Project Officers- Education x2 at War Child Canada

War Child Canada (WCC) is an international charity, with the vision of “a world where no child knows war”. War Child Canada works with war affected communities to help children reclaim their childhood through access to education, opportunities, and justice with cross cutting themes of child protection and gender. War Child Canada also takes an active role in raising public awareness around the impact of war on communities and the shared responsibility to act. Currently WCC implements protection, education and livelihood programs for refugees and host communities in Adjumani, Moyo/Obongi, Lamwo, Yumbe,Arua and Isingiro districts.
Position Title: Project Officer- Education (02)
Duty Station & Travel: Adjumani, Uganda
Contract: One Year, with possibility of extension
Reports to: Project Manager
Position summary:
Reporting to the Project Manager, the Project Officer – Education will manage the day-to-day operations including mobilization, implementation and development of community sensitization and training activities for refugee community beneficiaries, host community members and all education actors relevant to achieving the project goal. The incumbent will also be responsible for conducting awareness campaigns, supervising accelerated Learning program teachers, forge strong partnership and collaboration with governmental departments and nongovernmental organizations to identify and effectively respond to education concerns, with particular focus on school going children .

Main Duties and Responsibilities:
• Develop and provide community sensitizations and dialogues on education.
• Provide training and supervision to Accelerated Education Teachers on teacher code of conduct.
• Conduct Education Supervision clinics together with the district Education Office representatives
• Organize and facilitate monthly forums that bring together refugee women and girls to share experiences and discuss issues related to women and girls in Education
• Provide technical training on Education, Child protection, Refugee rights and obligation actors, and other relevant actors.
• Prepare communication and training materials and develop new sensitization and training approaches.
• Make follow up visits in each community after activities to document impact.
• Conduct radio panel discussions as per the work plan.
• Participate in Education sector meeting at the settlement or when delegated by project manager to attend at the District level.
• Actively participate in the development and dissemination of Education and Communication (IEC) material to both refugees and host communities
• Work in liaison with the Legal team to ensure a consistent and coordinated implementation of programs for instance when involving legal staff to take up training/ awareness sessions
• Conduct mobilization for education key stakeholders, community members to participate in awareness sensitization and trainings as requested by Project Manager
• Extensive collaboration and consultation with local and nationals in the NGO and private sector authorities, INGOs, national NGOs, refugee / community leaders and the community
• Prepare a narrative project Activities reports and to recommend any areas of improvement.
• Undertake field monitoring visits in each community after the training/ outreach activities have been conducted to assess impact and identify potentials for program improvement
• Participate in the community surveys to assess program results and impact and as well participate in the quarterly internal reviews of the program

Knowledge and Experience:
• First degree or equivalent qualification in Education, Social Science related field with specilaised trainings in teachers’ training
• A minimum of three years’ experience in Education programming activities particularly in providing classroom support to teachers.
• Ability and Skills in participatory methodology to facilitate secondary teachers’ trainings in the host and refugee’s community
• Proficiency in computer packages such as MS word, Excel Power Point and Data base
• Previous experience in project report writing
• Prior exposure and experience in Monitoring and Evaluation of Training Programs

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