CHILD SAFEGUARDING
Level 3 - The responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with children or young people and, in the overseas context all posts are considered to be level 3 posts in view of potential situations which may allow staff unsupervised access to vulnerable children and young people.
ROLE PURPOSE
The KGIS Team Leader will lead the Cash Transfer and the School Experience components of DFID's Keeping Girls in School (KGIS) programme. The 3-year programme will reach approximately 100,000 mothers with regular conditional cash transfers to help adolescent girls stay in school and work with various structures including Mother Groups, Community Child Protection Committees, female teachers, etc. to help keep girls in school. The programme works very closely with the Government of Malawi Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST), building the capacity of the MoEST to sustain programme interventions at the conclusion of the programme. The Team Leader will strategically lead and manage the two KGIS components (SE and CT) and be accountable for the achievement of programme deliverables and delivery of the joint log-frame within the consortium and with DFID.
