Education Officer(Iraninan Nationality Only) - Iran

Kerman

Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
Location: Kerman
Grade: Mid level - Mid level
Occupational Groups:
- Education, Learning and Training
- Emergency Aid and Response
- Education / Training
Closing Date: Closed

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water,sanitation and hygiene sectors.

The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs one of the world’s largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs

Job description

1-Generic responsibilities:
Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
Implement delegated project portfolio according, strategy, proposal, budgets and plan of action
Conduct regular needs assessment, M&E visits and where possible inform and involve communities
Prepare and develop periodic progress and status reports as required
Promote and share ideas for technical improvement especially with regards to be targeting and inclusion of most vulnerable beneficiaries.
Ensure proper documentation of project files
2-Specific responsibilities :
Assist project coordinator with all phases of project’s life cycle in collaboration with project assistants
Conduct meetings, focus group discussions, interviews with the supervision of project coordinator in order to prepare input for status and progress reports, needs and stakeholder analysis, proposals, etc.
Draft budget utilization reports and analysis as required.
Maintain close contact with all implementing and strategic partners to ensure timely implementation of activities.
Initiate and conduct awareness raising activities on importance of education in collaboration with local authorities and local communities
Coordinate and communicate with all other NRC’s program and support units, as required.
Attend technical cooperation meetings with NRC’s counterparts in the Education field, prepare notes and undertake follow-up action and coordination related to project implementation and monitoring
Supervise performance, training and development of project assistants.
Perform any other business as delegated by project coordinator.
Assist with Food Security and Livelihood Unit’s follow ups and monitoring in Kerman, upon request.
3-Critical interfaces:
Coordinate field visit, collection of inputs all kinds of narrative and financial reports with NRC’s program and support units.
4- Performance Management: The employee will be accountable for the responsibilities and the competencies, in accordance with the NRC Performance Management Manual. The following documents will be used for performance reviews:
The Job Description
The Work and Development Plan
The Mid-term/End-of-trial Period Performance Review Template
The End-term Performance Review Template
The NRC Competency Framework

Qualifications

Experience from working as a Project Officer in a humanitarian/recovery context
Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
Bachelor’s degree in education, political science, sociology, statistics, or related fields
At least 2 years of relevant work experience in an education related field
Ability to provide high quality technical analysis and assessment
Ability to produce high quality professional reports in English and Persian within short deadlines
Updated Knowledge of the refugee context in Iran and Afghanistan
Working knowledge of PCM and previous experience with European donors is an asset

Education field

Education
Social studies
Social sciense
Political science

Education level

College / University, Bachelor's degree

Personal qualities

Planning and delivering results
Empowering and building trust
Communicating with impact and respect
Handling insecure environment
Teamwork and coping with change
Strong capacity for absorbing large amounts of information, verifying critical elements and communicating conclusions rationally)