Summary
Date Posted: Friday, October 25 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job Title: Inclusive Education Consultant
Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Contract: Permanent

Please note: You must have a pre-existing right to work in Tanzania required for this role.

Are you passionate about improving educational experiences and learning opportunities for quality education of all children? Do you want an exciting job in education policy, research and implementation that allows you to develop your own career pathway with guidance and support? Do you have strong analytical and research skills, the drive to win and manage new projects, and the ability to engage with stakeholders and communicate findings effectively?
Oxford Policy Management (OPM) is seeking a dynamic, talented and highly motivated technical specialist to join its Inclusive Education hub as a consultant. This is a permanent role, located in Tanzania, working out of OPM’s Dar es Salam office. This role will involve occasional international travel (as required) by project.

Who we are:
We are an international development consultancy working to improve lives through sustainable policy change in low- and middle-income countries. Our vision is for fair public policy that benefits both people and the planet.
Through our global network of offices, we work in partnership with national stakeholders and decision makers to research, design, implement and evaluate impactful public policy. We draw on our local and international sector experts to provide the very best evidence-based support. We deliver projects with expert knowledge and experience and can be relied upon for excellence in all aspects of project delivery. We work collaboratively, with ambition, to help deliver impactful public policy that will bring about lasting change.

OPM’s Inclusive Education hub is one of the five hubs operating under the global Education Practice. It aims to support policy makers and stakeholders in strengthening education systems and learning environments to allow fair, sustainable and equal opportunities for quality education of all children, and especially 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.

This role will focus on the management and technical delivery of consultancy projects in the area of inclusive education, support the acquisition of new business, and facilitate delivery against strategic priorities of the Inclusive Education hub. Specific specialisms will include your involvement in several of the following areas: gender and girls’ education, disability inclusion, education in emergencies, inequalities and marginalisation, child safety and violence in schools, and climate education. The successful candidate will report to the Inclusive Education hub Lead.
We are looking for someone who is proactive, self-driven and eager to contribute to (and, in some cases, lead on) the technical delivery of education consultancy projects, including project management, acquisition and sharing technical learning across various types of projects in the area of inclusive education. A key aspect of your success will be your strong grounding in research methods (quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods), and your knowledge and expertise working on education policy in Tanzania, and the wider East African region. Establishing and managing relationships with multiple clients and building work with new clients will be an important part of this role.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities (not exhaustive):
Technical Contributions: Deliver high-quality project work, including designing education studies, developing data tools, analysing education data, and creating impactful reports.
Project Management: Oversee education projects to ensure they meet goals, timelines, and budgets.
Business Development: Manage tenders, identify new opportunities, and foster relationships with clients and education networks.
Strategy Development: Support the Inclusive Education Hub strategy with internal and external initiatives.
External Influencing: Represent OPM in policy discussions, presentations, roundtables, and meetings.

Skills and Experience (Essential):
Qualification: Post-graduate degree in education, development studies, statistics, economics, or similar.
Relevant Experience: At least 5 years in development consulting/research related to inclusive education.
Inclusive Education Expertise: Proven expertise in areas like disability inclusion, girls' education, and child safety.
Analytical Skills: Strong background in education data analysis and research methods; familiarity with Stata, NVivo, or SPSS.
Business Development: Experience in technical and financial proposals, with knowledge of key funders and trends in East African education. (e.g. FCDO, USAID, UN, EU, Foundations)
Communication: Excellent written and verbal skills to convey complex issues clearly.
Behavioural Skills: Motivated, detail-oriented, adaptable, and collaborative.
Language: Proficiency in English and, preferably, Swahili.
Right to Work: Must have work authorization for Tanzania before applying.

Desirable characteristics:
The following criterion would be advantageous but not essential:
• Experience in leading education projects or workstreams within projects outside of Tanzania working with diverse clients (FCDO, UN, USAID, EU);
• Experience of directly working with senior donor and government counterparts in delivering technical work
• Demonstrated project and people management experience, within a consulting environment
• Experience in managing budgets and financial management of projects

Our Offer:
If you share our vision for fair public policy that benefits both people and planet, we would love to hear from you.
• We enable colleagues’ capacity to grow professionally through enhanced learning resources, opportunities to work cross functionally, and space to engage with a range of internal and external industry events.
• Our non-hierarchical culture values support, collaboration, intellectual curiosity, and a rich diversity of perspectives.
• We provide an exceptionally generous annual leave entitlement and a hybrid working model to encourage and enable healthy work/life balance.
• Wellbeing resources including a global Employee Assistance Programme and access to the UnMind app.
• Competitive salary and contributory pension scheme.

We are strengthened by the diversity of colleagues across our global business and are committed to being an equal opportunities employer, promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace for all.

Our recruitment practices reflect our ambition to make the international development sector more inclusive and firm belief that our work delivers the best outcomes when we actively include a diversity of perspectives and experiences.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

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