Education Officer - (only open for Afghan nationality) Location: Nangarhar - Afghanistan
Nangarhar Province
- Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
- Location: Nangarhar Province
- Grade: Mid/Senior level - Mid/Senior - Internationally recruited position
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Occupational Groups:
- Education, Learning and Training
- Emergency Aid and Response
- Education / Training
- Closing Date: Closed
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water,sanitation and hygiene sectors.
The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs one of the world’s largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs
Job description
- Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy
- Monitor and document the implementation of project activities done by implementing partners and/or contractors (plan of action activities, contracts, financial expenditures and project documentation)
- Conduct quality control and provide technical support to implementing partners and/or contactors
- Take the leadership in design the setup of classes for refugee children within Afghan Formal schools (In coordination with PED office).
- Design, organize and lead community and school assessments
- Lead the selection process of teachers, community mobilizers and teacher’s helpers
- Training and supervision of teachers, community mobilizers
- Design of education and recreation activities in partnership with school principals and PED staff Support host afghan host school teachers and children to implement refugee-host community social integration activities.
- Prepare, logistic, procurement, project activity and expenditures plans following NRC procedures.
- Coordinate the trainings with PED and relevant DED head.
- Providing support to the School Improvement Plan activities
- Properly monitor the SIP implementation, keep documents and report on time.
- Take the leadership in the design, implementation and M&E of the technical components of NRC projects and programs as needed.
- Capacity building or NRC staff related issues as needed.
- Plan activities according to set time-table and ensure that all staff members are aware of responsibilities.
- Coordinate education project activities with PED, DED, UN, NGO and other stakeholders.
- Facilitating and distributing Kits, Tents, Books, stationaries…
- Monitoring the implementation progress of SIP, ALP, Kit distribution, Tent Distribution, suggesting required actions for the betterment of the project and reporting the findings on time.
- Preparing weekly, monthly, quarterly, semiannual and annual reports on time.
- Maintaining proper filing system.
- Any other task as assigned by Area Manager and Education Programme Manager
Qualifications
- Bachelor degree holder in Education or Literature
- 2-3 years of experience from working within technical expertise area in a humanitarian/ recovery context
- Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
- Core competency expertise
- Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
- Fluency in English, both written and verbal
- Knowledge of the context in (in EiE)
Education field
- Education title: Bachelor degree holder/14th grade in literature, teacher training or education
Personal qualities
- Handling insecure environment
- Planning and delivering results
- Empowering and building trust
- Communicating with impact and respect
Language
- Dari
- Pashto
- English
We offer
- Monthly Salary based on NRC Afghanistan Salary Scale
- Top up Credit card on monthly basis
- Leave and Holidays accordingly Afghanistan Labow Law
Miscellaneous info
- Travel: Some travelling must be expected
This vacancy is now closed.