Education in Emergency Officer

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.

ROLE PURPOSE

This position holder shall ensure that activities are implemented duly as planned, compile detail performance reports and best practices regularly as required and put in place strategies for effective and smooth operation of the project. The officer may be also expected to take active role in technical co-ordination, support and advocacy with the country specific Education Clusters, other stakeholders and technical agencies relevant to the sector.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

Assessment(15%)

• Review, assess and update the child learning situations in IDP sites and host communities of intervention areas.
• Assess and highlight education issues requiring responses and recommend for specific actions taking children into consideration. .
• Assess in-country resources with relevant staff and agencies that assist in capacity building programs of project staff and stakeholders.
• Identify potential partnerships to implement recommendations, assess potential partners where available or make recommendations on how to fill gaps.

  Program Design(10%)

  • Collaboratively work with project and country office staff in redesigning programs/plan as required.
  • In collaboration with national and international Education and Child Protection Actors, map current institutional response capacities – including conducting an education-specific 5Ws.
  • In collaboration with Education Actors, develop a realistic evidence‐based, education program plan, including both programmatic and advocacy activities (results-oriented).
  • Design most appropriate education interventions based on the outcomes of assessments and the context.
  • Ensure that issues of gender, protection, DRR, and conflict sensitivity are factored into the program design.
  • Ensure PLAN’s guidelines and UN education cluster standards are considered and any departures documented.
  • Work in close collaboration with other program specialists to ensure that emergency interventions build upon each other and link in to longer term programming.
  • Support for developing education program plan, concept papers, and proposals in respect of the above.

    Monitoring and Evaluation(20%)

    • Work closely with project coordinator, other officers (WASH, child protection Health and Nutrition) at Woreda and school level to ensure that the implementation of relevant activities are planned and implemented in a phased and prioritised manner in full consultation and co-ordination with all relevant agencies both governmental and non-governmental.
    • Develop required tools for monitoring effective implementation of project activities; lead, engage and facilitate for frequent and regular monitoring and evaluation of delivery of outcomes.
    • Organize platforms for joint monitoring and evaluation of project implementation with other stakeholders including Woreda/Zone offices, community members and other actors.
    • Ensure early and rigorous implementation of quality and accountability mechanisms.
      • Draft education intervention reports to serve as standalone deliverables or to be included in larger emergency response reports for both donor and internal purposes.
      • Assess, collect, compile, and analyze data for evidence-based decisions by respective program area and country offices.
      • Provide regular updates to the project manager and emergency team on progress, priorities, and constraints – verbally and in writing upon agreed frequency.
        • Brief updates and reports on sectorial activities/strategies to donors and other stakeholders.

          Reporting and Documentation(20%)

          • Ensure high-quality reports are submitted in a timely manner and according to the donor and PIE requirements.
          • Ensure to development of weekly project progress reports that should be submitted to the Emergency Response and Recovery sector, and for internal consumption.
          • Monitor the impact of the EiE project and ensure the proper documentation of best practices for future emergency works.

            Coordination, partnership and networking(15%)

            • Ensure regular participation in Education, NFI, Shelter, and other related clusters, task force meetings, networks and other platforms at zonal and woreda levels and ensure timely sharing of information collected within woreda, zone, and PIE.
            • Foster mechanisms for close collaboration and partnership with other stakeholders working in education and child protection
            • Provide other related supports as required

              Capacity building support(15%)