Sightsavers
Overview
Sightsavers implements projects in over 30 countries in Africa and South Asia working to eliminate avoidable blindness and promote the rights of people with disabilities.
Title: Programme Officer – Inclusive Education
Location: Lilongwe, Malawi Country Office
Contract: Two-year fixed term contract
Salary: Local Terms and Conditions apply
About the role
Sightsavers is seeking a dedicated Programme Officer (Inclusive Education) to drive our inclusive education initiatives. In this role, the Programme Officer will play a crucial part in enhancing the quality of our programmes, ensuring meticulous planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. A key focus area will be developing our approaches to foundational learning for children with disabilities at pre and primary school level.
Responsibilities
- Build effective partner relationships and support longer term relationships that go beyond the duration of individual projects by disseminating information and advocating for Sightsavers work.
- Liaise with partner organisations to achieve the organisation’s thematic and strategic objectives
- Support partners to identify their own technical and capacity building needs and facilitate providing these in order to support them through the project(s) cycle.
- Promote shared learning and collaboration between partners by facilitating partner networks and meetings.
- Collaborate with partners to identify needs for technical support
- Manage all aspects of the project cycle to ensure effective planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, financial and asset management, reporting, and documentation is delivered
- Represent Malawi Country Office in inclusive education networks and advocate for the organisations philosophy and policies.
- Manage all aspects of the project cycle to ensure effective planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, financial and asset management, reporting, and documentation is delivered.
- Monitor expenditure of project financial resources in liaison with the Senior Programme Manager and Finance team.
- Participate in activities related to inclusive education and social inclusion e.g. World Sight Day, Person with Disabilities Day.
This is a highly varied and involved role and the above is not an exhaustive list of duties or required professional skills. Please see the Job Description for full details.
Skills and Experience
The Programme Officer will be pivotal in refining our educational programmes, ensuring they are executed flawlessly and have a lasting impact. You’ll be instrumental in shaping innovative learning strategies for children with disabilities, from their early years to primary education.
Essential:
- Effective Communication: Clearly and confidently communicate the organisation’s vision to colleagues and partners.
- Strategic Decision-Making: Make informed and timely decisions to guide project success.
- Project Management Expertise: Proven experience in managing education programs with a focus on inclusivity.
- Team Collaboration: Work cohesively within a global team, understanding the impact of your role.
- In-depth Sector Knowledge: Strong familiarity with the education sector and government engagements in Malawi.
Desirable:
- First-Hand Experience: Worked directly with children with disabilities.
- Early Childhood Development: Experience in this field.
- Teacher Training: Experience in training teachers and developing educational materials.
Next Steps
To apply for this exciting new opportunity, please complete an application via our recruitment portal. We are particularly interested in learning of your motivations for applying.
Due to project deadlines, we are keen to fill this role as quickly as possible so applications will be considered as soon as they are received.
As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people living with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.