Education Specialist at Norwegian Refugee Council

Role and responsibilities

Generic responsibilities

• Develop Education strategy, technical SOPs, and Macro LFAs in line with NRC Programme Policy and national and international standards, and in coordination with other Core Competences
• Compliance with and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures
• Contribute to fundraising, develop and revise funding proposal, budgets and donor reports
• Identify trends technical standards and donor priorities
• Follow up on compliance with contractual commitments within Education CC, ensure high technical quality and synergies in project implementation
• Provide technical direction and project implementation support
• Development of holistic and needs based programmes, including cash-based interventions and marked based programmes
• Ensure that key learnings are extracted from Education CC implementation, and incorporate them in Education CC and staff development processes
• Provide systematic training and build capacity of technical staff

Specific responsibilities

• Provide technical support to the Accelerated Education Programme (AEP) in Kakuma which is scaling up and Dadaab which has been ongoing.
• Engage with KICD (Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development) for the development of an AEP curriculum aligned to the new competency-based curriculum
• Strengthening of the Education Technology (Ed-Tech) project in Dadaab and support the Kakuma team integrate Ed-Tech into their AEP
• In collaboration with VSOs, support the alignment of TIC (Teachers in Crisis Context) training modules with the Primary Teachers Education (PTE) modules
• Ensure the inclusion of cash-based interventions and market based programmes in country and area-based strategies and their implementation across and within NRC’s core competencies

Generic professional competencies for this position:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in working as a senior Program Manager and/or Advisor of humanitarian/ recovery education programme, preferably in refugees / IDPs environments
• Proven expertise in Education (formal, non-formal and informal) with particular focus of complex programme with out of schoolchildren, youth.
• Experience of setting up and implementing monitoring, documentation and learning systems.
• University degree or higher education relevant to education and / or social science assignment.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, analytical and negotiation skills
• Proven skills and experience in report and proposal writing
• Knowledge of cash-based interventions and market based programmes
• Ability to prioritize needs and carry out multiple tasks simultaneously
• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Prior experience and proven capability in training and capacity development
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal