Education Project Manager (Consultant)

Job Description

Transformation has resulted in changes in skills requirements, roles, and numbers of roles required in the new operating model. The roles in the new operating model will be restricted to employees in the selection pool in the first instance. Selection for any jobs that remain unfilled following the agreed selection process will be conducted in line with the Global Recruitment policy.Role Tile : Education Project Manager (Consultant)Pay Band: Hourly Paid (Grade G rate per hour )Location: RiyadhContract type: (Hourly paid contract until 31 March 2023)Closing date and time: 10 September 2022About us:The British Council is the UK?s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. We create friendly knowledge and understanding between the people of the UK and other countries. We do this by making a positive contribution to the UK and the countries we work with ? changing lives by creating opportunities, building connections and engendering trust.We work with over 100 countries across the world in the fields of arts and culture, English language, education and civil society. Each year we reach over 20 million people face-to-face and more than 500Role purpose: To maximise the impact of our programmes and projects by effectively managing the delivery of education projects, ensuring that our programmes and projects are delivered to high-quality standards and with maximum effectiveness and efficiency.Maintain and manage relationships with our stakeholders and comply with British Council policies and procedures, including financial admin, reporting, data collection and operational project delivery.Main accountabilities:Relationship & Stakeholder management

• Has relationships with delivery partners and stakeholders within country and can procure services and contract delivery partners.
• Holds suppliers to account for delivering against contract.
• Build strong internal relationships and networks

Commercial and Financial Management

• Ensure sound financial planning, working closely with finance teams to ensure British Council and client financial year plans are up to date.
• Ensure accurate and timely monthly (re)forecasting is in place, by running regular reports in the SAP system on actuals, monitoring outstanding purchase orders, reviewing commitments, analysing and commenting on reasons for variances to plan and recommending corrective actions.
• Monitoring monthly finances, including correct expenditure, ensuring the P2P process is being followed and correcting any mis-postings or journals needed.
• Lead on British Council, partner or client reporting (including, with Finance Manager, financial reporting) and ensure reports are delivered on time, to budget and to a high standard.
• Compliance to BC financial policies and procedures.

Project Management

• Contributes to development of, owns and delivers on Project Management Plan
• Identifies risks in a project or programme and puts together mitigation strategies with SRO
• Responsible for internal and client, procurement, contracting, compliance and reporting pm
• Checks on and reports on compliance
• Manages procurement on a project/programme
• Responsible for data management including timely data entry, quality assurance of data, undertaking basic analysis of monitoring data, and developing progress reports to meet funding needs
• Undertaking programme-specific data collection as needed. This includes working with colleagues to identify indicators and tools for data collection, quality assuring all data, and undertaking basic analysis.

Business Development

• Supports the identification and development of professional networks, relationships and partnerships to increase the British Council?s impact and reputation.
• Ensures high quality and accurate pipeline data for country/pillar.
• Conducts specific pipeline and partner/competitor analysis to contribute to business development planning and prioritisation.
• Provides support with development of new business proposals, ensuring that internal and external professional standards are met.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)

• To actively Contribute to an inclusive and anti-racist organisational culture, being aware of your own biases, and taking action to mitigate against these. Ensuring people feel valued and are treated equitably, with support for people?s well-being and mental health.
• Understand the British Council?s approach to equality, diversity and inclusion and how it applies to your role and make time for learning and development relating to EDI and anti-racism.

Role Requirements:

• Right to work in country
• Have excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Arabic
• Bachelor?s degree level or equivalent
• Proven working experience in project management in the education sector.
• Experience in budget management.
• Experience in managing stakeholders.
• Strong communication and presentational skills.
• Good knowledge and experience in project monitoring and evaluation.
• Please note that all applications for this post should be submitted in English.

We are committed to policies and practices of equality, diversity and inclusion across everything we do. We will support all employees to make sure their behaviour is consistent with this commitment. We welcome discussions about specific requirements or adjustments to enable participation and engagement in our work and activities.

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