Education Specialist - Mount Lebanon

The Education Specialist supports the work in the education sector, in supporting the implementation of strategic and operational plans, including supporting the development of technical proposals and technical guidelines notes, as well as providing capacity building and operational support of our education teams across different field locations in Lebanon as per needs identified. Strategic planning and leadership Support the development of an education strategy for AVSI in Lebanon, including cross cutting issues related to education. Ensure clear process in place for tracking and reporting on progress against the education sector strategy. Maintain a clear overview of programme progress across the education sector portfolio to be shared with senior managers. Ensure education teams at field level better integrate actions with other sectors where possible, and vice versa. Support the Education Management in providing technical expertise, quality assurance and support for AVSI’s education programmes Supervise, monitor and provide trainings for teachers working in AVSI’s centers. Continuously follow up with education field staff on their capacity building needs and report back for needs to be integrated in the capacity building plan; Support knowledge sharing across teams, and ensure that monitoring and evaluation results are understood and used to improve programmes. Support the technical development of high quality proposals and Concept Notes for education sector. Support donor and partner mapping for the education sector. Support the development of monitoring, information management, and reporting systems that provide information for reporting and programme improvement. Support high quality reporting by field staff through timely review and guidance. Support recruitment of education field staff as needed. As needed, participate in technical inputs to procurement of programme goods or services involving multiple locations, large-scale use of resources, and/or a high level of risk to the agency to ensure programme relevance, quality, adherence to technical guidelines, and efficient use of resources. Conduct regular field monitoring of activities. OTHER REQUIREMENTS: Team spirit/work Organizational capacities Teaching knowledge