Education Technical Advisor - Sloviansk or Kyiv

TITLE:  Education Technical Advisor

TEAM/PROGRAMME:  Program Development and Quality

LOCATION:  Sloviansk with regular travels to the field.

The position is for national applicants (citizens of Ukraine) only!

GRADE: 3

CONTRACT LENGTH: 1 year with possibility of extension

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3:  the role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:
The Education Technical Advisor will be responsible for playing a leading role in ensuring that all Save the Children interventions related to education are of a high technical quality and fully in line with Save the Children’s Country Strategic Plan for Ukraine. The Education Technical Advisor will work with teams across the organisation to provide leadership in building internal and external capacity on education. The Education Technical Advisor will ensure that interventions are in line with international and Save the Children’s quality standards and procedures, international guidelines and best practice for education and contextualise globally proven approaches to the context of Ukraine. The Education Technical Advisor will lead on ensuring effective documentation of interventions, documentation of training materials, knowledge management, and will support processes to capture lessons learned and support broader Save the Children strategy development and learning processes. The Education Technical Advisor will establish close working relationships with other technical advisors to ensure high quality programs, integration and coherence of programs. The Education Technical Advisor will contribute to project and proposal development to ensure high quality project design and foster innovative solutions. The Education Technical Advisor will also play a critical role in networking and relationship building with key internal and external stakeholders, in mobilising external technical assistance and in supporting capacity building of partners and other stakeholders.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Programs Development and Quality Manager

Staff reporting to this post: 0

Budget Responsibilities: None

Other Reporting and Coordination Responsibilities: Education in Emergnecy Working Group

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
In collaboration with the Program Development and Quality Manager, provide technical leadership on SCI Ukraine’s Education programming and practice:

Technical Leadership:

• Provide technical leadership for education or the Country Office, and set the strategic approach in relation to the wider country strategy
• Build capacity of national staff and partners in key technical approaches related to education.

Ensuring Programme Quality (Design & Implementation):

• Work closely with new business development colleagues to identify and pursue funding opportunities that allow for both integration intro broader programmes and standalone education programmes/projects; engage with technical partners, donors and colleagues across Save the Children
• Lead the technical scoping, planning, and design and proposal writing during new programme  development, and ensure that we design and deliver high quality education programmes for children, building on global best practice. Ensure that gender, disability and resilience considerations are reflected in our programme design and implementation.
• Promote an Education Systems Strengthening approach as the overarching framework, that supports working in collaboration and partnership with governments and regional bodies, local partners and working towards impact, scale and sustainability.
• Provide oversight and guidance to the programme implementation teams and implementing partners to ensure that thematic programme components are technically sound, implementation methods are consistent with national and global strategies, acknowledged good practice (e.g. Save the Children Common Approaches); and are likely to achieve scale, as well as equitable and sustainable results.
• Promote and monitor integrated programming in a way that increases overall impact of education programmes at the community level.
• Work with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) teams to carry out gender and power analysis, and conduct quality monitoring against international standards through participatory methodologies that promote gender equality and social justice (including child-friendly and gender sensitive/transformative methodologies);.
• Contribute towards the creation of an organisational learning culture that promotes the use of disaggregated data, evidence and analysis (including gender and power analysis) and understands its link to quality and accountable programming; Contribute to strengthening the use of equality-focused programme principles and good practice across themes and sectors.
• Undertake field visits to project sites; work with implementation teams to understand impacts, operational challenges, and continuously identify opportunities for learning and improvement.
• Contribute to organisational learning on education, ensuring that learning from our programmes is shared across the Country Office and our partners, as well as with colleagues in the wider regional and global education community in Save the Children including relevant technical working groups.
• Lead on Country Strategic Plan reporting on education-related strategic goals, working closely with the MEAL and Operations teams
•  Lead processes to ensure globally proven approaches are contextualised for Ukraine
• Strengthen program learning and documentation on education, in collaboration with the MEAL team

Support to program implementation

• Support the Operations team to implement Save the Children’s strategy in the area of Education
• Participate in operational plans development in the area of education
• Support the Operations team to deliver activities to the highest standards, assess capacity building needs and areas for improvement
• Work in close cooperation with Partnership Coordinator to assess, identify and support strategic partners in Education
• Contribute and supervise to the development of communications products, in collaboration with the Communications team
• Contribute to SCI country program planning and reporting on education thematic priorities

Capacity building

• Build the capacity of program, partner staff, stakeholders in line with program priorities
• Develop education-specific training packages, conduct workshops, trainings and other learning events for project teams, partners and other stakeholders
• Provide direct technical support to partners implementing education activities with Save the Children
• Participate in global learning and capacity building event and cascade learning to the team as appropriate

Networking & External Engagement:

• In alignment with Country Office strategy and leadership, engage in strategic positioning with donors, partners and government in-country, and ensure that Save the Children is a partner of choice in education.
• Ensure that Save the Children is influencing and learning from others through national technical coordination and networking bodies such as clusters and working groups recognising Save the Children and UNICEF are global co-leads for the education cluster.
• Strengthen civil society engagement in national dialogues and policy processes through working closely with advocacy colleagues. Ensure that the diverse voices of children, girls and boys are equitably heard and represented in our education work.
• Represent the program to National and Local government representatives, donors, partner agencies, etc. as required.
• Ensure the quality, clarity and consistency of technical components of internal and external reports (e.g. programme reports, sit-reps, internal updates), working closely with awards, programme implementation and communications colleagues as needed.
• Leverage and liaise with technical colleagues from across Save the Children, including technical working groups and centres of excellence, ensuring that learning from the Country Office is shared with others and global lessons brought back.

General

• Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
• Perform other responsibilities as agreed with line management.

SKILLS AND 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 self and team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages/demonstrates to the team how 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, 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 and experiment with new ways of doing things.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of personal and professional integrity.
• Always acts in the best interests of children.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• At least 5 years’ experience of leading the design and implementation of humanitarian and development programmes in education
• Understanding of the education sector in Ukraine
• Familiar with education systems (humanitarian/cluster systems)
• Demonstrated program design, monitoring and evaluation skills, including designing pathways to sustainable impact at scale.  
• Experience of strategy development and planning
• Experience of context, capacity and policy analysis, and influencing and advocacy at regional/international level in order to hold duty bearers to account to realise children’s rights.
• Skilled at networking, representation and partnership development in order promote learning, strengthen civil society and mobilise resources. 
• Able to generate and use data and evidence to innovate, deliver, learn and share what works and what doesn’t work for children
• Experience of promoting quality and impact through at least one cross-cutting area: gender equality and inclusion, adaptive and safer programming; child rights; disability; migration and displacement.
• Experience of supporting humanitarian preparedness, response and recovery
• Experience in training, capacity building, and mentoring
• Fluent in English and high level of English writing skills.

KEY COMPETENCIES

Technical competencies:

• Ensures all children’s access to quality education
• Ensures all children’s wellbeing
• Supports all children’s learning and development

Generic Competencies

• Being the Voice of Children: Promotes evidence-based policy and public engagement that includes the voices of children and their communities
• Advancing Equality & Inclusion: Displays a commitment to ensuring everything we do considers the most deprived and marginalised children
• Building & Strengthening Partnerships: Promotes working with diverse partners as critical to delivery
• Child Rights: Promotes the rights of children in own work and in work with colleagues and peers.

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.

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.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI’s global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Gender Equality Policies, supported by relevant procedures.

Safeguarding our Staff:

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

Health and Safety

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

Save the Children International is an equal opportunity employer promoting diverse, inclusive and equitable working environment.