EOF Recriutment for Senior Advisor
Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified candidates for Education Outcomes Fund for Africa and the Middle East (EOF) Recriutment for Senior Advisor.
Education Outcomes Fund for Africa and the Middle East (EOF) is an initiative of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) and the Education Commission. The EOF aims to pool $1 billion to support governments to pay for results in education and youth employment over the next decade. Together with government, EOF will harness the capacity and capabilities of a range of actors that can strengthen the national education system and help deliver quality education for all.
The Ghana Out of School Children (OOSC) Funding Program will be one of the EOF’s first funding windows and will aim to support over 100,000 out of school children into mainstream education over 4- 6 years, with an ambition to launch in autumn 2019. Despite impressive progress in expanding access to Basic Education, as of 2014, 450,000 6 to 14 year-olds in Ghana were not enrolled in school, with out-ofschool rates particularly high in deprived, rural areas of northern Ghana.
Job Description
- Company: EOF Ghana
- Location: Ghana
- State: Accra
- Job type: Full-Time
Core functions
The Senior Advisor will support the Funding Program design process in the following ways:
Stakeholder management
Work in close collaboration with the relevant teams at the EOF, Ministry of Education and GES to progress program design, preparation & launch.
• Act as the key link between the London-based EOF team and partners in-country, including
senior representatives of:
o Ministry of Education and GES
o Service providers interested in bidding to deliver outcomes
o Civil society interest groups
o Donor agencies and local investors
o EOF Ghana Advisory Committee
• Lead provider engagement, including:
o Engaging existing and potential providers in the market, in order to (i) familiarise
potential providers with the proposed program and procurement process and (ii)
establish their capacity and willingness to deliver to an outcomes-funded contract
o Organising provider engagement workshops and one-to-one sessions as required
o Brokering partnerships between outcomes-based investors and delivery partners where
appropriate
• Act as an ambassador for the project with local communities, district education services, the
academic establishment, civil society actors and other external stakeholders as required –including coordinating external communications and PR in-country with the Ministry of
Education
Support with Outcomes Funding Program Design
Work with key stakeholders in-country to support the EOF / GoG team to design the OOSC Outcomes Funding Program.
• Liaise with service providers and Government to obtain data required to inform selection of
target population, choice of outcomes for payments and price of outcomes
• Support the evaluation advisors to:
o Assess current provider-level and national data, and determine the need for additional data verification, collection, management and/or monitoring systems o Develop clear performance and outcome measurement approaches for the interventions
•Support the capacity building of government and service providers around outcomes based contracting design, procurement and contract management processes
• Support the provider selection process, including:
o Liaise with government on the planning and execution of the procurement process
o Develop a market outreach approach and engage providers
o Support with collation & review of EOI responses
• Support due diligence and capacity building for potential service providers
• Support definition of required programme participation criteria for providers, including:
o Policies around safeguarding, bribery and corruption
o Ethics & behaviour
o Financial strength & management capability
• Undertake an operational, intervention, evaluation and political risk assessment for the programme
• Coordinate support from external, in-house and local legal counsel to identify key requirements and limitations for fiduciary entities / funding and legal structures required
Project management
• The Senior Advisor will report to the EOF Program Director and a Ministry of Education Senior
Planning Officer, and will be required to proactively, regularly and fully inform EOF, Social
Finance and their partners of progress, issues and potential problems
Duration/Start date
• A 6-month contract with potential to extend. Mar – Oct 2019 (subject to a one-month
probationary period)
• Immediate start preferred
The successful candidate will be offered a competitive package, commensurate with experience,
including reasonable travel expenses within Ghana.
Requirements/Experience
• At least 8 years of relevant professional experience, including high-level stakeholder management, strategic and operational program design, and program procurement
• Highly analytical with good project management, communication (external and internal) and stakeholder management skills
• Prior experience of working within the education sector in Ghana
• Demonstrated ability to engage with senior government, NGO and private sector stakeholders in Ghana
• Excellent knowledge of, and preferably relationships with, key stakeholders within the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Finance and GES
• Previous experience of working with international organisations and donor agencies
• Bachelor’s degree required. Masters degree preferred.
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Excellent computer skills in Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and Internet use, including database use, is required
How to Apply
Interested candidates are requested to send an up to date CV and covering letter to: ghanaeof@gmail.com
Closing Date: 20 February, 2019
Note: Successful applicants will be invited to attend an interview in Accra on Tuesday 26th or Wednesday 27th February 2019 and should endeavour to be available on these dates. Candidates for this position must be Ghanaian residents. Applications from non-Ghanaian residents will not be considered.
