Operations Manager (Projects)
- Organization
- The British Council
- Location
- Bogota, Colombia
- Job Type
- Contract
- Deadline for Applications
- 04/20/2025
- Where to Apply
- https://careers.britishcouncil.org/careers/job/563705879791170
- Tags
- Contract
ROLE PURPOSE:
As Operations Manager, you will play a key role in delivering a long-term, large-scale project, working closely with the Head of Implementation to plan, monitor, and execute project activities. You will lead on implementation, ensuring seamless coordination across various workstreams, including data collection and analysis to support monitoring and evaluation. Your work will be essential in aligning delivery with strategic objectives while upholding British Council standards and policies.
Main accountabilities, but not limited to the following:
– Leads and monitors the implementation of assigned project components, ensuring quality through close coordination with the Technical Lead.
– Manages an academic and administrative team to deliver and monitor the project in alignment with corporate policies and stakeholder requirements.
– Prepares progress and technical reports in line with stakeholder-agreed guidelines and deadlines.
– Provides timely and relevant information to support the development of analytical reports, presentations, technical documents, and academic and financial reports.
– Ensures project documentation and systematisation comply with data protection policies and the Information protection scheme classification guide.
– Oversees the implementation of the project’s Monitoring and Evaluation component in collaboration with the commissioned organisation, ensuring alignment with the corporate standards.
– Maintains effective communication and engagement with stakeholders, ensuring their needs and expectations are addressed throughout the project lifecycle.
– Manages relationships with delivery partners, overseeing procurement and contracting processes to ensure effective service delivery.
– Creates a detailed implementation plan integrating schedule of activities, deliverables, financial resources, quality management, communications plan, risk assessment and mitigation, indicators, among others.
– Works hand in hand with the Head of Implementation to make strategic decisions, thus mitigating possible risks during the implementation.
– Monitors project budget, expenditure, and cash flow, ensuring alignment with stakeholder requirements and British Council policies.
– Supervises and approves financial reports, including supporting documents for external partners, in coordination with the Head of Implementation.
– Ensures compliance with stakeholder and British Council policies, including detailed withholding tax reports to DIAN.
– Ensures accurate and efficient recording of all income and expenditure transactions for the project.
Salary: $5.800.000
Contract Type: Fixed term contract for 1 year with possibility of renewal (subject to the signing of a partnership agreement with a public stakeholder)
Location: Bogota
Vacancies: 4
Right to Work Requirements: Right to Work in Colombia. The British Council is not able to support or sponsor work visa applications.
REQUIREMENTS OF THE ROLE:
– Five (5) years of professional experience in large-scale projects, preferably in the educational or social sectors.
– Experience managing projects from start to finish and familiarity with project life-cycles.
– Excellent understanding of data administration and management functions (collection, analysis, distribution etc.)
– Familiarity with modern database and information system technologies.
– Proficient in Excel, Access.
– Understanding of procurement, evaluation and reporting requirements of projects.
– Experience of managing stakeholders.
– Experience of using technology in project delivery.
– Ability to operate in English (both written and spoken) at a business level. Non-native speakers of English should demonstrate a CEFR B1 level.
– University degree.
ABOUT BRITISH COUNCIL:
A connected and trusted UK in a more connected and trusted world.
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.Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Statement
The British Council is committed to policies and practices of equality, diversity and inclusion across everything we do. We support all staff to make sure their behaviour is consistent with this commitment. We want to address under representation and encourage applicants from under-represented groups, in particular, but not exclusively, on grounds of ethnicity and disability. All disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria are guaranteed an interview and we have Disability Confident Employer Status. We welcome discussions about specific requirements or adjustments to enable participation and engagement in our work and activities.
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; these will include qualification checks, reference checks, identity & criminal record checks in line with legal requirements and with the British Council’s Safeguarding policies for Adults and Children.
If you have any problems with your application please email: askhr@britishcouncil.org
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