Primary Purpose: Management and technical delivery of education projects globally; supporting strategic direction of the education practice; acquisition of new business.
Job Description Summary
OPM is seeking a dynamic and highly motivated education specialist to join its Education Practice as a Consultant. This role can be based in Pakistan, India, Kenya or Tanzania. This role will involve occasional international travel as required by projects.
The Education Practice is a global team of education experts. We are committed to high-quality, lifelong learning opportunities for all in low- and middle-income countries. We support education systems become adaptive, self-improving, and focused on building the skills, values, and attitudes needed to achieve development goals, especially for the most hard-to-reach and marginalised children and youth. We do this by providing high-quality, responsive, impact-oriented, and contextually relevant policy research, technical assistance and consulting services to governments and their development partners. Currently, we have projects in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Rwanda, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Kiribati.
The successful candidate will work closely with the Education Practice Lead and Technical Hub Leads. They will be eager to contribute to (and, in some cases, lead) the technical delivery of education consultancy projects, including project management, acquisition and sharing technical learning across education projects.
The candidate will have a strong grounding in education policy and programming, key policy issues and debates and research methods, focussing on sub-Saharan Africa and/or South Asia. The successful candidate will manage projects to achieve objectives of impact and quality, business development, and learning and external influencing. Establishing and managing relationships with multiple clients and building work with new clients will be an important part of this role.
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Preferred skills and experience
If you are able to demonstrate the following skills and experience in your application, it will bear a distinct advantage:
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