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Duties and responsibilities:
Project Planning and Coordination - Lead the planning and implementation of education projects, ensuring alignment with organizational strategies and donor requirements.
- Develop detailed work plans, set targets, and oversee day-to-day activities to ensure effective project delivery.
- Coordinate closely with field staff and other departments (e.g., finance, logistics) to maintain project timelines and address challenges
Project Implementation; - Follow up closely on the implementation of education project activities in line with the approved project proposal, work plan, budget, and donor requirements.
- Provide technical guidance and supervision to education officers, field teams, teachers, trainers, and implementing partners.
- Ensure the quality of teacher training, coaching, mentoring, classroom observation, and continuous professional development.
- Coordinate with Federal and State Ministries of Education, Teacher Training Centres, local education authorities, school management committees, and community structures.
- Contribute to the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and final donor reports, success stories, case studies, and lessons learned.
- Monitor project expenditure against approved budgets and coordinate with finance and operations teams to ensure cost-effective implementation.
- Support procurement planning and the timely distribution of teaching and learning materials, training materials, and other educational supplies
- Ensure the integration of child safeguarding, PSEA, gender equality, disability inclusion, and child protection principles across all education activities.
- Identify implementation risks, access constraints, and operational challenges, and develop mitigation measures with relevant teams.
- Coordinate with protection, WASH, and other programme sectors to strengthen integrated and safe learning environments.
- Support community engagement and accountability mechanisms, including feedback and complaints systems for learners, caregivers, teachers, and communities.
- Facilitate coordination meetings with project teams, partners, and education stakeholders to review progress and address implementation challenges.
- Build the capacity of education staff and implementing partners through technical support, coaching, and performance monitoring.
- Document good practices, implementation challenges, and lessons learned to inform programme adaptation and future planning.
- Ensure compliance with LM International policies, donor regulations, government education standards, and relevant humanitarian and education quality standards.
- Contribute to project reviews, assessments, evaluations, and sustainability planning to strengthen learning outcomes and support the transition of learners into formal education pathways.
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) - Monitor project progress against approved indicators, targets, timelines, and deliverables, and recommend corrective actions when necessary.
- Conduct regular field visits to schools and learning centres to assess implementation quality, identify challenges, and provide technical support
- Ensure the collection, verification, analysis, and timely reporting of accurate education data in coordination with the MEAL team.
Capacity Building of local partners - Assess the technical capacity of staff and organize initiatives based on a capacity development plan to address the identified gaps.
- Assess the technical capacity of national partner organizations, contribute to the capacity development plans and support their capacity-building initiatives for local partners.
- Support and mentor education officers, facilitators, and other program staff to strengthen their capacity and skills.
- Conduct training sessions on program guidelines, reporting requirements, and implementation protocols.
- Ensure that all team members are aware of and apply relevant educational standards.
Stakeholder Engagement - Serve as the main point of contact for external partners, government agencies, and community stakeholders.
- Facilitate community engagement sessions to inform, involve, and garner support for education initiatives.
- Collaborate with local authorities and education sector partners to align program goals and share best practices.
Reporting and Documentation - Prepare timely, accurate, and comprehensive reports for internal and external audiences, including donor reporting.
- Maintain detailed records of project activities, budget expenditures, and program impact.
- Work with the M&E team to analyse data and contribute to program evaluations, incorporating lessons learned into future planning.
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Minimum Qualification, Skills and Experience Required:
- Education: Bachelor's degree in education, Social Sciences, Rural Development, or related subject.
- Experience: Minimum of 4years in a similar role within an INGO, preferably in a conflict or post-conflict setting; preferably experience in Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL), Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), Education in Emergencies (EiE), Accelerated Learning Programmes (ALP), and Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) activities, as applicable, in addition to knowledge of School Improvement Plans (SIPs) and School Improvement Grants (SIGs).
- Additional certifications: A postgraduate training certificate is required.
- Knowledge: Understanding of education data management, indicator tracking, data quality assurance, and digital reporting systems such as ActivityInfo.
- Knowledge of donor compliance, project budgeting, expenditure monitoring, and resource allocation.
- Language Requirements: English and Arabic
Required competencies. - Extrovert and easily connect with people across cultural and language barriers.
- Self-driven and a self-starter taking initiative to move processes forward.
- Can lead both downward and upwards.
- Be innovative.
- Be able to adjust to change and manage change.
- Be able to provide support to the programmes team and other departments.
- Be able to manage tasks and follow through to their completion.
- Possess excellent communication skills (both written and spoken)
Desirable competences - Be able to build and maintain good relationships with government, staff and other CSOs.
- Be analytical and able to work through complex situations.
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