Overview
This role oversees the identification, scale up, and institutionalization of innovative solutions to equip youth, particularly marginalized youth, with learning-to-earning solutions across educational settings and beyond.
Tasks Summary
- Convene and nurture partnerships with Government, Private sector, CSO, youth, and philanthropic entities
- Assess cross-sectoral landscape to identify opportunities for piloting, converging, and scaling solutions
- Design, manage, monitor, and deliver programs focused on skilling and employment opportunities
- Mobilize resources
- Provide technical and operational support to program and policy landscapes
- Build networks and partnerships
- Drive innovation, knowledge management, and capacity building
Experience Requirements
- Minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in designing, planning, and implementing educational programs
- Preferably 2 years of leading large-scale, outcome-oriented learning-to-earnings and skilling programs (particularly for women), with a focus on employment outcomes
- Mandatory experience working with government officials at the senior leadership level
- Experience in multi-stakeholder consultations, coordination, and partnership management
- Demonstrated ability to design, develop content, manage, and deliver digital learning solutions at a large scale
- Proven expertise in establishing M&E frameworks and managing real-time dashboards
- Substantial experience managing partnerships and policy conversations with central and state government ministries (MoLE, MSDE, MoE) at the senior level
- Demonstrated ability to manage large donor relationships, including proposal writing, budgeting, and reporting
Qualification Requirements
- An advanced university degree in education, economics, psychology, sociology, or another relevant technical field
- Alternatively, a first-level university degree in education, economics, psychology, sociology, or another relevant technical field, combined with an additional two (2) years of relevant professional experience