Deadline: 28 October, 2020
Location: Maiduguri, Nigeria
Save the Children (STC) is seeking to fill the position of Education in Emergency Officer.
The organisation’s mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
Responsibilities
- Work with communities and stakeholders to strengthen gender responsive education and establish community education committee in project locations
- Identify critical programme gaps and vulnerabilities, and clarify roles, responsibilities and accountabilities to effectively address those gaps
- Ensure quality in the programme by building capacity of the local staff and teachers through training in pedagogy, psychosocial support, and life skills
- Provide guidance to field-based education team on common standards, innovative strategies and approaches
- Prepare performance objectives together with programme staff and give the necessary feedback, as well as follow up staff to improve performance
- Contribute to the development of appropriate and effective programme monitoring systems to enable assessment of both the emergency response process and impact and to ensure delivery of results for children
- Report on progress and documentation of best practices
- Support in development of communication materials, case studies and blogs
- Work closely with the education coordinator and the education programme manager to develop partnerships to leverage resources
- Ensure adequate coverage in the emergency response and early recovery phases, and ensure adequate funding is consistent with SC resource mobilisation strategy and emergency response plan
- Advocate the development of sustainable, child-friendly and hazard-resistant standards and designs for learning centres
Requirements
- University degree in Education, Social Sciences, or a related technical field
- Three years of progressive experience in education in emergency, programme design, administration, monitoring and evaluation, or a related field
- Experience in working with capacity building/training facilitation (desirable)
- Excellent computing and data management skills
- Ability to adapt and work effectively in remote areas, and work in a challenging environment with minimal direct supervision
- Ability to take personal responsibility for completing tasks to a high standard and to meet deadlines
To apply and for more information, click here.
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