WHAT WILL BE YOUR ROLE?

In the strategic period 2022-2025, NRC will continue consolidating and expanding its access in Syria to
support the protection and resilience of displacement-affected populations through inspiring advocacy and efficient response, anchored on evidence-based decision-making, partnership with national responders, and community-driven processes. NRC will rely on highly competent and committed staff who embraces NRC core values, protection policies, and code of conduct, and a fit-for-purpose organizational structure to meet the strategic objectives.

The purpose of the Education Officer position is to follow up on the day-to-day implementation of the assigned Education Project.
 

Responsibilities 

• Contribute, under the supervision of the Team Leader, to the planning, preparation, coordination, and successful implementation and documentation, of the Children/Youth Education (livelihoods) programme components assigned, in line with NRC's quality standards, projects’ log frames, and donor requirements.
• Ensure documented feedback and observations from the field are shared with the line manager to influence contextualization/revision of education/training materials, and tools, in English and Arabic.
• Ensure that appropriate outreach activities and fair beneficiary registration and selection processes are conducted for the implementation of the education programme components assigned.
• Is responsible for ensuring that the assigned team, in line with NRC procedures, prepares proper and timely administrative, logistical, and financial arrangements and documentation needed for the implementation of the assigned programme components.
• Ensure the monitoring of the children/youth education programme components assigned, by contributing to data collection, spot visits, data analysis, and drafting of regular activity implementation/monitoring/evaluation reports, need-based.
• As delegated by the line manager, contribute to the recruitment of contingent workers required for the implementation of the education programme components assigned and ensure that their work assignments are properly managed and documented.
• As requested, provide inputs for the design of annual plans concerning the children/youth education programme components assigned.
• Contribute to need assessments, area profiling, and initial assessments in current or new operation areas and informs decisions on area/community selection, programme response and approach, based on own capacity and knowledge.
• Delegated by line manager to supervise (Education assistants/Education Technical Assistants) for day-to-day tasks follow-up and operational functions.

 WHAT COMPETENCIES AND EXPERIENCE ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• Minimum Bachelor Degree, preferably in education, social work, business, finance, or any related field
•  Previous experience from working in a humanitarian/recovery context, preferably as a project officer.
• Previous experience from working in a complex and volatile context
• Previous relevant experience (3 years) with Children/Youth education/livelihood programme
• Previous relevant experience (3 years) with Children/Youth Education/Youth programmes (planning, implementing/overseeing the implementation and reporting for education/livelihoods activities/projects) – formal/non-formal education programmes (academic, life-skills and recreational activities for Children, vocational and life skills training, entrepreneurship, business set-up and employment for Youth).
• Teaching experience in schools or in delivering training and/or mentoring/ coaching teachers/facilitators/trainers (public or private schools, community centres or institutes, etc.)
• Experience in dealing with public stakeholders within the Edu system (e.g. school principals, MoE/DoE representatives, communities).Experience in coordinating teams.
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal

Personal qualities

Personal qualities;

• Planning and delivering resultsEmpowering and building trust
• Managing resources to optimise results
• Working with people
• Handling in a secure environment

We are also looking for people who share our values:

To be dedicated to what we do;
To be innovative and solutions-driven;
To act as one unified and inclusive team;
To be accountable to the donors that make our work possible; the people that we exist to serve; and to each other… the members of our NRC family