Senior Programme Manager, Education (Indonesia)

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Working with people in over 200 countries and territories, we are on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2021–22 we reached 650 million people.

Job Title

Senior Programme Manager, Education (Jakarta, Indonesia)

Role Purpose

This role focuses on delivering the outcomes of our work on Higher Education (HE), Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) & Science through a suite of global programmes and partnerships working with Higher Education institutions and governments in the UK and overseas, alumni, students interested in studying overseas and their influencers, summarised below:

Impact Areas

Higher Education, TVET & Science

Purpose / Outcomes

• Providing opportunities to study and work overseas
• Promoting study in the UK
• Promoting UK science and research
• Positioning the British Council as a creator and convenor of knowledge, insight, and analysis about international education
• Creating development and networking opportunities for UK's international student alumni
• Facilitating international HE and TVET partnerships

Provides integral operational management & leadership, often in a small to medium sized team, driving successful development, delivery, impact–including Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL)–and financial sustainability of a mixed portfolio of education partnerships, programmes or contracts at regional or global level. Services corporate or regional outcomes, ensuring value add and mutual UK benefit as well as compliance with published programme management standards across all areas of financial and operational risk. Manages partner and stakeholder relations and can act as an account manager for a major client or stakeholder.

This role will work with colleagues across the region and in the UK, sometimes leading, to help deliver benefits in country from regional and globally led initiatives.

Main Accountabilities But Not Limited To The Following

Leadership & Management

• Manages delivery teams and/or project team.
• Manages all EDI processes and ensures comprehensive use of internal tools in programme design and delivery. Maintains an oversight of the action plan developed using internal EDI tools.
• Could play a leadership role on a specific component of a larger project or programme

Relationship & Stakeholders

• Communicates internally and externally about a project’s success/challenges and lessons learned.
• Holds delivery partners to account including supply chain management where applicable.
• Leads on relationships at a project/programme level.

Commercial and Financial Management

• Manage and control the agreed budget, expenditure, and income against plans, ensure accuracy of reports and ensure sound financial management and analysis across the portfolio through monthly finance reviews and quarterly business reviews.
• Ensure timely and accurate planning and forecasting, timely reporting of risks, including financial and identify opportunities and mitigation actions.

Programme Management

• Works closely with sources of digital skills and expertise to ensure high quality digital inputs on programmes and projects.
• Ensures that every project/programme is compliant with all internal policies and processes (for example safeguarding, EDI, supply change management, social value and conflict sensitivity).
• Undertakes lessons learned and action-reporting and shares learning for future design.
• Supports the design of results-based programmes including development of basic M & E plans and results frameworks.
• Identifies risks in a project or programme and puts together mitigation strategies with SRO.
• Undertakes programme-specific data collection as needed and works with colleagues to identify indicators and tools for data collection, quality assures all data, and undertakes basic analysis.
• Manages, finance, procurement, compliance and reporting 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.
• Contributes to development of, owns and delivers, the Programme Management Plan

Business Development

• Embeds effective processes, standards and tools to support pipeline and consultant/partner relationship management.
• Ensures timely reporting and communication on externally funded contracts/grant funded initiatives.
• Manages or supports the development of high-quality bids/ proposals.
• Participates in programme and project reviews and closure activities, helping to ensure learning is embedded in the development of new business.
• Supports the development and management of relationships with strategic clients and partners.
• Coordinates research in country/regional context such as analysis of client and partner trends and opportunities.
• Participates in contract negotiations with partners and clients, and prepares agreements such as non-disclosure, pre-bid, contract and partner and consultant agreements.
• Manages network of associate advisors, consultants and partners.
• Applies due diligence requirements to potential partners.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

• 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 Specific Knowledge And Experience

• Knowledge and/or experience of working with at least two types of funding sources within a structured compliance regime.
• Understanding of MEL principles
• Experience of managing multi country or large in-country programmes that have met project closure and audit standards.
• Experience in spotting risk in a project or programme and putting together successful risk mitigation with SRO
• Experience of managing a wide range of stakeholders.

Desirable

• Experience of client management, partner management and/or contract management.
• Experience of conducting lessons learned reviews/After action reviews to inform future programme design and management.
• Able to manage delivery of digital events on basic platforms (Microsoft Teams) ensuring all corporate standards are met, including those for accessibility and safeguarding
• Experience of managing dispersed teams.

Further Information

• Location: Jakarta (hybrid work arrangement, 2 or 3 days in office)
• Foundation level Project Management qualification (in-house training or evidence of CPD in this area could be considered)
• Contract Type: Indefinite
• Role could require some domestic and international travel as required by the programme and some out of hours and evening work responding to or driven by programme/portfolio needs.
• Conditions of Employment: Local Direct Hire
• Requirements:
• The British Council systems and global processes operate in English. Written and verbal proficiency in English is requires.
• Applications are welcomed from candidates currently in this location with a natural right to work.
• Closing Date: Sunday, 10 September 2023 at 11:59 PM PH Time (GMT+8)
• Applications are also welcomed from candidates currently based in other British Council country offices. However, please note candidates must have a natural right to work in the country, on a permanent basis, as immigration clearance and/or on-going visa support is not provided by the British Council for this role. Relocation support is also not provided.
• Pay Band: 7 /F

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Equality , Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Statement

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