Program Manager Ii, Education

**Job Title**:Program Manager II, Education - Egypt

**Reports to**:Head of Programming

**Department**:Programming

**Salary Grade**:10

**About CRS**:
Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to _save, protect, and transform _lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.

**Background**:
The CRS Egypt country program began in 1956 at the invitation of the Egyptian president Nasser by providing relief assistance to the victims of the Suez War. Over the following few decades, CRS Egypt moved from large-scale food relief to long-term poverty alleviation and development programs. CRS Egypt works in a wide variety of areas within the development field.

Currently, CRS Egypt has three main programs: education assistance program and livelihoods program for refugee support, and local partnership. Projects under these programs range from the provision of technical assistance and capacity building to partners, promoting peace and tolerance, educational grants for refugees and assistance to refugee community schools, and technical support and start-up funds for refugee and vulnerable Egyptian entrepreneurs. Additional programming includes Emergency Preparedness and Response projects that arise as needed. The Operations department, supported by a regional Management Quality unit, ensures the country program develops and maintains the highest level of operational standards.

CRS Egypt currently holds a both a main office and a refugee support office in Maadi with activities in Greater Cairo, Upper Egypt and the North Coast.

**Job Summary**:
You will manage and provide technical oversight of the development and implementation of the Country Program (CP) education programming, particularly for large and complex projects, ensuring effective systems and processes are in place that support high-quality programming advancing Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) work in serving the poor and vulnerable. Your management skills and knowledge will ensure that the CP delivers high-quality programming and continuously works towards improving the impact of its education programming.

Under the supervision and guidance of the Head of Programming (HoP), you will be responsible for the planning, implementation, and monitoring of CRS Egypt’s education portfolio. You will provide technical support to project staff and partners, ensure timely and accurate reporting to the HoP and donors, and represent the project in a variety of contexts at the governmental and nongovernmental levels. You will also provide support to growth opportunities within sector, including new business and partnering opportunities. This will include identifying potential partners, donor scoping/mapping, intel gathering, and leading proposal development.

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide management, guidance, and technical oversight of all new and existing projects within the CP education program throughout the project cycle to ensure project design, start-up, implementation and close-out are in line with CRS quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices. Ensure project team and partner staff use the appropriate systems and tools, including for both technical and financial management.
- Effectively manage and supervise talent. Manage team dynamics and staff well-being. Provide coaching, strategically tailor individual development plans, contribute to the recruitment process of project staff, and complete performance management for direct reports.
- Lead the development of program learning - identify opportunities for learning, research and publications in the area of education and implementation of MEAL policy. Facilitate the dissemination of promising practices and lessons learned to contribute to the agency knowledge management agenda. Ensure integration of innovations and best practices.
- Share project learning and experiences in broader discussions, with donors, with relevant stakeholders, and with beneficiaries, as relevant, through the production of high-quality communication documents.
- Contribute to the proactive pursuit of opportunities for new funding to ensure growth of the CP education sector portfolio in line with agency, regional, and CP strategic priorities. Serve as the technical lead and technical writer to ensure quality proposals in education per agency and donor standards. Contribute to budgeting and staffing plans and activities for proposals.
- Lead reporting efforts for projects under the portfolio, ensuring products are of high quality and utilize CRS tools and best practices.
- Manage identification, assessment, and integration of education concepts, tools, and activities in other program sectors and project activi