Education Coach

General Description of the Organization:

Orange is a non-governmental civil society organization devoted to alleviating the suffering and improving the sustainability mechanisms of the conflict-affected population. Since its establishment, Orange has partners directly with affected Syrian populations delivering programs spanning sectors, including humanitarian and development programs, in the Early Recovery and Livelihoods, Food Security and agriculture, Education and Protection, WASH, and Shelter, in addition to long-term impact interventions focusing on the economic empowerment and the local value chains improvements to enable targeted communities to improve their living practices and their sustainable mechanisms. Orange collaborates with a variety of national and international non-governmental organizations, as well as local initiatives, to adopt a community-based approach that leads to improving the response’s impact on the humanitarian crisis and provides sustainable and alternative solutions.

Job purpose:

The role of the Education Coach is to conduct coaching sessions, supervision, and follow-up with the classroom teachers and instructors in quality education schools and education assemblies during the delivery of their tasks. The Education Coach will be a full-time staff. This position will be the core technical personnel of the education component of the project and will be based inside Syria.

Duties, objectives, and competencies:

• Regular visits to the schools to provide technical support to the classroom teachers, instructors, and headteachers to provide instructions about education (specifically literacy and numeracy).
• Provide assistance and support to the school personnel in order to create and apply alternative education plans for children with disabilities or functioning problems.
• Follow up the implementation of the education activities within the standards selected by the education directorates.
• Distribute and provide the logistics needs of the learning circles or training to the schools.
• Provide a sufficient explanation for the education personnel about the teaching methods and lesson planning.
• Train and support school personnel to know how to deal with children with disabilities or special needs.
• Conduct seminars, workshops, and individual Support sessions related to education.
• Prepare training materials and full training packages for different topics related to education. such as presentations, summaries, videos, etc.
• Support and mentor the teachers and headteachers in the schools.
• Keep the different records related to the education activities.
• Conduct continuous evaluations to identify the areas of improvement and weaknesses.
• Determine instructional methods and conduct individual support sessions, learning circles, lectures, conferences, meetings, workshops, on-job training, refresher training, and shadowing.
• Develop different educational learning materials such as handbooks, illustration tools, media materials, visual materials, references, and resources.
• Report on progress to the line manager about the daily and weekly activities.
• Suggest new improvements for the implementation methods and the type of activities.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with education instructors in the education directorates and coordinate constantly with the education assemblies.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in (Education Faculty, including all departments, Arabic Language) or any other related fields.
• Understanding of effective teaching methodologies and tools.
• Willingness to keep abreast of new techniques and concepts of safeguarding and education.
• Proficient in MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint); also, E-learning software is an asset.
• High time management skills.
• Critical thinking and decision-making.
• Communication and Presentation Skills: the ability to speak in the presence of a huge audience, speak interpersonally with individuals, and report to management.

Orange’s Values and Principles:

We believe that:

• Maintaining a positive, healthy, and trusting relationship are central to making the partnership a success.
• Appropriately trained and resourced staff and volunteers are key to effective and efficient service and program delivery in the development sector.

We are committed to:

• Shared responsibility, accountability, and decision-making in any partnership.
• Providing access to high-quality learning to empower people and professionals in the development sector, particularly in the developing world.
• Learning from each other to strengthen and enhance the long-term sustainability of our services and programs for the benefit of children and communities that we serve.

Child Safeguarding & PSEAH policy

Orange aims to create an organization that is safe for children and women but is also aware of the need to keep child protection concerns proportionate and to guard against over-zealous attitudes. Child and women abuse thrives in closed and secretive atmospheres. Orange’s best protection is to create an open and aware culture where people are not afraid to speak about their concerns.

Any employee, consultant, contractor or supplier undertaking an activity on behalf of Orange must sign the Child Safeguarding and PSEAH– Declaration of Acceptance Form and comply with the Orange child safeguarding and PSEAH Policy which is a statement of Orange commitment to preventing abuse and protecting children with whom it comes into.