The Team Leader will be responsible for providing overall leadership, management oversight, partner coordination, and technical direction for the programme, ensuring an integrated vision across components and actors, with a focus on achieving the results defined in the award. The Team Leader will be the primary liaison with FCDO, key stakeholders, and other implementing partners. TheTeam Leader’s responsibilitiesincludetechnical direction setting and leading on the planning, management and monitoring of program strategies, activities, financial expenditure and costed workplans;leading and managing an effective program delivery team to achieve results;relationship management with key stakeholders, and overseeing an effective monitoring, evaluation and learning system. The Team Leader will be expected to identify programme delivery issues and risks in a timely manner and suggest appropriate programme adjustments.They will supervise activity implementation and ensure activities meet stated goals and reporting requirements. The Team Leaderwill have a deep understanding of the education sector and will have experience leading similar projects. They will have a track recordof working effectively in complex and sophisticated environments, across different cultures, and managing diverse teams to deliver impact within agreed timelines.

Job Summary/Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to the project team on technical and operational aspects of the project, including planning and implementation of the project; ensuring clarity over plans and priorities, and models andfacilitates effective collaboration.
• Provide technical and managerial leadership, including capacity building to the project.

• Oversee the development and implementation of programme work plans and strategies aligned with FCDO and Government of Rwanda priorities.
• Manage the relationship and communications with relevant FCDO representatives.
• Manage relationships withrelevant external stakeholders and partners.
• Oversee development and application of a robust monitoring, evaluation research and learning framework.
• Hold accountability for overall financial and operational compliance including safeguarding procedures.
• Ensureinternational best practice and standards are used to guide the technical and programmatic aspects of work plans and activities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’sdegreeor comparable level of professional experiencein education,public administration, international development, or relatedfield;Master’s, Ph.D. or Ed. D. is preferred.
• Minimum12 years of related experience in increasingly senior roles; at least eight years leading large and complex education programmes at a senior level working in a non-governmental organisation (NGO)or commercial consulting firm.
• Knowledge and expertise in the design of education interventions and in driving improved learning outcomes in low- and middle- income country education systems.

​Experience

• Proven track record of managing complex education programs that are of a similar scope and scale to this program.

• Demonstrated knowledge of FCDO programming and operating procedures.
• Proven track record in forming and managing partner relationships to improve education outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience of improving learning outcomes, driving systems level change, and delivering high performing programmes.
• Solid understanding of, and commitment to, gender and social equity issues in education; expertise in gender equality and social inclusion preferred.

• Experience of developing and using adaptive approaches in education program delivery and coordinating with multiple key stake
• holderspreferred.
• Demonstrated leadership, strategic planning, effective organizational development, partnership-building, capacity-building, managerial, teambuilding and communication skills.
• Staff and financial management experience, with experience in leading and motivating individuals and teams to deliver high quality products and achieve program outcomes1.
• Proven ability to coordinate and oversee local partner capacity building activities, including technical, managerial and governance capacities.

• Demonstrated ability to work in complex environmentswith multiple interventions/collaborators, across different cultures, and lead diverse teams to deliver impact within agreed timelines across a broad geographic area.
• Experience in leading/delivering FCDO-funded programming.

• Experience in the education sector in Rwanda or the region.
• Oral and written fluency requiredin English and Kinyarwanda.
• Oral fluency preferredin French.