Education Programmes Manager - Egypt

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British Council Pay Band 6

Department:Education

Location: Egypt Agouza or Cairo

Contract:FixedTermContract(1year)

Applyby: 17th Aug 2025 23:59 local time

Interviewwindow: 02nd Week of September

The starting salary for this role will be EGP 20833 monthly gross along with the following benefits:

• Medical Insuranca: Fully covered for the employee and up to three dependents
• Social Insurance: As per local regulations
• Annual Leave: 21 working days plus approved public holidays in the country

This role is open to applications from employees who are currently based in Egypt and have the legal right to work in the country. The successful candidate will remain in their current location/entity.

Please note: You must have the legal right to work in Egypt at the time of application as relocation or sponsorship support is not available for this position.

The British Council supports new ways of working including hybrid arrangements subject to approval by line management and our ability to maintain the required level of service. While hybrid working may not be suitable for all roles it can be discussed further during the interview.

Rolepurpose

Implementation of projects with a low level of complexity funded by British Council or by another client or funding mechanism. Leads the successful delivery of a range of projects from start to finish including managing the contract or project plan managing client or internal stakeholders successfully achieving reporting and meeting compliance standards. Or works within a larger programme or multi country programme on a particular component.

RoleContext

This role sits within the Cultural Engagement (CE) Strategic Business Unit (SBU).

CE brings together our portfolio of work in arts education English and research. Our portfolio is delivered through a set of globally led programmes that locates our work and impact within our strategic framework. These programmes deliver our key performance indicators and impact programme management roles deliver activities and projects within this global programme and strategic framework. Our programmes are funded by the British Councils grant in aid through partnerships and external clients.

The British Council has a contextualised programme and project management framework with clear standards and procedures for programme management set out by the CE Centre of framework is in line withCabinet office functional standard for project delivery FCDOOperatingFramework andthe Association for Project Management Body of Knowledge.

Main accountabilities

Relationship & Stakeholder management

• Has relationships with delivery partners and stakeholders within country and is able to procure services and contract delivery partners

• Holds suppliers to account for delivering against contract.
• Build strong internal relationships and networks

Commercial and Financial Management

• Ensure sound financial planning working closely with finance teams to ensure British Council and client financial year plans are up to date.
• Ensure accurate and timely monthly (re)forecasting is in place by running regular reports in the SAP system on actuals monitoring outstanding purchase orders reviewing commitments analysing and commenting on reasons for variances to plan and recommending corrective actions.
• Monitoring monthly finances including correct expenditure ensuring the P2P process is being followed and correcting any mis-postings or journals needed.
• Lead on British Council partner or client reporting (including with Finance Manager financial reporting) and ensure reports are delivered on time to budget and to a high standard.
• Compliance to BC financial policies and procedures.

Project Management

• Contributes to development of owns and delivers on Project Management Plan
• Identifies risks in a project or programme and puts together mitigation strategies with SRO
• Responsible for internal and client procurement contracting compliance and reporting pm
• Checks on and reports on compliance
• Manages procurement on a project/programme
• Responsible for data management including timely data entry quality assurance of data undertaking basic analysis of monitoring data and developing progress reports to meet funding needs
• Undertaking programme-specific data collection as needed. This includes working with colleagues to identify indicators and tools for data collection quality assuring all data and undertaking basic analysis.

Business Development

• Supports the identification and development of professional networks relationships and partnerships to increase the British Councils impact and reputation.
• Ensures high quality and accurate pipeline data for country/pillar.
• Conducts specific pipeline and partner/competitor analysis to contribute to business development planning and prioritisation.
• Provides support with development of new business proposals ensuring that internal and external professional standards are met.

Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)

• To actively Contribute to an inclusive and anti-racist organisational culture being aware of your own biases and taking action to mitigate against these. Ensuring people feel valued and are treated equitably with support for peoples well-being and mental health.
• Understand the British Councils approach to equality diversity and inclusion and how it applies to your role and make time for learning and development relating to EDI and anti-racism.

Role specific knowledge and experience

Minimum/essential

• Experience of managing projects from start to finish and familiarity with project life-cycles.
• Understanding of procurement evaluation and reporting requirements of projects.
• Proven experience of managing project finances.
• 3-years experience in managing education projects
• Experience of managing stakeholders
• Project management qualification desirable.
• Experience of working in project or programme management.
• Experience of using technology in project delivery.
• Good understanding and experience of supporting monitoring and evaluation.

Desirable

• Managing education projects in International Organizations

Education

Desirable

• Foundation level Project Management certificate or relevant work experience.

LanguageRequirements

Fluency in both English and Arabic is a must.

Additional job requirements

Role could require some domestic and international travel as required by the programme and some out of hours and evening work responding to or driven by programme/portfolio needs

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Equality Diversity and Inclusion Statement

We are committed to equality diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from all sections of the community as we believe that a diverse workforce gives added depth to our work. The British Council is a Disability Confident Employer. The Disability Confident scheme helps challenge attitudes increase understanding of disability and ensure staff are drawn from the widest possible pool of talent. We guarantee an interview for disabled applicants who meet the minimum role requirements. We welcome discussions about specific requirements or adjustments to enable participation and engagement in our work and activities.

Safeguarding Statement

The British Council is committed to safeguarding children young people and adults who we work with. We believe that all children and adults everywhere in the world deserve to live in safe environments and have the right to be protected from all forms of abuse maltreatment and exploitation as set out in article 19 UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) 1989. Appointment to positions where there is direct involvement with vulnerable groups will be dependent on thorough checks being completed in line with legal requirements and with the British Councils Safeguarding policies for Adults and Children.

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