Project Manager Schools, Brazil
**Date**:18 Sep 2024
**Location**: Sao Paulo, Americas, BR, Brazil
**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**: $6.999 Reais
**Contract Type**: Fixed Term contract for one year
**Location**: Sao Paulo
**Closing Date**: advert will close on **Sunday, September 29, 2024 at 23:59 Colombia time**.
**Role Purpose**
The Project Manager, Codefest will play a key role in the successful delivery of an exciting coding competition for secondary students, organised in collaboration with the State of Goiás and sponsored by a global STEM industry as part of their ESG strategy.
This role is critical for the planning, management, coordination, delivery, and evaluation of the project in Brazil, contributing to a larger global initiative that also spans India, South Africa, and the UK.
In addition to overseeing project implementation, the post holder will nurture and manage relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
They will work closely with the Head of English and School Education and the local Schools Project Manager, ensuring strong alignment with the global Schools Lead and support from the Cultural Engagement project team.
As a key member of the project strategy team, the Project Manager will drive the execution of project deliverables, ensuring strategic KPIs are met in Brazil and playing a vital role in the global reporting strategy for the project sponsor.
**Main accountabilities but not limited to the following**
- Responsible for planning, coordination, managing, implementation, and quality assuring of the SIDP Project work in Brazil as per the project management framework, Project plans, project management standards and client needs.
This will include sound and effective programme management practices that deliver outstanding impact for the British Council and partners.
- Identify opportunities for the program development and expansion; building on lessons learned, needs assessments, and coordination with key stakeholders.
- Responsible for ensuring project compliance with all the British Council internal processes and policies and the FCDO´s processes, policies and procedures.
- Identify, assess, report and monitor progress in addressing risks to the achievement of the project objectives.
- Maintain a robust and updated project risk management register.
- Manage project budgets to corporate standards, ensuring prompt reporting and continuous monitoring of the project expenditure in line with the implementation plan.
- Meeting the agreed project financial spend targets and reporting procedures.
- Ensure all procurement and contract for service are in line with corporate and client policy and that documentation is robust and stored appropriately for future reference.
- Where required ensure that the project is marketed internally and externally to the highest standards in print (press, publications), digitally (websites, social media, TV, radio) and at events (conferences workshops, meetings).
Working collaboratively with the Communications and Digital teams to showcase the impact of the project.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues across the global Schools Connects project to share intelligence and opportunities that create added benefit to the project and partners.
- Support the development and implementation of M&E plans for the Brazil's Codefest and the global Schools Connects project (including databases and data collection; outcome and impact evaluation; success stories)
- Working closely with the project monitoring, evaluation consultants/teams to ensure proper documentation and clear reporting on progress against indicators and targets and determine corrective measures to improve project delivery.
- Maintain and nurture relationships with key stakeholders internally and externally and to support the Head of English and School Education in Brazil and other colleagues to identify potential partnerships and new business possibilities and opportunities to strengthen the Codifica+ and the Schools Connects Project.
**Requirements of the role**
- Proven relevant experience in project development and management
- Experience supporting the monitoring, reporting, development and coordination of publicly funded projects.
- Evidence of developing and delivering high-quality work, as commissioned, to a deadline
- Experience managing programme budgets effectively,