Canada-based Director, Worldwide Partnerships. The SPO is anticipated to work with a excessive diploma of independence and autonomy.

{Qualifications}

• Full fluency in English.
• South Africa citizen or legally permitted to work in South Africa. Word: CICan won’t present a piece allow or sponsor people.
• Not less than Grasp’s Diploma in a associated topic space (enterprise administration, challenge administration, worldwide cooperation, public coverage, political science or comparable) or equal mixture of training and work expertise.
• A minimal of 5 years’ expertise in an analogous position in South Africa ideally on worldwide improvement initiatives with a global group. Demonstrated competence within the planning, implementation, administration and reporting of donor-funded initiatives.
• Not less than 3 years {of professional} expertise engaged on MEL on worldwide improvement initiatives, ideally within the training or TVET sector.
• Exhibit data of the training, specifically TVET, methods in South Africa desired.
• Sturdy analytical abilities with the power to gather, arrange, analyze, and disseminate important quantities of data.
• Expertise conducting analysis, analyzing and synthesizing major and secondary knowledge.
• Expertise in cellular/digital knowledge know-how (ex: Kobo/ODK/ONA) and surveys.
• Proficiency with MEL and statistical evaluation software program, for each quantitative and qualitative knowledge evaluation.
• Demonstrated potential to work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders and at numerous ranges of organizational hierarchy.
• Demonstrated expertise making use of gender equality ideas in a global improvement and/or training context.
• Demonstrated data and understanding of accomplice and country-led collaborative approaches that tackle group wants.
• Demonstrated potential utilizing Microsoft Workplace Suite (Phrase, Excel, PowerPoint, Groups) and expertise with SharePoint fascinating.
• Demonstrated expertise working with a global group.
• Potential to handle quite a few calls for concurrently.
• Wonderful organizational, communication, and interpersonal abilities.
• Potential to work each independently and collaboratively in a group.