Camp Education Coordinator

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

% of time

Activity

End Results

25%

Major activities

Resource Acquisition

• Provide technical support in needs identification and assessment in the area of the education in emergency program.

• Provide technical support in resource acquisition and project design related to education in emergencies.

• Write all technical sections in education proposals, design the activities per output, and ensure the costing of these activities in coordination with finance teams

• Contribute to the expansion of WV’s education sector portfolio.

• Contribute to “go/no go decision’ for project location and resource allocation

All planned activities are sufficiently funded

25%

Technical Leadership and Technical input

• Develop sector-specific technical approaches/Technical program, implementation guidelines and tools and promote implementation

• Coordinate the implementation of the WV Rwanda Education in Emergency project, including identifying ongoing priority areas,

• Ensure that sector budgets are aligned to project designs and Implementation plans,

• Provide relevant technical advice to WV Rwanda on Education in Emergency technical issues,

• Alignment of the program with national, donor, partnership and government strategies

• Sharing best practices, scale up in the operational areas

• Ensure that the Education in Emergency project adheres to set standards (Donor, MoE, Government, Education cluster, etc.),

• Ensure integration with other sectors and departments to optimize resource use and program impact,

• Provide technical support during project implementation to ensure the project meets or supersedes established standards. Possibly contextualize international Technical Models to the context of WV Rwanda (such as Literacy Boost).

• Ensure compliance with donor requirements during project implementation

• Maintain an adequate supply of educational materials.

• Coordinate with UNHCR and the WV Rwanda supply chain department and ensure that education supplies are procured/delivered in a timely manner.

• Alignment of the program with national, donor, partnership and government strategies
• Sharing best practices, scale up in the operation areas

20%

Quality Assurance

• Ensure technical program quality through the implementation of project review systems, World Vision’s DME guidelines and policies, and donor requirements;

• Ensure the availability of data whenever it is required

• Undertake periodic project monitoring and technical backstopping

• Support Quality Assurance Team in developing indicators, targets, measurement frameworks and monitoring plans; provide technical input for ToRs for country-level and project assessments and evaluations.

• Review draft assessment and evaluation reports to ensure technical quality.

• If needed, participate in (Interagency Rapid Needs) Assessments. Review donor reports to ensure technical quality

• Compile weekly, monthly, quarterly and monthly report for Disaster Management department

• Ensuring quality programming in education in emergency program

• Achievements under the Education Sector are on track

• Evidence of impact for WVR’s contribution to education in emergency

20%

Engagement and Networking

• Pre-position WV Rwanda for increased funding by effective representation with relevant stakeholders, especially Cluster donors, partner I/NGOs and technical working groups to profile WV and influence decisions.

• Represent WV Rwanda in sector-specific national, regional and global forums deemed necessary for quality programming and profiling WV Rwanda with donors.

• Oversee regular programming and coordination meetings between the Sector Specialists.

• To actively engage with various education networks within and outside the partnership (child rights, gender, peace and reconciliation) and regularly update the national office.

• Ensure representation on relevant education cluster and technical working groups to profile WV Rwanda and influence decisions.

Technical specifications for goods and services to procure are developed and shared

5%

Information Management:

Support keeping accurate and up-to-date records of all programme documents, resources, lessons and good practices, and facilitate their circulation and use within the NO, across the partnership and with partners.

• The education database is established and updated on a monthly and quarterly basis.

• Best practices, lessons learned, and achievements are documented and published

5%

Building Partnerships:

Building Partnerships: Pursue and develop meaningful and formal partnerships with Government, UN agencies, NGO’s, research institutes and other community stakeholders that will compliment WVR Livelihoods program.

• WVR Education in Emergency is well connected with key partners

• Good representation on provincial and national levels, as agreed with the respective supervisor

• Provide support office/donors partner’s vital program information, documentation, stories and reports on a timely basis.

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

Required Professional Experience

• At least 5 years of professional experience (of which 3 years are in Education in Emergency). 2 Years of experience working with Refugee Communities will be an advantage;

• Demonstrated experience in project management;

• Demonstrated experience in capacity building, project design and budget management.

• Strong understanding of Refugee operational context.

• Experience in working and coordinating with the Government of Rwanda and other stakeholders.

• Strong interpersonal, intercultural and communication skills.

• Excellent analytical and written skills, and good computer skills.

• Fluency in English, with strong English writing skills.

• Additional qualities: ability to multi-task, ability to handle pressure well, ability to improvise, flexibility, adaptability to transition.

Required Education,

training, license,

registration, and

certification

• Bachelor’s degree in Education, social work, social sciences or related discipline.

If a foreign institution issued the degree, an equivalence certificate from the Rwanda Higher Education Council (HEC) will be required)

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Experience in working with International NGOs that focus on children
• Working with children, especially those in early grades of education, is an added advantage
• Experience working in Education in Emergencies
• Working experience in community development.

Travel and/or

Work Environment

Requirement

The position requires the ability and willingness to travel domestically up to 100% of the time since he/she is time since

he/she is community-based.

Physical

Requirements

Physically fit and able to conduct teacher training and school visits

Language

Requirements

English and

Kinyarwanda

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only