Country: South Sudan
Closing date: 06 Jan 2016
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has been operational in South Sudan since 2004 providing assistance to IDPs, returnees, refugees and host communities in areas affected by displacement. NRC currently operates an integrated programme focused on six sectors (core competencies): Education, Shelter, Food Security, WASH, Camp Coordination/Camp Management (CCCM) and Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA).
The security and humanitarian situation in South Sudan has deteriorated sharply since mid-December 2013 when violence erupted in the capital Juba and quickly spread to large parts of the country. Large-scale displacement and massive humanitarian needs persists.
NRC programmes are designed to provide protection and durable solutions for IDPs, refugees and returnees. In South Sudan NRC focuses both on emergency humanitarian responses and early recovery work.
The purpose of the Education Specialist position is technical development, strategic direction and quality assurance of the education sector for NRC in South Sudan. The Education Specialist is responsible for mentoring, training, building the technical capacity of staff and to develop the education portfolio further for NRC in the country.
NRC may be required to verify the identity of its partners/employees and to check that its partners/employees have not been involved in illegal activities. NRC reserves the right to use electronic screening tools for this purpose.
Job description
- In close collaboration with the Head of Programme, develop, coordinate, and support the implementation of NRC’s education programme in South Sudan.
- Overall responsibilities include:
- Develop Education strategy, technical guidance and Macro LFAs
- Compliance with and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures
- Contribute to fundraising, develop and revise funding proposal, budgets and donor reports
- Identify trends technical standards and donor priorities
- Follow up on compliance with contractual commitments within the Education Sector, ensure high technical quality and synergies in project implementation
- Provide technical direction and project implementation support
- Ensure that key learnings are extracted from Education implementation, and incorporate them in Education implementation and staff development processes
- Provide systematic training and build capacity of technical staff
- Represent NRC in relevant forums/clusters, including with national authorities and donors
- Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy
- More specifically the Education Specialist will:
- Develop innovative youth programming relevant to the South Sudan context and demonstrate flexibility of adopting new strategies and ways of implementing the other education interventions.
- Be responsible for monitoring the sector specific situation in the country and initiate relevant assessments to increase scope, respond to emergencies or adapt the program to the context.
- Support in recruitment of technical staff across the country program.
- Contribute sector/technical information for relevant internal and external sharing.
- Contribute to an effective M&E system in the country
- Work with project teams on Value for Money and cost efficiency
- Contribute to cluster reporting across the Education Sector for South Sudan.
Qualifications
- Minimum 4 years of experience within technical expertise area in a humanitarian/ recovery context
- Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
- Education sector expertise
- Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
- Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
- Fluency in English, both written and verbal
- Valid driver’s license
- Knowledge of the context in South Sudan is an advantage
- Experience with living in basic conditions and with field travel.
- Example: Experience from advocacy work
- Experience with emergency and recovery work and how to link the responses is an advantage
Education field
- Education
Education level
- College / University, Bachelor's degree
Personal qualities
- Essential for this position:
- Ability and tolerance of field work in insecure environment
- Strategic thinker
- Ability to empower others and build trust
- Influencing skills
- Self starter who is able to initiate action and drive change
- Analytical skills
We offer
- Commencement: January, 2016
- Contract period: 12 months
- Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s general directions
- Duty station: Juba, South Sudan
- Approved health certificate will be requested before contract start.
- Application procedures and CV registration: Please note that you are required to enter the geographical location for all your previous positions while registering your CV. There is no specific field for this information in our CV form, but you can use the "Company name" field for both company and location
Miscellaneous info
- Travel: Some travelling must be expected
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