Education Assistant

1.      Role and responsibilities

Generic responsibilities:

• Adhere to NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
• Assist with the implementation of the support function portfolio according to plan of action
• Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
• Ensure proper filing of documents
• Promote and share ideas for improvement of the support function

Specific responsibilities:

• To assist in the implementation of education activities under direction of the Education Officer
• Supervise education activities and provide support to teachers in line with program objectives
• Information management: data entry, analysis and archiving.
• Provide support to NRC activities, schools and facilitate key activities with children in line with NRC quality standards
• Ensure direct communication and feedback with beneficiaries and relevant host communities
• Ensure ongoing monitoring and reporting of projects at field level
• Organize, support and participate in Mother’s Group, parents teach association (PTA), DoE and community-level meetings.
• Regularly travel to the field to support education, recreation and psycho-social support (PSS) activities.
• Organize and implement distributions of teaching and learning materials
• Any other task relevant to the position as requested by line manager
• Establishing positive work relations with headmasters and DoE supervisors and representatives in school level

2.    Our Ideal Candidate:

• Understanding of the circumstances, needs and challenges trauma-affected children face
• Understanding of the role of education in meeting the needs of trauma-affected children
• Understanding of SPHERE and/or INEE minimum standards
• Knowledge of the basics of Child Protection and/or psychosocial support

• Experience working with children and/or educators; MoE-level experience a plus
• Experience in community mobilization and/or relationship building
• Candidates with a university and/or advanced degree preferred.
• Good knowledge about data collection, entry and analysis.

3.      Other information:

Contract Duration: 4 months

Duty Station: Central Iraq Area office Kirkuk -Hawija

Health Insurance is provided

Salary: G3/S1, According to NRC’s Iraq salary scale and terms and conditions.

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply
NRC is an equal opportunity employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.

For more information, please read the Job Description