About CRS

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work are accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance, and peacebuilding.

In partnership with Caritas Iraq, CRS Iraq is supporting conflict-affected people to live in dignity through upgrades to shelter conditions and improved access to water and sanitation facilities, educational and psychosocial (PSS) support for children, livelihoods support, social cohesion, and multi-purpose cash assistance.

Job Summary

As a member of the education project team, the Education Project Assistant will implement, monitor, and report on all education project activities in support of Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) work serving the poor and vulnerable. The Project assistant thorough and service-oriented approach will ensure that the project consistently applies best practices and constantly works towards improving the impact of its benefits to those we serve.

Roles and Key Responsibilities:

• Liaise with various community stakeholders and mobilize them to ensure full involvement of school administration, teachers, and other relevant stakeholders in the overall implementation and improvement of project activities.
• Support the coordination and implementation of all assigned project activities in schools as outlined in the detailed implementation plan in line with CRS program quality.
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with school administration, teachers, DoE officials, beneficiary communities, and other relevant stakeholders.
• In coordination with the project team, support capacity building, including teacher trainings, this may include Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Child Protection, Caregiver Engagement, and PSS Mainstreaming in the Classroom.
• Coordinate communication and facilitate information sharing among the project team, community stakeholders and project beneficiaries; maintain strong working relationships with all CRS education team members, Partners, and external education stakeholders.
• Compile data provided at the community level as per project requirements and complete project documentation for assigned activities.
• Monitor and report any challenges and/or gaps identified in the field to inform adjustments to plans and implementation

Please submit your CV as a PDF, other formats rather than PDF will consider corrupted and will lead to neglect application.

You can apply via the link below:

https://crsiraqcareers.crs.org/job?id=231