Education Coordinator Job – Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, our global provider of expertise, helps improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.Employment with NRC may lead to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to considerable health, safety and security risks. NRC takes this very seriously and we have procedures in place to reduce known risks, but will never be able to take away all risks.

• Coordinate the consortium activities between NRC&SCI, ensuring activities are implemented as per the workplan, spearheading reviews and flagging out any issues for management action.
• Spear head the implementation of NRC’s strategies on catch up & remedial learning, this includes integrating the distance learning approaches such as home based & radio learning.
• Build NRC’s strategic approach in Supporting the school management committees(SMC) to    implement the project activities through school improvement plan priorities, this includes building SMC capacity to improve documentation.
• Build capacity of staff and teachers to roll out catch up and remedial learning at scale
• Coordinate with the teacher training department at ministry of Education and Sports(MoES), Centre Coordinating tutors& other relevant stakeholders to roll trainings for teachers on remedial & catch up education
• Together with M&E team, develop a clear mechanism of tracking learners who are benefitting from catch-up& remedial programmes.
• Document the lessons and good practices from the project, especially on the strategic approach on working with School Management Committees.
• Coordinate with respective district education offices to ensure proper supervision and monitoring of catch up and remedial activities while planning for   a smooth transition of project activities to the district education department to ensure sustainability of the results.
• Work with the child protection officer & protection specialist to ensure that the protection analysis is conducted and evidence used in the project implementation.

Generic professional competencies for this position:

• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience within field of education
• Technical specific knowledge from the humanitarian sector
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Documented technical competences related to the position’s responsibilities
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal