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Together, we save lives and rebuild futures.

Safeguarding is central to NRC’s work. We expect all employees to: 

• treat everyone with respect and dignity 

• contribute to building a safe environment for all 

• never engage in any form of exploitation, harassment and specifically sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment (SEAH) 

• always report. NRC has a zero-tolerance approach to inaction against exploitation, abuse and SEAH

Job Overview :

The Education Technical Officer works with the Education Technical Assistants, the area Education PM/Coordinator, and the Education Master Trainers to ensure the quality of NRC’s education programme in the respective province which will be implemented through local partners. He/she will also be responsible to regularly monitor the progress of the project activities, provide technical direction to Implementing Partners (IPs) and improve their technical capacity to ensure quality implementation of NRC’s education projects. 

The aim of NRC’s Education program is to enable vulnerably, displaced, returnee, and host community children and youth to have access to quality education in a protective environment

Generic responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance with NRC policies, guidelines, and standards.
• Implement plan of action for the delegated portfolio of CC Education projects (activities, budget, and project documentation).
• Day-to-day follows progress in project implementation.
• Ensure compliance with Education strategy, tools, handbooks, guidelines, and standards.
• Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need of protection explore and assess new and better ways to assist target populations per the Education strategy.
• Provide specific technical support and capacity building towards project staff including CBWs.
• Provide specific technical analysis and feedback to NRC representatives in coordination forums
• Assess, promote and document ideas for technical improvement and further program development options.
• Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy.
• Management of project staff.

Specific responsibilities:

• Take the leadership of project implementation of the education activities in technical components of education projects; Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) Community Based Education (CBE), School Improvement Plan (SIP) Education First Phase Response (EFPR), Education in Emergency (EiE) and Support to Formal Education (SFE)
• Coaching and mentoring of subordinates during the project implementation, Conduct staff competency assessment (Development Plan) and share the results with Education PM and PC to design training/workshops to assure team capacity building and transfer key competencies to education staff.
• Ensure project quality implementation considering the safe programming standards/components in target locations  
• Take the lead of the handover process and coordinate with education staff and stakeholders to promote successful handover of community-based classes and education in emergencies classes to the MoE by supporting the relationship between community-based teachers, school shuras, hub schools, and DEDs/PED.
• Assure that all needed memorandum of understandings with Hub Schools, CBE School Shuras, and house owners are taken in place. 
• Take the leads of community-driven to increase community participation and contribution in project implementation through engaging the community in activities and facilitating the community understanding of the overall project (goals and objectives). 
• Conduct field visits to observe the team and to assist with activity implementation and organize joint monitoring with project stakeholders.
• Prepare budget estimations in field-based events/activities considering the allocated budget and make sure that all monthly payments have been done.
• Participate in and chairing of the coordination meetings with teachers, Shuras, and Hub school management and ensure all pre-meeting preparations have been done.  
• Being accountable for assessments, surveys to find the gaps/needs for better response including SIP and EFPR activities.
• Collaborate and communicate with other NRC core competencies on the integration of programming, local authorities, stakeholders, and other partners.
• Being active on negotiation events for the humanitarian access on expansion of the project activities.
• Ensuring accountable database for Education project according to all the components of the project and regular update of data collection.
• Coordinate with support unit (Finance, Health Safety and Security, Logistic and Admin/HR) on the relevant issue of project implementation.
• Ensure all required materials (Learning kit, teacher kit, class kit, hygienic/disinfection materials, textbooks) are provided/available in ALP & CBE classes. Distribution of educational kits/materials and textbooks for responsible ALP & CBE classes and collection and handover of the collected textbooks to the relevant hub schools. 
• Promote psychosocial support and new awareness-raising subjects on the protection of children considering the Do No Harm in Education activities.
• Establishment of close work relationship with education staff especially dedicative staff (EFPR, BLP, and database) on promoting filling system/data collection, EFPR activities, and psychosocial support of beneficiaries and other core competencies staff considering the integration approach.
• Prepare a SMART weekly plan and be accountable for the implemented activities through providing means of verifications (MoVs) 
• Prepare quarterly progress report to PED, weekly report, training report, meeting minutes and joint monitoring reports, and M&E matrix.
• Any other tasks which assigned by Education PM/PC and FOC.

Generic professional competencies for this position:

• Experience from working Education project implementation position in a humanitarian/recovery context.
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
• Good English, both written and verbal including local languages
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile.

Context/specific skills, knowledge and experience:

• University degree in Education (Education Management, Planning, General Education), Social Science and Development Studies, Master is an asset.
• Minimum 4 years’ relevant experience in implementation of education or similar projects in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Experience of working in Education Emergency is an advantage.
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal
• Knowledge of the local languages – Dari, Pashto and Uzbeki
• Experience in capacity building and training of staff – ToT.
• Familiarity with the geographical context of Sar e Pul province/North area.
• Political and cultural awareness and experience of working where insecurity is an issue.

We offer:

• Monthly Salary based on NRC Afghanistan Salary Scale.
• NRC has medical coverage for staff plus 4 dependants. 
• Leave and Holidays accordingly Afghanistan Labour Law.
• Top up Credit card on monthly basis

Interested qualified candidates can apply by clicking on below link:

Online Application Form

Note: All applicants are supposed to create and properly fill online CV profile in the NRC People site, example (personal, education, experience background etc..) and only attaching CV will not be enough.

We do not have to inform all the candidates. Only those who closely meet the job requirement will be informed.