Education Advisor

Post Type: National, FTA

Contract Duration: 1 Year

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3 - The responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people.

ROLE PURPOSE:

Save the Children (SCI) Egypt works in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Technical Education (MoETE), communities, and children to design and implement programs aiming to improve access to quality education, promote safe learning environments, promote inclusion and strengthen education systems. Our programs span from nursery to preparatory school levels and are implemented in various locations across Egypt. SCI Egypt also provides Education in Emergency (EiE) for refugees and migrants in Egypt.

The Education Advisor plays a leading role in shaping education technical strategy, in line with SCI Egypt’s strategic priorities, and child rights situation analysis for ensuring education interventions are of a high technical quality and address the needs of all children. The role will lead on program and proposal development and manage the communication and representation of SC Egypt with UN organizations, INGOs, Government bodies, and Local NGOs. He/she will be responsible for establishing and maintaining relationship with a network of donors and partners and represent SC Egypt in relevant working groups and other coordination mechanisms. Working with teams across the organization, the Education Advisor provides leadership in building and supporting internal capacities and mechanisms on education, including capacity building and coaching of staff and partners. A key function for this role is to develop close working relationships with Program and Project teams across Egypt in both development and humanitarian contexts. The Advisor also ensures that education programs are aligned with SCI global priorities and approaches, leading processes to ensure globally proven approaches are contextualized for Egypt, and that program experience in Egypt contributes to regional and global learning. The role will also maintain effective relationship with SC regional and global education counterparts and colleagues from other SC offices globallay.

The role will also contribute to emergency response when needed.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Programme Development, Quality & Impact Director

Staff reporting to this post: None.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Under supervision from the Director-Program Development, Quality, and Impact, the role will provide technical leadership on SCI Egypt’s Education programming and practice:

The role will adhere completely to SCI internal policies and commits to completing all mandatory training when due.

Country program strategy and leadership

• Provide overall strategic leadership to Save the Children's work in the education sector in Egypt.

• Lead the development and rollout of the education strategy for Save the Children in Egypt, covering emergency response, nexus, and development education programming, including cross cutting thematic areas (gender, climate, MHPSS, Protection) in education.

• Provide education technical input to the development of country annual plans, area plans, response and emergency preparedness plans, sector strategies and other planning documents.

• Ensure that education program design benefits from integration with other sectors where possible, and vice versa.

• Develop and update education technical strategies, in line with SCI Egypt’s strategic priorities, and SCI global education objectives and approaches

• Contribute to SCI country program planning and reporting on education thematic priorities

• Develop budgets for education programs and proposals.

External networking and technical support

• Develop and strengthen relationships with partners, government authorities, INGOs, UN agencies, networks, and other actors to ensure linkages and alignment for SCI programming on selected program priorities, in consultation with Program Managers and project teams

• Provide technical assistance to external stakeholders and networks, as required

• Represent SC Egypt in education cluster/groups and other coordination platforms.

• Maintain effective relationships with SCI regional and global education groups, ensuring that regional and global thinking informs, and is informed by, SCI Egypt practice

• Support the identification, assessment, and strengthening of local partners in education.

• Promote joint collaborative program planning with partners in education.

• Establish and enhance relations with key donors and stakeholders in education.

Program quality and development

• Provide technical expertise, quality assurance and guidance for Save the Children's education programs, ensuring they are of high quality with reliable data and outcomes.

• Develop and oversee the development of a technical capacity building approach for education staff in Save the Children and local partners in Egypt, working with area and field education staff to prioritize professional needs and finding opportunities for it.

• Develop and maintain central inventory of contextualized tools, manuals and guidance, and other resources to support the development of new programming and improve programme quality in education.

• Supervise and support the development of local innovative education models and share these with regional and global teams.

• Oversee knowledge and experience sharing across teams, and ensure that monitoring, evaluation, learning, and accountability results are understood and used to improve programmes.

• Establish and maintain a platform for enhancing quality implementation with education teams and partners.

• Refine SCI’s education technical approaches in collaboration with other technical advisors and provide support to project teams in implementing SCI common approaches.

• Lead technical development of high-quality concept notes and proposals for education and maintain a set of the shelf concept notes.

• Contribute to overall proposal development and take the lead in ensuring new proposals are evidence based and effective.

• Lead donor and partner mapping for education in Egypt.

• Ensure recognized international good practice and SCI policies are applied in work with children.

• Promote and set a role model for adhering to Save the Children policies and practices with respect to child safeguarding, code of conduct, inclusion, and gender equality.

Program support and reporting

• Maintain a clear overview of programme progress across the education portfolio to be shared with senior managers.

• Develop and maintain strong internal relationships with Area and Field managers, Project teams, Program Quality and Impact staff, and support services to advance education program priorities.

• Review education and cross thematic sections in all reports; quarterly, annual, baseline, midline, endline, and other ad hoc reports.

• Follows up on documentation of case studies, best practices and lessons learnt and disseminate them both internally and externally.

• Contribute and coordinate the development of communications material, in collaboration with the ACCM Team.

• Facilitate advocacy activities for ALL children’s rights for access to quality education at the policy and practice levels.

Other responsibilities might be added as relevant to the role of the Education Advisor.

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, and 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 the highest ethical standards
  

QUALIFICATIONS and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field is required; A diploma or Masters is preferred.

• 5-7 years experience in education programming in a humanitarian and development program context, including 3 years in a senior level position.

• Extensive knowledge of education in Egypt and child-cantered education strategies

• Ability to represent the organization at higher level events and meetings.

• Advanced interpersonal and communication skills, including excellent internal consultation and liaison skills; facilitation and coaching skills.

• Understanding of and commitment to principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

• Excellent analytical and creative abilities with strong results orientation

• Fluency in English and Arabic (spoken and written) is required.

• Commitment to Save the Children values and Child Safeguarding