Education Technical Officer - North (Lebanese Nationals Only) - Lebanon
Tal Abbas
- Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
- Location: Tal Abbas
- 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
All NRC employees are expected to work in accordance with the organization’s core values: dedication, innovation, inclusivity and accountability. These attitudes and believes shall guide our actions and relationships.
1. Role and responsibilities
The Education Technical Officer is responsible for planning, implementation and delivery of Education program’s activities in the North while contributing to the development and implementation of new Education activities in line with NRC’s strategy and standards.
Generic responsibilities
- Coordinate the Education activities according to strategy, proposals, budgets and plans
- Ensure adherence to NRC policies and donor requirements
- Involve and inform communities and community leaders about the activities
- Break down the annual operational plans into weekly, monthly and quarterly implementation plans
- Coordinate with relevant partners
- Ensure that procurement, development and distribution of materials and equipment are timely and according to procedures
- Supervise, train and develop team
- Prepare periodic progress reports and other documents as required
- Investigate and facilitate introduction of new technology, methods and approaches in order to improve the quality of the activities
Specific responsibilities
- Participate in design and implementation of education assessments (i.e. teachers training needs, students’ participation, school management, parent/community involvement in education etc…)
- Participate in design of training programs based on needs assessments
- Participate in the development of training module, both in English and Arabic
- Conduct teacher training in collaboration with education officers and provide technical capacity building of assistants when needed.
- Assist the technical coordinator in organizing and delivering trainings and workshops
- Carry out teacher coaching and follow up, observation and class visits, and spot check review of lesson plan
- Support and participate in the interview process of new teachers
- Review of curriculum and objectives scope and sequence
- Attend all workshops and trainings organized for educators and teachers or staff
- Coordinate and follow up on teaching material
- Ensure an integrating programming approach with other fields
- Support the development of M&E tools and systems to measure and analyze learning outcomes and to guide programmatic development
- Support in creating and reviewing tests and assessments tools
- Report when required on activities and results to supervisors and relevant NRC staff.
Critical interfaces
- Education officers
- Education Coordinator/curriculum development
- M&E department
- Competencies
1. Professional competencies
- Bachelor’s degree in Education/Pedagogy or any relevant field
- Experience from working as teacher trainer
- Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
- Fluency in English/French and Arabic, both written and verbal
- Extensive experience in teaching elementary classes or special education classes
- Knowledge of NGO operations and the dynamics of the humanitarian sector is a plus
- Strong documentation, research and report writing skills.
- Knowledge and relevant experience in child protection issues.
- Experience in designing, developing, and presenting training programs
- Experience in participatory programs.
- Experience in community sensitization/ mobilization.
2. Behavioral competencies
- Communicating with impact and respect
- Working with people
- Planning and delivering results
- Handling insecure environments
- Initiating action and change
- Managing resources to optimize results