Education Assistant at Save The Children

Description

• The responsibilities of this post may require the post holder to have regular contact with children and young people.
• In the overseas context allposts are considered to be level 3.
• 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

• The Education Assistant will be a part of the Education team.
• He/she will assist the Education team with activities such as Enrolment, back to learning campaigns, community engagement with SBMCs, among other responsibilities assigned regarding enrolment and retention in schools.
• S/he will also support in ensuring Accountability in supported communities including information sharing, participation, and ensuring efficient feedback and response mechanisms.

Main Responsibilites

• Implement delegated reaching out of school project in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements, and ensure high technical quality.
• Ensure that procurement and distribution of materials and equipment is timely and in line with SCI policies and procedures; ensure accuracy of portfolio inventory (assets, supplies, materials)
• Contribute to assessments (baseline, midline and endline, needs, market)
• 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
• Facilitate relationships with communities and community leaders to ensure buy-in and Do No Harm
• Supervise and manage the teachers, including facilitation of teacher training
• Provide support on youth/adolescent programming, including, life skills, basic literacy/numeracy, and alternative/accelerated education.
• Support identification of needs, and development and facilitation of training programmes for teachers, PTAs, SBMCs
• Facilitate recruitment of volunteer teachers and learning facilitators in the project
• Contribute to proposal and strategy development through input on needs/gaps
• Any other task relevant to the position as requested by the line manager.
• Contribute to the preparation of timely and high-quality progress and end of projects narrative and financial reports which are in accordance with the donor reporting schedule and formats.
• participate quarterly follow ups and progress review meetings to address key performance issues from the reports.
• 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 (Community, LGEA and State).
• Effectively manage projects design and study processes which include assessments, baseline and evaluation studies, putting in place a functional Activity Tracking Table.
• Ensure that the projects quality benchmarks are followed.
• Collecting and managing complaints and feedback in close coordination with MEAL team and Projects Officers.
• 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 an 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 international Save the Children policies and procedures.

Qualifications and Experience
Essential:

• Minimum of Bachelor`s Degree / Higher National Diploma in Education or other related fields of study
• At least 2 years of accrued working experience in program implementation in a National or international NGO and those applying partnership approaches is desirable.
• Experience in strategic thinking and planning skills, be able to set priorities, prepare manageable plans and to evaluate progress.
• Experience of working on TaRL and with Out of School Children (OOSC) with local partners and Local Government and State Authorities in the Northwest Nigeria is an added advantage.
• Strong analytical skills and strategic planning abilities.
• Ability to establish and maintain conducive collegial 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, Fulfulde etc.).
• Experience of working in remote field bases with limited infrastructure
• Experiencing in managing and supervising others in logistics and procurement functions.
• Ability to synthesise and analyse information, and make clear, informed decisions
• Ability to build relationships quickly with a wide range of people, both internally and externally
• Strong planning, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organise a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities
• Cultural awareness, with strong written and spoken communication and interpersonal skills in English.

Core Behaviours:

• Work closely with Education Officer and Education Coordinator, to ensure planning of day to day implementation, update on spending, implementation, monitoring, and documentation and reporting for ROOSC project.
• Ensure timely implementation and budget performance in line with the projects plans and budgets.
• Effectively support the teachers in proper service delivery are in line with ROOSC Project design and Save the Children International planning guidelines and ensure compliance with the agreed work plans and that programme objectives and targets are being realized in line with the funding proposals.
• Ensure that ROOSC Project implementation are to the desired standards and on time.
• Maintain high standard of transparency and accountability in the course of programme implementation while ensuring integrity and timeliness of activities implementation in meeting programme objectives, compliance with donors & Save the Children policies.
• Provision of regular operations and implementation updates on project progress and challenges to allow for timely interventions and corrective actions by management.