VAC-11917 Education Technical Extender

Nimroz

Organization: CTG - Committed To Good
Location: Nimroz
Grade: Level not specified - Level not specified
Occupational Groups:
- Education, Learning and Training
- Children's rights (health and protection)
Closing Date: Closed

Job description

CTG overview

CTG staff and support humanitarian projects in fragile and conflict-affected countries around the world, providing a rapid and cost-effective service for development and humanitarian missions. With past performance in 17 countries – from the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Asia, we have placed more than 20,000 staff all over the world since operations began in 2006.

CTG recruits, deploys and manages the right people with the right skills to implement humanitarian and development projects, from cleaners to obstetricians, and mechanics to infection specialists, we’re skilled in emergency response to crises such as the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Key to successful project delivery is the ability to mobilise at speed; CTG can source and deploy anyone, anywhere, in less than 2 weeks and have done so in 48 hours on a number of occasions.

Through our efficient and agile HR, logistical and operational services, CTG saves multilateral organisations time and money. We handle all our clients’ HR related issues, so they are free to focus on their core services.

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Overview of position

Extenders are engaged through a third-party Service Provider that is directly responsible for the administrative and security related aspects of the Extenders deployment, while UNICEF is responsible for financial support, technical guidance and supervision.

Accordingly, the Extenders will be contracted by a Service Provider and will be considered a staff of the contracting company for all purposes and in all circumstances. The Extenders will not be considered a UNICEF staff member or consultant. As such, UNICEF will not be directly or indirectly responsible for the Extenders while implementing this Terms of Reference (TOR).

Extenders are tasked to facilitate and support UNICEF programme activities implementation and monitoring tasks that cannot be done by UNICEF staff due to accessibility, security, and scale. Which make extenders modality the most reliable and efficient way to support those tasks.

Extender will be based at their area of responsibility, and usually selected from communities in same area for easy mobility and to reduce security risks, and transportation time and cost. These extenders are not given task that is supposed to be done normally by UNICEF staff.

UNICEF is performing in far-flung and insecure communities with high gender disparity, a high number of out-of-school children, and limited functional public schools for children, particularly girls. Most of those areas where UNICEF is undertaking interventions in far-flung remote communities are insecure for UNICEF staff to travel. Considering the importance of monitoring to ensure effective and efficient implementation of education interventions in far remote and insecure areas, Technical Extender is the best possible solution to perform regular monitoring and report on the status of interventions promptly. In this case, UNICEF will ensure accountability towards effective implementation of organizational objectives and efficient use of the fund to partners.

Role objectives

·Monitoring and supportive supervision of targeted public schools and UNICEF-supported Community-based Education (CBE), Accelerated Learning Program (ALP), and Early Child Development (ECD) classes at provincial, district, and community levels.

·Ensure that UNICEF Supported Community Based Education (CBS, ALP, ECD) Classes are well functioning, children attending and learning.

·Monitoring the implementation of UNICE Work Plan activities and report on children’ access to education, quality learning, and community engagement.

·Checking whether the CBE/ALP/ECD classes are linked to nearby hub (formal) schools through regular monitoring, as determined by UNICEF Quality Assurance measures.

·Monitoring and documenting the transition of CBE/ALP/ECD classes to hub schools.

·Overseeing textbooks and Teaching Learning Materials (TLM) supply delivery to planned schools and their distribution to students by tracking supply delivery with school principals and shura and parents.

·Conducting regular visits to textbooks warehouses at the PEDs and report the findings.

·Monitoring teachers and students’ attendance in CBE/ALP/ECD classes.

·Conducting area assessments to ensure that CBE and ALP classes are established in areas where children have no access to public schools while reporting issues to ZOs for necessary actions.

·Assuring that School Management Shuras (SMS) have been established and are functioning.

·Performing skill needs assessment of PED academic supervision staff and school personnel (when needed) and organizing required capacity development training (e.g. planning, data collection, data analysis, and monitoring/supervision and reporting);

·Monitoring UNICEF-funded school construction projects to ensure contractors fulfill their work according to their work plan.

·Performing any other duties assigned by UNICEF Zos.

Project reporting

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Key competencies

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Team management

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Further information

Key skills and Competencies Requirements:

Able to mobilize communities to support access to and retention in education for children.

Ability to ensure regular and timely field visits, and monitoring of as well as reporting on education activities.

Coordinate knowledge sharing and capacity-building events for provincial Academic Supervision Unit (ASU) staff and schools’ personnel (e.g., teachers, principals, and school Shura members) in specific recommended/needed areas, where necessary.

Communication Skills: Ability to communicate fluently and has interpersonal communication skills at the community level.

Computer Skills: Familiarity in Office Applications are preferred.

Personal qualities: Team player, flexible, network-builder, able to handle pressure well, and work in a cross-cultural setting.

Disclaimer:
· At no stage of the recruitment process will CTG ask candidates for a fee. This includes during the application stage, interview, assessment and training.
· CTG has a zero tolerance to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) which is outlined in its Code of Conduct. Protection from SEA is everyone’s responsibility and all staff are required to adhere to CTG’s Code of Conduct at all times.

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