Education Officer "Open for internals only" - Jordan

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

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NRC in Jordan 

Established in 2012 NRC Jordan’s long-term outlook addresses the problems affecting life as a refugee. We work to build the resilience of Syrians, and to relieve the impact on the Jordanian communities that host them.  Syrian refugees in Jordan are struggling. As they contend with difficult living conditions across the country, the obstacles are complex. They struggle to remain registered as refugees, to provide for their families, and to access essential services – including education for their children. The Jordanian communities that host them, meanwhile, feel the impact of hosting high numbers of refugees – with each year that passes, local infrastructure becomes more strained.

 

Role Specific Information

The NRC Jordan education programme will work on issues of access and quality in order to exact change and provide services to refugee girls and boys and host community boys and girls. At the access level NRC will provide additional teaching and learning spaces and classrooms, (with accompanying extended WASH facilities), at both camp and host community level. This will include phases of community outreach, using community mobilisers to engage parents and to help them support their children’s education.  In camps this will include the expansion of ‘walking routes’ or other community-based initiatives to support children safelyaccessing learning sites. 

 

Generic responsibilities:

• Monitors the progress of the activities of assigned staff and ensures they are implemented conform planning and quality standards.

• Develops with the assigned team, Monthly activity plans
• Reports over the achieved activities, provides analysis over the performed activities and signal bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with relevant local authorities and/or stakeholders.
• Ensures a healthy, safe environment for staff and beneficiaries and makes sure that protections concerns are addressed and followed up.

 

Specific responsibilities:

• Follow up on assigned Responsibility for all site level activities. And Overall Responsibility as will be delegate by the supervisor
• Develop weekly work and activity plans for site and follow up on assigned tasks to other staffs
• Support admin/delivery of capacity building conducted on site.
• Conduct HR processes.
• Prepare internal activity reports as requested and collect information from other staff
• Follow up on assigned tasks relating to budget/procurement. 
• Use all site Admin and Filing SoPs and provide guidance and support to Education Technical Assistance and Community Staff.

 

 Our Ideal Candidate:

We are looking for a university graduate, with a minimum of 3 years previous experience in Education. Experience working in complex and volatile contexts, in particular in the Middle East.  Technical expertise relevant to the role. Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.  A good level of English, both written and verbal.

We are particularly looking for a positive individual with strong communication skills, who can build trust and confidently navigate both internally and externally at different levels.

 

Additional Information:

Candidates are encouraged to apply early, as applications may be screened prior to the vacancy deadline

Contract period: Through 31st December, 2017 

Salary/benefits: 1024 JD's subject to social security and income tax. 

Duty station: Amman 

NRC may be required to verify the identity of its partners and to check that its partners have not been involved in illegal activities.

NRC reserves the right to use electronic screening tools for this purpose.

 

NB: Please enter your specific city of residency in Jordan in your application.

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