Location: Mubi, Adamawa Application Link
Location: Yola, Adamawa Application Link
Job Category: Education
Role and Responsibilities
- The Education Assistant is responsible for the implementation and monitoring of project activities in the field and problem identification and solving.
Generic Responsibilities
- Adhere to NRC policies, tools, handbooks, and guidelines
- Implement activities based on project and program requirements
- Prepare status reports for internal and external reporting
- Ensure proper filing of documents and means of verification
- Identify and share ideas for improvement of the Education program
Specific Responsibilities
- Plan and implement program activities in compliance with project log frame, budget, work plan, and proposal and with NRC, donor, and humanitarian practices.
- Liaise with government education stakeholders for effective coordination
- Mobilize communities to support learning opportunities and educational participation
- Identify and register children and youth for learning activities based on NRC and donor criteria
- Plan, oversee and document the distribution of materials and supplies for learning, verifying that amounts received and distributed, and recording any losses.
- Monitor activities and ensure accuracy of data collection and tracking of community feedback and complaints in coordination with NRC's Protection and Complaints and Feedback Units.
- Ensure that learning spaces are safe for learners and report any protection concerns
- Supervise learning facilitators and enumerators and report performance concerns
- Provide training to teachers on pedagogy, child protection, and NRC’s Better Learning Program
- Develop weekly work plans and other key implementation planning documents
- Monitor implementation and provide recommendations to improve the quality of implementation
- Coordinate with other NRC programs, other organizations implementing education activities and actively participate in Education in Emergencies Working Group meetings.
Critical Interfaces
Relevant interfaces for this position are:
- Internal coordination: NRC Shelter, ICLA, WASH, Livelihoods, and Food Security, Camp Coordination and Rapid Response staff, Monitoring and Evaluation Department, Protection department.
- External coordination: government education administrators, other NGOs implementing educational activities, communities and community leaders, children, youth, parents.
- Project planning: Education Specialist, Project Manager, Project Coordinator, Education Officer, Education Assistants
- Staff capacity building: Education Specialist, Education Project Manager, Education Officer
- Implementation: Education Officer
Scale and Scope of the Position
- Staff: Supervision of nonformal education and vocational education facilitators.
- Coordination: Local education authorities, other NGO staff working in focus areas
- Budget: NA
- Information: NRC intranet
- Legal or compliance: Terms of employment, Code of Conduct
Qualifications
Professional competencies:
- At least 2 years experience in a similar position with a national or international NGO or a United Nations organization in the northeast of Nigeria
- Bachelor’s Degree in Education or a related field
- Experience in activity planning and budget management
- Experience working with and mobilizing communities
- Fluent English - speaking, reading, writing
- Analytic and computer skills, including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint
- Formal or nonformal teaching experience preferred
Context specific skills, knowledge and experience:
- Experience working in humanitarian or development activities in the northeast of Nigeria
- Fluent spoken Hausa language, with other local languages an advantage
Behavioural Competencies:
The following behavioural competencies are essential for this position:
- Handling insecure environment
- Planning and delivering results
- Empowering and building trust
- Communicating with impact and respect.
Competencies
Professional Competencies:
- At least 2 years experience in a similar position with a national or international NGO or a United Nations organization in the northeast of Nigeria
- Bachelor’s Degree in education or a related field
- Experience in activity planning and budget management
- Experience working with and mobilizing communities
- Fluent English - speaking, reading, writing
- Analytic and computer skills, including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint
- Formal or nonformal teaching experience preferred.
Context-specific skills, knowledge, and experience:
- Experience working in humanitarian or development activities in the northeast of Nigeria
- Fluent spoken Hausa language, with other local languages an advantage.
Behavioral Competencies:
The following behavioral competencies are essential for this position:
- Handling insecure environment
- Planning and delivering results
- Empowering and building trust
- Communicating with impact and respect.
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