Field Manager

Job Description

Position: Field Manager
Location: Ho Chi Minh and other project sites
Employment: Full time

Organization Profile

Room to Read (RtR) is a global organization transforming the lives of millions of children in low-income countries by focusing on literacy and gender equality in education. Founded in 2000 on the belief that World Change Starts with Educated Children®, our innovative model focuses on deep, systemic transformation within schools in low-income countries during two time periods that are most critical in a child’s schooling: early primary school for literacy acquisition and secondary school for girls’ education. We work in collaboration with local communities, partner organizations and governments to develop literacy skills and a habit of reading among primary school children and ensure girls can complete secondary school with the skills necessary to negotiate key life decisions.

By focusing on the quality of education provided within the communities and ensuring these outcomes are measured, we have created a model that can be replicated, localized and sustained by governments. Room to Read has benefited 16.6 million children across over 30,000 communities in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Grenada, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Laos, Nepal, Rwanda, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Vietnam and Zambia.

Position Overview

The Field Manager (“FM”) is responsible for Room to Read Vietnam’s operations in the project areas assigned to her/him. The FM is primarily responsible for ensuring the timely and effective implementation of programs in the field, including program delivery, spending, local procurement, distribution and logistical support. The position is required to take initiative for project management, improving work approaches, partnerships, selection of projects sites, and ensuring adequate staff to work at the field level. S/he will work to strengthen coordination and collaboration within teams and across all other teams in the Vietnam Country Office, maintaining and ensuring constructive communication, building team morale within individual teams and contributing to a positive working environment. S/he will report to the Program Operations Director and will have various positions reporting to her/him. The Field Manager directly manages Program Officers of both Girls Education Program (GEP) and Literacy Program (LP).

Duties and Responsibilities

Management and Coordination

  • Ensures efficient and effective coordination across all elements of the Girls’ Education Program and Literacy Program in her/his areas.
  • Supervises and oversees the operations of field offices in Tra On and Tra Cu, work of the field staff and is responsible for optimizing their productivity through effective management and leadership (i.e., coaching/advising).
  • Ensures staff are consistently complying and adhering to policies, procedures and guidelines articulated in the employee handbooks, and facilitates the dissemination of information to all staff members to promote transparency.
  • Supports staff through consultation with Country Office (CO)-level technical team to regularly assess staff capacity building needs.
  • Ensures the performance management process is well-planned and conducted in a timely for all direct-report staff. This includes setting performance goals, conducting progress check-ins, providing feedback, conducting year-end appraisals, and making recommendations for staff development and career advancement.
  • Collaborates with People’s Operations Department to handle recruitment and training of staff according to needs.
  • Leads and facilitates field staff in monthly meetings to review progress against plans, find solutions to problems, share lessons learned, exchange expertise across programs, and to motivate and encourage teamwork.
  • Ensures that field staffs are aware of and understand the programs’ goals and objectives, working approaches and methodology, and have all necessary information related to annual plans, targets, and implementation calendars.
  • Supervises fund disbursement, reviews and approves the field monthly financial expenses in accordance with financial and purchasing policy and procedures.
  • Perform other tasks as assigned by the Program Operations Director or Country Director.

Program Implementation and Monitoring

  • Leads, coordinates and reports the implementation and achievement of the CO's program targets in the region, while ensuring high impact for children, quality and cost-effectiveness in accordance with the strategy, policies and guidelines of RtR.
  • Conducts regular field visits to monitor and verify the programs’ progress and impact, understand the challenges and needs of stakeholders (e.g., RtR staff, Social Mobilizers, Field Facilitators, communities, children, etc...), and the appropriate RtR solutions.
  • Oversees the implementation of the Family & Community Engagement (“F&CE”) strategy, including coordinating site selection activities, ensuring schools are advancing along the F&CE strategy continuum, as appropriate, and supervising the regular support provided to schools by field staff.

Planning, Reporting and Documentation

  • Facilitate the development of annual and long-term plans and budgets for programs in charge appropriately to meet the goals and objectives of the RtR Country Office.
  • Coordinates the timely completion of annual planning.
  • Prepares monthly and quarterly implementation and budget forecasting.
  • Develops quarterly report and other reports for distributing to partners and donors.

External Coordination and Networking

  • Attends to donor affairs including hosting donor and project site visits in collaboration with programs staff.
  • Meets regularly with local government representatives, NGO partners, school administrators and parent groups.
  • Promotes and protects the reputation of Room to Read in external settings, ensuring that the organization’s experience and expertise is well communicated and consistently presented, and that we are looked upon as a professional Education organization.
  • Liaises with NGO Partners and Government Agencies, especially at provincial and district levels. This includes periodic meetings with partners to exchange information and updating programs’ work progresses.

Qualifications

Required:

  • Master’s Degree in Education, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Project Management, or equivalent experience
  • Minimum of 07 years’ related work experience, with at least 03 years in leadership and management roles
  • Strong planning, budgeting/financial management, administrative, supervisory, coaching and program development skills
  • Good knowledge and understanding of education issues, including teaching methodologies and community involvement in schools;
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Ability to travel to designated project sites
  • Computer literate (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Workshop/training and facilitation skills
  • Prior success working closely and building relationships with diverse groups of people
  • Proven track record of achieving results
  • Good command in English language, all skills are required;

Preferred:

  • Prior experience working with schools, teachers, administrators and government officials
  • Prior experience in a fast-paced, growth-oriented global or regional organization
  • Prior experience in leading and managing organizational changes;

To be successful as a member of the Room to Read team, you will also:

  • Have passion for our mission and a strong desire to impact a dynamic nonprofit organization
  • Be an innovative and creative thinker that tries new things and inspires others to do so
  • Have a very high level of personal and professional integrity and trustworthiness
  • Have a strong work ethic and require minimal direction
  • Work well independently as well as part of a team
  • Thrive in a fast-paced and fun environment

Expected starting date: As soon as possible.

Application Procedure:

Please send your Curriculum Vitae (in English) to HR Department at [email protected]

Due to the high volume of applicant response, not all applicants may receive a response from Room To Read. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Room To Read is an equal opportunity employer committed to identifying and developing the skills and leadership of people from diverse backgrounds.

Job Details
Organisation Name: 
Room to Read
Location: 
Ho Chi Minh and other project sites
Application Deadline: 
Sun, 2019-03-31