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British Council Hiring for Education Manager, India Job at Mumbai Full Time
Education Manager, India
Date: 13-Jan-2023
Location: Mumbai, South Asia, IN
Company: British Council
Role Purpose
Leads the successful delivery of a range of education projects from start to finish including managing the contract or project plan, managing client or internal stakeholders, successfully achieving reporting and meeting compliance standards. Or works within a larger programme or multi country programme on a particular component. These can be funded by British Council or by another client or funding mechanism.
Main opportunities and challenges for this role:
- Develop and maintain close partnership with relevant stakeholders schools, colleges, institutions and other organisations to expand the programme reach
- Provide strategic inputs on programme delivery and impact to ensure they meet the British Council objectives
Main accountabilities but not limited to the following:
Relationship & Stakeholder management
- Has relationships with delivery partners and stakeholders within country and is able to procure services and contract delivery partners.
- Holds suppliers to account for delivering against contract.
- Build strong internal relationships and networks
Commercial and Financial Management
- Ensure sound financial planning, working closely with finance teams to ensure British Council and client financial year plans are up to date.
- Ensure accurate and timely monthly (re)forecasting is in place, by running regular reports in the SAP system on actuals, monitoring outstanding purchase orders, reviewing commitments, analysing and commenting on reasons for variances to plan and recommending corrective actions.
- Monitoring monthly finances, including correct expenditure, ensuring the P2P process is being followed and correcting any mis-postings or journals needed.
- Lead on British Council, partner or client reporting (including, with Finance Manager, financial reporting) and ensure reports are delivered on time, to budget and to a high standard.
- Compliance to BC financial policies and procedures.
Project Management
- Contributes to development of, owns and delivers on Project Management Plan
- Identifies risks in a project or programme and puts together mitigation strategies with SRO
- Responsible for internal and client, procurement, contracting, compliance and reporting
- Checks on and reports on compliance
- Manages procurement on a project/programme
- Responsible for data management including timely data entry, quality assurance of data, undertaking basic analysis of monitoring data, and developing progress reports to meet funding needs
- Undertaking programme-specific data collection as needed. This includes working with colleagues to identify indicators and tools for data collection, quality assuring all data, and undertaking basic analysis.
Business Development
- Supports the identification and development of professional networks, relationships and partnerships to increase the British Council’s impact and reputation.
- Ensures high quality and accurate pipeline data for country/pillar.
- Conducts specific pipeline and partner/competitor analysis to contribute to business development planning and prioritisation.
- Provides support with development of new business proposals, ensuring that internal and external professional standards are met.
Role specific knowledge and experience:
- Experience of managing projects from start to finish and familiarity with project life cycles.
- Understanding of procurement, evaluation and reporting requirements of projects.
- Proven experience of managing project finances.
- Experience of managing stakeholders
- Project management qualification desirable.
- More than 2 years working in project or programme management.
- Experience of using technology n project delivery.
- Good understanding and experience of supporting monitoring and evaluation.
Role specific skills if any
- Stakeholder management
- Effective communication skills
- Small event production and management. Will have a track-record of having successfully planned and run events for small numbers of participants.
Further Information
Pay Band – 6
Contract Type – Indefinite
Location – Mumbai and Chennai
Requirements – Right to work in India
Closing Date – 27 January 2023, Friday 23:59 PM
Note : Provident Fund Transfer in and out from EPFO is not possible as BHC PF is managed by a private PF trust governed by Indian Income Tax Act, 1961. The staff still has the option to transfer out and in from a privately held PF trust which are not governed by EPFO.
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