Job Description
Education in
Emergency Officer
Date: 11-Feb-2022
Location: Kibondo,
Tanzania
Company: Plan
International
BACKGROUND
Plan International
is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances
children’s rights and equality for girls. Plan has over 80 years’ experience
and works in more than 75 countries across the world. We strive for a just
world, working together with children, young people, our supporters and
partners.
Plan International
has been working in Tanzania since 1991. Our work supports marginalised
children and youth, especially adolescent girls, to grow up physically and
mentally healthy and ready to shape their future. We create an enabling
environment and empower girls to be active drivers of change in realising their
rights. We prioritise working with partners, and ensuring all of our work is
evidence based.
Plan International
Tanzania responds to the Burundian Emergency program in Kibondo and Kasulu
since October 2015 due to Burundian refugees’ influx with special focus on Case
Management, Psychosocial support activities and Education in Emergencies (EiE).
role PURPOSE
Plan International
is currently implementing a PlayMatters project in partnership
with International Rescue Committee, War Child, Behavioural Insights Team
and Innovations for Poverty Action. PlayMatters is a five-year project that
reimagines childhood for refugees. It will bring play-based learning to 800,000
children across Ethiopia, Uganda, and Tanzania. It will redefine education and
cultivate a generation of lifelong builders. PlayMatters is inspired by LEGO
Foundation’s call to challenge the status quo, to offer children the quality
education they dream of. Children are not gaining the skills they need,
teachers are under-supported, and parents are overwhelmed. The systems built to
serve them are failing them. PlayMatters proudly offers something different. It
is delivered by a coalition with a track record of thinking and delivering
differently. We bring three distinct characteristics:
- OUTCOMES. Everything we do is fuelled by
the social, emotional, cognitive, physical, creative and resilience
outcomes we seek. We know learning happens when children are at the centre
and teachers, parents and the system surrounding them embrace children’s
agency and have not only skills and resources, but the motivation to drive
change.
- RESEARCH AND LEARNING. Effective
delivery requires both rigor and a big heart. With LEGO Foundation,
PlayMatters will generate scientific evidence that can transform our
understanding of play and learning for refugees in East Africa and around
the world.
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP. The LEGO Foundation
Humanitarian Initiative offers an opportunity to deliver and comes with
the responsibility to lead. Our consortium’s members have a record
mobilizing other.
Dimensions of the
Role
The Education in
Emergencies Officer will be responsible and ultimately accountable for
day-to-day implementation of project activities, quality delivery of results,
coordination and collaboration and relations with project consortium members,
teachers, PTAs, caregivers and community and religious leaders, and other
stakeholders at field level. The post holder will also be responsible to ensure
that project activities are implemented in a timely and quality manner and in
compliance with donor requirements. The EiE Officer will ensure timely data
collection and analysis is used in periodic reporting and to inform project
activities. S/he will be responsible for representing Plan International EiE
team in relevant stakeholders’ meetings such as Education Working Group
meetings on camp level and camp coordination meetings.
S/he will demonstrate
excellent project management and problem-solving skills, a very high degree of
maturity, flexibility, organization and communication skills, and strategic
thinking to meet the demands of a dynamic and sometimes unpredictable operating
environment while ensuring Plan International’s systems and policies and donor
requirements are adhered to, especially gender transformative programming and
child and youth safeguarding.
Accountabilities
- Program
delivery:
- Lead and supervise the implementation of
all project activities as per the workplan and budget; and programmatic
reporting in accordance with donor and Plan International regulations.
- Work closely with operations to ensure
timely implementation of planned activities.
- Support sprinting activities in pilot
location both in camps and host communities.
- Ensure the implementation of project
activities adhere to Plan International’s policies, INEE minimum
Standards, ECCD Standard guidelines and SOPs; as well as Core Humanitarian
Standards.
- Assess project progress and identify
technical quality issues or other implementation issues, provide solutions
and implement modifications as required.
- Provide and coordinate capacity building
trainings for incentive staffs, facilitate training, coaching and
mentoring of pre-primary and primary teachers.
- Work with MEAL Coordinator and Officers
to undertake assessments in coordination with partners.
- Support PlayMatters budget development
and activity plans for coming years.
- Support the improvement of the education
contents underdevelopment by prototyping and piloting the same.
- To support the educators, community
leaders and caregivers in ensuring the holistic development of the
children and the implementation of Learning through Play approach.
- Communication,
Advocacy, Representation and partnerships:
- Support the EiE team when necessary in
representing Plan International in sector coordination meetings and
inter-agency activities at field level.
- Support the implementation of
inter-agency assessments.
- Support the documentation of best
practices and lesson learnt from project implementation to inform the
design of future programs.
- Maintain active and cooperative
relationships with all key stakeholders, including government officials,
UN agencies, project partners, other implementing agencies, and related
institutions. Support advocacy initiatives through developing briefs,
documentation of evidence and impact stories.
- Promote community understanding on the
importance on Learning-through-Play.
- Represent Plan International at the camp
and district level and work closely with the advocacy focal point to
ensure relevant stakeholders are aware of Plan International Programming.
- Staff
Management:
- Directly supervise Incentive Teachers,
mentors among others and making sure they adhere to Plan International’s
Policies, Code of Conduct and Procedures.
- Report any violations of Plan
International’s Code of Conduct and Policies as per Plan
International-Tanzania reporting channel and protocol.
- Ensures that Plan International’s global
policies for Child Protection (CPP) and Gender Equality and Inclusion
(GEI) are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and
requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and
Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes,
but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and
understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan
International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of
work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the
appropriate procedures.
Key relationships
External -
Close collaboration and strong working relationship with project consortium
partners and members of the Education Working Group (IRC, Caritas, Save the
Children, UNHCR, UNICEF, MHA, District Education Officers) etc. The EiE Officer
will also maintain a relationship with local authorities, relevant Government
institutions, and UN agencies to ensure Plan’s work is well linked to other
initiatives.
Internally-
The EiE Officer will report to the EiE Project Coordinator, and S/he will
coordinate with other EiE Officers and Educational Content and Material
Development officer(s) for the implementation of project activities at camp
level. S/he will also work closely with MEAL Officers, Accountability and
Feedback Officer, Illustrator(s) finance officer, Procurement team,
Communications and advocacy team and Human resources team. S/He will also work
closely with the Child Protection team and ensure that protection is integrated
in all Education activities.
Technical expertise,
skills and knowledge
Essential
- Hold a Bachelor’s degree in an
interdisciplinary area such as Education Management, Development Studies,
International Development, Strategic Planning, Program Management, etc. or
equivalent.
- At least 2 years of demonstrated
experience in managing the implementation Early Childhood Development and
Primary Education programs in Emergency and Development contexts.
- At least one-year experience of
operating digital learning to ECCD and primary school children.
- Experience in Learning through Play
approaches and content development will be considered a strong asset
- Experience in research-based projects as
well as prototyping and piloting exercise will also be an added advantage
- Proven leadership, inter-personal and
cross-cultural skills, and ability to build and motivate
multi-disciplinary teams
- Demonstrated experience of working
collaboratively with consortium partners.
- Strong understanding of Child
Protection, Disability and Inclusive Education, gender responsive
programming and meaningful child participation in programs.
- Conversant with refugee and national
education service delivery systems.
Plan International’s
Values in Practice
We are open and accountable
- Promotes a culture of openness and
transparency, including with sponsors and donors.
- Holds self and others accountable to
achieve the highest standards of integrity.
- Consistent and fair in the treatment of
people.
- Open about mistakes and keen to learn
from them.
- Accountable for ensuring we are a safe
organisation for all children, girls & young people
We strive for lasting impact
- Articulates a clear purpose for staff
and sets high expectations.
- Creates a climate of continuous improvement,
open to challenge and new ideas.
- Focuses resources to drive change and
maximise long-term impact, responsive to changed priorities or crises.
- Evidence-based and evaluates
effectiveness.
We work well together
- Seeks constructive outcomes, listens to
others, willing to compromise when appropriate.
- Builds constructive relationships across
Plan International to support our shared goals.
- Develops trusting and ‘win-win’
relationships with funders, partners and communities.
- Engages and works well with others
outside the organization to build a better world for girls and all
children.
We are inclusive and empowering
- Seeks constructive outcomes, listens to
others, willing to compromise when appropriate.
- Builds constructive relationships across
Plan International to support our shared goals.
- Develops trusting and ‘win-win’
relationships with funders, partners and communities.
- Engages and works well with others
outside the organization to build a better world for girls and all
children.
Physical Environment
The job holder
requires 40 % field work in the camps and host community and 60 % office-based
environments.
Level of contact
with children
High interaction
with children
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