Education Officer at Save the Children

SCOPE OF ROLE:

• To oversee the program implementation at community level within the certain area of assignment.
• In collaboration with MEAL focal point, participate in baseline, midline and end-line data collection, school assessments, and other data collection that the project might undertake.
• Collaborate with the community stakeholders including local government to conduct the program activities in line with project design and quality framework.
• Support the MEAL team and the program coordinator to ensure the high quality program delivery through ensuring the MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning) are articulate in the program implementation
• Take the initiative in documenting lessons learnt, best practice and case studies to shape in-country strategies and programme approaches, and contribute to broader sector learning.
• Provide child protection to OOSC who have been enrolled to school. These services include psychosocial support, rescue and alternative family care for enrolled children in need of care & protection liaising with the county directorate of children services.
• Build capacity of stakeholders to achieve and sustain results of the OOSC education project in the county.
• Represent SCI in relevant stakeholder forums such as meetings with community leaders, keeping line manager informed of discussion points, issues arising and agreements made.
• Proactively engage communities and local stakeholders to support the projects; conduct regular awareness raising of the project/s, activities and intended outcomes.
• Work with Community leaders, school head-teachers and Ministry of Education representatives for effective implementations of project/s in assigned field locations of responsibility.
• Prepare timely activity reports.
• Coordination community mobilization and training activities.Liase with Child Poverty TS in livelihoods and implement livelihood components of the project.

Qualifications.

Essential:

• Degree in Education or equivalent.
• 3 years of professional experience in implementing education programming at the field level with NGOs or other relevant actors. Child protection programming is an added advantage.
• Experience working in remote areas. 
• Experience in the design, implementation and reporting.
• Ability to analyse information, evaluate options and to think and plan strategically
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Fluency in written and spoken and English
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles including rights-based approaches

Reports Direct: Education Manager

Staff reporting to this post: None

Budget Responsibilities:  none.

Role Dimensions: Liaison with stakeholder internally with Save the Children and externally-such as Baringo county government.

THE ORGANIZATION

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. 

 We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

Deadline: 16 Mar 2022 – 23:59 EAT