Save the Children Regional Education in Emergencies (EiE) Technical Advisor Jobs in Kenya

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Regional Education in Emergencies (EiE) Technical Advisor will drive the quality, accountability and timeliness of humanitarian responses and contribute to emergency preparedness in the region.

Regional technical experts use their in-depth contextual understanding, technical expertise and relationship building skills to provide a critical link between Save the Children’s global and country level technical work in both sudden onset emergencies and protracted crises, strengthening our technical offer at the regional level.

They play a strong role in regional capacity building efforts, mentoring and building networks across country office (CO) technical experts, and foster cross-CO learning on humanitarian response

They support regional advocacy and influencing and drive regional strategic partnerships for learning and new business development

They provide quality assurance and demand driven technical assistance (TA) to COs across the humanitarian education portfolio, in line with regional priorities and together with other regional staff supporting emergency response and education programming.

A core function is to ensure that our Education Cluster Co-leadership role is developed and maintained in the region. .

Qualifications and Experience

Essentials

• At least 7 years’ experience of delivering high quality education in emergency response and preparedness programmes, including first phase experience.

• University education (Master’s degree preferred) within education, humanities, social science or the equivalent (e.g. professional teaching college).

• Understanding of education sector, especially emergency response, in ESA.

• Good knowledge of theories and practices in education programming, especially for early childhood development and primary education.

• Knowledge of global education issues, specifically relating to pre-primary and primary children, and the current trends, methods, approaches, policies and strategies to address gaps in education due to humanitarian crises such as conflict, migration, natural disasters and other emergencies.

• 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.

• Sound understanding of and commitment to SC generic programme approaches and core standards in humanitarian response, including safe programming, gender equality and child safeguarding.

• Demonstrated program design, monitoring and evaluation skills, including designing pathways to sustainable impact at scale.

• Experience of developing and supporting teams, and the ability to lead, motivate and build the capacity of staff through training, coaching and mentoring.

• Results focused and ability to develop and drive innovative and pragmatic programmatic and operational solutions, including proposal development experience.

• Good knowledge of cross sectoral linkages with Health, Nutrition, WASH, Child Protection, and Food Security, and willingness to engage with other sectors for shared outcomes.

• Experience of strategy development and planning.

• Fluency in written and spoken English.

Desirable

• Ability to work well across different functional areas and departments.

• Excellent technical writing, and editing.

• Track record in successful business development/fundraising.

• Language skills relevant to the East and Southern Africa region

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Save the Children Regional Education in Emergencies (EiE) Technical Advisor Jobs in Kenya

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