Education Officer Lebanon Bekaa

Teaching & Training

Overview

Implement education activities in Bekaa area

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Education or related field
• 2-3 years’ experience from working in Education field as a teacher or trainer in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Strong documentation, research and report writing skills
• Proficiency in English & Arabic both written and spoken
• Experience in designing and presenting training and participatory programs
• Planning and delivering results
• Handling insecure environments
• Working with people
• Coping with change
• Communicating with impact and respect

Contract

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

All NRC employees are expected to work by the organisation’s core values: dedication, innovation, inclusivity, and accountability. These attitudes and beliefs shall guide our actions and relationships.

Purpose of the role

The Education officer is responsible of the implementation of education activities within the Bekaa area.

What you will do

• Coordinate the Education activities according to strategy, proposals, budgets and plans
• Ensure adherence to NRC policies and donor requirements
• Involve and inform communities and community leaders about the activities
• Break down the annual operational plans into weekly, monthly and quarterly implementation plans
• Coordinate with relevant partners
• Ensure that procurement, development and distribution of materials and equipment are timely and according to procedures
• Supervise, train and develop team
• Prepare periodic progress reports and other documents as required
• Investigate and facilitate introduction of new technology, methods and approaches in order to improve the quality of the activities
• Ensures that NRC’s related activities are implemented within NRC’s Protection mainstreaming guidelines and reports any breaches/concerns to the line manager and/or focal point for proper action
• Ensures that all protection related detected cases are referred to the concerned referral focal point and to the related Protection Coordinator

Specifically, you will;

• Participate in design and implementation of education assessments (i.e. teachers training needs, students’ participation, school management, parents/community involvement in education etc…)
• Participate in design of training programs based on needs assessments
• Participate to development of training module, both in English and Arabic
• Explain the project aims and objectives to volunteers/ animators and beneficiaries through daily contact and the organization of regular visits and meetings.
• Create a safe classroom environment conducive to learning and appropriate to the physical, social, and emotional development of children and youth both inside and outside the community centre
• Developing and maintaining positive relations with refugee and host communities, local authorities and other local actors.
• Participate in development of communication tools (ex.: newsletters)
• Plan and prepare outreach work and conduct frequently outreach information and counseling sessions with identified communities.
• Organize awareness sessions for children and parents.
• Ensure that the projects implemented are realized in a timely manner and as per the objectives and activities in the project work plan.
• Ensure an integrative programming approach with other NRC Lebanon Core Competency Programs.
• Promotion of learning space activities
• Registration of children and youth for programs
• Monitoring of and maintaining quality education programs
• Monitoring and supervision of transport for beneficiaries (including accompanying beneficiaries on transport)
• Design forms as required, questionnaires and other templates.
• Maintain an up to date archive system (both in hardcopies and electronically).
• Report weekly & monthly (or more often, if required) on activities and results to the relevant NRC staff.
• Collection and entering of data for monitoring and evaluation processes e.g. data base, student daily attendance
• Carry out administrative tasks as requested and agreed upon.
• Provide timely reports to supervisors.
• Other duties as assigned and agreed upon.

Professional competencies

• Bachelor’s degree in Education or related field
• 2-3 years’ experience from working in Education field as a teacher or trainer in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Strong documentation, research and report writing skills
• Proficiency in English & Arabic both written and spoken
• Experience in designing and presenting training and participatory programs

Behavioral competencies

• Planning and delivering results
• Handling insecure environments
• Working with people
• Coping with change
• Communicating with impact and respect

What We Offer

NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.

We offer an opportunity to match your career to a compelling cause and a chance to meet and work with people who are the best in their fields.

We are also looking for people who share our values:

• To be dedicated in what we do;
• To be innovative with our solutions;
• To act as one unified and inclusive team;
• To be accountable to the donors that make our work possible; the people we exist to serve, and to each other… the members of our NRC family.

Kindly note that empty or incomplete applications as well as CVs received via email will not be considered official and will not be processed.

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