Regional School Exams Project Officer

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We work directly with individuals to help them gain the skills, confidence and connections to transform their lives and shape a better world in partnership with the UK. We support them to build networks and explore creative ideas, to learn English, to get a high-quality education and to gain internationally recognised qualifications.

Working with people in over 200 countries and territories, we are on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2021–22 we reached 650 million people.

Role Purpose

Supporting the MENA and South Asia (SA) School Exams teams in the implementation of the MENA/SA School Exams Strategy through supporting delivery of projects and initiatives in compliance with the British Council policies and procedures including financial administration, data collection and reporting as well as projects’ operational delivery and managing relations with delivery partners.

Main Accountabilities

Project Management

• Support Projects Managers with standardising the project management process including creating templates/processes and teaching people how to use them
• Support Projects Managers with the implementation including choosing the right methodology for their project, help them to build business cases where needed and provide accurate and reliable information to allow stakeholders to make the best possible decisions
• Support Project Managers to provide a consolidated view of happening projects through developing tools to support clear information around budgets, forecasts, actuals, and margins across the whole portfolio of projects, consolidating all information and documents correctly and providing timely, accurate insights and real-time data to support project reporting.
• Responsible for data management including timely data entry, quality assurance of data, undertaking basic analysis of monitoring data, and developing progress reports to meet stakeholders’ needs
• Support internal compliance such as due diligence, records management, data collection and storage
  

Market and Customer Intelligence

• Develop good understanding of the market needs in the region
• Support in conducting basic market research and competitors analysis to support insights into market potential and analysis of potential business opportunities
• Ensure product/sector knowledge is up to date and forward thinking
  

Relationship and stakeholder management

• Manage relationships with clients/partners/internal and stakeholders at appropriate level
• Manage relationship with vendors and suppliers and hold them to account for delivering services
  

Commercial and Financial Management

• Support with the development of systems/tools to support regular financial analysis and reporting as needed
• Support with the development of systems/tools to collate performance data to monitor progress, ensure consistency and adherence, identify trends and develop support and improvement plans when needed
• Maintain clear and up-to-date records on all financial transactions as per audit requirements
• Liaise with stakeholders to ensure the expectations of partnership agreements are understood and signed off by all involved parties
• Undertake contracts review and refresh
• Ensure relationships with vendors are maintained and payments are processed on time and in accordance with FABS on-line system (SAP Finance) guidelines
• Ensure compliance to British Council financial policies and procedures