District Liaise Officer - Lively Minds Ghana
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Lively Minds, an award-winning charity, is hiring to support our ambitious and exciting Early Childhood Development programme in Ghana and Uganda.
Job Description
The District Liaise Officers are part of a busy District Implementation team, responsible for embedding and sustaining the programme. Each District Liaise Officer is responsible for providing training, technical support and capacity building to the Districts.
The District Liaise Officer has a high level of responsibility within each region. He/she manages the programmes’ relationship with a number of different District stakeholders and represents Lively Minds. The officer will work closely with Ghana Education Service (GES) and District stakeholders to help problem-solve any issues and risks, including quality and compliance issues such as absence and lateness.
The Officer will also produce reports as well as analysing financial reports submitted by the districts. The District Liaise Officer will work directly with the Lively Minds Coordinator, a GES staff member, to support them to quickly resolve issues and escalate to the District Director where necessary.
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Required Skills or Experience
Essential experience and skills
- Minimum qualification: Degree in early childhood or a relevant subject.
- 3- 5 years of relevant work experience.
- Good financial acumen with monitoring and reporting on finances/budgets.
- Ability to coach and deliver training to government officials and others.
- Ability to work closely with a range of senior Regional and District stakeholders.
- Understanding of Monitoring and Evaluation practises with strong data analysis abilities.
- Analytical with strong problem solving abilities and ability to make decisions in a timley and robust manner.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills.
- Very good communication, negotiation and influencing skills with good basic report writing skills.
- Comfortable with frequent travel and overnight stays.
- Technically literate – Good understanding of MS word, Powerpoint and Excel. Able to adapt to and learn new tech systems easily.
- Licensed and experienced motorbike rider, confident riding in difficult terrain
Desirable Experience and Skills
- Experience of working with GES or education stakeholders.
- Experience of working for an NGO.
- Fluency in one or more of the following languages will be an added advantage
- Upper East/West Regions: Buli, Dagare, Gurune, Kassim, Kusal, Nabt, Sissali, Talen, Waale.
- Northern/North East/Oti Regions: Akwampin Twi, Dagbani, Ewe, Guang, Likpakpalin, Mampruli, Moar.
- Bono/Bono East/Savannah Regions: Asante Twi, Gonja, Tampulima, Twi.
You will be expected to perform against the Lively Minds Competencies.
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