Education Officer at Street Child

JOB DESCRIPTIO

Reporting to: Education Project Manager

Hours: 37 hours full time. 8:30 AM – 5:15 PM with forty-five minutes lunch break from Monday to Thursday. 8:30 AM – 1:30PM on Friday

Principal Location: Maiduguri, Borno with Frequent travel to Adamawa

Background:

Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 338,000 children to go to school and learn and supported over 29,000 families to set up businesses so they can afford the cost of educating their children.

Part 1:  Role Purpose:

Street Child is looking for an education project officer to support the implementation of two multi-year projects funded by ECW and Educate a Child. The projects seeks to provide quality inclusive education for conflict affected children across the Bay states by providing access to education, ensuring quality education through building capacity of teachers, providing case management services first children and supporting caregivers with economic empowerment. Street Child’s primary areas of operation will be in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe.

The main responsibility of the project office will be to support the project manager to manage and coach implementing partners to deliver high quality programming and progress the project implementation against the work plan and the objectives, achieving timely project outputs and outcomes. The project officer will work under the support and supervision of the Project Manager and will submit regular reports with evidence of the progress.

The position requires proven knowledge and experience of delivering integrated programming with particular technical skills in education and child protection in emergencies. The ideal candidate would have good communication skills, analytical thinking, innovative problem-solving skills, as well as creativity and flexibility.

Part 2:  Key Responsibilities:

1. Project Implementation (60%)
   • Monitoring of all activities implemented by partner staff, ensuring they are contributing to the targets and indicators outlined in the programme documents and results framework.
   • Support Project Manager to develop quarterly workplans and budget forecasts
   • Support national implementing partners to reflect quarterly activity planning and budget forecasting in line with the timeline of the project.
   • Ensure that all activities implemented are in line with budget expenditure and forecasting.  
   • Report any issues with project implementation to Project Manager with suggestions for innovative solutions to challenges as they arise.
   • Identify gaps in implementing partner capacity and support project manager and Partnership Coordinator.
2. Reporting (30%)
   • Preparation of internal narrative progress reports on a monthly and quarterly basis, including submission of project case studies.
   • Support project manager in preparation of donor narrative progress reports on a quarterly, midterm and annual basis, or additionally as requested.
   • Ensure that implementing partners are submitting monthly narrative progress reports to Street Child in a timely manner, with support and guidance to improve reporting capacity.
   • Support project manager with review of monthly BVA’s and forecasting to ensure spending is in line with project timeline and activities implemented are in line with the work plan.
   • Conduct monthly BVA’s with the implementing partner to ensure accuracy of spending and identify any clear areas of over or underspend that may effect the project delivery timeline.
   • Provide support to project manager and MEAL team to prepare for required baseline, midline and endline assessments.
   • Ensure there is a functioning information pathway with submission of project data, MoV’s and activity reports to MEAL team in order for verification checks to be carried out. 
3. Leadership (10%)

• Display excellent interpersonal, listening and communication skills among colleagues, partners and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrate ability to work and deliver under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Demonstrate ability to work in flexible, sub-optimal, stressful and unstable environment.
• Ensure safeguarding practices are adhered to by Street Child and implementing partner teams, and immediately report any concerns. 

Part 3:  Person Specification