Senior Education Officer (Maternity Cover)

The IRC is committed to a culture of bold leadership, innovation in all aspects of our work, creative partnerships and, most crucially, accountability to those we serve. The IRC is a tireless advocate for the most vulnerable.

IRC UK IRC UK is part of the IRC global network, which has its global headquarters in New York. Our team in the UK works to raise the profile, deliver policy, and practice change, and increase funding to help restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Since 2021, IRC UK has also provided integration services directly to refugees in England, a programme that is rapidly growing.

IRC Education Programming UK

IRC has been delivering education programmes in the UK since May 2022. This consists of the Healing Classrooms Programme (and its various iterations) and the Healing Spaces programme. The Healing Classrooms programme delivers trauma-informed training to schools and teachers to help them better support refugee and asylum-seeking students. The Healing Spaces programme is similar but provides training to volunteers and staff that support refugee and asylum-seeking youth outside of school settings.

The Purpose of the Role

Key Working Relationships:

The position reports to the Education Manager, UK. The position supervises the Education Officer. The Senior Education Officer also works closely with and receives technical guidance from RAI education technical units and the senior integration officer, as well as the grant management team.

Key Accountabilities

Programme design and delivery

- Lead Healing Classrooms design processes that ensure programmes are aligned to IRC’s Outcomes to Evidence framework, evidence-based, and appropriate to context to maximize impact. - Lead on the delivery of all Healing Classrooms programmes, including in-person and online. - Take an innovative and leading role in creating resources and webpage updates. - Continue to improve and adapt the Healing Classrooms programme to meet the needs of schools, councils, and educators in the UK.

Coordination and management

- Manage the Healing Classrooms Education Officer. - Meet regularly with staff, and partners to assess progress toward objectives, discuss issues and assist in finding solutions to identified challenges. - Update the education manager regularly on progress.

- Analyse data emerging from the education program and ensure that this analysis informs programming. - Engage effectively with IRC staff (comms, procurement etc.) to ensure effective delivery and promotion of the programme.

External Relations

- Develop effective working relationships with key partners – including NGOs and civil society, public authorities at the national and local levels and education institutions.

- Identify and develop strategic partnerships with UK partners for education programming - Support in the development of new business opportunities to allow the portfolio to grow and develop;

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Essential

- Progressively responsible relevant work experience, esp. in the implementation of education projects in support of asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants - Solid understanding of the UK education system and challenges for students with immigrant backgrounds. - Experience teaching in a UK school is preferred but not essential. - Professional written and oral communication skills in English - Experience crafting non-traditional, innovative programming and creating suitable organisational structures; strong proposal writing skills.

- Proven diplomatic and networking skills: the ability to effectively handle a variety of internal and external relationships including with education sector leaders and government staff; - Ability to respond to multiple priorities promptly, producing high-quality outcomes.

- Ability to travel occasionally to the service delivery area.

Qualifications **You must have the right to work in the UK. **We will be closing this advertisement early if we get high turn out for this role. Salary for this role is £43,400 per annum pro rota , 6 month contract, possibility to a extension. Full time.****

The application deadline for this role is 4****th of April 2024.

IRC UK strives to be an equal opportunities employer. IRC-UK is committed to equality of opportunity and to non-discrimination for all job applicants and employees, and we seek to ensure diversity in our workforce regardless of gender, race, religious beliefs, nationality, ethnic/national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.

IRC UK welcomes applications from all candidates, including underrepresented groups and refugees who have the right to work in the UK.

IRC UK will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application and/or interview process, and for essential job functions if appointed to a role. Please contact us if you may need such adjustments.

If you have any questions or need assistance with the online recruitment process, please contact the IRC UK HR team at [email protected]

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