Education Coordinator Ukraine Odessa

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This is a Professional contract, Grade 7 (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract, Grade 7 (NRC) contracts.

  1. Role and responsibilities

The purpose of the Coordinator position is to oversee the quality of the day to day implementation of the Education Projects in Odessa.

Generic responsibilities

  1. Adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures
  2. Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
  3. Implement delegated Education and Youth project portfolio according to plan of action
  4. Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
  5. Ensure proper filing of documents
  6. Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need, and explore and asses new and better ways to assist
  7. Promote and share ideas for technical improvement
  8. Prepare periodic progress reports and other documents
  9. Liaison and collaborate with relevant local authorities and stakeholders
  10. Promote the rights of beneficiaries in line with the advocacy strategy

Specific responsibilities

  1. Provide leadership and technical input and support to the team in relation to the assigned program
  2. Ensure all training activities related to but not limited to teachers, parents, youth, master trainers, and counsellors take place in line with program objectives
  3. Support and mentor teaching and non-teaching staff as well as youth workers in collaboration with the education team.
  4. Follow the implementation of the training package skills, participate in training planning (when needed) and agree/oversee follow up system and procedures with school, learning spaces and youth center management to ensure NRC activities are inline with national workplans and priorities
  5. Observe, conduct as delegated spot checks to provide technical support to the team to ensure quality implementation of project activities and provide constructive feedback in NRC standard formats
  6. Participate organize, set up agenda for regular team meetings and coordinate team members plans
  7. Participate in NRC/local authorities meetings (central level/Directorate/Department), and work closely with departments of youth and education on planning and implementation.
  8. Minimum 70% of the time participating in project related field activities
  9. Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) focal responsibility in consolidating data collection (Kobo, google etc.), assisting M&E in developing tools for data collection/analysis
  10. Contribute to development, management and monitoring of delegated project budget and procurement plan and consequent raising of purchase requisitions according to approved activity plan and budget in collaboration with education coordinator
  11. Report weekly to Project Coordinator to provide debriefing on progress of implementation and submit needed supporting documents
  12. Undertake any other reasonable task assigned by management

Critical interfaces

By interfaces, NRC means processes and projects that are interlinked with other departments/units or persons. Relevant interfaces for this position are:

  • Other Core Competencies for integrated planning
  • M&E and Advocacy units
  • Support department

Scale and scope of position

Staff:

Numbers and titles of staff directly managed by the postholder, and numbers of staff and daily workers/incentive staff responsible for overall in the unit: TBD

Stakeholders:

Key external stakeholders the post has relationships with (Schools, MOE, youth organizations, youth centres, civil society and local partners)

Budgets:

List of budgets covered by postholder, and size of budget: NA

Information:

Brief description of the information resources the postholder is responsible for at CO level : NA

Legal or compliance:

Brief description of any legal or compliance responsibility the postholder has: (term of employment, donors and NRC regulations)

  1. Competencies

Competencies are important in order for the employee and the organisation to deliver desired results. They are relevant for all staff and are divided into the following three categories:

1. Professional competencies

These are skills, knowledge and experience that are important for effective performance.

Generic professional competencies for this position:

  • Bachelor’s degree in education or/and other relevant area
  • Experience from working within technical expertise area in a humanitarian/ recovery context
  • Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
  • Education/youth/teacher training expertise
  • Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
  • Fluency in English and Russian or/and Ukrainian, both written and verbal

Context/specific skills, knowledge and experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree in education or other related areas
  • At least 5 years of experience in the field of Education in emergencies/psycho-education and/or youth
  • Experience in preparing/developing/delivery training materials/packages
  • Relevant work experience
  • Experience of and commitment to participatory approaches to aid and development
  • Good understanding of Monitoring and evaluation systems

2. Behavioural competencies

These are personal qualities that influence how successful people are in their job. NRC’s Competency Framework states 12 behavioural competencies, the following are essential for this position:

  • Handling insecure environments
  • Planning and delivering results
  • Working with people
  • Analysing
  • Communicating with impact and respect
  • Coping with change
Added 1 year ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: nrc.no