Education Officer Ethiopia Assosa

Role and Responsibilities 

The purpose of the officer position is day to day implementation of the CC Project. Use action words such as ensure, implement, or assist for the position’s relevant responsibilities. 

Generic Responsibilities  

• Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks, and guidelines.
• Implement delegated CC project portfolio according to the plan of action.
• Prepare and develop status reports as required by management.
• Ensure proper filing of documents.
• Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need and explore and assess new and better ways to assist.
• Promote and share ideas for technical improvement.
• Liaise and collaborate with relevant local authorities and other key stakeholders.

Specific Responsibilities 

• Identifying training needs of teachers, and education experts and monitoring their day-to-day application of the knowledge and skills gained from training,
• Support parent-teacher associations for their proper management of education in emergency schools.
• Support activities within and between cluster centers.
• Collecting and compiling monthly reports from school centers and sharing with the education coordinator
• Supervises and directly monitors the education programme implementation in line with regional education bureau, NRC country, and global education strategic plans,
• Identifying, processing, and fulfilling education in logistic needs, conducting the distribution of educational materials, and documenting the distribution list as per the reconciliation of deliverables standard.
• Liaison with relevant authorities, communities, and community representatives at the field level.
• Support identification and registration of children for the designated programme and organize their data with a database in a timely manner.
• Design community mobilization mechanisms, selection/enrollment of students, and maintain regular attendance of the students.
• Organize and document best practices and share them with the education coordinator.

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Geneva leads NRC’s representation with the IASC and UN agencies, and coordinates donor engagement with the UN and Swiss donors. NRC strives to assist and protect vulnerable and displaced people during crises, especially in situations of conflict. Established in 1946, NRC is an independent, humanitarian, non-profit, non-governmental organisation working in around 31 countries with approximately 14’000 staff. NRC employs a rights based approach, challenging those with responsibility to uphold the rights of displaced people set out within national and International Laws. NRC endeavors to secure the acceptance of local stakeholders for activities and is committed to the principles of humanity, neutrality, independence and impartiality.

NRC seeks to engage with all relevant actors in order to promote the full respect for the rights of displaced and vulnerable people; secure and maintain access for humanitarian operations and promote the achievement of durable solutions. NRC Geneva, with the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC), are NRC’s primary presence in Geneva.