Global Roving Emergency Education Specialist At Norwegian Refugee Council

Context

We are looking for an experienced, analytical, flexible, high-energy, results-oriented colleague with excellent interpersonal skills and fluent in both English and Spanish/French, who will contribute to the technical development of Education, strategic direction, and quality assurance, develop Education strategy and quality control at country level.

Come work with us!

The Emergency Response Section (ERS) in the Field Operations Department is responsible for developing and operationalizing NRC’s global “center of excellence” on preparedness and emergency response. Thus, the ERS is responsible for ensuring that NRC has the required methodology, guidance, and capacity in place for rapid deployment to assess needs, initiate coordination, and start any required first response activities in affected countries. The Section also operates Roving and Surge capacities for human resource mobilization to existing and new operations. The Global Roving Emergency Education Specialist is one of these global roving capacities.

What you will do

As the successful post holder, you will play a crucial role in the education core competence by setting the technical development, strategic direction, and quality assurance for Education at the country level.

The main purpose of the Global Roving Emergency Education Specialist position is, but not limited, to:

1. Support country office start-up
2. Support first phase response in existing country offices
3. Gap filling, AND
4. Providing in-country support with the design, reaching results, and capacity development components of education programming

The post holder may also fill the role as Education Programme Development Manager at country office level. The Global Roving Education Specialist will undertake short-term deployments, up to 6 months, to different NRC country operations. All deployments will be to crisis and conflict countries.

What you will bring

• Minimum 4 years of experience within education in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Education expertise
• Experience in drafting and encouraging the implementation of policy/strategic guidance, and developing practical tools and resources
• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
• Fluency in English and French or Spanish, both written and verbal.
• Valid driver’s license

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What makes this position attractive?

• A challenging and exciting opportunity with an international team dedicated to advocating for the rights of people forced to flee;
• A chance to play a crucial role in the education core competence by setting the technical development, strategic direction and quality assurance for Education at country level;
• A 2-year full-time international contract with 75% deployed and 25% non-deployed, home-based while non-deployed;
• Salary and benefits according to NRC’s salary scale and terms and conditions.

We are also looking for people who share our values:

• To be dedicated in what we do;
• To be innovative with our solutions;
• To act as one unified and inclusive team;
• To be accountable to the donors that make our work possible; the beneficiaries that we exist to serve; and to each other… the members of our NRC family.

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About Us

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across more than 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, our global provider of expertise, helps improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.

Employment with NRC may lead to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to considerable health, safety and security risks. NRC takes this very seriously and we have procedures in place to reduce known risks, but will never be able to take away all risks.

NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.