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Education Projects Coordinator
JA Malta Foundation is currently looking to recruit an Education Projects Coordinator to join their team on a full/part-time basis.
Department: Operations
Location: Tigne, Sliema, Malta
Junior Achievement (JA) Malta is part of JA Worldwide who is a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee for its efforts in education and upskilling. JA is also listed in the top 7 most impactful NGOs in the world, which is the highest ranked NGO active in Malta.
Our mission is to inspire and prepare young people (aged 7 to 30) to succeed in a global economy through programmes in entrepreneurship, financial literacy and work readiness. If you are looking for a new challenge and for an impactful role, we are currently recruiting a Education Coordinator to join our team.
Main Functions:
- Taking ownership of the assigned programmes and projects to ensure that they continue to run as smooth as possible while always looking into ways of improving them. Typically programmes and projects include an element of training delivery and coordination with schools
- Organise and coordinate, online and in person, sessions, events and communications related to the programmes
- Ensure that the participating schools and participants enjoy a positive and productive experience throughout the delivery of the handson JA programmes
- Explore new content and opportunities to add more value to the youth’s experience
- Coordinate with international counterparts to explore different content being done abroad and to explore international opportunities
- Adapt programmes and content to the local context and appropriate delivery style, age and format
- Attract students, mentors, classroom volunteers and partners to be part of the programmes
- Provide guidance and/or training to mentors, JA participants and other team members including interns and volunteers
- Provide operational support in the execution of other day-to-day needs and general administrative duties.
Required Skills and Characteristics:
The ideal candidate for the position of Education Coordinator will be a highly motivated and dynamic individual who is energetic and enthusiastic with the capacity to engage and motivate others.
Successful candidates will have:
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Be innovative and self-motivated with a flexible approach to work
- A strong team player with fluent Maltese and English communication skills (both written and oral)
- Previous teaching experience will be an asset with excellent relationship management skills
- A thorough working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Ability to manage different projects at the same time.
It is preferred that the candidate also has:
- A keen interest in at least one of the fields of entrepreneurship, financial capability, and employability
- Good public speaking skills and willing to deliver sessions
- Experience in delivering interactive training/classes
- Ability to adapt to different stakeholders
- Valid driving license.
The role will require the candidate to be flexible to travel and to also work during events and sessions which sometimes happen in the evening or on Saturdays.
It is also ideal if the candidate has done one of the JA Programmes and obtained the ESP certification.
JA Malta Foundation:
JA Malta Foundation is a member country of JA Worldwide, a non-government not-for-profit NGO that is recognised as the 7th most impactful NGO globally. JA Malta, as it is known, has been in Malta since 1988. We aim to provide experiential entrepreneurship education programmes that focus on innovation, financial capability and work readiness. At JA Malta we are best known for our 6th Form Programme - Company Programme (Young Enterprise) and our Tertiary programme - StartUp. JA Malta also has programmes for all educational sectors from ABC to PhD as the saying goes. Junior Achievement is best known for bringing together the public and private sectors to provide young people with fun educational programmes where students 'Learn by Doing'. Students are given the opportunity to try something different in a safe environment that not only teaches them business skills but unknowingly also teaches them transversal competencies such as team building, priority management, risk-taking, presentation skills, negotiation techniques amongst others that all add up to newly discovered self-assurance, self-efficacy and self-confidence. Throw in a pandemic and you've got the ingredients for an unbeatable lesson in resilience - a skill that will endure the test of time in the one constant we all now live with - change.
