Education Officer - Borno.

JOB TITLE : Education Officer

TEAM : Education - ECDE LOCATION : Borno

GRADE : POST TYPE : National

CONTRACT LENGTH : year (renewable based on performance & funding)

CHILD SAFEGUARDING

Level . The responsibilities of this post may require the post holder to have regular contact with children and young people.

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 PURPOSE :

Save the Children is a leading independent organization creating lasting change for children in need around the world. With its headquarters in London, UK, SC works in over countries globally, including Nigeria, helping children survive, learn and be protected by improving their education, health, nutrition, protection and economic opportunities, and in times of acute crisis, mobilizing rapid life-saving assistance to help children recover from the effects of war, conflict and natural disasters.

Save the Children International (SCI), Nigeria is implementing an Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) programme in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States, Nigeria. This is a -year initiative intends to work with communities, Federal, State, and local education stakeholders to establish and validate a model for community-based, inclusive ECDE programming. The project is a private donor funding by the Whitehurst’s.

The Whitehurst project is designed to build an evidence base to prove the impact and value of supporting the development needs of children ages - from across all incomes, races, ethnicities, and cultures to promote their learning, development and resilience. The project will support children, caregivers, teachers, communities, and stakeholder to advocate for and develop an ECDE model that can be a catalyst for increase Nigerian government and donor investment in ECDE. The project approach, strategies, and interventions are gender-sensitive and has a high level of child-safeguarding measures. Adequate attention will be given to the learning environment, providing facilities and teaching-learning supplies and processes to ensure child-friendly and enabling environments in schools’ full participation and development of foundational competencies in literacy and math.

The Education Officer will provide operational and technical support to the Whitehurst team under the leadership of the Education Programme Manager to implement all Education activities for the project. This includes, supporting in the development of the Detailed Implementation Plan, participating in stakeholders’ meetings, and contribute to narrative reporting in line with donor requirement. The job holder will also be working closely with stakeholders at the community, LG and State level.

Under the guidance Education Programme Manager, he / she will ensure that the Whitehurst ECDE project adheres to safe programming and is implemented in a coordinated, harmonized and aligned manner, in line with the donor requirements and commitments.

SCOPE OF ROLE :

Reports to : Education Programme Manager

Staff directly reporting to this post : NIL

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY

Project Coordination & Management :

• Implement the Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) project across the BAY States, Nigeria in line with the design of the project and donor requirements.
• Support the Education Programme Manager to establish, maintain, and strengthen linkages in the design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, reporting of Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) project.
• Contribute to assessments (baseline, needs).
• 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).
• Ensure accurate project documentation, including collection of monitoring data and tracking of progress on output indicators; utilize data to contribute to reports as required.
• Facilitate relationships with communities and community leaders to ensure buy-in and Do No Harm.
• Create and sustain positive working relationships with the partners, government officials and other key stakeholders and work in collaboration with relevant education authorities to support the review of the national policy on IECD.
• Supervise and manage the teachers / learning facilitators, including facilitation of teacher training.
• Support in planning and coordinating State and LGAs level engagement with education authorities and other key stakeholders.
• Facilitate recruitment of volunteer teachers in the project.
• Contribute to ensuring timely and quality reports are submitted as per the reporting requirements to the Head of Education.
• Working closely with Education Programme Manager to ensure quality programme design, delivery, documentation and reporting of education activities in the respective States.

Operational Planning and implementation

Finance and Budget Management

Safeguarding

Financial Reporting.

Internal and external engagements

MEAL

Human Resources Management and Development :

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability :

Ambition :

Collaboration :

Creativity :

Integrity :

QUALIFICATIONS

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding :

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

No individual is expected to pay any amount or offer any form of favour to secure a position or contract with SCI. Any such act is strictly prohibited and should be avoided