🇸🇱 Job Vacancies @ Mott MacDonald – 21 Positions

• At least 5 years’ experience of working to support capacity development and systems strengthening for DEOs.
• Continuous engagement with school level structures to promote safe and effective learning environments.
• Maintaining good relationship with DEOs, education and social welfare sectors, and schools.
• Monitoring and mentoring.
• Working with data collection.

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• Lead the technical delivery of the programme in the districts.
• Provide support and capacity development to enhance system strengthening to improve the performance of District Education Offices (DEOs).
• Engage school level structures to promote safe and effective learning environments.
• Support DEOs to integrate girls and disability into their core functions of improving safe and effective learning.
• Support DEOs and principals to continue generating meaningful data through Tangerine to be analysed and utilised for decision-making
• Be the focal point of the programme in the district and be flexible to undertake additional or alternative activities as required.
• The specification and requirement for services may shift in response to changes in the scope and needs of the wider programme.
• Other duties as may be assigned from time to time by the Team Leader.

• Independent and proactive.
• Keenness to bring about positive change.
• Collaborative and respectful of others.
• Problem solving and troubleshooting
• Willingness to travel regularly to remote schools.

• Degree in education or similar, a postgraduate degree is desired.

• English (professional proficiency)

• Provide support to the Finance Manager to produce forecasts and budgets based on the estimates on the Rolling Work Plan (RWP). This includes collating activity costing and providing support for preparation of the working estimates.
• Facilitate funds transfers to between local and foreign currency accounts of MMSL.
• Support in making timely monthly site returns to the UK team.
• Ensure financial records are available for regular checking and are up to date to meet deadline for submission to the UK head office.
• Prepare and post and payment transactions, including bank and petty cash payments.
• Reconcile bank statements and submit the reconciliations to the Finance Manager
• Follow-up on all advances, ensure that all advances are timely and appropriately settled.
• Assist with the compilation of Vendors’ payments and collation of vouchers for batch processing within the financial system.
• Prepare payment vouchers, cheques, e-banking payment and ensure timely settlement of all undisputed invoices that relates to MMSL operations.
• Checking and ensuring that all payment vouchers relating to field operations meet the minimum audit requirement by checking for approvals and necessary supporting documentations.
• To assist the Finance manager in the preparation and the subsequent activities, as required, for external, e.g., client, and internal audits.
• Register invoices into Lawson AP
• Upload payments into e-banking platform.
• Prepare monthly payroll for review approvals.

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• Excellent numerate and accountancy skills
• Good IT skills
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to think ahead and produce accurate information
• Willingness to be flexible and respond in a timely manner to support colleagues in the Freetown office

• Independent and proactive.
• Keenness to bring about positive change.
• Collaborative and respectful of others.
• Problem solving and troubleshooting
• Willingness and commitment to self-professional development

• Preferably educated to degree standard or equivalent in Accounting/ Finance discipline
• Significant relevant work experience
• Ability to work as a member of a team.

• English (professional proficiency)

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• Very advanced understanding of Gender Based Violence and Gender Gaps in Sierra Leone
• Exceptional understanding of girl-centered programme design
• Excellent ground knowledge of current systemic gaps in Sierra Leone education for girls, sexual health provision for girls, and sexual violence response to girls
• Experience of planning, designing, and running a workstream independently, ideally within a development programme context
• Sensitivity to working in a complex cultural and resource-constrained environment, whilst upholding the highest standards of business ethics and personal conduct in line with the company’s values, directives, and procedures
• Fluent use of core computer skills, including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Ability to create and maintain full programme budgets, down to monthly cash flow level
• Ability to create synthesised reports, both formal written documents in Word and PowerPoint presentations with exhibits
• Ability to create and maintain detailed work plans, down to hourly logistics as needed (e.g., training workshops, team travel to districts)
• Ability to frame strategy for overall initiative design, and follow through to execution
• Strong communication skills to communicate clearly and succinctly both in written form (e.g., email updates) and verbally (e.g., presenting in stakeholder meetings, remote phone management of learning coaches and updates with district education offices)
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team to coordinate across the wider programme and with other development partners, building collaborative relationships and coaching team members as needed
• Experience of working within or alongside Government officials at national and local levels
• Ability to prioritise and work under pressure
• Good organisational skills, project planning and management
• Autonomous professional practitioner with the ability to exercise judgement

• Continuous improvement
• Independent and proactive
• Willingness to bring about positive change
• Collaborative and respectful

• Willingness to travel regularly to the provinces

• Higher (postgraduate) degree in a relevant area desirable
• At least 7 years’ practical experience overseeing delivery of front-line programmes (ideally but not necessarily education)
• Experience managing consultants and leading a small team of education professionals
• Some education specific experience, either as a teacher, through relevant degree studies, or through work with NGO or government run programmes

• English (professional proficiency)

• Support the Operations Manager to deliver the programme’s operations, office management, procurement, and fleet.
• Work with the Operations and technical team to ensure timely procurement and delivery of good and services to support programme delivery.
• Manage assets, including maintaining an updated asset register.
• Support the Operations Manager to administer contracts to ensure compliance with the contract conditions, payment terms, variations, and claims.
• Implement the delivery of the fleet management system.
• Support the Operation Manager to operationalise the Mott MacDonald Business Management Systems (BMS) procedures, including health, safety and security as required by Cambridge Education/Mott MacDonald.
• Promote healthy work ethics, good governance, and anti-corruption behaviour.
• Other duties as may be assigned from time to time by the Programme Manager and the Operations Manager.
• These deliverables are flexible to respond to changes in the scope and needs of the wider programme.

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• Experience of setting up and maintaining operations and logistical procedures and processes
• Experience of procurement, contract management and, ideally within a development programme context.
• Proven management experience leading small to medium sized teams
• Ability to liaise efficiently with individuals and organisations to arrange and carry out programme administration functions.
• Experience in implementing health safety procedures
• Experience in operating within environments with diverse cultures and practises
• Ability to use computer systems and standard office software reliably, including organising and setting up systems for maintaining office electronic records
• Willingness to learn and adopt Cambridge Education/Mott MacDonald norms, procedures, and systems
• Proven experience in programme operations and administration in Sierra Leone and/or the region
• Knowledge of the Sierra Leone immigration Service as well as previous experience in visa facilitation
• Basic security awareness would be an advantage

• Independent and proactive.
• Keenness to bring about positive change.
• Collaborative and respectful of others.
• Problem solving and troubleshooting
• Willingness and commitment to self-professional development

• Degree (ideally a post-graduate) in public administration, accounting, project management or other related area

• English (professional proficiency)

• Provide oversight of the programme’s technical delivery in the districts.
• Provide support and capacity development to District Programme Offices (DPOs) to enhance system strengthening and improve the performance of District Education Officers (DEOs).
• Support DPOs to engage school level structures to promote safe and effective learning environments.
• Support DPOs and DEOs to integrate girls and disability into their core functions of improving safe and effective learning.
• Support DPOs and DEOs and principals to continue generating meaningful data through Tangerine to be analysed and utilised for decision-making
• Be the focal point of the programme in the regions and be flexible to undertake additional or alternative activities as required.
• The specification and requirement for services may shift in response to changes in the scope and needs of the wider programme.
• Other duties as may be assigned from time to time by the Team Leader/Deputy Team Leader.

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• At least 7 years’ experience of working with key education stakeholders and partners in implementing and coordinating programme activities and district and regional levels.
• Capacity to oversee development and systems strengthening for DEOs.
• Experience in engaging school level structures to promote safe and effective learning environments.
• Maintaining good relationship with DEOs, education and social welfare sectors, and schools.
• Oversight, monitoring and mentoring.

• Working with data collection, analysis, and use.

• Independent and proactive.
• Keenness to bring about positive change.
• Collaborative and respectful of others.
• Problem solving and troubleshooting
• Willingness to travel regularly to remote schools.

• Relevant university degree in education or similar, a postgraduate degree is desired.

• English (professional proficiency)

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• Deep experience and knowledge of the context, challenges, and opportunities in Sierra Leonean classrooms
• Experience of implementing at-scale school leadership, teacher training and coaching models
• Experience of developing high quality teaching and learning materials – personally and through the management of colleagues and consultants
• Existing relationships with key institutions (TSC/MBSSE) and partners in relation to teaching and learning
• Ability to successfully navigate complex political dynamics to make progress
• Experience of bringing cross-cutting issues such as gender and disability inclusion into teaching and learning improvement approaches
• Experience of working with wider issues affecting teacher performance including absence, motivation, pre-service training, deployment, and career progression.
• Ability to help design, implement and use data from teaching observation and monitoring systems
• Team player
• Excellent writing and data analysis skills
• Experience of bringing cross-cutting issues such as gender and disability inclusion into teaching and learning improvement approaches.
• Ability to use data to inform and adapt interventions.

• Continuous improvement
• Independent and proactive
• Willingness to bring about positive change
• Collaborative and respectful

• Willingness to travel regularly to the provinces

• Degree in education or similar, a postgraduate degree is desired.
• At least 7 years’ experience of working to improve teaching and learning in Sierra Leone in project, governments, or related institutions
• Preferably some experience of classroom teaching in Sierra Leone

• English (professional proficiency)