Regional EiE Advisor – Ukraine and Regional Refugee Response

Regional EiE Advisor – Ukraine and Regional Refugee Response

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Regional Education in Emergencies (EiE) Advisor plays a key role in ensuring high quality, timely Education technical support to technical advisors in Save the Children International’s responses to the Ukraine crisis (currently structured as the Ukraine Conflict Response in Ukraine, and the Regional Refugee Response in neighbouring countries), and in linking with MEEE regional and global work and broader initiatives.

The Regional EiE Advisor will provide hands on support to SCI’s Education advisors and experts in Ukraine and neighbouring countries, to develop, position and implement Education programs in an ongoing humanitarian crisis. This include providing hands on technical assistance, strategic and programmatic support, capacity building (training /mentoring/coaching) and talent development. The position plays an important role in terms of ensuring quality delivery and contextual adaption of SCI’s global Common Approaches building their evidence-base in line with the regional strategic priorities. This position also includes contributions SCI’s advocacy and new business development initiatives. The Regional EiE TA will also work in collaboration with other regional advisors to support overarching response and regional priorities, particularly program integration.

The position may include travel to SC’s response programs in Ukraine and neighbouring countries.

ROLE SCOPE:

Reports to: Regional Senior Technical Support Manager – Ukraine and Regional Refugee Response (MEEE RO)

Staff reporting to this post: none

Budget Responsibilities: none

Role Dimensions: Key stakeholders for this position include Response Team Education Leads, RO PDQ Team, plus RO Operations, Advocacy, and Resource Mobilisation Teams; SCI’s Global One Humanitarian Team (Programs staff). In addition, the role will foster relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including Save the Children Members and technical partners.

Context: Humanitarian

Location: Home based, able to work in CET time zone.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Programme Strategy and Development

• Ensure quality EiE inputs for the Ukraine Country Office and Regional Refugee Response teams to support the design of contextually relevant multi-sector response and recovery strategies and programme plans, in line with SCI Humanitarian deliverables, and ensuring quality programmatic approaches and maximum integration between sectors
• Support the Ukraine Country office and Regional Refugee Response teams to identify areas of shared priorities in Education and develop approaches / plans to take these forward, as needed
• Carry out the responsibilities of the role in a way which reflects Save the Children’s commitment to safe programming and safeguarding children, in accordance with our Code of Conduct and Child Safeguarding Policy

Technical Capacity Building & Mentoring

• Provide high quality technical backstopping to Education Advisors in the Ukraine Country office and Regional Refugee Response teams, and ensure the response teams are supported to meet their Education technical staffing needs (both national and international)
• Ensure that Education advisors in the Ukraine Country Office and Regional Refugee Response teams are aware of relevant global and regional thematic steers and have sufficient resources and expertise at hand to implement, build capacity, monitor, quality-assure, capture evidence and learning, and develop further in their ability to provide quality and rights-based Education interventions to children, adolescents and their caregivers.
• Provide technical inputs to ensure safe, quality development of Digital solutions for Education programs across the responses
• Identify opportunities to introduce and support implementation of SCI’s CP Common Approaches

Programme Quality and Development

• Ensure the Ukraine Country Office and Regional Refugee Response teams are supported to maintain the minimum standards of humanitarian relief in accordance with the CHS, EiE Minimum Standards, Sphere Charter and Red Cross Code of Conduct, and SCI Humanitarian principles and global standards.
• Ensure the Ukraine Country office and Regional Refugee Response teams are supported to develop quality project proposals, particularly facilitating linkages for multi-country proposals
• Provide Education technical inputs to ensure the Ukraine Country Office and Regional Refugee Responses are supported to design and implement high quality REALM processes, which are effectively informing decision making
• Ensure the Ukraine Country Office and Regional Refugee Response teams are supported to build innovation in Education programs, document lessons learnt, best practice and case studies to shape in-country strategies and programme approaches, and contribute to broader sector learning

Representation and networking

• Ensure high quality, timely technical inputs to support Regional Advocacy priorities
• Support SC engagement in humanitarian coordination structures and working groups
• Help shape broader sector strategies at the interagency level through influence of and leadership within inter-agency coordination forums, ensuring that SC is “the voice of children” and that the specific needs of children are being addressed across the humanitarian responses

General

• Ensure effective linkages with MEEE regional and global work and broader initiatives
• Contribute to regional team collaboration, meetings and planning processes, internal initiatives and reporting requirements
• Demonstrate leadership in relation to Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child safeguarding, bullying and harassment, code of conduct, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.