Position:                            Education Officer

Reports to:                       Education Coordinator

Supervision of:                 Education Assistants

Duty station:                    Wau

Travel:                               90% to project sites

All NRC employees are expected to work in accordance with the organisation’s core values: dedication, innovation, inclusivity and accountability. These attitudes and believes shall guide our actions and relationships.

1. Role and responsibilities

The Project Officer is responsible for the day to day implementation of the Education activities in Aweil.

Generic responsibilities 

1. Ensure adherence to NRC policies, tool, handbooks, guidelines and donor requirements
2. Implement the Education activities according to strategy, proposals, budgets and plans
3. Prepare periodic status reports and other documents as required by management
4. Ensure proper filing of documents
5. Break down the annual operational plans into weekly, monthly and quarterly implementation plans
6. Coordinate with relevant partners
7. Ensure that procurement, development and distribution of materials and equipment are timely and according to procedures
8. Train and develop team
9. Promote and share ideas for technical improvement in order to improve the quality of the activities
10. Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need, and explore and asses new and better ways to assist

Specific responsibilities 

1. Ensure  correct data collection and tracking of all durable solutions education related activities and participate in compiling education related internal (bi-weekly, GORS, monthly Sitrep, quarterly) and external (interim and final) reports and IP Reporting and Monitoring Dashboard or any other tools.
2. Take responsibility for any materials, tools, vehicles, communication equipment provided by NRC
3. Lead in organizing and facilitating trainings programmes under education that contribute to achieve durable solutions
4. Lead the Education emergency team in developing training programmes for teachers, PTAs and Children including follow-up and support.
5.  Participate in cluster trainings by offering technical skills and knowledge when required in consultation with the line manager.
6. Determine training needs of teachers and CMCs from time together with the cluster and the Project coordinator
7. Determine resource materials required for effective teaching including improvised teaching and learning materials to supplement stationeries supplied to schools.
8. Establish appropriate teacher resource kits within learning centres in consultations with teachers and SMoGEI
9. Develop and execute teacher CPD through in-service training in collaboration with SMoGEI
10. Regular monitoring of schools targeted, timely payment of teachers and tutors incentives.
11. Performance management of Education assistants under your responsibility in collaboration with the line manager
12. Attend Education cluster meetings to share updates on achievements and challenges under durable solutions project.
13. Other relevant tasks as assigned by the Line Manager.

Critical interfaces

By interfaces, NRC means processes and projects that are interlinked with other departments/units or persons. Relevant interfaces for this position are:

•             Other Education staff including core competency specialists.

Scale and scope of position

1. Competencies 

1. Value driven competencies

Values are aspirational attitudes and beliefs that influence the way people conduct themselves. NRC’s values are: Dedicated, Innovated, Inclusive and Accountable.

 2. Behavioral competencies

These are personal qualities that influence how successful people are in their job. Of the 12 behavioral competencies, the following are essential for this position:

• Managing resources and achieving results
• Handling insecure environments
• Working with people
• Coping with change

3. Professional competencies 

These are skills, knowledge and experience that are important for effective performance.

Generic professional competencies for this position: 

• Experience from working as an Education Project Officer in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Experience in teacher training and Post-secondary education required.
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Knowledge about own manager skills/profile
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal

Context related skills, knowledge and experience (shall be adapted to the specific position):

• Knowledge of the context
• Knowledge of Juba Arabic and other local languages an advantage
• Good-level competency in computer skills (common Microsoft Windows and Office applications)
• Proven skills and experience in report writing
• Strong organizational and logistical skills and the ability to work with little infrastructure and to function in difficult situations including limited transport options

1. Performance Management

The employee will be accountable for and evaluated on the responsibilities and the competencies, based on NRC’s Performance Management System. The following documents will be used for performance reviews:

• The Job Description
• The individual Work- and Professional Development Plan
• The Competency Framework