Team Leader – Girls and Out-of-School Children – Action for Learning Programme (GOAL)
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Team Lead guiding Oxford Policy Management’s GOAL education reform programme in Pakistan. Leading technical assistance, government engagement, education financing and multidisciplinary delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Provide overall strategic, technical and operational leadership to the GOAL programme
- Lead politically informed technical assistance supporting inclusive, quality education, foundational learning, teacher professionalisation, governance and education financing
- Build and maintain relationships with government stakeholders, including senior policy and political counterparts
- Influence and build consensus around education reforms
- Ensure technical assistance is contextually appropriate, politically informed and impartial
- Provide strategic oversight of education financing and public financial management reforms
- Lead research, evidence, adaptive learning and continuous improvement
- Lead, motivate and coordinate a multidisciplinary team of technical experts
- Identify and manage strategic, political and operational risks
- Represent the programme with government, donors, development partners and other stakeholders
- Ensure agreed programme results, quality standards and contractual requirements are delivered, with focus on sustainability, government ownership and systems change
Requirements:
- Advanced degree in education, public policy, public administration, international development, economics or a related field
- At least 15 years of relevant professional experience
- Significant experience leading complex education or education systems reform programmes in developing-country contexts
- Proven experience providing strategic leadership and technical direction to multidisciplinary teams and complex technical assistance programmes
- Demonstrated experience working effectively with government at senior policy and political levels
- Strong influencing, negotiation and consensus-building skills
- Strong understanding of Pakistan's education system and reform context, particularly in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with knowledge of Sindh
- Proven experience in education financing and public financial management (PFM), including strengthening complex financial management systems and processes
- Demonstrated experience applying political economy, research, evidence and adaptive learning to programme design and implementation
- Strong technical credibility, political awareness and ability to lead education technical assistance impartially and constructively
Benefits:
- Opportunity to work with an international development consultancy focused on sustainable policy change
- Work environment that welcomes ambition, creativity and passion for positive change
- Commitment to diversity and inclusion
- Potential fixed-term engagement, subject to the successful outcome of the bid








