Location: Bale
Employee Status: Fixed Term
Job Description
The Opportunity GAC/BOE : Education Project Coordinator BRIGHT LEARNING OUTCOMES funded project
Role/Purpose:
The project Coordinator for BRIGHT OUTCOMES funded project will work with regional education bureau, district education offices and community to bring back into school and retain girls at schools.
The Project Coordinator will lead the education project at region level, which will be responsible for: (i) overall coordination of the project, (ii) community mobilization; (iii) overall monitoring, review and reporting processes of the project, and (v) ensuring a harmonized implementation approach across schools.
The position holder will technically guide and advise BRIGHT OUTCOMES project implementation ensuring that it is of high quality and aligned with BRIGHT OUTCOMES education proposal and indicators. The position-holder will also be responsible for aligning the project to the Education Clusters emergency response especially in establishing and maintaining inter-agency coordination mechanisms . Given the emergency nature of the programme and areas of intervention, the role holder will be expected to work outside the regular role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY
Program/Project Management
Prepare project detailed implementation plan for its location;
- 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 BRIGHT OUTCOMES project.
- Ensure active participation and representation of beneficiary girls and boys in the project.
- Ensure that programme implementation is gender sensitive 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 marginalised 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, Budget Management, Harmonisation 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.
- Participate in the preparation of the project budgets and monitor project expenditures as per donor requirements.
- Supervise performance report of project officer.
- Ensure the planning of all activities of the programme as well as budget in coordination with project stakeholders.
- Assist in establishing project work plans and monitor progress and compliance.
- Ensure that funds are properly utilized, monitored and liquidated on time
- Take appropriate actions to optimize use of project fund.
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 strengthening 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.
In order to be successful you will bring/have:
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 is mandatory (Afan Oromo
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
- Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary capacity to improve performance and applying appropriate measures when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for himself/herself (and their team).
- Takes responsibility for his/her own personal actions and encourages others to do the same.
- Widely shares his/her personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- Future orientated, thinks strategically
Collaboration:
- Builds and maintains effective relationships, his/her team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters
- Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength.
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
- Willing to take disciplined risks
Integrity:
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency
- Assists in the processing of advance requests and follow on the retirement of such advances.
KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITY
- Strong training skill
- Willingness and ability to dramatically change work practices, flexibility in working long hours and ability to work with incoming surge teams;
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills;
- Fluency in written and spoken English;
- Commitment to Save the Children values
- Teams, in the event of emergencies
We offer a competitive package in the context of the sector. Please add further detail here as required. For example: This role is offered on the basis of national terms and conditions only.
Salary as per scale of organization and competitive benefit packages like medical insurance
The Organisation
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
- No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
- All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
- Violence against children is no longer tolerated
We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
Application Information:
Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/careers
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.