Education Technical Advisor
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Kindly apply online using this link: Education Technical Advisor
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Description:
ROLE PURPOSE:
The Education Technical Advisor is a critical position for Save the Children in Lebanon and will play the lead role in ensuring the design, implementation and monitoring of high quality education programmes for thousands of children across the country.
The Education Technical Advisor provides technical leadership to all our work in the education sector, with responsibility for developing clear strategic and operational plans, identifying fundraising needs and leading the development of technical proposals, forging strong partnerships with Government, UN, NGO and local civil society counterparts, as well as providing technical support to our education teams across three different field locations in Lebanon.
CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level 3: the role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Director of Programme Development and Quality
Number of direct reports: one (Education Capacity Development Coordinator)
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Strategic Planning and Leadership:
• Provide overall strategic leadership to Save the Children’s work in the education sector in Lebanon.
• Lead the development and rollout of the education strategy for Save the Children in Lebanon, including cross cutting issues related to education.
• Provide education technical input to the development of country annual plans, area plans, sector strategies and other planning documents.
• Maintain a clear overview of programme progress across the education sector portfolio to be shared with senior managers.
• Ensure that our education programme design benefits from integration with other sectors where possible, and vice versa.
Programme Quality and Standards:
• Provide technical expertise, quality assurance and support for Save the Children’s education programmes, ensuring they are of high quality with reliable data and outcomes.
• Coordinate the development of a technical capacity building plan for education staff in Save the Children and our partners in Lebanon, working with field teams to prioritise training needs and resource these appropriately.
• Develop and maintain central database of tools and guidance to support programme quality in education and support the development of technical tools, guidance and documentation as required.
• Oversee knowledge sharing across teams, and ensure that monitoring and evaluation results are understood and used to improve programmes.
• Supervise the development of a “virtual library” of recommended manuals and approaches per type of programme, best practice documentation and evidence in education to support development of new programming and improve programme quality.
• Ensure documentation of case studies and dissemination of these both internally and externally working with the Media and Advocacy team.
Programme Development and Resource Mobilisation:
• Provide active leadership in Save the Children’s relationships with key donors for the education sector
• Ensure clear identification of fundraising needs and priorities in the education sector
• Identify and assess appropriateness of fundraising opportunities.
• Lead technical development of high quality proposals for education work.
• Develop set of “off the shelf” concept notes for new or pilot activities.
• Lead donor and partner mapping for the education sector.
Support to Programme Implementation:
• Line-manage project components aimed at technical support to third parties at the national level (e.g. Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE), UN partners, etc).
• Support area-based Education teams to finalize field operational work plans, establish clear targets and activity plans for each school or other learning environment.
• Support the development of monitoring, information management, and reporting systems that provide information for reporting and programme improvement (in conjunction with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) and field staff).
• Support high quality reporting by field staff through timely review and guidance.
• Screen technical field manager candidates (and others as appropriate) and support recruitment as needed.
• Assess (in conjunction with line management)/support technical work of Education Programme Managers and support their professional development.
• Promote and facilitate synergies with other thematic programmes
• As needed, lead in technical inputs to procurement of programme goods or services involving multiple locations, large-scale use of resources, and/or a high level of risk to the agency to ensure programme relevance, quality, adherence to technical guidelines, and efficient use of resources.
• Conduct regular field monitoring of activities
Advocacy and Representation:
• Lead external representation of Save the Children’s education work in Lebanon.
• Represent Save the Children in technical area to government and other agencies.
• Serve as technical link with Save the Children Members, regional office, and Education Global Initiative.
• Represent Save the Children on other national/international technical networks as requested.
• Represent Save the Children in education sector working group meetings and other sector coordination forums in Lebanon
• Contribute to development of advocacy messages and materials in education
General:
• Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
• Master’s degree in education, development or other relevant social science degree.
• A minimum of 5 years in a technical leadership role in education for an NGO, UN agency or other development or humanitarian organisation.
• Previous management experience in an NGO or other humanitarian environment, including experience directing and implementing programs for children in both emergency and development contexts.
• Proven experience leading education in emergencies (EiE) programming and in participating in emergency coordination forums (education cluster, education working groups etc)
• Familiarity with key international standards for humanitarian work and education in emergencies (e.g. INEE, SPHERE, HAP principles, etc.).
• Proven experience raising funds and developing proposals for education programmes in excess of $1million.
• Excellent understanding of the Monitoring and Evaluation processes and methodologies.
• Proven representation and advocacy skills.
• Strong report writing skills, including experience in writing funding proposals and donor reports.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and negotiate clearly and effectively at all levels, taking into account cultural and language difficulties.
• Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
• Ability to analyse information, evaluate options and to think and plan strategically
• Knowledge of key areas of programme operations, logistics and grant management relevant to delivering quality education programming.
• Ability and willingness to change work practices and hours, and work with incoming teams in the event of major emergencies.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles including rights-based approaches.
Desirable
• Fluency in written and spoken Arabic.
• Technical knowledge and experience in community based education programming. Previous work experience in Lebanon or other areas in the Middle East.
• Previous work experience in response to the Syrian crisis.
NOTE:
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Last modified:
26 Mar, 2019
Intervention Sector(s):
Education
Application Deadline:
Friday, 29 March 2019
Contract Type:
Full Time
Period of Employment:
24 months
Salary
N/A
Salary Range:
> 3000 (USD)
Education Degree:
Masters Degree
Education Degree Details:
Master’s degree in education, development or other relevant social science degree.
Experience Requirements:
5 to 10 years
Arabic Language:
Excellent
English Language:
Excellent
French Language:
None
Country/City:
- Lebanon
- Beirut
- Beirut