Programme Officer

• Project Coordination & Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery, with the flexibility to adapt processes as needed to meet specific business requirements.
• Mobilization Support: Support the mobilisation activities, working closely with the team to ensure all aspects of mobilisation are covered to meet quality, legislative, and compliance standards.
• Financial Management: Work with relevant colleagues to ensure financial procedures and budgets are in place, and track reporting requirements to meet financial goals.
• Process Management: Establish and maintain project management, administrative, and quality assurance processes to ensure the project runs efficiently and meets internal and external requirements.
• Supplier & Partner Coordination: Work closely with suppliers and partners to ensure that deliverables meet business objectives, contractual requirements, and quality standards within agreed timelines.
• Risk & Issue Management: Identify and manage risks and issues, taking appropriate action to resolve them and ensuring project success.

• Proven experience in project mobilisation and management, ideally in the education or skills sector
• Experience in managing complex, large-scale projects with multiple stakeholders, including international teams and external partners.
• Financial management skills, including budgeting, cost control, and ensuring financial compliance with project requirements.

At Education Development Trust, we improve school systems at scale; we partner with governments around the world to help turn ambitious, visionary education policy into reality. We invest annually in our programme of education research and this evidence underpins our work and informs policy and practice around the world. We have a long-established presence in Africa – running programmes since 1992 – and have worked with a range of governments, donor agencies and partners to improve education across the continent, providing short-term, expert consultancy and delivering long-term, national education programmes. We have specialist expertise in sustainable school system reform at scale – from improving literacy and numeracy outcomes, to large-scale teacher training and strengthening the capacity of national ministries. We are experienced in leading complex programmes in challenging environments and we also work with like-minded organisations to ensure we maximise our impact.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal record checks. Education Development Trust also participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, and we may request information from relevant job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual misconduct, including harassment, during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.