SAVE THE CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL
ROLE PROFILE
JOB TITLE: Programme Education Officer
TEAM: Education – SB2S LOCATION: Adamawa
GRADE: 4
POST TYPE: National
CONTRACT LENGTH: 1 year (renewable based on performance & funding)
CHILD SAFEGUARDING
Level 3. The responsibilities of this post may require the post holder to have regular contact with children and young people.
As part of these responsibilities the post holder will support the establishment of child safeguarding systems, promote a culture of keeping children safe, and ensure that potential harm to children (by our own staff and/or as a result of how we do our work) is identified and addressed on an ongoing basis. The post holder should report and respond to interventions as determined by position related responsibilities identified in the Child Safeguarding Policy.
ROLE PURPOSE:
ROLE PURPOSE:
Save the Children is a leading independent organization creating lasting change for children in need around the world. With its headquarters in London, UK, SC works in over 120 countries globally, including Nigeria, helping children survive, learn and be protected by improving their education, health, nutrition, protection and economic opportunities, and in times of acute crisis, mobilizing rapid life-saving assistance to help children recover from the effects of war, conflict and natural disasters.
Save the Children Nigeria is implementing a Safe Back 2 School (SB2S) programme in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe Staes, Nigeria. This is a one-year initiative intended to continue our work with communities, federal, State, and local government education authorities to ensure enrolment and retention of learners, as well as improve learners’ learning levels in literacy and numeracy. The project also intends to amplify stakeholders’ commitment to climate change resilience activities in schools.
The project is designed to contribute towards the attainment of foundational skills with an integration of SEL, to address barriers to equity for the most marginalized children and climate resilience actions. The project approach, strategies, and interventions are gender-sensitive and have a high level of child-safeguarding measures.
The Programme Education Officer will provide operational and technical support to the project team under the leadership of the Education Programme Coordinator to implement all Education activities for the project. The job holder will also be working closely with SCI Education, Advocacy, Communication, Campaigns and Media, Operations Teams and other stakeholders at the community, LGA and State level.
Under the guidance of the Education Programme Coordinator, he/she will ensure that the SB2S project adheres to safe programming and is implemented in a coordinated, harmonized and aligned manner.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Education Programme Coordinator
Staff directly reporting to this post: NIL
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY
Project Coordination & Management:
Implement the SB2S project activities like back to school campaigns, enrolment drives, door to door campaigns, community mobilization to bring out of school children and retain at risk of dropped out children across the BAY States, Nigeria in line with the design of the project.
Support the Education Programme Coordinator to establish, maintain, and strengthen linkages in the design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, reporting of Safe Back 2 School (SB2S) project.
Ensure that procurement and distribution of teaching and learning materials and equipment on timely and in line with SCI policies and procedures; ensure accuracy of portfolio inventory (assets, supplies, materials) with supply chain and operations team.
Conduct and contribute to needs assessment, baseline and endline assessment in the respective project locations.
Ensure accurate project documentation, including collection of monitoring data and tracking of progress on output indicators; utilize data to contribute to reports as requested by management.
Supervise and manage the teachers, including facilitation of teacher training.
Support facilitation of training programs for teachers, school safety committee, climate change resilience school clubs and SBMCs.
Support activities around safe schools and climate resilience actions.
Support enrolment campaign activities and coordination with the different stakeholders.
Facilitate relationships with communities and community leaders to ensure buy-in and Do No Harm
Create and sustain positive working relationships with the partners, government officials and other key stakeholders and work in collaboration with relevant education authorities to support the SB2S project implementation.
Contribute to ensuring timely and quality reports are submitted as per the reporting requirements to the Education sector lead and Head of Education.
Working closely with Education Programme Coordinator to ensure quality programme design, delivery, documentation and reporting of education activities in the respective States.
Operational Planning and implementation
Work closely with the Education Programme Coordinator in developing, planning and monitoring project detail implementation plan, procurement plan, phased budget, MEAL Plan with documentation and reporting for all Education interventions in the State.
Recommend technical solutions to speed up the project implementation and budget performance in line with the project work plan and budget.
Effectively support the project team in developing plans, in line with best practices for education project design and Save the Children International planning guidelines and ensure compliance with the agreed work plans and that program objectives and targets are being achieved in line with the funding proposal.
Maintain high standard of safeguarding, transparency and accountability during program design and support in expediting implementation while ensuring integrity and timeliness of project duration and meeting program objectives, compliance with donors & Save the Children policies.
Support in providing regular operations and implementation updates to the Project and State Team Leads on project progress and challenges to allow for timely interventions and corrective actions by the management.
Ensure the timely reviews and adjustments for the project operational and implementation plan and budget as may be required from time to time.
Safeguarding
Ensure safe programming in the planning, implementation, monitoring, trainings, campaigns and workshops across the SB2S project period.
Adhere to the Do no Harm principles across the entire steps within the Program Management Cycle
Financial and Narrative Reporting.
Support the development and review of timely and high-quality progress and end of project narrative and financial reports which are in accordance with the donor reporting schedule and formats.
Participate in reviewing all program financial reports ensuring that donor guidelines have been followed and are of high standards.
Participate in progress review meetings to address key performance issues from the reports.
Internal and external engagements
Ensuring that the program experience is represented and given recognition at stakeholder meetings, workshops, donor, networks, and any other engagements.
Develop and maintain regular channels of communication with partners and key stakeholders at all levels (LGA, State and National).
MEAL
Effectively support MEAL staff in assessments, baseline, and evaluation studies, putting in place a functional Activity Tracking Table.
Ensure that the projects’ quality benchmarks are followed up and implemented in project interventions.
Collecting and managing complaints and feedback in close coordination with MEAL team and Education Team.
Ensure regular monitoring of projects results, documentation of projects case studies, lessons learnt, significant changes and best practices and coordinating learning and reflection meetings/sessions.
Ensure effective programs/ projects monitoring, and evaluation systems is in place.
Monitor programs/ projects activities to ensure quality, timeliness and adherence to both Country Office and Save the Children policies and procedures.
BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
Accountability:
holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling 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.
Supporting in the development of the Detailed Implementation Plan, participating in stakeholders’ meetings, and contribute to narrative reporting in line with donor requirement. The job holder will also be working closely with stakeholders at the community, LGA and State level.
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
Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in education or other related fields. Experience in managing integrated programs across different thematic areas such as inclusive education, climate change education, teacher education, Teacher Professional Development (TPD), Child protection, child rights or governance is an advantage.
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Essential
At least 3 years of accrued working experience in programme implementation with an International NGO and those applying partnership approaches is desirable.
Experience in strategic thinking and planning skills, being able to set priorities, prepare manageable plans and to evaluate progress.
Experience of working on and supporting the implementation of climate change education interventions in humanitarian or development setting is an added advantage.
Ability to coach, mentor and build the capacity of teachers in a humanitarian or development setting will be an added advantage.
Experience of working with diverse group of stakeholders at the community, LG, State and National levels.
Strong analytical skills and strategic planning abilities.
Ability to establish and maintain cordial relations and perform effectively as a member of a team.
Willingness to travel and work in hard-to-reach areas, occasionally under strenuous conditions.
Computer literacy and excellent documentation skills are a must.
Availability and willingness to work extra hours during times of humanitarian responses.
Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
Ability to intervene with crisis management or troubleshooting as necessary.
Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching.
Excellent time management and planning capacity.
Fluent English language skills (written and verbal) and Local language skills (Hausa, etc.).
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 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.