Technical Officer in Education

Education Officer Can’t Wait to Learn programme

War Child Holland invests in a peaceful future for children affected by armed conflict. Our mission is to help war children to change the future.

About Can’t Wait to Learn

Some 32 million children in countries affected by armed conflict are out of school. Furthermore, under investment in schooling systems and infrastructures and lack of teachers has meant that entire generations of children and youth are denied the right to education.

Can’t Wait to Learn provides a highly effective and cost efficient solution to close the education gap for millions of children around the world affected by conflict. It is a digital tablet-based innovation programme providing children access to quality education, in both formal school settings or inside their communities. It offers children the opportunity to (continue to) learn to read, write and count through a self-paced digital game, which is specifically created to reflect their world and context. We work together with Ministries of Education to ensure that learning objectives are based on the national curricula. Children’s progress is monitored and used for further improvements of the programme. The programme is currently operational in Jordan, Lebanon, Sudan, Uganda, and Chad.

Responsibilities:

The Education Officer will support the Global Can’t Wait to Learn team with various tasks mainly focusing on coordination, operations and communications.

Result areas include:

Coordination:

• Leads on information management in the form of tracking action points, gather data for reports and update internal data overviews accordingly including supporting the Programme Coordinator in communications with Country teams.
• Supports the global CWTL team in fulfilling the objectives of projects (e.g. HEA)
• Support with the strategy implementation through communications with countries and information management tracking
• Monitors the CWTL Management Portal by flagging issues and making recommendations for improvements
• Supports with the bid management process for funding opportunities
• Support in the project management cycle by tracking, raising flags and updating the work plan
• Files documents on the CWTL Sharepoint page
• Provides ad hoc support to the team based on demands

Operations:

• Acts as procurement focal point for the CWTL Global team
• Focal point for processing and filing CWTL invoices
• Supports with contract management of consultants
• Supports with recruitments and potential travel for CWTL staff

Communications:

• Help coordinate communications material creation (Q&As, 1 -2 pagers, brochures) including getting feedback from stakeholders and informing the designers
• Help with the set up and maintenance of the Communications toolkit and files on sharepoint
• Support in gathering content for communications presentations for webinars/conferences
• Search for opportunities for exposure at webinars/conferences etc. in conjunction with the Business Developer

• • Academic working level with relevant background in development/international cooperation/Social Sciences/Liberal Arts.
  • Experience in development aid programmes implemented conflict or post-conflict regions
  • Experience in the area of project monitoring
  • Financial/administrative background and experience is an advantage
  • Proven ability to solve problems and leverage appropriate resources to produce quality outcomes;
  • Very strong teamwork and communication skills including presentation preparation and delivery;
  • Strong ability to produce quality work outputs within agreed priorities and to deadlines;
  • Excellent writing skills in English and preferably French and/or Arabic.
  • Excellent planning and organizational ability with an eye for details.
  • Cultural and organisational sensitivity.
  • Flexible, pro-active, custom- and result-oriented.

Reporting

• The Education Officer will report to the Programme Director Can’t Wait to Learn with an additional line to the Teacher Development Specialist in the War Child Lebanon team.
• Regular contact will also be maintained with Programme Coordinator, Senior Quality Advisor, the Content Coordinator and the Finance Manager and the War Child team in Lebanon.

Commencement date and conditions:

Based in the Beirut on a 40 hour contract. Start date; as soon as posible