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,[3] it is now a global movement made up of 29 national member organizations which work in 120 countries.

Role

The education officer is responsible for the planning, implementing, monitoring and reporting the project in line with and agreed plan of action and budget, donor, SC and government policies, requirements and procedures. S/he is also responsible for stakeholder management, documentation, monitoring and reporting of progresses of the project activities in the assigned districts. S/he will also serve as the technical person concerning the  project at the field- district location, providing technical guidance and supports as necessary including integrating the education project activities with other sectors such as WaSH, child protection and school feeding activities. S/he will be responsible to document implementation lessons, best practices and innovations to inform the successful implementation of project activities.

Responsibilities

Planning and Reporting:

• Prepare annual and quarter plan in line with project design document and in collaboration with woreda/zone education office and ensure timely submission of project plan.
• Carry out close follow up and monitoring, collect data, prepare and submit project report timely
• Ensure that project reports incorporated the impacts of school feeding on children’s enrolment, retention and overall academic performance
• Make sure that monitoring data is disaggregated by gender, IDPs, CWDs and host community children who participated in pre and primary education and benefitted from school feeding.

Coordination and Management of Projects Implementation

• Work in close collaboration and coordination with woreda and zone education offices, school teachers, PTAs in matter related to safe return to school, student enrolment, school feeding, baseline assessment, project monitoring and evaluation
• Ensure that target children both boys and girls, CWDs and IDPs are equally participated in education services and school feeding program
• Strengthen inter sectoral integration that education, Wash and school feeding activities are well integrated and implemented accordingly
• Responsible that the project is implemented in ways responsive to children, teachers and the community
• Ensure project implementation is in accordance with Save the Children strategies, values and donor compliance
• Work with teachers, school principals and WEO office to make target schools are child friendly and are free from abuse and violence.
• In close collaboration with the Project Manager and other support units (at Field Office level) , WEO and other government stakeholders, facilitate on time implementation of the project activities based on the action plan and ensure implementation quality
• Ensure active participation of children and other stakeholders in the project activities implementation.

Supervision and Monitoring

• In collaboration with project manager and government stakeholders, maintain strong.
• supervision and monitoring system to measure achievement and progress toward the project objectives.
• and expected outcomes and impacts.
• Conduct joint monitoring and supervision with relevant stakeholders such as WEO to identify project progress, gaps and challenges and to take immediate and appropriate actions towards improving project implementation quality.
• Strengthen participatory and collaborative supervision and monitoring system including active.

participation of children

Capacity Building

• Responsible to arrange and coordinate capacity building for relevant stakeholders such as teachers, WEO, PTAs and other community members on issues related to safe learning environment, gender sensitive approach, disability inclusion, child protection
• Arrange experience-sharing among schools and other stakeholders.
• Ensure that teachers have the required skills to deliver play based interactive teaching, gender sensitive and inclusive teaching and positive disciplining through training and coaching.
• Work with relevant stakeholders to ensure that WOE and parents are supported on distance/remote learning such as radio/TV and literacy and numeracy at home during COVID-19
• Perform any other activities based online manager’s assignment.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• A minimum of Bachelor Degree in an area of social science or equivalent
• Recommended a minimum of 3 years experience in a corporate or NGO environment, preferably with experience in community based child protection project coordination experience
• Knowledge and understanding of national protection systems, and technical knowledge on child protection monitoring and evaluation
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching
• Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
• Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mindsets
• Experience in partners management and capacity building
• Experience of working successfully with senior managers in other parts of own organization or partner organizations to deliver major change
• Experience of successfully implementing changes to processes to improve and monitor quality standards and impact achieved
• Experience of managing and shaping programmes to deliver greater efficiency and effectiveness, and of strengthening implementation of financial control processes
• Solid budgeting skills and knowledge of key donor regulations
• Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in
• Ability to present complex information in a succinct and compelling manner
• Ability and willingness to dramatically change work practices and hours, and work with incoming surge teams, in the event of emergencies
• Fluency in Amharic language required
• Fluency in English, both verbal and written, required
• Commitment to Save the Children values