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Salary: R/6.999
Contract Type: Indefinite
Location: Sao Paulo
Right to Work Requirements: Right to Work in Brazil. The British Council is not able to support or sponsor work visa applications.
Closing Date: advert will close on Sunday, August 10 , 2025 at 23:59 Colombia time.
Role Purpose
Implementation of projects in Higher Education funded by British Council or by another client or funding mechanism. The projects are mainly, but not restricted to, Higher Education (HE) and Science partnerships, Student Recruitment (international student mobility and alumni projects), as well as research into the education sector in Brazil.
The role will be a key member of the Education team, delivering according to British Council programme standards and corporate policy in order to help the region to meet its targets and KPIs.
The selected person will lead the successful delivery of a range of projects from start to finish including managing the contract or project plan, managing client or internal stakeholders, successfully achieving reporting and meeting compliance standards.
Main accountabilities but not limited to the following
- Has relationships with delivery partners and stakeholders within country and is able to procure services and contract delivery partners.
- Holds suppliers to account for delivering against contract.
- Build strong internal relationships and networks.
- Ensure sound financial planning, working closely with finance teams to ensure British Council and client financial year plans are up to date.
- Ensure accurate and timely monthly (re)forecasting is in place, by running regular reports in the SAP system on actuals, monitoring outstanding purchase orders, reviewing commitments, analysing and commenting on reasons for variances to plan and recommending corrective actions.
- Monitoring monthly finances, including correct expenditure, ensuring the P2P process is being followed and correcting any mis-postings or journals needed.
- Lead on British Council, partner or client reporting (including, with Finance Manager, financial reporting) and ensure reports are delivered on time, to budget and to a high standard.
- Compliance to BC financial policies and procedures.
- Contributes to development of, owns and delivers on Project Management Plan.
- Identifies risks in a project or programme and puts together mitigation strategies with SRO.
- Responsible for internal and client, procurement, contracting, compliance and reporting.
- Checks on and reports on compliance.
- Manages procurement on a project/programme.
- Responsible for data management including timely data entry, quality assurance of data, undertaking basic analysis of monitoring data, and developing progress reports to meet funding needs.
- Undertaking programme-specific data collection as needed. This includes working with colleagues to identify indicators and tools for data collection, quality assuring all data, and undertaking basic analysis.
Requirements of the role
- Experience of managing projects from start to finish and familiarity with project life-cycles.
- Understanding of procurement, evaluation and reporting requirements of projects.
- Proven experience of managing project finances.
- Experience of managing stakeholders
- Project management qualification desirable.
- Experience of working in project or programme management.
- Experience of using technology in project delivery.
- Good understanding and experience of supporting monitoring and evaluation.
- University degree.
- Written and verbal proficiency in English at B2 level is required.
Additional information
Role could require some domestic and international travel as required by the programme and some out of hours and evening work responding to or driven by programme/portfolio needs.
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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Statement
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from all sections of the community as we believe that a diverse workforce gives added depth to our work. The British Council is a Disability Confident Employer. The Disability Confident scheme helps challenge attitudes, increase understanding of disability and ensure staff are drawn from the widest possible pool of talent. We guarantee an interview for disabled applicants who meet the minimum role requirements. We welcome discussions about specific requirements or adjustments to enable participation and engagement in our work and activities.
Safeguarding Statement
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 in line with legal requirements and with the British Council’s Safeguarding policies for Adults and Children.
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