Salary: $5.800.000 Contract Type: Fixed term contract for 6 months with possibility of renewal (subject to the signing of a partnership agreement with a public stakeholder) Location: Bogota and Bucaramanga Vacancies: 3 Closing Date: advert will close on Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 23:59 Colombia time. 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. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr