Overview
The Education Programme Manager will be responsible for ensuring that education programming is implemented in a timely and qualitative way, leading on sectoral needs assessments and program implementation.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure timely and high-quality implementation of SCI’s education programme in Gaza.
- Work with and support human resources in the process of recruiting education staff.
- Ensure the implementation of education activities in the field and regularly update the education team.
- Support the development of new project proposals.
- Contribute to the development of accurate and timely donor reports.
- Ensure monitoring and evaluation plans are well understood by the education team.
- Provide capacity building and technical support to education staff, partners, CEWs and others.
- Represent Save the Children in education in relevant forums and liaise closely with relevant organisations.
- Strengthen and maintain the links between education and other sectors.
- Liaise with finance, logistics, and administration to guarantee the smooth running of programmes.
- Be aware of SCI policy and advocacy priorities and share any education issues at field level that require advocacy.
- Comply with Save the Children’s health, safety, and security procedures; child safeguarding policy; code of conduct and other relevant policies.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 5 years of working with an NGO in education.
- Experience in designing, managing, monitoring, and evaluating education programmes in emergency, transition, and development contexts.
- Ability to identify the main gaps in education in the given context to inform a holistic response for children.
- Knowledge of established inter-agency standards and guidelines in education, particularly the INEE Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies.
- Familiar with the key humanitarian principles, SPHERE standards, the humanitarian architecture, donors.
- Familiar with liaising with NGOs and UN bodies.
- Experience of staff training and capacity building of organisational staff and partner staff.
- Flexible, adaptable, able to improvise.
- Results orientated.
