LEARN Senior Project Officer (Literacy Empowerment Alliance for a Resilient New-Generation) – Pattani At Save the Children

TITLE: LEARN Senior Project Officer (Literacy Empowerment Alliance for a Resilient New-Generation)

TEAM/PROGRAMME: Thailand Programme

LOCATION: Pattani Field Office

CONTRACT LENGTH: 3 years contract

ROLE PURPOSE:

Save the Children will be implementing Literacy Empowerment Alliance for a Resilient New-Generation (LEARN). A three-year project in the Southern most provinces of Thailand to build on Save the Children’s work in Thailand’s southernmost provinces by strengthening the nurturing caregiving, executive function, and high-quality preschool education programs at home and centres for vulnerable and conflict-affected ethnic minority Pattani-Malay boys and girls (ages 3-5) living in Raman District, Yala Province. In collaboration with educators, parents, community leaders, CSOs, and government partners.

LEARN project will be to provide support to kindergartens (K1-3) in 21 villages with the highest populations living under poverty in Raman District. Through this activity, kindergarten teachers and other ECD stakeholders in the area will be trained on how to use various methods and resources such as Reading Time, the Total Physical Response (TPR) Teaching Method, and Reading Corner, Community Resource Centres. Additional efforts will be made towards strengthening the Teacher Learning Circle (TLC) and ECD key teacher system.

LEARN Senior Project Officer will be responsible for supporting the project implementation, partner engagement, monitoring and evaluation in the field. LEARN Senior Project Officer will coordinate all project activities at the field level in coordination with project partners, co-lead increased home, community and ECD centre environments through the development of more age-appropriate and gender-sensitive and inclusive supplementary materials. Including, Increased engagement of project partners with local organization and community groups that support the sustainability. LEARN Senior Project Officer will work closely with MEAL team for data collection and consolidating data for learning and reporting purposes, and for administrative and finance support to the project coordinator and partners.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: LEARN Project Coordinator

Staff reporting to this post: LEARN Project Officer

Indirect: N/A

Budget Responsibilities: Supports budget planning and monitoring

Role Dimensions: LEARN Senior Project Officer will support LEARN Project Coordinator in working with two key partners; Yala Rajabhat University (YRU) and the Network of Women Against Violence in Southern Thailand (N-Wave). It also assists in coordinating with multi-sectoral representatives from the provincial, district, and sub-district levels such as government authorities, school directors, teachers, religious leaders, health workers, and representatives from the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre (SBPAC).

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Program Implementation:

• With support from LEARN Project Coordinator, develop, implement and monitor quarterly, monthly and weekly activity plans to achieve expected results. This includes planning of activities, budgets and procurement.
• Ensure that all planned activities are implemented on time, to quality measures and within budget as per the monthly plan. Where challenges arise, ensure that these are flagged early, communicated to LEARN Project Coordinator and addressed in a timely manner way.
• Assist in developing and revising the LEARN project management tools submit on timely basic
• Lead the preparation of all procurement and administrative documents required for program implementation.
• Support the coordination and implementation of MEAL and learning component of the project as required
• Liaise with local stakeholders (religious leaders, government, CSOs etc.) to ensure the smooth implementation of the project
• Work with communities (parents, etc.) and disseminate information about project issues and available services.
• Work with implementing partners for effective implementation of the other aspects of the project.
• Support planning and logistics of capacity building training workshops for the project
• Keep proper records of field expenditures when appropriate and report on these to LEARN Project Coordinator
• Ensure that the project is implemented in ways that are responsive to communities and children, in line with SC’s principles, values and strategic plan and compliant with SC’s procedures.
• Support LEARN Project Coordinator with annual planning and review processes.

Planning, Reporting, Monitoring and Learning:

• Ensure that all project data is properly and regularly collected, check data and ensure that it is logically presented to LEARN Project Coordinator
• Collect and compile project databased on the standard formats and submit regular reports capturing learning and project indicator to LEARN Project Coordinator.
• Contribute to the preparation and provide input for LEARN Project Coordinator of internal and external reports.
• Participate in team reviews of results and program progress and/or project evaluation when and as requested.
• Provide input for LEARN Project Coordinator on budget forecasting and planning.

Collaboration and Representation:

• Represent Save the Children in a professional manner.
• Liaise with other stakeholders, including schools, local leaders, and partners, and participate in relevant meetings.
• Collaborate with other team members across departments and projects to ensure synergies and consistency in our programming approaches.
• Represent programming with local government, NGOs, communities and within SC as appropriate.

Partnership Management Support

• Provide support to partners to collate good practices and evidence for showcasing at national and regional level.
• Support LEARN Project Coordinator in make sure that the projects’ partners are followed through with SCT standard in logistics, management and finance.
• Assist in provide capacity building and guidance on project and budget management and activity implementation to sub-grantees
• Support in monitor partners’ performance in accordance with the agreement and as required per Save the Children policies and donor’s compliance.

Leadership:

• Establish clear and compelling objectives to LEARN Project Officer and monitors progress and performance
• Encourage good initiatives and innovative ideas for her/his staffs and be a supportive and empowering manager.
• Take a flexible and positive leadership style, adapting to a given situation or to the needs of the team.
• Maintain a focus on achieving results and meeting the agreed objectives, and pro-actively solve problems support from line management.
• Support LEARN Project Coordinator in identify clear development needs and development plans for the team through regular constructive reviews of the performance
• Ensure adherence to security regulations by personnel under his/her supervision
• With consultation to LEARN Project Coordinator; identifying capacity building needs (management, language etc.) and in conjunction with the HR, devise a plan for personal development of staff.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

QUALIFICATIONS

• Thai nationality
• University graduated in one of these fields; Education, Non-Formal Education, Early Childhood/ Elementary Education, Educational Technology, Social development, Psychology, Monitoring & Evaluation

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essentials:

• Minimum of 3-5 years professional experience with education or child development work
• Experience implementing high quality training activities with vulnerable communities, preferably related to Education and/or child development
• Demonstrated commitment to improving the lives of children in the school and community.
• Strong understanding of the contextual situation related to education and child development.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Ability to travel to the remote locations and work long hours at times.
• Fluency in Pattani-Malay and Thai language required
• Strong interpersonal skills the ability to work collaboratively with others
• Strong monitoring and reporting skills
• Good computer skills (MS Office, including Outlook for email)
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles including rights-based approaches

Desirable:

• English language skills
• Experience in projects to promote emergent literacy and language development highly desirable.
• Background in Emergency programming is an asset.
• Experience working in an international development organization is an asset.

Additional Job Responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the Save the Children Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Safeguarding Our Staff

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the Save the Children anti-harassment policy.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with Save the Children Health and Safety policies and procedures.

Interested candidates should apply and submit a motivational letter, comprehensive CV, expected salary and details of at least 3 referees via the following link;

Job Description – LEARN Senior Project Officer (230002FE) (taleo.net)

“We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse”