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Country Representative - Ghana

JOB SUMMARY

Company Street Child
Industry NGO/IGO/INGO
Category Management/Ad...
Location Accra
Job Status Full-time
Salary $60,000 - $70...
Education Qualified
Experience N/A
Job Expires Jul 11, 2022
Contact ...
 

Company Profile

Street Child works towards a world where all children are safe, in school, and learning. We specialise in supporting children and communities in low-resource environments and emergencies, recognising that the complex, compounded challenges that affect them require innovative, integrated interventions. Our interventions are informed by rigorous, robust evidence and are results-oriented and optimised to create maximum impact for children at minimum cost. Since 2008, we have assisted over 900,000 children across 20+ fragile, conflict and crisis affected countries across Eastern Europe, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Street Child has a strong, sustained commitment to localisation and works in partnership with 80+ local level actors and organisations, underscored by close consultation and collaboration with local communities.

Job Description

  • Job Title:  Country Representative - Ghana
  • Contract: Full Time, 3.5 years
  • Salary: $60,000 - $70,000 per annum depending on experience (plus accommodation and benefits)
  • Principal Location: Accra, with regular travel within Ghana

 

Street Child are searching for an outstanding professional to rapidly set up and lead, from scratch, Street Child’s new flagship Ghana country programme. The role will have a major initial focus on ensuring fantastic delivery of the charity’s significant Ghana TransformED Partnership programmes (GED) - an ambitious and truly innovative partnership with the Ghana Ministry of Education and Education Outcomes Fund to deliver a payment by results programme targeted at improving access and quality in primary education for tens of thousands of Ghanaian children. More broadly, Street Child are also keen to leverage the capabilities and profile that will flow from our participation in GED to explore wider opportunities for supporting the protection and education of Ghana’s most vulnerable children – and we very much seek a Country Representative with the vision, energy and qualities to maximise these possibilities.

 Working alongside excellent local NGOs is at the heart of Street Child’s approach globally and this role will build and lead the Street Child Ghana team together with a consortium of local and technical partners in the delivery of this ground-breaking, outcomes-oriented programme.  Specifically, the role-holder will be directly accountable for the strong management and delivery of this multi-million-dollar consortium education programme, focused initially in the Northern Region on primary school improvement and accelerated learning for out of school children.

Key duties include:

1. Programme management

  • Lead the GED Partnership consortium overall, working at a high level with finance partners, implementation partners and collaborative partners to ensure strong coordination and accountability.
  • Drive programme outcomes through evidence-based, adaptive design and delivery of GED Partnership Programme activities, in collaborating with the Street Child HQ management unit
  • Line manage the Ghana team (initially c 10 staff) and coach Street Child’s partners to ensure quality and accountability in programme implementation;
  • Ensure that the financial and wider management of Street Child’s programmes is accountable and transparent, and that all staff are fully aware and able to comply with the Finance Policies;

 

2. Operations, HR and organisational development

  • Lead Street Child’s establishment in Ghana, providing administrative oversight include office and operational set up, recruitment and the establishment of localised policies;
  • Oversight of robust implementation of relevant processes and policies, in particular relating to safeguarding, security, HR, finance, due diligence, and local partnership
  • Work alongside national partners to assess organisational capacity and to identify technical and human resource capacity gaps and where appropriate, directly provide coaching and training input and support in priority areas.

3. Resource mobilisation and representation

  • Lead the development of strategic partnerships with relevant actors including donors, INGOs and local/national government;
  • Identify and drive new potential needs / gaps / expansion opportunities in line with Street Child’s global strategy;
  • Represent Street Child at the highest level in the region, including pro-active participation in relevant coordination mechanisms at national, regional and local level;
  • Proactive engagement with Street Child UK head office and programmes team on strategic, networking and fundraising activities.

Required Skills or Experience

  • This is a terrific opportunity for someone who has country-level leadership experience already, or for a senior programmes or education sector leader who is hungry for the next step.  
  • We are looking for someone with the experience, drive and inter-personal relationships to take ownership.  You will have the management, technical and operational skills to drive excellent, evidence-driven education programmes.  
  • This is strictly not an ‘ivory tower’ role - you will be hands-on and agile across the programmes, and deeply involved in building profile and strategic relationships with donors, government and local partners.

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