Education in Emergencies Advisor – Humanitarian Surge Team at Save the Children

About the role
We are currently looking for an Education in Emergencies Advisor – Humanitarian Surge Team to join our team. As the Education in Emergencies Advisor, you will be rapidly deployed to support education program teams and ensure that Education in Emergencies (EiE) programming is of excellent technical quality, attracts significant donor funding and contributes significantly to SC strategic objectives, national/global learning and advocacy.

You will bring to the role with you:

• Previous experience of implementing awards funded by institutional donors with medium to high levels of compliance requirements, e.g. ECHO, CIDA, USAID, OFDA, DfID.  (European donors, European Commission or Scandinavian experience is preferred.) 
• Good knowledge of key education standards, in particular INEE and demonstrated ability to set up learning and development processes in humanitarian settings.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience of working in Education programmes in a humanitarian or development context. 

Proficiency in English and working knowledge of a second language (French, Spanish, or Arabic) is a must.  

About us 
The Global Expertise and Humanitarian Surge Platform (GEHSP) is Save the Children's global humanitarian surge, technical expertise and new business development deployment management function, operating o behalf of both members and SCI. It is dedicated to identifying, developing and deploying skilled and experienced talent from across the movement to meet the needs of our domestic and international programmes and humanitarian responses. Our vision is to help to improve the quality, timeliness, and effectiveness of our humanitarian responses and programmes; directly contributing to Save the Children's capability to deliver the best outcomes for children and their families.

About HST
HSTs work alongside country, regional and member teams to support the scale up and management of international and domestic emergency responses, enabling positive change for children. The role of the surge staff varies depending on the needs of the response and could include: 

• deploying in the first days or hours following a natural disaster or crisis to lead the first phase of a response to sudden onset emergency; 
• supporting ongoing emergency response and recovery work through providing advice, guidance and expertise in a specific skill area; 
• providing short term interim cover for country office staff;  
• supporting delivery of capacity building initiatives.