Education Manager - Beirut

Teaching & Training

Overview

Oversee and manage community-based education programs in Beirut.

You have:

• Bachelor of Education, social sciences, international development, or related field.
• Clear understanding of education in emergencies, including barriers that children face in accessing their right to education.
• 3-5 years professional experience in project management, education-related implementation, providing teacher professional development/training, psychosocial support activities, curriculum development, community mobilization for education.
• NGO/INGO experience preferred is a must.
• Previous experience leading teams in education programming.
• Experience facilitating trainings and workshops on education topics.
• Familiar working in BML, and with emergency contexts and issues.
• Positive and professional attitude, including ability to lead and work well in a team setting.
• Strong ability to organize work, meet deadlines, maintain composure, prioritize work under pressure, coordinate multiple tasks and maintain attention to detail.
• Knowledge, skills and experience in participatory methods of community development and mobilization.
• Comfortable attending and facilitating meetings and representing education issues.
• Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills, creativity, and flexibility.
• Fluency in English and Arabic strongly preferred.

Work Arrangement:

Job Description

The Education Manager (Beirut Mount Lebanon) will supervise the start-up and ongoing implementation of safe and appropriate community-based education activities done through direct implementation and with partners as part of a broader education strategy.

Position Objectives****:

- Effectively manage the ongoing projects in the governorate, including ongoing technical and operational support. - Ensure high quality and timely delivery of education programming in the governorate, that is responsive to the needs on the ground and well-coordinated with all education actors. - Coordinate with Senior education Manager and Education Coordinator in supporting EDU partners in the Beirut Mount Lebanon.

Who this position reports to: Education Senior Manager

Position oversees: Senior Education Officer, Community Engagement Officer and Inclusion Officer

Responsibilities:

Staff Supervision & Development

- Directly supervise and provide ongoing leadership, training, technical support and guidance to the Community Engagement Officer and Inclusion Officers in Beirut Mount Lebanon. - Ensure adherence to best-practice principles when working with children, youth, and community members. - Maintain open and professional relations with team members. - Ensure timely completion and submission of monthly timesheets, probations reviews and annual performance reviews. - If/as required identify staff performance issues and work with Human Resources to document and address these in accordance with the National Staff Employment Policies. - Mentor and support staff’s professional development and foster a positive team spirit to encourage innovative and quality programming.

Activity Planning & Implementation

- Prepare and maintain/update detailed workplan(s) that support and achieve the overall grant timeline and completion date. - Provide direction and monitor staff and partner in their implementation of the workplan and quality of technical activities, share relevant information and direction to improve quality and achieve timelines. - Approve expenditures to designated level; assist in managing and monitoring monthly expenditures and tracking budgets. - Work closely with team members & MEAL team to identify lessons learned and receive timely beneficiary feedback to improve the quality of work and inform future designs. - Ensure regular planning with team members and put in place contingency plans to respond to any emergencies, ensuring education programs remain meaningful and effective. - Ensure staff are trained to conduct regular partner visits to monitor and support the programs.

Grant Monitoring & Reporting

- Undertake regular field monitoring visits to assess progress and identify technical quality issues and/or other implementation issues, provide solutions and implement modifications as required. - Ensure all monitoring activities are fully documented, including systematic and timely data collection as required under the grant and for internal M&E purposes. - Produce/contribute to internal and donor narrative reports as per set schedules (monthly, quarterly, and annually) on grant activities, indicators, and achievements. - Ensure that the program is implemented according to schedule and budget and that project objectives are met. - Ensure that the project undertakes continuous monitoring and evaluation so that activities are appropriate and based on a clear understanding of the problems, causes, contributing factors, and issues specific to out-of-school or at-risk children and youth. - Support the collection, analysis and dissemination of project data and information for problem analysis, planning and evaluation with all stakeholders. - Support in drafting new or revisiting existing budgets per available or upcoming projects. - Lead the Budget Versus Actual analysis on monthly basis which informs spending inaccuracy and take the necessary action.

Coordination & Representation

- Work closely and coordinate with logistics, finance and grant staff to ensure timely program activities and expenditures, including active participation in internal meetings. - Work closely with other IRC programming sectors to ensure information sharing about geographic targets, cases to be referred or supported by other sectors, and holistic integrated support to communities; continuously coordinate with other program managers including child protection, protection monitoring and information sharing, women’s protection and empowerment, and economic recovery and development. - Undertake/participate in liaison, coordination, and information sharing activities with national NGOs, international organizations, donors and government. - Develop and maintain effective working relationships with relevant stakeholders including community leaders and other implementing partners. - Coordinate with and/or advise peer agencies, local government, and other stakeholders to promote delivery of high-quality education programming and to ensure adherence to best practices for education in emergencies.

Program Development

- Assist in the collection of data, assessments and proposal development for the sector. - Ensure that any evidence, lessons learned, and information collected from beneficiaries during monitoring exercises are effectively integrated into programs and new designs.

Other

- Consistently and proactively monitor/assess the safety and security of the team; promptly reporting concerns or incidents to IRC management and liaising with community leaders and other external parties as required to maintain/enhance the security environment for IRC programs. - Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs.

Partnerships

- Collaborate closely with schools in the field supporting technically when needed. - Provide guidance and mentoring to partner organizations to support their technical and organizational capacities. - Explore with schools potential capacity strengthening support, in coordination with the Technical Manager. - Lead timely and effective programmatic monitoring of schools, identifying appropriate follow up actions, and provide completed reports. - Ensure that supported schools abide by Child safeguarding, humanitarian principles and sector principles and standards. - Support the review of the performance of the school, including successes, challenges and lessons learned, fostering ongoing partnerships beyond the sub-award cycle. - Follow up with the schools with continuous feedback to ensure proper qualitative performance management.

Qualifications

- Bachelor of Education, social sciences, international development, or related field. - Clear understanding of education in emergencies, including barriers that children face in accessing their right to education. - 3-5 years professional experience in project management, education-related implementation, providing teacher professional development/training, psychosocial support activities, curriculum development, community mobilization for education. - NGO/INGO experience preferred is a must. - Previous experience leading teams in education programming. - Experience facilitating trainings and workshops on education topics. - Familiar working in BML, and with emergency contexts and issues. - Positive and professional attitude, including ability to lead and work well in a team setting. - Strong ability to organize work, meet deadlines, maintain composure, prioritize work under pressure, coordinate multiple tasks and maintain attention to detail. - Knowledge, skills and experience in participatory methods of community development and mobilization. - Comfortable attending and facilitating meetings and representing education issues. - Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills, creativity, and flexibility. - Fluency in English and Arabic strongly preferred.

Travel and other requirements: The position will be based in Beirut, with some travel required between the governorates and the main IRC office in Beirut.

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Added 1 year ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: rescue.org