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Job Description
The IRC Nigeria is currently expanding its education portfolio in the northeast of the country in line with its five-year Strategic Action Plan (SAP). A priority outcome for the country program is that girls and boys enroll in and attend safe, functioning, and responsive education services. The IRC aims to both rebuild, reequip, and staff damaged school infrastructure and enhance the quality of education through curriculum improvements in formal and non-formal institutions, with a particular focus on social and emotional learning.
Responsibilities
- The Education Officer will be responsible for the direct implementation of OTL activities per the work plan, provide technical leadership for Mentor Teachers, Learning Facilitators, and community structures, and ensure all project-related information is organized and accessible to enhance coordination, documentation, and reporting across the state’s LGEAs to support information management.
- The Education Officer based in Adamawa will lead in the planning and monitoring of OTL activities and report accordingly.
- Lead in training, coaching, and mentoring of learning facilitators and mentor teachers to improve instructional practices of ABEP subjects (Math, English, Basic Science, Hausa, and National Values) and fidelity of implementation.
- Coordinate with OTL communication specialist to document lessons learned and success stories monthly.
- Coordinate with the MEL team to conduct TaRL, EGRA, and EGMA assessments and validate assessment data.
- Works with state-based program state manager and senior program officer on TPD, safety, innovation, youth, and inclusion to ensure harmonized implementation approaches.
- Ensures Learning Facilitators and Mentor Teachers have needed training, resources, and support to implement OTL activities.
- Participate in state and LGEA, SUBEB, and SBMC technical working groups and steering committees about teacher education, curriculum, and assessment.
Qualification
- At least three years of relevant professional experience with an international or civil society organization, including direct implementation of education programming.
- At least five years of experience related to teacher professional development including Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) Methodology.
- Experience working with displaced or otherwise marginalized communities required.
- Strong verbal communication skills and effective representation and liaison with external actors
- Have experience in community mobilization (MUST)
- Experience in TaRL and or ABEP approaches (MUST)
Location: Adamawa, Nigeria.
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