Concern Worldwide
Job title:
Schools Programme Manager
Company
Concern Worldwide
Job description
C3 2021
Our vision, our mission and our work are all defined by one goal – ending extreme poverty, whatever it takes. We believe that no-one should have to live in fear that they won’t have a home to sleep in or enough food to feed their children. For over 50 years we have been working with the world’s poorest people towards this goal.
Today we are a team of over 4,400 highly skilled and dedicated professionals from 50 countries who share an exceptional depth and diversity of experience. We want committed, values driven staff to join our Dublin team and are currently looking for a Schools Programme Manager to be part of our Global Citizenship (GC) Team.
We are committed to providing our staff with the skills needed to excel in their jobs. Concern offers in-house management and leadership courses and tailored organisation-wide learning opportunities both in-person and online. All employees are required to undertake training in equality, diversity and inclusion; the Code of Conduct; and safeguarding, along with any other training required for the role.
Our culture is values driven and friendly. A global engagement survey conducted in 2022, responded to by 3,577 of our staff, showed that 89% of our staff would happily recommend Concern as a great place to work and 94% are proud to tell people that they work for Concern.
Our office is located in Dublin 2 and we are currently working a hybrid model (50% remote working) and offer flexi time.
The job: As a vibrant leader in the Global Citizenship (GC) Team, you will be responsible for rolling out Concern’s Global Citizenship programme through the formal education sector at both primary and secondary level.
Reporting to the Head of Global Citizenship, you will be responsible for the implementation of the Global Citizenship Education (GCE) programme, which includes a diverse range of projects including the flagship debates programme at primary and secondary level, school workshops, TY Academy (our work experience programme). The Schools Programme Manager will work with the school’s team to ensure the programme is following best Global Citizenship Education practice and guidelines.
If you join us, this is what you will be doing:
Leadership
- Lead a team of six schools programme officers who deliver the schools GCE programme and debates volunteer programme across the island of Ireland;
- Work closely with the Head of Political Engagement and Campaigns to ensure complementarity to deliver the GC programme;
- Guide the team to ensure quality education delivery in line with good practices in both GCE and working with children and young people under the age of 18.
- Keep up to date with trends and research in global GCE practice to bring innovation to the school’s programme and encourage this in the team.
- Problem solve quickly and efficiently and respond to challenges which volunteers and participants are facing.
- Be confident in your understanding of GCE and strengthen the capability of your team in this area
Facilitation, public engagement and networking
- Represent Concern at events and participate in networks and working groups in the wider GCE sector relating to the formal education sector.
- Manage relationships with stakeholders in the formal education sector and collaborate on events, projects and initiatives in consultation with the Head of Global Citizenship.
- Support your team in resource development, event, and workshop planning/delivery.
- Deliver trainings and talks on the work of Concern’s schools programme both internally and with external groups.
- Collaborate with the wider Global Citizenship team on joint projects and initiatives;
- Work with teams across Concern to connect young people in Ireland with programme participants in programme countries and partners with whom Concern works.
Planning and reporting
- Plan the activities of the school’s programme on an annual basis based on the needs of schools, teachers and the GC strategic plan ensuring staff capacity and quality outputs.
- Be responsible for organising and collecting monitoring and evaluation data for the school’s programme.
- Use data and feedback from participants to adapt the programme to meet the needs of schools and young people.
Teamwork, compliance, and values
- Ensure compliance with key policies and guidelines such as GDPR, Dóchas Code on Images and Messages and the IDEA Code of Good Conduct for GCE
- Lead the team in ensuring child safeguarding is a priority, ensuring that all of the school’s programme (and any other GC activities) complies with Child Safeguarding laws and policies
- Ensure adherence to the programme budget guided by the Head of Global Citizenship
- Maintain the Schools Programme database, ensuring accurate and up to date records of programme participants.
- Lead the garda vetting process for volunteer adjudicators.
- Work closely with the Political Engagement and campaigns manager to develop cross team initiatives in line with the strategic plan.
- Support wider GC team at events, workshops, debates and in other activities that come up in due course.
Skills you will bring:
- A Third level qualification in Primary or Secondary teaching
- A qualification or experience in Global Citizenship Education or an area related to international development.
- At least three years’ of experience of working in the formal education sector
- Experience in delivering/facilitating GCE workshops for children, young people, and teachers/youth workers.
- Experience in delivering CPD and trainings to teachers linked to a national curriculum.
- Experience managing and developing an education programme.
- Excellent communication skills (written, verbal and presentation)
- You are available to work some unsocial hours and travel to all parts of the country to support programme delivery.
- You have a full, clean driver’s license.
- Active commitment to demonstrating leadership on workplace equality, diversity and inclusion and role modelling a positive safeguarding ethos.
- Experience working as an effective, supportive and productive member of a team.
You will report to the Head of Global Citizenship and work with your colleagues in the Strategy, Advocacy and Learning Directorate, as well as other directorates including International Programmes Directorate; Communications Directorate;
Fundraising and Development Directorate; as well as colleagues across Concern.
The salary is from €54,500 – €59,172 salary range (band 5) and this is a permanent contract with a six month probation period.
We encourage all eligible candidates, irrespective of gender, ethnicity and origin, disability, political beliefs, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status to apply to become a part of the organisation. Concern is against all forms of discrimination and unequal power relations, and is committed to promoting equality.
If this role sounds right for you, please apply with your CV and cover letter. We will respond to every applicant. Please be aware we may offer positions before the closing date.
If you have any concerns about our recruitment process and need particular assistance – for example if you have a visual impairment or are neuro-divergent – please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate you.
Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy accessible . These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies. Additionally, Concern is committed to the safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults and children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work or volunteer with vulnerable adults and children are recruited by us for such roles. Subsequently, working or volunteering with Concern is subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal background checking.
Your Personal Data
During this job application, you will provide Concern with your personal data. Concern takes its responsibilities towards this personal data very seriously and is committed to complying with all relevant data protection legislation.
Concern receives a substantial amount of funding from external donors each year. Increasingly donors are introducing requirements whereby future funding is conditional on ensuring that the name of any employee or volunteer (existing or new), does not appear on terrorism lists generated by the European Union (List of person, groups and entities to which Regulation (EC No. 2580/2001 applies), the US Government (Office of Foreign Assets Control list of specially designated Nationals and Blocked Persons) and the United Nations (Consolidated List).
Any offer of employment (either paid or voluntary) with Concern Worldwide will only be made following a successful clearance check being conducted on the applicant and such checks may be updated periodically during the course of the period of employment.
By submitting a formal application for paid or voluntary employment to Concern, you agree to Concern carrying out a clearance check as outlined above and that Concern will not proceed to recruit you should your name appear on any of the aforementioned lists
In certain circumstances, donors may request that personal data relating to employees to work on the activities that they fund be provided directly to them – so that they can perform their own counter terrorism checks. This may involve transferring some basic personal data outside the EEA. It will be a condition of your employment contract that Concern be allowed to share this information with institutional donors for these purposes.
For additional information please consult our web site or contact the Human Resource Division in our Head Office.
You have certain rights under data protection legislation. For more information on how to exercise those rights please visit
Please only apply for this position if you are satisfied with the proposed processing of your personal data as outlined above.
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Expected salary
€54500 – 59172 per year
Location
Dublin
Job date
Sat, 02 Mar 2024 00:26:06 GMT
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