Education Technical Officer Afghanistan Sar-e-Pul
JOB DETAIL
Job overview
The Education Technical Officer works with the Education Technical Assistants, the area Education PM/Coordinator, and the Education Master Trainers to ensure the quality of NRC’s education programme in the respective province which will be implemented through local partners. He/she will also be responsible to regularly monitor the progress of the project activities, provide technical direction to Implementing Partners (IPs) and improve their technical capacity to ensure quality implementation of NRC’s education projects.
The aim of NRC’s Education program is to enable vulnerably, displaced, returnee, and host community children and youth to have access to quality education in a protective environment.
For more information about this position, please click on Job Description and NRC Grade Structure.
The following is a brief description of the role.
Generic responsibilities:
- Line management of Education staff in the respective province.
- Adherence to NRC policies, guidance, and procedures.
- Follow up on compliance with contractual commitments and government policy with NRC’s IP.
- Contribute to Education strategy development, project proposals development through sharing lesson learned and providing input on needs and ideas for improvement and gaps.
- Liaise and collaborate with relevant local authorities, NRC’s IPs, and other key stakeholders.
- Ensure that lessons learned are properly documented and effectively disseminated with relevant staff.
- Identify and respond to the immediate capacity building needs of NRC’s and local partners’ staff to ensure quality implementation of NRC’s education projects.
- Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy.
Specific responsibilities:
- Conduct regular field visits to provide supportive supervision to local partners and ensure high technical quality and synergies in project implementation in accordance with MoE and NRC’s SOPs, guidelines, and standards.
- Provide technical support to Implementing Partners (IPs) and improve their capacity to ensure quality implementation of NRC’s education projects.
- Ensure project quality implementation considering the safe programming standards/components in target locations by IPs.
- Coaching and mentoring of subordinates during the project implementation, conduct staff competency assessment (Development Plan) and share the results with Education PM to design training/workshops to assure team capacity building and transfer key competencies to education staff.
- Ensure that NRC’s procedural tools, SOPs and guidelines are understood and properly used by the Implementing Partners and NRC’s provincial education team members.
- Conduct regular/joint monitoring from CBE and AEP classes to ensure the quality education is provided by IPs.
- Update project databases and share on time with relevant people.
- Support the Education technical officer on the provision of reports, update M&E matrices, procurements.
- Take the responsibility on timely procurement/supply of TLMs and payment of CBE/ALP teachers’ salary through Logistic/Procurement and Finance.
- Any other relevant task assigned by the line manager.
Generic professional competencies for this position:
- Experience from working Education project implementation position in a humanitarian/recovery context.
- Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.
- Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
- Good English, both written and verbal including local languages
- Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile.
Context/specific skills, knowledge and experience:
- University degree in Education (Education Management, Planning, General Education), Social Science and Development Studies, Master is an asset.
- Minimum 4 years’ relevant experience in implementation of education or similar projects in a humanitarian/recovery context
- Experience of working in Education Emergency is an advantage.
- Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
- Fluency in English, both written and verbal
- Knowledge of the local languages – Dari, Pashto and Uzbeki
- Experience in capacity building and training of staff – ToT.
- Familiarity with the geographical context of Sar e Pul province/North area.
- Political and cultural awareness and experience of working where insecurity is an issue.
Behavioural competencies:
Planning and delivering results
- Being able to break down a project/activity into achievable tasks through weekly plan and weekly reports templates
- Ensuring that activities are relevant, well planned and implemented according to strategies, procedures and donor requirements
- Completing assigned tasks according to deadlines
- Monitoring processes and adjusting plans if necessary
- Making decisions by analysing relevant information, developing appropriate solutions, providing reasons for decisions and taking action.
Communicating with impact and respect
- Communicating in a professional way; speaking and writing clearly, efficiently and with respect
- Adapting communication styles to the situation and different people (e.g. with sensitivity towards their ethnicity, religion, culture and/or gender)
- Presenting the actual situation by keeping superiors and teams informed about both positive and negative information, but always respecting confidentiality of sensitive information.
Empowering and building trust
- Creating an atmosphere of trust and confidence
- Delegating and authorizing responsibilities appropriately
- Being a role model by being accountable for decisions
- Showing awareness of own strengths and limitations.
We Offer
• Monthly Salary based on NRC Afghanistan Salary Scale.
• Smart Phone with Top up Credit card and internet package on monthly basis.
• NRC will cover staff plus four (4) depended for medical insurance.
• Leave and Holidays accordingly Afghanistan Labor Law.
