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Country Education Officer

  • Contractor
  • [Erbil,Iraq ]
  • TBD USD / Year
  • Jesuit Refugee Service profile




  • Job applications may no longer being accepted for this opportunity.


Jesuit Refugee Service

Description

 

About Jesuit Refugee Service: 

The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS), founded in 1980, is an international Catholic non-governmental organisation with a mission to accompany, serve, and advocate on behalf of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons, that they may heal, learn, and determine their own future.

JRS programmes are currently found in 56 countries, serving refugees and other forcibly displaced persons in conflict zones and detention centres, on remote borders, and in busy cities.

Since October 2014, JRS has worked in Iraq to uphold and restore the dignity of forcibly displaced persons and returnees, show compassion to the most vulnerable among them, and be a sign of hope that a shared future is possible. Programmes in Iraq focus primarily on protection, education, and mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS).

Learn more at https://jrs.net and www.facebook.com/jrsiraq 

 

General Purpose of the Position:

The Country Education Officer supports non-formal and formal educational programmes (ages 4-18 years) in the JRS community centres of Al Hamdaniya (Ninewa) and Sharya (Duhok) to deliver quality education recovery programmes for returnee children and learning support programmes for children in protracted displacement, in in-person, blended, or virtual modalities as situations allow.

 

Main Responsibilities of the Position

 

1. Educational

  • Maintain regular contact with Protection & Education Directors and education coordinators in both locations to ensure flexible quality education in challenging circumstances
  • Ensure that JRS child safeguarding policies are well observed for all children to benefit from a safe and happy environment that enhances their personal and social development and facilitates their ability to learn
  • Embrace the Jesuit spirit of education and become acquainted with key documents and online resources
  • Familiarise oneself with GoI and KRI curriculums and standards.
  • Encourage tutors and teachers to use of a variety of pedagogical strategies and materials consistent with quality learning, child growth, and development. Follow up on the implementation of techniques acquired in JRS-provided trainings.
  • Support project education coordinators in planning and organising education programmes and activities
  • Coordinate periodically with MHPSS directors to strengthen the interface between education and MHPSS in JRS Iraq projects
  • Stimulate student-centred learning that goes beyond the simple replication of traditional school classrooms
  • Make carefully selected digital and/or printed resources and tools available to project education coordinators
  • Design, develop and monitor co-curricular education programmes and activities for teens.
  • Promote the Jesuit pupil profile and the characteristics of the Ignatian educator, with context-sensitive adaptations
  • Ensure that project programmes and activities run according to plan and best practices
  • Liaise with the Regional Education Officer (JRS MENA)
  • Keep track of the progress and quality of education programmes in JRS projects, in coordination with the project education directors and coordinators as well as with relevant country office staff, giving special attention to feedback from children

 

2. Management

  • Follow up education programmes in each project to ensure effective implementation
  • Prepare and organise education-related staff trainings and workshops
  • Collect and share key documents to harmonise JRS education interventions (JRS, INEE, other).
  • Visit projects every two to three weeks
  • Draw up consolidated monthly reports to submit to the Country Director
  • Liaise effectively with government education ministries or directorates and UN agencies as required
  • Participate in national and select sub-national Education Cluster meetings and report back to Country Director
  • Contribute technical support, data, and reporting to JRS six-month and annual reports, and to any other report required by national and/or regional governments, governorates, and directorates.
  • Design and monitor nutritious weekly meal plans for daily breakfasts/mid-morning snacks in kindergartens
  • Draw up alternatives for back-to-learning or school reopening.

 

3. School Environment and Staff 

  • Liaise regularly with project education coordinators to ensure safe, clean, attractive and orderly environments that encourage students to take responsibility for their behaviour and create high morale among staff and students.
  • Conduct regular meetings with project education coordinators and tutors/teachers.
  • Promote the active involvement of parents/guardians in the education of children.
  • Organise and follow-up campaigns for water and energy conservation, recycling, waste reduction, and environmental stewardship.

 

4. Relations with Project Offices

  • Ensure that project education coordinators keep complete and updated student records.
  • Request all records and required reports as applicable (students’ attendance, test grades, weekly/monthly reports, parents’ meetings, teachers’ meetings, teachers’ absence).
  • Establish and maintain an effective inventory system for all school supplies, materials and equipment.
  • Provide a request form for the project and country logistics assistants in order to supply education programmes with needed materials with sufficient advance notice.
  • Immediately notify the JRS child safeguarding focal point in case of child abuse, child neglect, and child severe medical or social conditions.

 


Qualifications & Preferred Skills

 

Qualifications & Competencies

  • Master’s degree in education, preferably with a specialisation in EiE.
  • A minimum of 3 years’ teaching experience and education management.
  • Reliable, honest, hardworking and a self-motivated person
  • Proven experience in managing people/teams in low resource environments.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work within different cultural environments
  • Very good written and spoken English and Arabic.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft365TM
  • Availability for training and supervision, and in-country travel
  • Ability to work flexibly within a team structure
  • Ability to write and edit reports in English within deadlines
  • Ability to perform under pressure, and to cope with stressful workloads and working with limited resources.

How To Apply

Suitably qualified candidates are to submit their CV accompanied by a cover letter, both in English. The cover letter should explain (1) why the applicant considers her/himself suitable for this position with the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS); and (2) how s/he can contribute to the mission of JRS as a member of staff.

An approved Covid-19 vaccination certificate (at least two doses) is required when applying.

Applications are to be sent by email to the Human Resources Officer [email protected] by Saturday, 26 March 2022 at 5.00pm, marked Country Education Officer in the subject line.

The email text should make clear reference to this recruitment and should show the name and contact details of the sender. Both the CV and the cover letter should be in English and are to be sent as Word or pdf attachments. Links to online documents will not be opened.

CVs not accompanied by a cover letter or without the title of the position in the subject line, as explained above, will not be considered.

Only shortlisted candidates will be called for an interview.

 

 


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