The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity, and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

The IRC is the recipient of a new, USAID-funded 5 year basic education program, named the Accessible and Quality Basic Education (AQBE), Afghanistan. The AQBE will support more than 200,000 children in both  public and CBE education across 8 provinces to address key barriers and challenges facing equitable access to quality learning through:

1. Improving the delivery of quality instruction in foundational skills and the delivery of wellbeing support for students by educators;
2. Reinforcing community school management and family engagement to sustain access to learning;
3. Increasing the transition rate of CBE students into public schools; and
4. Sustaining equitable learning opportunities for all learners.

The AQBE project, under the leadership of the Chief of Party (COP), is housed by the IRC, but includes a dedicated Project Management Unit (PMU), who is in charge of ensuring coordination across the 7 AQBE partners, technical standardization for all project delivery, and transparency, accountability and reporting to USAID for all supported activities.

The PMU IR4 lead will ensure quality control over technical deliverables developed, adapted,

and delivered under IR4, which focuses on ensuring access to school for out of school girls, and ensure that there is an equitable targeting of males and females in education programs. The IR4

lead, with an additional gender focus, will convene and lead the TWG on IR4 deliverables,

including Home Based Remedial models, that are specific to IR4. For teacher trainings

developed under IR1, the IR4 lead will ensure a gender equity lens, and ensure that female

trainings are planned and executed by IPs. The IR4 lead will ensure that all block grants are

overseen and managed in a transparent fashion, in direct coordination with the DFA and the

Steering Committee members, and that reallocations of block grants based on crisis

modification is communicated upwards to the Technical Director and DCOP

Main Responsibilities:

• Supporting the development, adaptation and delivery of key IR4 technical deliverables, including: Block Grants for reaching out of school girls; virtual adaptation of trainings to reach female teachers; and other innovations to expand equitable access to education and training for females;
• Support the oversight and development of the Block Grant mechanism, in coordination with the Technical Director and the Director of Finance and Administration;
• Support the adaptation for remote delivery of teacher training content, in coordination with IRC’s EdTech Advisor and the Technical Director;
• Support and oversee content development and adaptation, including Back to Learning curricula for out of school girls, in coordination with IRC’s Curriculum Technical Advisor;
• Supporting the adaptation of flexible mechanisms and approaches to reach out of school girls, in coordination with the Technical Director;

• Minimum 3-5 years of technical development and implementation experience focused on girls education, Community Based Education (CBE) and supporting equitable access to education;
• Experience in identification and support for local CSO’s to deliver small scale technical programming;
• Experience with capacity building support for national partners in program management
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, master’s degree is preferable, in education
• Experience with community-based education and education formal system support
• Excellent communication and coordination skills  
• Excellent communication skills in Pashto, Dari and English.
• Wiling to travel and conduct field visits regularly.

For IRC- Afghanistan Internal Candidates:

(“ The IRC encourages employees to remain in a position for at least one year and be in good standing before applying for another position within the organization. if an employee is interested in a vacant position within the organization, he/she must inform his/her supervisor in advance before applying for a new position”)

(However, 1 year is a must to complete but to encourage IRCA employees somehow we are flexible who work in the current IRC position for at least 6 months or above and are given chance to compete for an opportunity in the organization)

Please apply using the following link.

https://rescue.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/56103?c=rescue

Applicaitons recieved via any other means such as E-mail or in hard copy will not be considered. 

Shortlisted candidates will be directly contacted for a written test and after that for interviews. If you are not contacted TWO or FOUR WEEKS after the closing date it means that your application has not been successful for the post.

IRC Afghanistan AQBE Office, Qala-e-Fathullah, Street # 2, District 10.