Education Officer with a focus on Retention and Partnership - Bekaa

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Technical support to Partners

• Direct responsibility for effective, timely sub-award partner support as it relates to program issues including on-the job coaching, learning sessions and continuous daily support.
• Review partner narrative reports, and provide feedback as appropriate (and support partners in the development of reports as necessary)Participate in teachers’ selection process and training of teachers in the assigned locations;
• Follow up on the proper implementation of the Retention Support curriculum and teachers’ attendance;
• Identify teachers’ capacity building needs and structure capacity building and professional development plan for teachers in the assigned locations;
• Lead timely and effective programmatic monitoring of sub-award partners, identifying appropriate follow up actions, and provide completed reports to Partnership Unit
• Promote full partner participation in decision making with respect to the program, including any program adaption based on program data
• Ensure that supported partner programs abide by humanitarian principles and sector principles and standards
• Explore with partners potential capacity strengthening support, including system strengthening, trainings and overall organizational development - and identify requisite resources (in collaboration with the Partnership Unit)
• Support the review of the performance of the partner, of the IRC, and of the partnership, including successes, challenges and lessons learned, fostering ongoing partnerships beyond the sub-award cycle.

Implementation of the Retention Support component

• Actively participate in Out of school mapping activities covering all Syrian refugees ITSs and Lebanese hosting community with in the intervention area;
• Support the Education Field Manager in the assessment of new locations for new programming.
• Ensure IRC and partner learning centers in all assigned locations respond to quality education standards;

Coordination and representation in assigned locations

• Strengthen the relation with refugees’ community, hosting community and stakeholders to seek their support to the education program;
• Maintain relations with MEHE schools available within the intervention area and establish coordination mechanism through the school year;
• Coordinate arrival and visiting schedules of visitors to partner assigned locations, including IRC staff,  and donors.
• Work in coordination with the IRC Protection and Child Protection programs to follow up on Referral cases;
• Perform such other related duties as may be required.

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to: Education Manager
Position directly supervises:none

Indirect Reporting:Senior Education Officer
Other Internal and/or external contacts:

Internal: ERD/Child Protection/WPE and Protection officers

External:  other NGOs working in education in Bekaa

Travel and other requirements: The position will be based in Zahle, with some travel required between the Bekaa and North governorates and the main IRC offices in Beirut.

WOMEN OF ALL BACKGROUNDS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY