Principal: Education Programmes at Anglo American

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Support the Head of Education with overseeing education programmes across South Africa, Bostwana, Zambia and Zimbabwe
• Support in tracking progress with service providers and reporting to internal business units, operations and finance.
• Support the development of communication pieces in collaboration with internal group and Business Unit communications around the progress and outcomes of the education programme.
• Participate in problem solving sessions to generate new and innovative solutions to drive outcomes in education for our host communities.
• Work with other stakeholders in the partners to explore appropriate integration of other social and sustainability objectives into our education programmes (e.g. Health, Livelihoods, Gender-based Violence, Road Traffic Safety).
• Support our external provider JET in preparing materials for quarterly Steercom meetings.
• Support the Education Lead with Programme development and design as needed.
• Support Head of Education on the strategic setup and plan for the project.
• Communicate and coordinate efforts amongst internal and external stakeholders.
• Work with our implementing partner to deliver and monitor progress.
• Continuously generate new innovative ideas and opportunities for education interventions and partnerships across our programmes that drive learner outcomes to meet our SMP targets.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline.

Technical Knowledge:

• Understanding partnerships with governments, academia or civil society organisations at a national or local level.
• Whole School Development and / or Early Childhood Learning and the education sector in South Africa will be an advantage.
• Education and Early Childhood Learning experience in Southern Africa.
• Experience with monitoring and evaluation (lead and lag indicators) in the Education environment an advantage.