Regional Education Coordinator WCNA Mid level

Job title: Regional Education Coordinator WCNA

Location: WCNA Dakar/Senegal

Department: Programme Development

Report: Head of Programme and Advocacy

Supervisory Function: Head of Programme and Advocacy

Indirect Report: Global Education Advisor

Mission:

SOS Children’s Villages International is the umbrella organization for the global federation of SOS Children’s Villages. As a non-governmental social development organization, we support children without parental care and families in difficult living conditions through care, education, health, and emergency relief services. We also advocate for children’s and young people’s rights in alliance with many partners. We work in 136 countries and territories, reaching over one million children, young people, families, and caregivers annually.

By effectively integrating education as a core component of SOS Children’s Villages programming, SOS CV aims to enhance access to and improve the quality of education services for children without parental care or at risk of losing it, including children in alternative care.

SOS Children’s Villages in the WCNA region aims to increase impact by working in partnership with duty bearers and other stakeholders to build on existing initiatives, systems, resources, and capacities of the communities in which we operate.

The Regional Education Coordinator will support a strategic approach towards increased reach and improved regional partnerships, providing expert technical support to this process at every step. This role requires expertise in education in development and humanitarian contexts, education systems, and a high degree of professionalism and collaboration. The Coordinator will work closely with national, regional, and global teams, communities, partners, and government stakeholders to strengthen the education of SOS Children’s Villages Member Associations in the WCNA region, including Senegal, Liberia, and Guinea.

Purpose:

The Regional Education Coordinator will be responsible for providing expert technical support by assuring ongoing professional development in Member Associations and supporting the design and implementation of programming with quality indicators and effective results-based monitoring and data collection in place.

In close collaboration with the Global Education Advisor, the incumbent will also lead regional mapping and development of an education framework aligned to a global evaluation process supporting a comprehensive and contextualized organizational User Guide for Education.

The mapping process will identify contextually specific socio-cultural and financial barriers to access for the target population, assess existing organizational flagship programmes, and identify and engage scalable promising practices and partners in the region.

The Regional Education Coordinator will also support the development of a strategic partnership framework, building from the organization’s mission and strategy to increase reach through initiating strong partnerships designed to strengthen families, communities, and systems for children at risk of losing parental care. This process will include identifying and cultivating partnerships that increase access to formal and non-formal education, increase quality through sustainable support to systems, and assure child protection and safeguarding for more children who have lost or are at risk of losing parental care.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the Global Education Advisor to complete a regional mapping inclusive of barriers to access for children at risk of losing parental care, promising practices within the organization and in the region, and key partners.
• Engage Results Based Management approach, providing technical support to develop and implement education pilot programming with SMART indicators and a monitoring framework across WCNA.
• Promote and facilitate the development of regional education, partnerships, and advocacy frameworks complementing SOS Children’s Villages Strategy 2030 and the Care Promise.
• Support countries in the WCNA region in developing innovative education concepts that iterate from learnings identified during the mapping process, including humanitarian response and digital approaches
• Support country teams in developing strong relationships with relevant subnational and national ministries of education, humanitarian clusters, and technical education working groups
• Provide high-quality ongoing technical support professional development training to MA’s implementing education programming and pilots
• Work closely with Project Consulting and Fund Management in Countries to identify relevant opportunities and support fundraising and proposal development initiatives
• Assure alignment in every action to SOS Safeguarding and Do No Harm policies and procedures

Engagement with Member Associations              

• Technical Support to Education Programme Design and Delivery
• Support to project management, deliverables tracking, and budget
• Interactions
• Head of Programme and Advocacy, WCNA
• Regional Programme Director, WCNA
• Global Education Advisor
• National Programme Managers
• National Directors
• CVI representatives
• Other Regional Education Advisors Support concept development and fundraising

Requirements:

• Essential Functional Competencies
• Experience working in the development or humanitarian response field in an education-related role
• Technical Expertise in Education
• Project Management Skills
• Stakeholder Management Skills
• Ability to work independently and meet deadlines effectively
• Data analysis skills
• Professional writing and reporting
• Project/Programme and Training Design skills
• Adept and well-versed in technology, educational technology

Leadership Competencies

We offer

• Diverse, creative, and challenging opportunities in an international working environment
• Possibility to make a significant, positive contribution
• Competitive compensation package and excellent development opportunities
• Under the organization’s child protection policy, all employment is subject to applicable background checks, including criminal record checks

What We Stand For:

SOS Children’s Villages is committed to creating and maintaining a caring and protective environment that promotes its core values prevents, and addresses child abuse and exploitation. We strongly condemn all forms of child abuse and exploitation, within or outside our organization, and always respond to any proven, alleged, or attempted abuse within our sphere of influence according to its nature. Efforts ensure mechanisms are in place to raise awareness, aid prevention, encourage reporting, and ease response. They range from human resource development actions such as training and counseling to measures such as suspension, dismissal, and legal action.

SOS Children’s Villages is committed to creating and maintaining a safe working environment for our staff, children and young people, and our communities. The organization prohibits harassment, exploitation, and abuse by or of any employee, supervisor, manager, child, young people, community, contractor, applicant, or other individual with whom SOS Children’s Villages employees come into contact through their work. All employees are expected to carry out their duties per our prevention and protection against Sexual Harassment, Exploitation, and Abuse policy.

In addition, SOS Children’s Villages applies a zero tolerance concerning any fraud situation. The organization does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.

If you are interested in this position, please send your application with your Resume, your Cover Letter including 3 professional referees, a copy of your diplomas, and your criminal records by November 8^th 2023 at the latest.

Only successful candidates will be contacted.

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

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