Education Officer

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in education, social sciences, development studies or related field.
  
• Any other relevant qualification
  

Work Experience:

• A Minimum 3 years of working experience in project implementation, monitoring and management.
  
• Experience working in humanitarian settings required.
  
• Experience in community-based programming, coordination, and stakeholder analysis.
  
• Experience in working closely with partners (more so, government stakeholders at the upper and lower local government level)
  
• Proven abilities in coordination within teams and with other stakeholders.
  
• Prior experience in developing project implementation work-plans and project reporting
  

Technical implementation of project activities:

• Lead on daily and weekly basis, the implementation of set activities in line with the approved workplan.
  
• Lead the development of training materials and campaign in line with institutional expectations.
  
• Work very closely with the Girl-Ambassadors to conduct household and community level awareness raising campaigns to send teenage girls back to school but also sensitize parents on the importance of girl’s education.
  
• Work closely and collaboratively with colleagues and partners to discuss the program operational and implementation issues, provide solutions, recommendations and/or alert appropriate officials and stakeholders for higher-level intervention and/or decisions.
  
• Work very closely with the parents to ensure that identified teenage girls are fully supported to return to school and learn.
  

Coordination, representation, and partner/stakeholder relationships:

• Ensure close collaboration with the field-based team members and consistency in protocols, information, and reporting systems in line with institutional requirements.
  
• Lead coordination efforts at each project location/zonal level by ensuring weekly and monthly coordination meetings.
  
• Work in collaboration with settlement and community leadership in (and partners) in identification and selection of clients and delivery of project activities
  

Monitoring, reporting and communication responsibilities.

• Monitoring project progress, Identify, capture, synthesize and share lessons learned for knowledge development and to build the capacity of stakeholders including documenting best practices, lessons learned and success stories in line with the agreed templates and formats.
  
• Prepare weekly and monthly program reports, and compile lessons learnt to inform continuous project implementation.
  
• Collect relevant data (in collaboration with the Education MEAL team) during project implementation and provide regular reports.
  
• Participate in the collection of data, during assessments and post-distribution surveys as and when required including design of required tools by providing technical input.
  

Other duties

• Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable implementation of the IRC programs,
  
• Raise Purchase requests as and when required,
  
• Participate in regular team meetings and supervision sessions
  
• Ensure that all materials are ready for info sessions before the activity
  
• Work constructively within the team and take the initiative on new tasks