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Reporting to the Education and Early Childhood Development (EECD) Senior Technical Manager, the EECD Senior  Officer contributes to the design, adaptation, and quality implementation of EECD programming. The role supports the development and adaptation of technical EECD materials, capacity strengthening of partners and facilitators, and ensures adherence to IRC technical standards across program implementation.

The Senior Technical Officer plays a hands-on technical support role, ensuring that program content is effectively designed, adapted to context, delivered, and aligned with quality benchmarks, while contributing to learning, documentation, and continuous improvement.

Major Responsibilities:

1.      Program Scaling & Adaptation:

  • Support the development of new and adaptation and contextualization of existing EECD content including but not limited to curricula, tools, and learning materials.

  • Identify programmatic gaps and propose context-appropriate technical solutions.

  • Support integration of EECD approaches across different delivery platforms (community-based centers, hybrid and remote modalities).

  • Contribute to desk reviews and documentation of best practices, evidence-based approaches, policy briefs and fact sheets.

2.      Quality of Program Implementation:

  • Conduct regular field visits and observations to assess quality of implementation and provide coaching and technical support.

  • Contribute to the establishment and rollout of a coaching and supportive supervision system for facilitators and frontliners.

  • Document findings, lessons learned, and recommendations for program improvement.

In coordination with the Senior Technical Manager and country and regional MEAL teams, support data review processes to inform adaptive programming and flag emerging trends or concerns.

3. Training and Capacity Strengthening:

  • Support the preparation of trainings and capacity-building sessions.

  • Deliver and/or support the delivery of trainings and workshops for facilitators, teachers, and partners.

  • Identify capacity gaps affecting quality delivery and recommend training interventions.

  • Contribute to tracking capacity strengthening progress and outcomes.

  • Maintain sustained technical engagement with local and government partners, strengthening their capacity, and ensuring alignment with program quality standards

  • Support and coordinate EECD-related policy, advocacy and scaling efforts with strategic partners

  • Support the coordination and the development of the advocacy goals and plans; ensure advocacy activities are conducted in close coordination with partners and are high-quality, strategically aligned and designed, implemented, and monitored in line with program requirements and monitoring system.

  • Support in identifying decision makers and influencers for EECD policy goals in close coordination with advocacy advisors at both country and regional levels.

  • Work closely with the project team and regional team to support planning, implementing, and managing advocacy and policy engagement activities.

4. Representation and Coordination:

  • Participate in relevant coordination meetings and technical working groups as delegated.

  • Support engagement with partners, NGOs, and local stakeholders.

  • Contribute to preparation of briefs, presentations, and technical inputs for meetings and reporting.

Key Working Relationships:

Reports to: EECD Senior Technical Manager
Position directly supervises: None

Other Internal and/or external contacts:

 Internal: IRC Operations and Support Departments; EECD Technical Units (HQ/Region), Policy, Advocacy and Communication team, MEAL and Partnership teams, Ahlan Simsim Regional Team, IRC Sector Coordinators.

External: Relevant government officials and entities, local NGOs and INGOs, UN agencies, local Education & EECD stakeholders and working groups.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Education, or Early Childhood Development, or related field

  • 3–5 years of relevant professional experience in education/ECD programming.

  • Experience in training delivery, material adaptation, or program implementation (a must).

  • Understanding of the Lebanese education/ECD context is an asset.

  • Basic knowledge of Monitoring & Evaluation tools and approaches.

  • Strong communication and coordination skills.

  • Ability to work collaboratively and provide field-level technical support.

  • Fluency in Arabic and English required (French is a plus).

  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).

Working Environment:

• Standard office work environment with frequent travel to field implementation sites at national level.

 • Position is based in the IRC office in Beirut, Lebanon.

PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS

All International Rescue Committee workers must adhere to the core values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. Our Standards are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Safeguarding, Conflicts of Interest, Fiscal Integrity, and Reporting Wrongdoing and Protection from Retaliation. IRC is committed to take all necessary preventive measures and create an environment where people feel safe, and to take all necessary actions and corrective measures when harm occurs. IRC builds teams of professionals who promote critical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the best possible services to our clients.

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