Overview
Provide senior technical and operational support for the direct implementation of education activities in Aweil South under the EFASS project, ensuring strong field coordination and activity quality.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide senior technical and operational support to IRC’s direct implementation of education activities in Aweil South.
- Support implementation of community outreach, enrolment and re-enrolment activities, back-to-school campaigns, transition support sessions, and learner retention follow-up.
- Support the roll-out of TaRL, remedial learning, catch-up classes, and other agreed foundational learning interventions.
- Follow up implementation of teacher support, learning materials distribution, learning space improvement, and classroom-based activities.
- Support organization and follow-up of teacher and facilitator training, refresher training, mentoring, and coaching.
- Conduct regular classroom observation and supportive supervision visits.
- Support teachers and facilitators to improve lesson delivery, learner grouping, progression tracking, and use of teaching and learning materials.
- Help organize periodic review meetings with teachers and facilitators.
- Support implementation of baseline and endline learner assessments, learner placement, progression tracking, and transition follow-up.
- Monitor learner participation, attendance, retention, and readiness for progression or transition.
- Support field follow-up for learners at risk of dropout and learners requiring additional support.
- Work closely with RMEAL staff to ensure assessment and monitoring data are collected and used appropriately.
- Work closely with schools, PTAs/SMCs, caregivers, and County Education Office counterparts to support implementation.
- Support community sensitization on learning recovery opportunities, ALP, retention, girls’ participation, and inclusion of vulnerable learners.
- Follow up school- and community-level issues affecting implementation quality, attendance, retention, and participation.
- Support collection and review of activity records, attendance sheets, classroom observation records, and implementation evidence.
- Prepare field updates, implementation summaries, and follow-up notes.
- Support routine review of implementation quality and recommend corrective actions.
- Document lessons learned, challenges, and promising practices from direct implementation.
- Promote integration of safeguarding, child protection, referral pathways, disability inclusion, gender-responsive approaches, and safe learning environment practices.
- Support schools and field teams to identify and appropriately refer at-risk learners.
- Ensure that field implementation remains responsive to the needs of marginalized learners.
Required Experience
Minimum of 3 years of relevant professional experience in education programme implementation, including field supervision or senior-level implementation support. Experience working in fragile, conflict-affected, or low-capacity settings required, preferably in South Sudan or similar contexts. Experience working with schools, communities, and government education structures is highly desirable.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Education, Education Planning, Social Sciences, or a related field required.
