Education Technical Officer Afghanistan Sar-e-Pul

Job overview

The Education Technical Officer works with the Education Technical Assistants, the area Education PM/Coordinator, and the Education Master Trainers to ensure the quality of NRC’s education programme in the respective province which will be implemented through local partners. He/she will also be responsible to regularly monitor the progress of the project activities, provide technical direction to Implementing Partners (IPs) and improve their technical capacity to ensure quality implementation of NRC’s education projects. 

The aim of NRC’s Education program is to enable vulnerably, displaced, returnee, and host community children and youth to have access to quality education in a protective environment.

For more information about this position, please click on Job Description and NRC Grade Structure. 

The following is a brief description of the role. 

Generic responsibilities:

• Line management of Education staff in the respective province.
• Adherence to NRC policies, guidance, and procedures.
• Follow up on compliance with contractual commitments and government policy with NRC’s IP.
• Contribute to Education strategy development, project proposals development through sharing lesson learned and providing input on needs and ideas for improvement and gaps.
• Liaise and collaborate with relevant local authorities, NRC’s IPs, and other key stakeholders.
• Ensure that lessons learned are properly documented and effectively disseminated with relevant staff. 
• Identify and respond to the immediate capacity building needs of NRC’s and local partners’ staff to ensure quality implementation of NRC’s education projects.
• Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy.

Specific responsibilities:

• Conduct regular field visits to provide supportive supervision to local partners and ensure high technical quality and synergies in project implementation in accordance with MoE and NRC’s SOPs, guidelines, and standards.
• Provide technical support to Implementing Partners (IPs) and improve their capacity to ensure quality implementation of NRC’s education projects. 
• Ensure project quality implementation considering the safe programming standards/components in target locations by IPs.  
• Coaching and mentoring of subordinates during the project implementation, conduct staff competency assessment (Development Plan) and share the results with Education PM to design training/workshops to assure team capacity building and transfer key competencies to education staff.
• Ensure that NRC’s procedural tools, SOPs and guidelines are understood and properly used by the Implementing Partners and NRC’s provincial education team members.
• Conduct regular/joint monitoring from CBE and AEP classes to ensure the quality education is provided by IPs.
• Update project databases and share on time with relevant people.
• Support the Education technical officer on the provision of reports, update M&E matrices, procurements.
• Take the responsibility on timely procurement/supply of TLMs and payment of CBE/ALP teachers’ salary through Logistic/Procurement and Finance.
• Any other relevant task assigned by the line manager.

We Offer

•    Monthly Salary based on NRC Afghanistan Salary Scale.
•    Smart Phone with Top up Credit card and internet package on monthly basis.
•    NRC will cover staff plus four (4) depended for medical insurance.
•    Leave and Holidays accordingly Afghanistan Labor Law.