Job Purpose 

The Project Coordinator is envisioned as a primary support to the Project Lead and to help ensure the quality of project deliverables at the community level.  They will play a vital role in ensuring that our advocacy efforts are strategic, and evidence-based, and effectively contribute to progress in the milestones of the project.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy development & implementation

• Maintain an in-depth understanding of education legal and policy reform initiatives at the Community levels.
• In close collaboration with the project leads, the Head of Advocacy, and the Education technical specialist, develop and implement county advocacy strategies for the project.
•  Responsible for the delivery of an annual implementation work plan.
• Develop and implement relevant context-specific strategies for effective child participation within the advocacy activities in collaboration with the field office teams and relevant staff at the country office.
• Support project leads in identifying policy and practice change, which would improve education outcomes.

Building Partnerships 

• Identify local networks and coalitions and develop sustained partnerships/ alliances that are critical in the dissemination and/or application of research findings and/or learning to influence the policy and practice landscape about education issues.
• Representing Compass Action at strategic forums, networking with strategic CSOs, and other social movement processes that are relevant to our policy work including education.  It also includes identifying and helping to identify and nurture education ‘champions’ to support our agenda.
• Support area offices to build partnerships with communities and program beneficiaries in establishing accountability mechanisms, capacity building, and knowledge management.
• Support the capacity building of program and field staff and key partners on advocacy through training, sharing best practices, and supporting learning and knowledge management.
• Work collaboratively with external partners and stakeholders including government to align implementation efforts with broader project advocacy objectives.

Programme Management 

• Participate in Compass Action program meetings and related sessions to draw out research-based advocacy messages in programs.
• Keep abreast of current research, national and donor policies, and debates relevant to the project.
• In collaboration with program managers, monitor and evaluate project activities within budgets, ensuring that indicators and methods are in place to allow evaluation of the achievements and develop regular progress reports.
• Partnership and Stakeholder Engagement

Qualifications & Experience

• At least 2 years’ experience in project coordination work, as well as contributing to the development and implementation of advocacy strategies.
• Excellent understanding of budget cycle and moments.
• Written communication skills, including the ability to translate complex arguments into accessible English for a non-specialist audience, and the ability to write articles that would be published in the mainstream press.
• Experience of effective teamwork and outstanding interpersonal communication skills
• Experience in coalition building and working with civil society actors to deliver change