Education Officer

The Education Officer for the Informal Education Project will be responsible for the planning,implementation, monitoring, and reporting of informal education activities designed to provide flexible, relevant, and accessible learning opportunities for children and youth affected by the crisis. This role will involve direct engagement with communities, partners, and beneficiaries, ensuring the quality and appropriateness of educational interventions within a humanitarian context. The Education Officer will play a key role in identifying learning needs, adapting curricula, and supporting the capacity building of facilitators and community structures.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Programme implementation/management

• Ensure timely and quality implementation of the non-formal Education components by providing technical assistance and inputs as needed;
• Support community outreach, the delivery of awareness sessions to families, and set up community mechanisms to ensure their support to access formal education;
• Work closely with the team to ensure proper budget expenditure and monitoring;
• Willing to be trained and participate in Training of Trainers programmes as per programme needs and to facilitate training sessions for field-level stakeholders including parents, community members, and educators as needed;
• Facilitate, collect, and report information regarding the overall situation of refugees and other vulnerable children and their families in the community, with specific attention paid to the programme targeted children and programme objectives;
• Work directly in the field with children, educators, facilitators, communities, parents, partners staff, and other stakeholders of the programme locations;
• Provide information and advice to beneficiaries on existing education activities and other social services, and refer them to partners when relevant;
• Communicate effectively with INARA and partner colleagues from different sectors;
• Provide ideas and suggestions based on the day-to-day interaction with communities and other stakeholders; and
• Ensure strict adherence to the principles of Child Protection at all times, including respect for confidentiality and a child-centred approach and act in the best interests of the child.

Programme design/ development

• Produce timely reports for internal use on the ongoing activities of the project highlighting challenges, best practices, and lessons learned;
• Ensure that data is accurately collected from the partners and reported according to the provided guidelines; and
• Regularly visit program sites to ensure that parents and the community at large are appropriately supported and qualitative and quantitative programme objectives are achieved.

Team management and capacity building

• Provide coaching and support to Educators;
• Support the recruitment process of Save the Children and partner Education staff, educators, and volunteers (e.g. shortlisting and interviewing candidates, and drafting / revising interview questions);
• Contribute to the team capacity building plans and relevant trainings
• To be involved in the capacity strengthening plans for partners

Partnerships management

• Facilitate inductions and training sessions for partners;
• Communication on a daily basis with partners to maintain quality education programming;
• Support the programme team of the partner organization in implementing operational work plans and setting clear targets and activity plans per programme sites;
• Control and support implementation of compliance requirements
• Oversee and work with partner’s staff to review monthly internal progress reports.

External relationships/ representation

• Representing INARA in external meetings and public events as requested;
• Participate in regular partner monitoring visits to engage and support them in their daily activities implementation, and ensuring adherence to INARA and donor regulations.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Education, Development / Humanitarian Studies, Social INARAence, or other related fields.
• Fluency in written and spoken Arabic and English.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Essential:

• At least three years of experience in education, preferably in an (I) NGO environment or educational setting. Prior teaching experience is an asset.
• Ability to analyse information, evaluate options and to plan strategically;
• Proven track record in managing teams and timely and quality delivery of educational programmes;
• Demonstrated ability to analyse qualitative and quantitative data and to develop data bases and data collection tools;
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills; and
• Excellent computer skills (Microsoft Office)

How to apply

Please send your updated CV and a cover letter in English, detailing how you meet the responsibilities and requirements to recruitment@inara.org, with “Education Officer- Egypt” as the subject line. CV-only applications will not be considered, submitting a cover letter is required. and only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Please note that INARA does not cover any relocation costs for this position.