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Education Technical Officer Moldova Chisinau

Moldova

  • Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
  • Location: Moldova
  • Grade: Mid level - Mid level
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Education, Learning and Training
  • Closing Date: Closed

All NRC employees are expected to work in accordance with the organisation’s core values: dedication, innovation, inclusivity and accountability. These attitudes and beliefs shall guide our actions and relationships.

  1. Role and responsibilities

The purpose of the Technical Officer position is to oversee the quality of the day to day implementation of the Education and Youth Project.

Generic responsibilities

  1. Adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures
  2. Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
  3. Implement delegated Education and Youth project portfolio according to plan of action
  4. Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
  5. Ensure proper filing of documents
  6. Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need, and explore and asses new and better ways to assist
  7. Promote and share ideas for technical improvement
  8. Prepare periodic progress reports and other documents
  9. Liaison and collaborate with relevant local authorities and stakeholders
  10. Promote the rights of beneficiaries in line with the advocacy strategy

Specific responsibilities

  1. Provide technical input and support to the team in relation to the assigned program
  2. Ensure all training activities related to but not limited to teachers, parents, youth, master trainers, and counsellors take place in line with program objectives
  3. Support and mentor teaching and non-teaching staff as well as youth workers in collaboration with the education team
  4. Follow the implementation of the training package skills, participate in training planning (when needed) and agree/oversee follow up system and procedures with school, learning spaces and youth center management to ensure NRC activities are inline with national workplans and priorities
  5. Observe, conduct as delegated spot checks to provide technical support to the team to ensure quality implementation of project activities and provide constructive feedback in NRC standard formats
  6. Participate organize, set up agenda for regular team meetings and coordinate team members plans
  7. Participate in NRC/local authorities meetings (central level/Directorate/Department), and work closely with departments of youth and education on planning and implementation.
  8. Minimum 70% of the time participating in project related field activities
  9. Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) focal responsibility in consolidating data collection (Kobo, google etc.), assisting M&E in developing tools for data collection/analysis
  10. Contribute to development, management and monitoring of delegated project budget and procurement plan and consequent raising of purchase requisitions according to approved activity plan and budget in collaboration with education coordinator
  11. Report weekly to Project Coordinator to provide debriefing on progress of implementation and submit needed supporting documents
  12. Undertake any other reasonable task assigned by management

Critical interfaces

By interfaces, NRC means processes and projects that are interlinked with other departments/units or persons. Relevant interfaces for this position are:

  • Other Core Competencies for integrated planning
  • M&E and Advocacy units
  • Support department
  1. Competencies

Competencies are important in order for the employee and the organisation to deliver desired results. They are relevant for all staff and are divided into the following three categories:

1. Professional competencies

These are skills, knowledge and experience that are important for effective performance.

  • Bachelor’s degree in education or/and other relevant area
  • Experience from working within technical expertise area in a humanitarian/ recovery context
  • Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
  • Fluency in English and Moldovan, both written and verbal
  • Fluency in Russian or/and Ukrainian is an asset
  • At least 4 years of experience in the field of Education in emergencies/psycho-education and/or youth
  • Experience in preparing/developing/delivery training materials/packages
  • Experience of and commitment to participatory approaches to aid and development
  • Good understanding of Monitoring and evaluation systems

2. Behavioural competencies

These are personal qualities that influence how successful people are in their job. NRC’s Competency Framework states 12 behavioural competencies, the following are essential for this position:

  • Handling insecure environments
  • Planning and delivering results
  • Working with people
  • Analysing
  • Communicating with impact and respect
  • Coping with change
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