Senior Education Associate
Job Description
Title: Senior Education Associate
Company Name: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representation in Bangladesh
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Cox's Bazar
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Education: Social Sciences; Business Administration
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 7 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Post Number:PN 10028806
∎ Type of contract: Fixed-term Appointment
∎ Category/grade: General Service, G7
∎ The effective date of the assignment: As soon as possible
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Monitor and support all existing formal and informal education programs, including implementing partner and community-based schools, and informal classes.
∎ Regularly update and share information related to education, utilizing data collection to identify gaps, assess trends, and design interventions. Monitor and suggest necessary adjustments to the annual Education Workplan and budget.
∎ Review education proposals and monitor existing agreements with partners; in addition, work closely with the community to enhance quality and ownership across community-run education programs.
∎ Liaise and support partners in organizing teacher training.
∎ Perform specific administrative operational/control tasks for project/programme activities.
∎ Provide inputs for funding submissions, appeals and reports.
∎ Represent UNHCR in monitoring of education projects.
∎ Issue documents and reports for clearance by the supervisor.
∎ Provide inputs for developing country operations plan for overall compliance with global strategic and regional priorities as well as with annual programming/planning instructions.
∎ Ensure a consistent application of the Organization's criteria and policies for the selection of implementing and operational partners.
∎ Participate in humanitarian and development sector working groups within the Area of Responsibility (AoR) to support and ensure all refugee education support programming at country level is extended, amplified and reported against sector development goals and humanitarian partners and funding serve system strengthening.
∎ Foster inter-sectoral linkages and coordination with child protection, SGBV, gender, community services, livelihoods/economic inclusion and health, among others, and provide specialist advice for other sectors, to ensure that they fully integrate education related concerns in their planning.
∎ Monitor implementation of education programmes and provide guidance on orientation.
∎ Assist in the planning and coordination of UNHCR's role concerning education, representation of UNHCR at national consultations, representation of UNHCR's education strategy and policy to other UN bodies, NGOs, interlocutors, institutions and organisations within the AoR.
∎ Identify training needs and train UNHCR staff, sister UN agency staff, NGOs, and Ministry of Education officials on refugee education priorities and identified topics.
∎ Develop and disseminate relevant tools to support UNHCR staff and partners in Country Office(s).
∎ Join joint assessment missions in emergencies to minimise the time refugee children and youth spend out of education (ideally a maximum of three months after arrival).
∎ Assist in preparing and drafting of education input in key internal and external documents and reports.
∎ Assist in negotiating agreements with the Ministry of Education and related implementing partners and assist the supervisor in ensuring that IP agreements are established in conformity with UNHCR's financial rules and the latest Headquarters' instructions.
∎ Engage in good coordination practices and the development of partner capacities.
∎ Assist in the design and preparation of detailed operations plan according to UNHCR standards and draft relevant agreements to be concluded with IPs.
∎ Undertake proper collection, monitoring and use of baselines, standards and indicators needed to monitor and analyse programme performance in the field of education.
∎ Ensure that UNHCR education strategy is integrated as much as possible into IP's proposals.
∎ Assist in keeping donor representatives briefed on developments in the education sector and assist in the development of funding submissions, appeals and reports.
∎ Assist in ensuring compliance in issuance of audit certificates for Implementing Partners.
∎ Provide inputs for the country operations plan (including budgets, IP's staffing and structures) as well as prepare inputs for funding submissions, appeals and reports.
∎ Represent UNHCR in physical monitoring of projects.
∎ Perform other related duties as required.
Additional Requirements:
∎ For G7 - 7 years relevant experience with High school diploma
∎ Essential: Demonstrated work experience in education programmes. Field experience in education programme implementation and coordination in humanitarian and/or development contexts. Experience working with Governments, Ministry of Education and other line Ministries. Strong inter-personal skills in collaboration and coordination. Demonstrated capacity to work with minimum supervision.
∎ Desirable: Demonstrated work experience in refugee education programmes. Knowledge and experience of UNHCR policies and standards. Experience in the area of child protection. Experience with educational research, teaching or education administration.
Salary:
∎ A competitive compensation and benefits package is offered. For information on UN salaries, allowances and benefits, please visit the portal of the International Civil Service Commission at http://icsc.un.org
Application Deadline: April 7, 2020
Company Information:
∎ United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representation in Bangladesh
Category: NGO/Development
Source: bdjobs.com
Deadline Expired on 7th Apr 2020
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