Education Officer

GRADE: 5 CONTRACT LENGTH: Fixed Term
CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level 3: The post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in a month or more or overnight) because they work on field level programs, or have access to personal data about children or young people as part of their work; therefore, a police check will not be mandatory for this post unless the content of the post changes, in which case the Child Safeguarding level should be reviewed.
ROLE PURPOSE:
Provide technical and operational support to SC implementing partners in relevent province Monitor project activities being implemented by partners.
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Monitor and provide technical support to the work of partner staff at provincial and district level.
• Monitor the distribution of Teaching and Learning Material (TLM) kits.
• Review and finalize the teacher’s payroll
• Provide work plan and quality progress reports to Education Coordinator on bi-weekly and monthly basis.
• Regularly update the Indicator Performance Tracking Table (IPTT)
• Support MEAL team in Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM)
• Programme coordination with relevant stakeholders.
• Build and maintain positive working relationships with partners and other key stakeholders.
• Conduct field visits and collect firsthand data from partners about project progress and challenges.
• Ensure safer partnership practices and safeguarding in the field.
• Assist the partner staff with administrative, documentation and other duties as needed.
• Ensure that all data trackers are up to date and make sure the data in the shared drive are up to date.
• Establishing a comprehensive file system to record and keep track of all project activities documents in soft copies.
• Use monitoring checklists for each visit and prepare the bi-weekly and monthly reports.
• Facilitate the ToT sessions with implementing partners at National and Sub-National level.
• Ensure the Education Project Tracking System (EPTS) is up to date.
• Any additional task as per office requirement or by line manager.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
Accountability:

• holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modeling Save the Children values
• holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

QUALIFICATIONS

• University degree in education, social science, or any other relevant technical credentials

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Essential

• Having 4 Years of Experience as Education Officer/ Education Trainer/Teachers Trainer/Capacity Building Officer in the NGOs Sector.
• Knowledge of MS Office, particularly Word, PPT, while previous experience with database
• Strong training delivery skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills (English is preferable)
• Responsible, reliable, punctual and ability to multi-task.
• Ability to work under pressure.

Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within the reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.
Equal Opportunities
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
Child Safeguarding:
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Health and Safety
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.