Le Conseil norvégien pour les réfugiés recrute un Spécialiste en éducation, Tunisie et Libye
Job Purpose
The purpose of the Education Specialist position is technical development of the Education Programme, strategic direction, and quality assurance. He/she is also responsible for implementing the strategy and performing quality control. The Education Specialist is responsible for mentoring, training, capacity building of staff on technical capacity.
What you will do:
Generic Responsibilities:
- Develop the Education strategy and provide technical guidance.
- Contribute to fundraising, develop and revise funding proposals, budgets and donor reports.
- Identify trends in technical standards & donor priorities and adapt the programme to the changing context, as necessary throughout the project and programme life cycles.
- Follow up on compliance with contractual commitments within Education Programme, and ensure high technical quality and synergies in project implementation.
- Develop, support and guide NRC’s education projects in Libya including non-formal education, teacher training and system strengthening.
- Ensure that key learnings are extracted from Education implementation, and incorporate them in the programme and staff development processes.
- Ensure technical quality and innovation of the Education programme including strategic oversight in the technical direction, programmatic learning objectives, M&E tools, etc., and in seeking synergies with other programmes and projects.
- Lead on identifying and addressing capacity building needs within field teams while ensuring harmonization and consistency across education projects implemented in the field offices.
- Support the field teams in liaising and following-up with government interlocutors on existing and future collaborations and projects.
- Assist and support needs assessments and plan response to new emergencies.
- Represent NRC in relevant fora/clusters, including with national authorities and donors.
- Oversee and be responsible of mainstreaming protection guidelines in the NRC’s related activities as per NRC’s Protection mainstreaming guidelines and ensure that all breaches/concerns reported are properly resolved.
- Receive the referral information related to protection cases on a monthly basis from the related focal points and take proper actions to ensure that the referral system is functioning to the best interest of beneficiaries as per NRC’s referral’s SOPs.
Professional Competencies and Qualifications Required
These are skills, knowledge and experience that are important for effective performance
- Bachelor degree in a related field
- Minimum 6 years of experience within technical expertise area in a humanitarian/recovery context + having worked on education in the past year in the context of COVID-19.
- Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts. Knowledge of Libya context and response is a plus.
- Donor knowledge and experience: ECHO, ECW, EU and others
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken. Knowledge or Arabic language is a strong advantage
Behavioural competencies
- Handling insecure environments
- Strategic thinking
- Empowering and building trust
- Influencing
- Initiating action and change
- Analysing
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.
Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply and join our work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility: At NRC we think outside the box. We encourage ideas and give responsibility to all employees at all levels, to help solve the complex issues that we face. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take initiative.
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.
Additional Information:
Duty Station: Tunis, Tunisia
Travel: Frequent field travel expected (25%)
Duration of contract: Fixed term 12 months full-time with a possibility of extension.
Grade 9 in NRC’s grading structure
Reporting line: Head of Programme
Provides supervision to: Education team
For more information regarding the role, here is the detailed job description.
We invite applications from all qualified and interested candidates. Send in your application by latest November 14, 2022.
Please ensure you attach copies of your academic and professional certificates.
Learn more about NRC’s operation in Libya here.
For any queries, please email us at mero.recruitment@nrc.no with “Education Specialist Libya” as the subject line.