MANAGER STRATEGY , PLANNING & MONITORING – BOTEPCO

VACANCY 

Ref: BOTEPCO 4/2/5 29th August 2025

The Botswana Teaching Professionals Council (BOTEPCO) is a regulatory body established through the provisions of the Botswana Teaching Professionals Council Act. No. 22 of 2019. The Council’s main functions are to regulate the teaching profession, maintain professional and ethical standards including teaching knowledge, skills and competencies; license teachers; establish, publish, review and maintain a code of ethics for teachers; and review as well as advise on professional standards of teachers.

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for the following position under BOTEPCO. Appointment to this position will be on five (5) years contract basis.

VACANCY CIRCULAR NO: 1 OF 2025

Vacancy: Manager: Strategy, Planning and Monitoring

Role Purpose

To plan, organise and manage the strategy planning and monitoring unit including strategy development, planning, monitoring and evaluation as well as project and programme planning, management and reporting to achieve the Council’s mandate and objectives.

Key Performance Areas

• Establish strategic direction of the Council.
• Adoption and integration of strategic plans across the Council.
• Timely availability of reports on strategy and project progress.
• Effective change management.
• Timely and proactive communication and escalation of strategy and project implementation issues.
• Achievement of strategic and project goals and targets within set timelines and budgets.

The main duties include but are not limited to:

• Ensure effective internal and external stakeholder management to facilitate alignment with best practice teaching regulation and professionalisation.
• Formulate, review, and implement relevant policies, strategies, rules, regulations, systems and procedures that are meant to facilitate the delivery of the department’s mandate.
• Develop measures, milestones, and procedures to monitor the Council’s achievement of approved strategies and plans.
• Contribute to the development, approval, maintenance and dissemination of teaching profession requirements, policies, and standards.
• Provide input into the development, review and approval of the Code of Teaching Professional Ethics based on research and professional best practice standards.
• Provide input on the development of teaching accreditation requirements in liaison with the Teacher Professional Services function.
• Develop the monitoring and evaluation policies and processes to measure the effectiveness of the Council’s strategies, programmes, policies, teaching standards across the country.
• Coordinate and manage the monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of the strategic plans, departmental plans, and any projects, programmes that the Council may undertake, and the production of periodic consolidated performance tracking reports (against targets).

Competencies

• Strategic Thinking
• Team Leadership
• Critical Thinking and Innovation
• Interpersonal Relations
• Communications, Influence, and Impact
• Organisational and coordinating skills
• Negotiating skills, decisive and assertive

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Economics or related area and an additional qualification in Strategic Management, Project / Programme Management and/or Monitoring and Evaluation.
• At least eight (8) years post qualification experience in Strategic Management, Project / Programme Management and/or Monitoring and Evaluation.
• At least three (3) of these years should have been spent in a supervisory / management role.
• Proven experience in strategic planning and performance measurement, including indicator selection, target setting, reporting and developing performance and M&E methods and frameworks.
• Experience in the education sector will be an added advantage.