Education Project Manager South Sudan Aweil

Background:

NRC works to protect the rights of displaced and vulnerable people during crisis and meet immediate humanitarian needs, prevent further displacement, and contribute to durable solutions. Through our mobile emergency response capacity, we provide lifesaving multisectoral assistance to crisis affected populations in hard-to-reach areas across South Sudan. In areas throughout the country where we have established operations, we ensure that displacement affected people are safe, can exercise their rights, access quality services and protection and secure durable solutions. To that end, we contribute to safe and stable environment needed to allow for return and reintegration or integration of displaced communities. We do this through advocacy, coordination, and collaboration, as well as integrated and multi-sectoral long-term interventions.

In South Sudan, NRC established in 2004 and provides humanitarian assistance and supports durable solutions with integrated and multi-sectoral long-term interventions in six core competencies: Information Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA), Protection from Violence, Education, WASH and Shelter. In line with NRC global direction, our WASH and Shelter programmes are transitioning from mainly humanitarian response to support communities with more sustainable water systems and sanitation facilities in response to securing lasting solutions. Also, NRC has the ambition to grow its urban programming to facilitate durable solutions for the swelling urban population in South Sudan.

What we are looking for:

The purpose of the CC Project Manager position is to implement the Education CC project portfolio in the North Area Office. NRC delivers diverse and interlinked Education in Emergency (EiE) projects. The Project Manager participates in strategic programme development, engages in resource mobilisation, builds strong partnerships and liaises with stakeholders, oversees implementation, builds staff capacity, provides technical direction to project staff and implementing partners and ensures quality programming.

What you will do:

Generic Responsibilities:

1. Adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures
2. Contribute to the development of Country, Area and Core Competency strategies, initiate and participate in the development of relevant CC projects.
3. Coordinate and manage education project implementation (activities, budget and project documentation) in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements.
4. Implement technical interventions and ensure high technical quality of project.
5. Provide regular progress reports to the Area Programme Manager, Area Manager(s), Education Specialist and others as requested.
6. Ensure that projects target most vulnerable beneficiaries in need of protection, explore innovative and effective approaches to assist.
7. Liaise and collaborate with relevant local authorities and other key stakeholders.
8. Promote the rights of displacement affected populations (IDPs/returnees/refugees/host) in line with the advocacy strategy.
9. Actively promote the rights of displaced persons PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) standards & principles within NRC and amongst beneficiaries served by NRC.

Specific Responsibilities:

1. Provide technical direction to Education team in the North Area Office, and ensure program results are achieved within time, scope, and budget.
2. Provide guidance on Donor regulations to project staff and implementing organisations and ensure compliance.
3. Develop work plans, ensure efficiency in project activity scheduling for quality outcomes.
4. Coordinate with MEAL and CC Specialists on monitoring and tracking results.
5. Engage with project stakeholders including consortium members and local actors for synergies and standardization of approaches.
6. Represent the project in various forums such as emergency coordination meetings, education cluster, Technical Working Groups including the Refugee working Group, donor engagement meetings, project steering group meetings.
7. Engage and coordinate with various relevant consortium members, State and County level education officials, external stakeholders, including private sector actors for a coordinated approach and optimal resource usage.
8. Compile regular project reports and other written outputs for both internal and external audiences for programme visibility and advocacy purposes
9. Ensure timely implementation of project activities by NRC and implementing partners as agreed in the project documents and partners’ MOU/Agreements
10. Plan and oversee the strategic capacity building of NRC team and implementing partners staff including ongoing coaching and mentoring.
11. Ensure strong community participation including full observation of Accountability to Affected communities’ principles
12. Undertake any other duties assigned by the supervisor.

What will you bring:

Generic professional competencies:

• At least a master’s degree in education or equivalent; Advance degree in Social Sciences or any other relevant field
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in project management in insecure, complex, and volatile environments.
• Experience in managing multiple projects funded through diverse mechanisms;
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation, coaching and capacity building as well as ability to work with culturally diverse teams
• Excellent writing and speaking skills and ability to develop complex arguments
• Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
• Fluency in English, both verbal and written

Context related skills, knowledge and experience:

• Excellent knowledge of education in emergencies programming, strong understanding of INEE minimum standards and humanitarian principles including, policies, frameworks, networks, and stakeholders
• Strong experience working in a partnership model and establishing and maintaining coordination and communication systems at inter-agency level
• Technical expertise in education, youth skills development, teacher professional development, socio- emotional learning, psychosocial support, disability inclusion, gender mainstreaming, conflict sensitive programming
• Remote management experience – proven ability to manage large projects implemented in different geographic areas
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage multiple projects funded by different donors, with varying implementation timelines, reporting requirements, compliance frameworks
• Knowledge of South Sudan Context

• Knowledge of Juba Arabic or any other local language

What do we offer:

• Duty station: Aweil
• Contract: national contract, 5 Months (with possibility of extension).
• Salary/benefits: grade 8 on NRC’s national salary scale.
• Travel: Frequent travel required to field offices in the North AO (Northern Bahr El Ghazal, Western Bahr El Ghazal and Warrap).
• NRC is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to diversity without distinction to age, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.
• We think outside the box, encourage ideas, and give responsibility to all employees at all levels. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative.

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Important information about the application process

• Internal candidates only: To apply as an internal candidate, log in with your official email or click on Opportunity MarketPlace.
• When creating your profile, include your full name as given on your passport. Complete all the system-required fields for experience, employment history and education.
• Mandatory to submit the below when applying:
  • Your most updated English CV and remove all previous outdated CVs.
  • English Cover Letter
  • Do not attach certificates or any other documents apart from the two mentioned above.
• Incomplete applications or the ones submitted in other languages than English will not considered.
• Applications that do not meet the minimum standards in terms of experience or qualifications will generally not be considered. Unsolicited applications not related to this specific job advertisement will not be considered.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. We receive many applicants for each vacant position.
• This position is only open to candidates who have the legal right to work in South Sudan. NRC will not sponsor visa nor work permits as the contract is national.
• If you have any questions about this role, please email ESA Recruitment esa.recruitment@nrc.no with the job title as the subject line.

Why NRC?

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. Our 15,000 staff work in crises across 40 countries, providing life-saving and long-term assistance to millions of people every year.

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An estimated 9.4 million people in South Sudan need humanitarian assistance and protection services in 2023, reflecting 76 per cent of the population. Many of the 2.3 million South Sudanese living in protracted displacement since 2013 have been displaced multiple times and cannot return home. The ongoing conflict in Sudan continues to drive significant displacement into South Sudan with hundred thousands new arrivals since April 2023. The returnees are encouraged to go to areas of origin, places that are equally vulnerable and lack basic services. Often their houses, land or property has been destroyed by the civil war or is occupied. Humanitarian actors are over stretched by the volume of returns and associated needs.

Over 83 per cent of South Sudan’s population relies on subsistence farming, livelihood, and fishing as their primary source of livelihoods, leaving them vulnerable to climatic and conflict related shocks and stressors. Disrupted supply chains, weakening currency, and rising cost, diminishes the purchasing power of the population, exacerbating existing malnutrition and food insecurity. South Sudan remains one of the most severe protection crises in the world, with high levels of gender-based violence and significant gross human rights violations across the country, and with people impacted by violence having limited access to justice and the rule of law.

Despite significant deployment of humanitarian assistance, the cumulative effects of years of conflict, a surge in sub-national violence, and unprecedented flooding, leaves vulnerable population in urgent needs of basic services and protection.

We are looking for people who are passionate about helping refugees and people forced to flee. Are you one of those people? If you are, NRC offers you the opportunity to:

• Do demanding and professional work, often in challenging contexts.
• Join a work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility.
• Be part of a welcoming and supportive community committed to human dignity.

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Organization context

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a global humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee.

Join us in assisting millions of people in areas where others cannot, tackling some of the world's most dangerous and difficult crises. Bring your skills and dedication to an organisation recognised for providing high quality aid and for defending the rights of refugees and internally displaced people.

At NRC, we give responsibility to employees at all levels and foster professional growth and innovative teams. You can expect a supportive culture and an open dialogue with management. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Together, we save lives and rebuild futures.

Safeguarding is central to NRC’s work. We expect all employees to:

• treat everyone with respect and dignity

• contribute to building a safe environment for all

• never engage in any form of exploitation, harassment and specifically sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment (SEAH)

• always report. NRC has a zero-tolerance approach to inaction against exploitation, abuse and SEAH