Rural Programme Coordinator

Position description

Role Purpose:

• Oversee Street Child’s rolling school construction programme in Liberia and Sierra Leone;
• Support in-school, community engagement, and economic empowerment activities;
• Work closely with local partners to manage the construction of 50-100 primary and secondary schools annually;
• Frequent travel to rural communities to monitor projects and gather updates for internal and donor reporting.

Key Responsibilities:

Reporting & Programme Funding Engagement – 30%

• Review narrative and financial quarterly reports from country teams and provide feedback;
• Lead the consolidation of narrative reports for various donors;
• Ensure regular information flow to communications and fundraising teams;
• Support income-generation efforts, including drafting funding proposals and donor visits.

Programme Management – 35%

• Collaborate with national partners, Government, and community stakeholders to identify and assess school construction needs;
• Ensure quality and timely implementation of school construction programming;
• Develop systems to track progress against key milestones and address challenges;
• Train and guide partner staff to ensure the effective use of programme documents and tools;
• Monitor safeguarding policies and support feedback loops with partners and participants.

Finance & Procurement – 20%

• Oversee the procurement process, ensuring value for money in selecting contractors;
• Work with finance colleagues to compile financial reporting for programme donors;
• Support teams in compiling requisitions in line with programme forecasts and budgets;
• Coordinate the tracking of donor and match funding requirements.

Other – 15%

• Provide surge support across Street Child’s programme portfolio;
• Coordinate staff, stakeholders, and donor visits;
• Represent Street Child appropriately both internally and externally;
• Carry out other reasonable requests within the broad remit of the role.

Qualifications

Experience and Knowledge:

• Relevant field experience in development programming with local partnership respect;
• Successful delivery of team objectives through collaboration;
• Experience with data collection, cleaning, and analysis;
• Experience working in education, community engagement, and livelihoods programming;
• Strong knowledge of the Liberia and/or Sierra Leone context;
• Experience with donor reporting and budget management;
• German Language skills (preferred but not essential).

Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent organizational and administrative skills;
• Strong coaching and capacity strengthening skills;
• Good time management, able to meet deadlines under pressure;
• Relationship management and communication skills.

Other:

• Excellent written and spoken English;
• A “can-do” attitude and problem-solving skills;
• Strong motivation to succeed and ability to work independently.

Education/Qualifications:

• Degree or higher in International Development or related field;
• Relevant training in MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning).

Application instructions

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