Education Specialist (Youth) - Jordan
Amman
- Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
- Location: Amman
- Grade: Mid/Senior level - Mid/Senior - Internationally recruited position
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Occupational Groups:
- Youth
- Social Affairs
- 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
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) established its presence in Jordan in November 2012 in response to the conflict in Syria and resulting refugee influx. NRC Jordan currently employs over 450 national staff in Jordan and is now one of the largest INGOs in the country. In 2016 the Country Office continues to focus on provision of protection, assistance and access to essential services for vulnerable Syrian refugees in formal camps and host communities. NRC strives to combine its programmatic activities with evidenced-based advocacy work focused on policy change and strong external communications and media engagement and. The Country Office also works to ensure safe and integrated programming through ensuring protection is effectively mainstreaming across all programming.
Our Ideal Candidate:
For this position we are looking for someone with a minimum of 4 years of experience designing and implementing youth programming in a humanitarian/ recovery context. We are particularly looking for an individual with knowledge of the context in Jordan and/or neighbouring countries; Experience in livelihoods programming and Arabic language skills are also an advantage.
Position Description:
The purpose of the Specialist position is technical development of the Youth Core Competency (CC), strategic direction and quality assurance. The Specialist is responsible for mentoring, training, and capacity building staff on education/youth technical capacity. Specific responsibilities include:
- Develop and update Core competency strategy, technical guidance and Macro Logframe for the youth programs
- Ensure the relevance and quality of Youth projects in camps and host communities
- Identify trends, technical standards and donor priorities for the youth programs
- Provide technical direction and project implementation support to the project managers
- Ensure that key learnings are extracted from ongoing projects, and incorporate them in the strategy and staff development processes
- Provide systematic training and build capacity of technical staff
- Represent NRC in relevant forums/clusters.
- Act as Focal Point for government approvals and coordination for Youth projects, including steering committee meetings
- Work with Jordan M&E team to ensure quality data and reporting of Youth activities to donors and in all reporting mechanisms
- Oversee all Youth consultancies and partnerships at national level
Additional Information:
Candidates are encouraged to apply early, as applications may be screened prior to the vacancy deadline
Contract period: 24 months
Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s salary scale and terms and conditions
Approved health certificate will be requested before contract start
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