Education Officer At Sened Organization

Job Title:

Education Officer

Job Location:

Syria / Azez

Reporting to:

Project COORDINATOR

General Description of the Programme:

SENED is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit organization licensed and registered in Türkiye with the number 27-15-175. SENED Organization was established shortly after the Syrian Nakba and in response to the suffering of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey as well as internally displaced people in Syria, to alleviate suffering, achieving justice, equality, and freedom, strengthening the role of civil society, and supporting and developing the local community. SENED works in the humanitarian work sectors to support, empower, and educate the community through several programs, takes exceptional care of people with disabilities and their families and defends their issues.

SENED Association emphasizes creating safe, accessible, and participation-encouraging living conditions for individuals’ emotional, intellectual, physical, and social development by focusing on people with disabilities. Beyond the medical perspective on disability, it tries to find solutions to the problems faced by disabled people with a holistic perspective by considering the disabled people, their families, and the society they live in, focusing on the conditions they experience. SENED Association aims to create a safe and supportive environment and space by conducting family-oriented activities to help disabled individuals and their families become stronger, discover their potential and stand by with their children. By collecting data on refugee-disabled people and identifying problems and needs, SENED strives to ensure harmony between disabled refugees and local people with a voluntary, professional team and a community-based approach. All activities, education, research, advocacy, etc., are carried out on platforms created by local and disabled refugee people.

Job purpose:

As Education Officer, you will be responsible for the development and implementation of the mission’s operational strategy as well as for the quality of Education programs throughout the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation phases. You will build the capacity of the team and provide technical support.

Duties, objectives, and competencies:

· Direct coordination with the Project Coordinator and all project staff.

· Follow-up and update the implementation schedule.

· Coordinate with education personnel in project area to implement education activities according to the project plan.

· Submit the required daily, weekly, and monthly reports to the Project Coordinator.

· Commitment to applying the policies and procedures followed in Sened.

· Monitoring the progress and preparing reports on the achievements made on education projects.

· Following up the educational process in schools supported by Sened in A’zaz.

· Monitor the education project progress and deal with any problems that arise.

· Documenting activities, tracking progress, and formulating activity plans.

· Supervising the education personnel training facilitated by the trainer.

· Coordinating with A’zaz Education Directorate when needed.

· Raising PRs related to the implementation of education activities.

· Supervising the implementation of BTL campaigns.

· Supervising the provision of Non-formal education activities.

· Supervising the rehabilitation process of schools and WASH facilities and report any issues in this regard if any.

· Coordinating with schools management regarding the referral of students to formal education.

Requirements: Essential

· Bachelor’s degree in Humanitarian Response, Development Studies or relevant technical field

· Intermediate level in the English language

· Minimum of 3 years of proven experience in implementing education projects.

Requirements (desired)

· Advanced skills in report writing.

· Experience in humanitarian work and principles.

· Experience in working with PwDs (People with Disabilities)

· Advanced knowledge of facilitation skills.

· Good knowledge of MS Office programs.

General terms and conditions

Safeguarding

Disabled beneficiaries, children and vulnerable adults must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that SENED shows this ongoing commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.

Diversity

SENED is committed to creating a genuinely inclusive, effective, and representative organizational culture, encouraging employee equity and diversity, and eliminating discrimination. Having a diverse profile of employees, different age groups, backgrounds, cultures, etc., including various experiences and capabilities, helps us understand, represent, and serve children better. Therefore, all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, religion, gender, disability, or age.

Procedures

If needed, SENED will submit a work permit application for the selected candidate after the job offer is accepted. Failure to provide the required documents or rejection of a work permit application by the Government of Türkiye will result in rescinding the employment offer.

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. SENED reserves the right to change this document. Any published closing dates are estimated. Due to the nature of SENED’s work, we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate, which may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to apply as early as possible.

SENED Organization does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. | SENED Organization does not charge a fee at any step of the recruitment process.

Job purpose:

As an Education Officer, you will be responsible for the development and implementation of the mission’s operational strategy as well as for the quality of education programs during the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation phases. You will build team capacity and provide technical support.

Duties, objectives, and competencies:

· Direct coordination with the project coordinator and all project staff.

· Follow up and update the implementation schedule.

· Coordinate with education workers in the project area to implement education activities according to the project plan.

· Submit the required daily, weekly and monthly reports to the project coordinator.

· Commitment to implementing the policies and procedures followed in Sanad.

· Monitor progress and prepare reports on achievements in education projects.

· Following up the educational process in schools supported by Sneed in Azaz.

· Monitoring the progress of the education project and dealing with any problems that may arise.

· Document activities, track progress, and formulate activity plans.

· Supervising the training of education personnel facilitated by the trainer.

· Coordination with the Directorate of Education in Azaz when needed.

· Raising public relations related to the implementation of educational activities.

· Supervising the implementation of return-to-education campaigns.

· Supervising the provision of non-formal education activities.

· Supervising the rehabilitation process of schools and water and sanitation facilities and reporting any problems in this regard, if any.

· Coordinating with school administration regarding referring students to formal education.

· Any other tasks requested by the direct manager.

Requirements: Essential

· Bachelor’s degree in humanitarian response, development studies, or related technical field

· Beginner level in English

·  Minimum 3 years of experience in a similar position.

Requirements (desired)

· Advanced report writing skills.

· Experience in humanitarian work and its principles.

· Experience working with people with disabilities (PWD)

· Advanced knowledge of facilitation skills.

· Good knowledge of MS Office programs.