The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, was established in the United Kingdom in 1919 to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic opportunities, as well as providing emergency aid in natural disasters, war, and other conflicts. After passing a century, which it celebrated in 2019, it is now a global movement made up of 29 national member organizations which work in 120 countries.

ROLE PURPOSE:

Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organization for children. It is a dual mandate organization and focuses on development and emergency response. We are currently working in 120 countries around the world touching the lives of 125 million children. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Education and protection Manager

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Programme Quality, Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Ensure that the education project is implemented with high technical quality and standard, in line with the project narrative and aligned with regional and national education standards with particular focus on Education in Emergencies.
• Prepare project detailed implementation plan for its location;
• Prepare training programme for teachers, district education offices and community members on gender sensitive education programme;
• Document education project beneficiary data disaggregated by gender, disability, in and out of school and by district.
• Conduct monitoring visits to project schools and identify areas in need of support; support schools and community to take corrective actions.
• Work with the M&E specialist to ensure that the monitoring and evaluation system is in line with quality standards.
• Contribute to Quality Benchmarks for the project.
• Ensure active participation and representation of beneficiary girls and boys in the project.
• Ensure that programme implementation is gender sesntive and gender responsive (considering needs and conditions of girls, boys, women and men).
• Ensure that that sex disaggregated data relevant to country project are prepared as integral part of programming.
• Support programme baseline and evaluation studies in its location.
• Ensure the programme reaches and reports on the most marginalized groups especially girls and children with disabilities
• Ensure that project monitoring and evaluations effectively conducted to improve programme performance, and programme status reports are prepared on time.
• Prepare project narrative and financial reports.

Technical Alignment, Harmonization and Learning:

• Document and disseminate learning on innovations, ways of working, and new approaches to education in emergencies.
• Identity and address areas of collaboration and support among project stakehodlers.
• Ensure that the programme is implemented in an aligned and harmonised manner.
• Provide periodic feedback to project manager.

Training & Capacity Development:

• Prepare programme for the development of training packages for the target beneficairies and programme staff, with focus on education in emergencies
• Facilitate training and capacity development for partner staff and field level government partners and beneficiaries.
• Coordinate the field testing, monitoring and redesign of technical training packages accordingly

Coordination, Representation & Advocacy:

• Ensure effective inter-agency coordination with key key stakeholders
• Facilitate meetings and workshops in its intervention location with education stakeholders
• Identify opportunities and materials that will support communication and advocacy work of girls education in an in emergency context.
• Responsible for some of the elements in system stengtheining and advocacy outcome of the programme e.g. advocacy briefs etc.

Programme Development:

• Lead education assessments to inform future programmatic interventions and priorities in its intervention area
• Support the revision and updating of the emergency situation in the areas of operation highlighting key educational needs of affected children.

Job Requirement

QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum level, Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Education, social work, social science etc.)
• Working experience as gender focal person, distance education coordinator or girls education is a plus.
• Training in Humanitarian Programming is an added value.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience working in education programmes, and a minimum of 2 years’ working in humanitarian context (IDP/Returnee response or post conflict setting)
• Excellent knowledge of education in emergencies programming and links to long-term programming, including standards, policies, frameworks, and relevant networks and stakeholders.
• Experience designing and conducting training and capacity building activities, focused on gender sensitive education, WaSH intervention and distance education.
• Strong experience working in a partnership and establishing and maintaining coordination and communication systems at inter-agency level and with the Education Cluster, and other clusters (mainly child protection and WASH).
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation, coaching and capacity building as well as ability to work with culturally diverse teams.
• Excellent skills in results based management. as well as strong data visualization skills are considered an asset.
• Experience with data sources, data assessment, and data analysis, particularly related to data on children and women are considered an asset
•  Experience of working with donors.
• Cultural awareness and ability to work well in both international and local environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
• Fluency in English, both verbal and written.
• Communication using internet and virtually meetings
• Commitment to Save the Children
• Willingness and availability to travel, including to remote and emergency locations and often at short-notice
• Knowledge of local language

Desirable : Background in gender sensitive education programme, education in emergencies and child protection as well as working experience in the project locations