The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an Independent Humanitarian Organization. Our task is to improve international protection of refugees and internally displaced persons, and to offer humanitarian assistance regardless of race, nationality, or political views. Our efforts are founded on the principle that all human beings are entitled to a life in peace, liberty, safety, and equality, as this is expressed in the universal Declaration of Human Rights. NRC has been working in South Sudan since 2004. Our core activities include Education, shelter and WASH, Food security and Livelihoods & FSL), and information, Counselling, and legal Assistance (ICLA).

All NRC Employees are expected to work in accordance with the organization’s values. To be Dedicated, innovative, inclusive, and accountable are attitude and believe that shall guide our actions and relationships.

Role and responsibilities

The purpose of the education officer is to carry out the education project activities as per the agreement with the donors and NRC guidelines.

The education in emergency project officer will actively participate in Program development and implementation of UNICEF funded project.

Generic Responsibilities

Adherence to NRC policies, guidelines, and procedures
Contribute to education strategy development, project proposals, and provide inputs on needs and gaps.
Manage and implement delegated portfolio of education activities (activities, procurement, project documentation and reporting) as delegated from the line manager in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements and ensure high technical quality.
Ensure proper filing of documents.
Break down the annual operational plans into weekly, monthly, and quarterly implementation plans.
Prepare and provide regular progress reports to the line manager including other documents as required by management.
Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need of protection, explore and access new and better ways to assistance.
Promote and share ideas for improvement and necessary changes in the activities.
Liaise and collaborate with relevant local authorities and other key stakeholders.
Promote the rights of IDP/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy.
Specific responsibilities

Conduct assessments, responses, and coordinate with stakeholders.
Conduct community mobilization to get children back to school especially girls and other marginalized groups.
Works to identify, mobilize, and train PTAs/SMCs including teachers.
Train SMCs/PTAs- in their roles in the targeted primary schools.
Follow up with procurement team on the needed items to be bought.
Works to ensure child and gender friendly, conflict sensitive EIE response at all phases.
Document reconciliation, archiving and scanning i.e., Waybills, PRs GRNs Clearances, reports, distribution lists, etc. and store them in the office 365 filling tree regularly.
Plan, monitor and evaluate the emergency education activities.
Coordinate with the education protection and WASH team.
Follow the project guidelines and specifications all the time.
Provide inputs on case studies, best practices and lessons learned from implemented activities.
Establish and maintain relationship between the community/ beneficiaries and the organization through effective coordination in the field.
Represent NRC on field level education activities.
Take responsibility for any materials, tools, vehicles, communication equipment provided by NRC
Any other task relevant to the position as requested by the supervisor
Critical interfaces

By interfaces, NRC means processes and projects that are interlinked with other departments/units or persons. Relevant interfaces for this position are:

Other CCS (LFS, EIE, Protection, ICLA, WASH and Shelter)
Support (Finance, Procurement, M&E, Logistics and Security)
Other stakeholders (RRC, Local authorities, LC, pipeline, etc.)
Scale and Scope of the position

Staff: No,

Stakeholders: Key external stakeholders the post has relationships with UN agencies, INGOs, NNGOs, Education Cluster, state focal points, local authorities, Community representatives, Donors, ERRM Consortium partners and lead, etc.

Budgets: UNICEF

Information: GORS, Weekly, BI-Weekly, Quarterly, Interim, and final reports, project proposals, intranet.

Legal compliance: Terms of employment, vendor requirements, donor requirements

2. Competencies

(a) Value driven competencies

Values are aspirational attitudes and beliefs that influence the way people conduct themselves.

NRC’s values are: Dedicated, Innovated, Inclusive and Accountable.

(b) Behavioral competencies

These are personal qualities that influence how successful people are in their job. Of the 12 behavioral competencies, the following are essential for this position:

Managing resources and achieving results
Handling insecure environments
Working with people
Coping with change
(b) Professional competencies, interpersonal, skills and experience

Generic professional competencies:

Minimum first level university degree in relevant and related field.
Minimum 2 years of experience from working in a humanitarian/recovery context and specific
Experience in education.

Experience in protection mainstreaming, desirable.
Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.
Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile.
Fluency in English, both written and verbal. Knowledge of local language and context will be an added advantage.
Context/ Specific skills, knowledge, and experience:

Ability to initiate, develop, plan, and implement an integrated Programme.
Experience in community mobilization and conducting outreach activities.
Excellent communication (spoken and written) skills, including the ability to explain and present technical information.
Political and cultural awareness and experience of working where insecurity is a major issue
Ability to work independently in a result oriented multi-tasking and multi-cultural environment and manage conflicting priorities.
Sensitivity to the needs and priorities of disadvantaged populations (minority groups etc.)
Demonstrated experience of integrating gender and diversity issues
Duty Station and Living Conditions

This position will be based in Kajo-Keji County and will require the staff to travel inside and within different areas of Kajo-Keji County and its vicinity.

As the position is for South Sudanese nationals only, the employee will be responsible for finding his or her own accommodation and welfare.

3. Performance Management

The employee will be accountable for and evaluated on the responsibilities and the competencies, based on NRC’s Performance Management System. The following documents will be used for performance reviews:

The Job Description
The individual Work- and Professional Development Plan
The NRC Competency Framework
The mid-term/end-of –trial period performance review template
The end-term performance review template
This job description and terms of reference is an appendix to the contract and the employer can at any time make changes, following discussions with the Country Director and Manager.

FEMALE WITH REQUIRED QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY

The position is open to South Sudanese Nationals Only

ABOUT US
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across more than 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, our global provider of expertise, helps improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.

Employment with NRC may lead to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to considerable health, safety and security risks. NRC takes this very seriously and we have procedures in place to reduce known risks, but will never be able to take away all risks.