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