Head of Schools

hace 3 semanas

Bogota, Colombia British Council A tiempo completo

Head of Schools

**Date**:25 Jan 2024

**Location**: Bogota, Americas, CO

**Company**:British Council

We support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide.
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.

**Salary**: $12'064.000 COP ordinary salary (according to Colombian law)
**Contract Type**: Indefinite
**Location**: Bogota

**Closing Date**: advert will close on
**Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 23:59 Colombia time**.

**Role Purpose**

The British Council is on a mission to elevate the quality of school education systems, making a positive impact on the youth and contributing to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 4. In doing so, we strengthen our connections to the UK. We bring our technical expertise in education system reform, programme design, and implementation to enhance the quality of teaching and learning.

In this dynamic role, you'll play a crucial part in operational management and leadership within a small sized team that increases according to implementation. Your focus will be driving the successful development, delivery, and impact of the Schools portfolio in Colombia, particularly in the realm of STEM Education and Computational Thinking. You'll be at the forefront of ensuring financial sustainability while adhering to the highest standards of programme management. Your responsibilities extend to serving corporate country and regional objectives, ensuring a valuable contribution and mutual benefit with the UK. You'll adeptly handle compliance with published programme management standards, managing financial and operational risks.

Beyond this, you'll be pivotal in identifying, pursuing, and managing partner and stakeholder relations, showcasing your ability to foster meaningful connections and building inclusive leadership within your team.

**Main accountabilities but not limited to the following**
- Provides technical input and design to Schools contracts, programmes and projects, assuring quality and impact and managing issues and risks.
- Uses digital platforms and technological advancements to improve efficiency, impact and quality of project and/or programme design and delivery.
- Incorporates specific actions to address equality, diversity and inclusion priorities in programme delivery.
- Manages country portfolio day-to-day ensuring global standards on programme and contract management are achieved.
- Direct line management where applicable, with matrix management support provided to sector programme teams in country/across the region as required.
- Leads on planning process for designated portfolio in country in accordance with global and regional sector strategies and programming.
- Contributes to regional/country business strategy.
- Strategic leadership of design, development, delivery and closure of projects and or programmes as needed.
- Develop and nurtures internal relationships across Cultural Engagement within the region, sharing best practice and approaches with other country teams developing Schools portfolios.
- Builds and maintains business critical relationships with key local clients and partners with a view to identifying new business opportunities and partnerships.
- Supports the government and institutional relationships that the UK needs to succeed in region/country.
- Uses sector expertise to provide insight and content for corporate responses to public consultations in country, representing British Council’s perspective.
- Provides up-to-date and well-informed briefings on current and emerging matters in area of expertise, conducting detailed analysis and research, contributing cutting-edge sector knowledge and content to proposals.
- Promotes the UK education sector in country/region, specifically methods, models and approaches in Basic Education.
- Works with wider country leadership to ensure British Council’s value proposition and support to the UK sector is clear, agreed and communicated.
- Supports the development and management of relationships with strategic clients and partners.
- Applies due diligence requirements to potential partners.
- Coordinates research in country/regional context such as analysis of client and partner trends and opportunities.
- Manages network of associate advisors, consultants and partners.
- Directly plans and controls specific cost variables (rather than the total budget) to meet established targets, ensuring compliance with all relevant corporate financial systems and processes.
- Using agreed financ

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