Education Officer at Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS)

Position responsibilities:

• Oversight of the learning centres, ensuring that the learning environment is conducive for the learners and the academic staff.
• Collaborate with the project staff and ensure stakeholder accountability by ensuring that project activities are carried out in the most sustainable, effective, and efficient way possible
• Support the Education Coordinator promptly provide progress reports for internal and external use on a regular basis
• Ascertain that partners and interested stakeholders at all levels are involved in the project's activities and that they are carried out in compliance with the authorized work plans.
• Support the coordinator in gathering of valuable data on a regular basis as a verifiable feedback mechanism to monitor the project success and overall impact.
• Ensure that scholastic materials and other educational resources are distributed to target schools in an effective and efficient manner.
• Collaborate with other departments to make sure that operational systems, such as procurement, security, administration, and logistics (transport, warehousing, and asset management), are in place to support field operations.
• Through community mobilization and the enhancement of training materials and programs, support the Education Coordinator in the creation and execution of a strategy to improve and strengthen the management of school committees, PTAs and student councils
• Support the coordinator in gathering of valuable data on a regular basis as a verifiable feedback mechanism to monitor the project success and overall impact.
• Routinely visit the learning centres for monitoring exercises, communicating valuable feedback for the project coordinator and the program teams
• Ensure that information and data from field-based monitoring are routinely compiled and provided to the MEAL Assistant and the Education Coordinator for reporting and monitoring needs.
• Work with the MEAL Assistant to collect project data to produce useful information that can be utilized for continuing program decision-making and to record outcomes at the impact level.
• Through the supervision of the coordinator, establish good working relationship with respective local authorities, implementing partners, school managements and target communities
• Build and maintain effective relationships with the education team, other colleagues, and stakeholders

Person Specification – Essential Requirements

Qualification

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in education, Education in Emergencies, special needs education.
• Must be registered with Teachers Service Commission (TSC)
• Technical expertise in curriculum implementation
• Proven academic or on-job training and understanding of the Project Cycle model in managing humanitarian assistance with at least three (3) years in education programming.
• Experience in coordination of teacher training/capacity building programs
• Strong analytical, administration and documentation skills in the management of educational institutions or programs consisting of primary education.
• Good knowledge in project management and reporting writing skills
• Knowledge of education in emergencies, education sector policy, child rights and protection issues.
• Experience in facilitating community-based training, capacity building school management, and awareness campaigns