[Lawrence S. Ting Foundation] - Senior Program Officer - Education

Lawrence S. Ting Foundation (LSTF) was established in 2005 as a local NGO in Vietnam.

So far it hassupported more than 1.8 million underprivileged people across the whole country.

We mainly provide support at the education and health sectors to people in need. Its major

works include life skills training for students, improving quality education for children with

disability, capacity building for teachers and medical personal and so on. Pls find more

information from our website: lstf.org.vn

Our focus on education and health remains as strong as ever and now we are looking for the

experienced Program Officer- Education to deepen our works through robust programming

and innovation methods, thereby bringing catalytic changes in Vietnam. Key duties of this

position include but not limited to the followings:

1) Program Design and Management (DME)

Design & Planning

• Develop/Design project proposals based on the robust context understanding/data collection and feasibility analysis;

• Draft and review work plans and budget so as to ensure the alignment with project design and preliminary agreement with partners;

• Establish project partnerships and communicate with partners to reach preliminary consensuses to prepare project roll-out;

• Provide the guidelines of planning and budgeting to partners;

Implementation & Monitoring

• Implement project activities to ensure the alignment with the approved budget and workplans. Advise line manager if identify any potential risks;

• Prepare financial docs (advance and reimbursement) submissions to smooth project activity roll-out and conduct spending analysis on a regular basis.

• Manage and coordinate project partnerships and conduct regular monitoring visits/meetings to smooth project roll-out and reach project goals;

• Provide the team mentorships with regular supervision to ensure the productivity and

• Establish project partnerships to accelerate project progress;

• Identify and mobilize resources to support project activity roll-out.

Learning & Reflection (Evaluation)

• Coordinate relevant stakeholders to conduct project review to improve project quality and results;

• Prepare project-end reports with constructive feedback for better project design and implementation.

2) Support in Resource Mobilization and Communications

• Support in collecting both qualitative and quantitative data for funding acquisition and external communications;

• Support donor engagement-related activities;

• Prepare progress reports for internal report and external communication.

3) Leadership and Others

• Supervise and coordinate the team and provide coaching to team in project design, roll-out and management.

• Identify and build partnerships with local authorities and relevant stakeholders to leverage program impacts.

• Prepare draft MOUs, official letters to governments and other legal documents of related partners;

• Manage database and project documentation in a systematic and digital manner;

• Perform tasks assigned by the line manager.

• Bachelor’s Degree in development, education, social science or relevant field;

• Minimum 5 years of experience working in the NGO sector, preferably in education related programs.

Essential skills and competencies

• Robust experience in program design and management.

• Fluency in written and spoken English and Vietnamese.

• Outstanding analytical skills with basic research ability.

• Good communication, interpersonal and coordination skills.

• Work on own initiative with minimum supervision and to stay on multi-tasks under pressure.

• Highly organised with reliable attention to details.

Desirable skills and competencies

• Experience in innovative programs and proposal writing would be an asset.

• Experience in multi-partnership establishment to leverage project impacts.