Education Assistant (Children/Youth Education Program)

Syria

Education/Training - Humanitarian/Disasters

A. Children Education Assistant:

• Is responsible for supporting the education officer in planning (schedule, locations, resources, targets), and ensuring the implementation of the education programme for children in line with the agreed plan and NRC education strategy:
a) The selection of implementation locations
b) Selection of mobile teams, induction, and preparation of adequate documentation
c) Implementation of education activities, directly or with the involvement of mobile resources and other teams(e.g. conducting personally trainings and coaching facilitators or teachers, facilitating personally or supervising the delivery of education and recreational activities with children and with parents, etc.)
d) Tracking the progress of and following up with beneficiaries in choosing the right education pathway and return to adequate learning opportunities.
e) Leading the community outreach efforts and ensuring a fair beneficiary registration and selection process
• Identify key community resources for the implementation/facilitation of the children transition education programme in the supported communities. Establishes and maintains effective collaborative relationships with these communities and other stakeholders

B. Youth Education Assistant:

• Contributes to the planning (schedule, locations, resources, targets), and implementation of the youth education programme, throughout its phases:
a) Conduct market assessments to understand the labour market opportunities and the vocational skills demand to support the selection of vocational trainings and curricula development.
b) Identify and initiate collaboration, as per need, with workshops/schools/communities that allow youth to practice the vocational skills being acquired.
c) Prepare the plan and schedule of voactional trainings
d) Ensure direct coordination with and manages the tasks of the youth mobile education programme assistants and facilitators, as per need.
e) Monitor youth performance and use a range of strategies to support their learning pathways
f) Ensure direct management and problem solving of day-to-day tasks and challenges, in coordination with the line manager.
g) Lead the community outreach efforts in what concerns the youth mobile education programme.
h) Facilitate trainings based on her/his own expertise (e.g. life-skills, facilitation-skills, recreational activities, etc.).
• Coordinate Mobile Education Teams, as per need, in implementing youth education activities assigned, and support them to further build their technical capacity and skills.
• Provide support in identifying and/or strengthening dialogue and collaboration between NRC and relevant stakeholders/ Identifies, evaluates and contributes to the vetting of partners for vocational training or apprenticeships/internships opportunities, or other activities for youth.

C. Joint responsibilities:

• Support the Education Officer and/or the Technical Education Unit in developing and or revising training, learning, recreational, PSS materials, and tools for education program activities for children/youth, in English and Arabic, and organizes and facilitates trainings/trainings of trainers/ workshops.
• Ensure the monitoring of the education activities assigned by contributing to data collection, spot visits, data analysis and drafting of regular activity implementation and monitoring reports.
• Advice the line manager on beneficiary identification methods for the activities assigned and is responsible for ensuring that a fair selection process is conducted in all assisted communities.
• Contribute to need assessments, area profiling, and initial assessments in current or new operation areas and informs decisions on area/community selection, programme response and approach, based on own capacity and knowledge.
• Is responsible for ensuring that all administrative, logistical, and financial arrangements and documentation regarding the non-formal children programme assigned is prepared as per NRC standards.
• Can be deployed temporarily to other field locations for initial assessments, implementation of education activities, or capacity building. Can be re-allocated temporarily to other positions or requested to support other education activities and teams that require a similar expertise, as per the education programme priorities.

Behavioral competencies
• Planning and delivering results
• Empowering and building trust
• Communicating with impact and respect
• Handling stress and insecure environment
3. Others
• Ability to work independently in a result oriented multi-tasking and multi-cultural environment
• Highly approachable, trustworthy
• Good cultural awareness and sensitivity
• Respectful and appropriate attitude towards colleagues and beneficiaries.
• High integrity and confidentiality
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities
• Strong organizational and team working skills
• Analyzing and critical thinking.





Please note that this announcement shall be expired on 24 January 2019

NRC is a non-governmental, non-profit, humanitarian, independent organisation. It provides assistance to people affected by crises & i.e. refugees, internally displaced people, host communities etc. - to meet their immediate humanitarian needs, prevent further displacement and contribute to durable solutions.
NRC was established in 1946 under the name Aid to Europe, to assist refugees in Europe after World War II. After almost 70 years of interventions all over the world, today NRC is organised as an independent and private foundation that cooperates closely with the UN and other humanitarian organisations, around the world as well as in Norway. NRCs funding base is not only diverse but also flexible, counting a number of different donors including the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations. In 2014 NRC assisted more than four million displaced and conflict-affected people around the world, and raised more than USD 250 million for our humanitarian programming. Currently NRC operates in 25 countries worldwide with over 5,000 staff members, the majority of which are national employees. All NRC projects are supervised by the Head Office of the organization in Oslo while in the Middle East, NRC country offices report to a regional office based in Amman. All the programs are implemented in close coordination with governments and local authorities.
The type of activities implemented in each context varies from country to country depending on the needs on the ground and priorities laid out in strategic response plans of Governments and the UN. However NRC mainly specialises in five programme areas: Education, Shelter, WASH, Food Security as well as supporting displacement affected population to access further services. Moreover, extensive expertise has been gained by the organization over the years also on Collective Shelters Coordination and Management.
In addition, NRC provides expertise as a strategic partner to the UN as well as to national and international actors including governments and line ministries- through its stand-by rosters. Only in 2014 almost 600 humanitarian experts were deployed to 49 countries, making NRCs rosters the most used expert deployment capacity in the humanitarian world.
Finally, NRC promotes and sustains efforts at different levels to keep high the attention on the condition and situation of displaced and vulnerable people affected by ongoing crisis.

Jan 08, 2019

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