Location: , Ethiopia
Employee Status: Fixed Term
Job Description
The Opportunity GPE II : Education Project Officer for SFP-CCACE
Role Purposes :
The Role of the School Feeding Project officer for Children in Crisis Affected Communities in Ethiopia” (SFP-CCACE), which will create better access to, and quality education for the children in the target regions will be leading the day-to-day implementation of the school feeding intervention in the target schools. This post will undertake supervision of field-based staff, manage the field office, coordinate delivery of programme goods, collect, analyse and forward programme information to the Head Office, Organise and implement trainings for staff, school personnel and volunteers, provide a conduct for information flow from the field to the head office, resolve programme related issues and liaise with appropriate stakeholders on community mobilization and participation in RSFP activities.
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY
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.
MAIN 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 GPE 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
- Perform any other activities based on line manager’s assignment
Documentation and Learning
- Contribute to the proper documentation of experiences and lessons (including pictures and video documentation) learned in the course of programme implementation.
- Support the MEAL unit to organize and properly maintain database and information related to the programme.
- Facilitates and participate in studies and reviews related to the programme.
- Facilitates and ensure dissemination of information and study/reviews.
In order to be successful you will bring/have:
MINIMUM QUALFICATION, EXPEREINCE, COMPETENCIES
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCES
- Minimum of Degree in Education and other social sciences
- Minimum of 4 years working experience preferable with NGOs especially in development and emergency education projects.
- Experience on school feeding program is an advantage
- Team working and ability to work under pressure.
- Computer skills (Microsoft word and excel).
- Good communication skills – in English and local language.
- Good organisation and attention to detail
- Strong report writing skills
- Knowledge of Afan Oromo language is mandatory
- Willingness and ability to work in hardship environment and meet tight deadlines.
- Cultural and gender sensitivity
- Experience in MS Office package (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio), web conferencing applications, and information and budget management systems.
- Experience of coordinating activities across locations and with roving position
- Knowledge of child safeguarding and protection
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
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.