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Multiple Positions Grants and Business Development Specialist School Coordinator and School Support Officer

Promoting Equality in African School Zambia Limited | Ndola Lusaka

Promoting Equality in African School Zambia Limited

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Job Description

About PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools)

PEAS (www.peas.org.uk) is a fast-growing education charity organisation with a mission to ‘expand access to sustainably delivered quality secondary education across Africa’. We run the fastest-growing network of sustainably financed secondary schools in Africa.

At PEAS, we are passionate about delivering quality education at a low cost, so that we are able to educate the poorest rural communities in Zambia and replicate our model across other communities. We work closely with the Zambian Ministry of Education (MoE), helping to achieve their national goals and have partnered with the MoE to build an exemplary network of secondary schools in Zambia.

PEAS Zambia have achieved great things over the last 12 years, and we know we can achieve even more in the next 10 years. Building on the solid foundations of our programme, we want to grow our impact in our own secondary school network and beyond. Our ambition is to be true exemplars of quality education and to drive improvements across the Zambian education system. We are now looking for the following;

The Opportunities

Job Title : Grants and Business Development Specialist
Location: Ndola

Reports to: Deputy Country Director-Programs

Measuring impact
As an organisation and individuals, we all have key performance indicators to keep us focused on our overall objectives. We track these throughout the year and review them annually to make sure they align with what we want to achieve. The Grants and Business Development Coordinator’s impact will be measured against the following:

Roles and Responsibilities

  1. Grant reporting
    • Lead on timely writing, reviewing, and quality assuring narrative and financial reports, including developing templates, assigning tasks to the correct individuals and reviewing the quality of input to ensure it is clear, compelling and aligned to donor interests and guidelines.
    • Communicate clear grant reporting roadmaps to ensure colleagues are aware of their reporting responsibilities and championing strong report writing skills within the organisation.
    • Coordinate and prepare high-quality updates for donor meetings.
  2. Grant management
    • Through monthly grant steering committees and additional meetings, ensure all activity and milestone owners are aware of their milestones, understand what is required to fulfil the requirements and have a realistic deadline for delivery.
    • Work with PEAS’ Global Grants Manager to use and update grant management information systems and tools.
    • Understand, communicate and monitor compliance with donor contract rules and regulations, and ensure compliance across PEAS Uganda’s grant delivery.
    • Lead on strengthening internal programme and operations staff understanding of their responsibilities under donor running contracts and how this aligns with their work plans.
    • Work with the Finance team to review, track and analyse project expenditure. Participate in calls with select donors, representing the PEAS team at donor meetings and supporting with timely responses to donor requests.
    • Lead on coordination and stewardship over in-country donor visits, including the briefing of schools and colleagues in advance, talking about PEAS’ work with donors and timely logistics during the visit.
    • Have ownership over grant management information systems and tools, and mentor country staff to understand reporting, budget management and grant commitments.
  3. Grant business development support
    • Work closely with Operations, M&E and the Programmes Teams to design and package impact data to support quality response to funders.
    • Supporting Programmes and Technical Team colleagues in packaging up and describing their planned activities in an engaging manner.
  4. New business development
    • Supporting the Country Director with progressing funding opportunities in country (institutional and corporate donors) and co-ordinating outreach and relationship building.
    • Work with business development colleagues on the design, writing and reviewing of quality funding proposals and concept papers for submission to funders.

Qualifications and Skills

How to Apply

Fill this Form: Grants and Business , then send your cover letter and CV to the email below

Interested candidates should send their CV and a cover letter outlining their suitability for the role to [email protected] by June 7th , 2025 . Please use “Grants and Business Development Specialist “ as the subject line of your email.


Job Title : School Support Officer
Location: Lusaka

Reports to: School Support Specialist

PEAS Zambia seeks to engage an energetic and young Zambian to take up the role of School Support Officer.

Reporting to the School Support Specialist, as a School Support Officer (SSO) for the Southern and Eastern cluster of schools, you will be based in lusaka and you will play a pivotal role in the success of our school network. You will be delivering direct support and supervision, being accountable for improving their performance by working alongside our fantastic school staff.

This opportunity is both exciting and challenging as we seek to work towards solving one of the world’s biggest challenges: ensuring access to quality education for all. To be the right candidate, you need to be resilient and adaptable, not giving up when something does not improve or change immediately, but being energized to find ways to make that change happen.

Roles and responsibilities

School supervision

The candidate

Has:

  1. A bachelor’s degree in Education from a recognised university
  2. Minimum of two years experience serving as a school leader
  3. Experience in working with complex stakeholder groups in low-income settings
  4. Experience in managing budgets
  5. Background knowledge of safeguarding practices
  6. Proven track record of improving educational outcomes in low-resource settings.
  7. Proven track record of successfully delivering training to school leaders and teachers Can:

How to Apply

Fill this form: School Support Officer , then send your cover letter and CV to the email below

Interested candidates should send their CV and a cover letter outlining their suitability for the role to [email protected] by June 8, 2025. Please include “ School Support Officer- Lusaka” in the subject line of your email.

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Job Title: School Coordinator

Location: Ndola

Reports to: PEAS School Support

The Role:

The PEAS School Coordinator plays a pivotal oversight role to ensure that MoE – PEAS schools are high quality, inclusive and sustainably run. The School Coordinator will oversee the operational efficiencies of all infrastructure, support the Headteacher to ensure an effectively managed school campus and be the principal contact for non-educational – administrative aspects of the school, to ensure the schools’ high performance in all areas. This role demands a dynamic individual who can build strong relationships and work closely with the Head Teacher, teaching staff, and PEAS to ensure the school’s success in line with the Government of the Republic of Zambia’s and PEAS’ standards and policies.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Staff Management:

2. School Improvement and Policy Oversight:

3. Child Protection:

4. Compliance and Collaboration:

Qualifications:

How to Apply

Fill this form: School Coordinator, then send your cover letter and CV to the email below

Interested candidates should send their CV and a cover letter outlining their suitability for the role to [email protected] by June 8, 2025. Please include ” School Coordinator – Ndola” in the subject line of your email.

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Address your application letter to

The Human Resource Officer
Promoting Equality in African Schools Zambia LTD
39 Kabinga Street, Northrise.
Ndola.

NOTE: The deadline for applications is Monday, June 9, 2025. 17:00hrs.

Desclaimer: Only shortlisted candidates will be communicated to and if you do not receive any communication two after the dealine – consider your application unsuccesful.

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