Education Program Officers (5 Positions)

Imagine 1 Day International Organization (imagine1day) is a Canadian non-religious, and nonprofit making Humanitarian and Development International NGO. It has been investing on Education, WASH, Livelihood, Emergency responses, Leadership and Opportunity Development Pillars in Ethiopia since 2008. Imagine 1 Day in partnership with EHF/UN-OCHA is currently planning to implement Education Project in Tigray and is seeking qualified experts for the following posts.

Vacancy: Internal/External

Job summary

The Education Program  Officer is responsible to create equitable access to safe, protective and conducive (pre-primary and primary) learning environments for emergency-affected girls, boys, including children with disabilities. He/she maintaining nexus between EiE and education sector development in Tigray region particularly on the specified areas of intervention. Considering minimum standards Education in Emergency works to improve quality, relevance retention and transition of education for emergency-affected girls, boys, including children with disabilities. He/she is responsible to support ASR facilitators, ALP teachers and supervisors, strengthening Capacity of education institutions and communities to provide crisis-sensitive education for emergency-affected girls, boys, including children with disabilities. Work for effective and smooth partnership development with all respective partners.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

Work for Overall organizational development

• Comply with Imagine 1 Day policies and practices with respect to Safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
• Be innovative in practicing organizational policies, rules and guidelines in order to achieve the intended Imagine 1 Day’s vision, goal, and mission.
• Organize experiences that can help as basis for project proposals in education sector
• Take appropriate, coordinated, and consistent actions to handle situations of personal risks and risks for others.

Specific activities

• Work to enroll OOSC and pre-primary school aged children including children with disability by conducting back to school campaign programs.
• Follow the teaching learning process in each school and work for further improvement of attendance rate, and high achievements of competency skills.
• Monitor the implementation performance of ASR facilitators and ALP supervisors having a quality bench mark checklists.
• Ensure that all education in emergency activities are implemented on time, within the budget, according to quality standards and as per the plan
• Follow-up maintenance of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in schools/TLS (e.g. handwashing station)
• Support schools/TLS to organize children’s club activities (or other community/learning/recreation/play based groups) to promote children friendly activities, life skills and psychosocial activities
• Follow-up for provision of accelerated learning program via the Ministry of Education’s endorsed Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) for out of school children to reenter formal schooling
• Monitor and supervise the project learning opportunities to early childhood care and education (ECCE) age children and parents/caregivers to improve school readiness via the Ministry of Education’s endorsed Accelerated School Readiness (ASR)
• Planning and facilitating Workshop with teachers on the use of innovative techniques for the continuity of learning (incl. use of low-high tech innovations, e.g. use of solar radios)

Capacity development:

• Train PTA’s and other community-based structures, ASR facilitators, ALP teachers, and supervisors in line to achieving the project objectives and leaving footprints on the education system.
• Identify training needs and develop a capacity building strategy. Based on the defined strategy, coordinates and conducts refresher and other training for Teachers and PTA;
• Handle proper distribution of training manuals, ASR/ALP books including designed supplementary materials.
• Monitor the quality of training delivery via different dimensions
• Work for continuous scale up of the training in each site
• Measure the impact of each training for sustainable project outcomes.
• Give constructive feedback to team members especially the direct reports in order to enhance capabilities and responsibilities of the team.
• Work to ensure that the workplace is inclusive, and the talents of individuals are guided to achieve synergies and individuals and organizational success.

Partnership Development:

• Work with school principals, teachers, and Camp coordinators and assure every structure created in the camp is appropriate to education in emergency issues
• Coordinate and oversee working relationships with all local project stakeholders and serve as the liaison between them and the project team to mobilize local actors and promote project activities and impact.
• Coordinate and working closely with the Wereda Education Office to plan and implement teaching quality activities.
• Coordinate with other humanitarian partners and local authorities in the target areas, as relevant for the effective and efficient implementation of the EiE project and attend clusters and working groups, sub-clusters and task forces
• participate at Wereda wise educational  meetings by representing imagine 1 Day

Financial and Supply management

• Assess demands, Plan and Provision supportive learning devices/materials for children living with disabilities at the crisis time
• Distribute and follow-up of teaching/learning and curricula materials as per organizational distribution template (e.g. syllabi, textbooks, and teachers’ guides) to school’s/learning spaces
• Plan and distribute hygiene promotion supplies as per organizational distribution template for school’s/learning environments to support safe operation of learning programs
• Distribute and follow-up of teaching and learning materials (TLM), Furniture’s, COVID, 19 supplies, ASR and ALP recreational supplies as per organizational distribution template for crisis affected ASR, ALP and host communities’ children

Participate in Human Resource Management Activities

• Participate in recruiting ASR and ALP facilitators.
• In Collaboration with HR team strategically plan staffing needs to implement the program
• Assure the implementation of Imagine 1Day’s policy and work discipline of every staff that comprises child safe guarding and child protection code of conduct policy, harassment policy, PSEA policy, criminal background check policy, crises management and incidence procedure policy, and others
• Participate and consult HR team in Measuring the performance of ASR/ALP facilitators as per  of Imagine 1Day’s performance measuring tool/ (score card template)
• Create a good team spirit, with appropriate provision for having successor.

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Coordinate base line/need assessment, and post implementation assessments
• Monitoring the interventions on bi-annual basis, find out the gaps, share the gaps with the staff and make a proper action plan.
• Ensure that project is on track in sense of indicators and immediate outcomes.
  Share the findings in the forms of monitoring reports
• Working closely with MEAL team, Develop M&E plan, and conduct a periodic and an ad hoc M&E in each target area for every activity
• Circulate formal feedbacks of field visits, and discussion results
• Lead project coordination meeting with relevant team members (ASR and ALP) to monitor the progress, identifying actions and adapting the work plans on bi-weekly/ monthly basis.
• Support drafting and finalization of the MEAL deliverables (Monthly report. MEAL plans, baseline & end line reports, jointly with MEAL team.)
• Conduct regular field monitoring visits according to requirements and plans, ensure quality of project reporting and flag any concerns to the concerned body

Reporting and communication

• Report project baseline and end line assessment results based on the donors and partner’s requirements.
• Report situational reports, narrative reports on monthly, quarterly, biannual and annual basis as per donors and partner’s requirements.
• Analyze implementation challenges and report any inconsistencies and/or gaps to inform adjustments to plans and implementation schedules.
• Monitor and report on results of capacity building efforts.

Reports to: Education Program Coordinator

Duty station: Mekhoni, Alamata, Ofla, Raya-Chercher, and Bora districts

Employee condition-Contract for 6 months with possibility for renewal

Number of position:- 5 (one each for the listed districts)

Qualifications, Experience and Skills)

• BED/MED/degree in Educational Planning and Management, School Leadership, Instructional Leadership, Pedagogical Science or other related educational fields
• Minimum Five years’ work experience in project coordination, trainings facilitation and management areas in National and International NGO’s
• Experience to lead projects on emergency and development settings
• Excellent in all computer skills
• Experience in reporting to donors in an NGO environment
• Excellent communication skill in Local Language and English