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TITLE: Education Manager
TEAM/PROGRAMME:
North Eastern Syria Project
GRADE: TBC
LOCATION:
Derek, Syria
CONTRACT LENGTH:
6 months
CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level 3: the role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a
week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in
country programs; or are visiting country programs; ore because they are responsible for implementing
the police checking/vetting process staff.
ROLE PURPOSE:
The Education Manager will be deployed at field level and ensure technical and implementation leadership
at project level. The Education Manager will be expected to lead on technical as well as multi-sector
assessments, project planning, coordination, and support fundraising, recruitment and procurement, usually
at the Provincial and sub-national level, liaising and linking with other sectors as appropriate. The postholder will be expected to mentor and/or capacity build existing country programme staff.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Team Leader
Number of direct reports: TBC
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Programme Support
 Lead technical assessments in coordination with other Save the Children thematic areas and/or
other external sector agencies, ensuring assessment findings are documented and that all
assessments include a specific analysis of children’s needs.
 Develop project plans and budgets, contributing towards an overall thematic programme plan and
master budget.
 Support on fundraising for Education Programming, including contributing to the development of
high quality concept notes and proposals.
 Prepare and oversee project implementation to ensure timely delivery of project activities (for
example, monitoring against log frames, individual performance management work plans) and take
responsibility for day-to-day management of emergency education interventions, ensuring that it is
compatible and creating linkage with the existing Education programming.
 Prepare timely programme and donor reports on project activities in compliance with internal Save
the Children requirements and any relevant external donor requirements.
 Together with the HR team, identify technical staffing needs for emergency programmes, and
support rapid recruitment, induction and training of new staff.
 Identify programme supplies needs and coordinate with the logistics team to put in place a sensible
phased procurement plan.
 With support from the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) team put in
place an Monitoring & Evaluation plan for your project, ensuring this links to reporting requirements,
and capacity build technical field staff in carrying out the work.
 Put in place accountability activities for your project, ensuring that feedback from children and their
families is considered in project design.
 To ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the
Sphere Charter, the Red Cross Code of Conduct and with INEE Minimum Standards for Education
in Emergencies.
Capacity Building:
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Identify learning and training opportunities for project staff and work as a mentor and role model
for less experienced staff and those with little or no education experience
Representation & Advocacy & Organisational Learning:
 Ensure that Save the Children's work is coordinated with efforts of other agencies and Government,
and support Interagency Coordination forums, advocating for the specific needs of children. This
may involve supporting coordination working groups.
 Assist in advocacy activities that target decision-makers in-country.
 Contribute to communications and media work as required.
General:
 Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of
conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
Accountability:
 Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role
modelling Save the Children values
 Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the
freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve
performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
 Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their
own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
 Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
 Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
 Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external
partners and supporters
 Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
 Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
 Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
 Willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
 honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
 Significant experience of working internationally in humanitarian programmes
 Education to BSc/BA level in a relevant subject or equivalent field experience
 Demonstrated experience of participating in assessment activities and of designing, managing,
monitoring and evaluating education programmes for international NGOs.
 Experience of applying relevant interagency humanitarian frameworks and standards in education in
emergencies (for example INEE Minimum Standards)
 Previous experience of managing a team
 Previous experience of project management
 Experience of and commitment to working through systems of community participation and
accountability
 Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation
 Experience of training and capacity building staff
 Experience of representation and ability to represent SC effectively in external forums.
 Knowledge of institutional donors and experience of developing proposals
 Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports
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Excellent communication skills
Strong influencing skills
Experience of representation, including through Cluster coordination
Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
A high level of written and spoken English
The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes
insecure working circumstances.
Experience in insecure environment
Fluent written and spoken English
Commitment to the aims and principles of Save the Children. In particular, a good understanding of
the Save the Children mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin
our support
Desirable
 Language skills in Arabic
 Experience or knowledge of working and living in relevant regions/contexts
 Specific experience of managing DFID and/or ECHO project
Date of issue: February 2015
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