Education Coordinator – Regional Lead for FCDO-TREE project Ethiopia Assosa

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with REBs to contextualise national and global policies and frameworks including on school leadership, gender and inclusion, and continuous professional development.
• Roll out contextualised training of trainers (ToT) for REBs, zonal and woreda education offices, school leaders and cluster supervisors.
• Lead capacity building workshops on topics such as data management, reporting, accelerated learning, gender and inclusion, and English language with support from project technical leads.
• Disseminate contextualised policies to schools and support regional teams to strengthen capacity of school leaders, teachers, and PTSAs.
• Work with REBs, zonal, and woreda education offices to implement the English costed plan for improving English teaching and cross-curricular English use with support from the English Language Specialist.
• Collaborate with MEAL staff to monitor the regional activities and contribute to the larger project MEAL strategic and implementation plan.
• Manage and coordinate regional teams ensuring provision of timely and effective support.
• Conduct regular site visits to provide technical and operational assistance and ensure effective implementation and monitoring of project activities at the regional and community levels.
• Effectively communicate regional programme implementation updates and findings to the Deputy Team Lead, programme staff and external stakeholders, to facilitate informed decision-making and coherence and coordination with other regions.
• Engage with stakeholders to ensure alignment with national policies and secure support for the programme’s initiatives.
• Working with relevant staff and other consortium member agencies, identify and mitigate risks associated with the delivery of project activities as part of overall risk management.
• Within this role, promote and help ensure adherence/compliance with the consortium organisations’ Code of Conduct & Associated Policies (including Programme Participant Protection, Child & vulnerable adult Safeguarding, Anti-Trafficking policies), Conflict of Interest Policy, Anti-Fraud Policy, and Modern Slavery Transparency Statement.
• Within this role, promote and help ensure accountability to programme participants and wider communities in line with the consortium organisations’ commitments under the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) and Do No Harm principles and ensure high ethical standards throughout programme implementation.