The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations. We work in over 100 countries worldwide to build engagement and trust for the UK through the exchange of knowledge and ideas between people.
The British Council is looking for a suitably qualified and experienced individual to join the organization as English Language Teaching Project Officer.
Job Title: ELT Project Officer
Location: Abuja
Purpose of Job:
To support the direct and indirect delivery of a portfolio of large scale and local ELT projects, increasingly through partnership , to meet the British Council’s objectives and targets and partner expectations in Nigeria.
To support a network of internal and external service providers and partners to meet all project targets.
Context and Environment:
The post will involve supporting a large scale projects and in Nigeria under the supervision of an English Language Teaching Project Manager. The post will be based in Abuja but will involve supporting teacher training events to mainly state primary teachers in different states, many of which are located in the North of Nigeria.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
In line with EOD and other overarching corporate policies:
Scorecard: To administer our monitoring and evaluation tool called Scorecard. Collect and record all data within deadline and according to corporate standards.
Marketing and Communications: To ensure that projects are marketed to the highest standards in print (press, publications), digitally (websites, social media, TV, radio) and at events (conferences, workshops, meetings).
Project delivery: To provide support for projects and organise events to a high standard and within deadline. To make arrangements for visitors including booking travel, accommodation and preparing programmes.
Financial administration: to provide financial support to the project managers, including raising of purchase orders, getting quotes from suppliers, tracking payments and correcting mispostings.
Other administrative work: As required.
Key Relationships:
External
Ministry of Education , Universal Basic Education Commission; State Universal Education Boards, State Ministers of Education, State and Local Government Area training officers and supervisors , radio and print media houses, other private sector partners
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