International Rescue Committee Hiring for ECD Technical Officer at Amman, Jordan Full Time

Requisition ID: req29219

Job Title: ECD Technical Officer

Sector: Child Protection

Employment Category: Regular

Employment Type: Full-Time

Compensation: JOD 0.00 – 0.00 Salary

Location: Amman, Jordan

Job Description

Background

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers life-saving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

Since 2007, IRC has worked with refugees and other vulnerable populations in Jordan. Working in coordination with the humanitarian community and the Government of Jordan, the IRC’s assistance programs for children in Jordan include both camp-based (Zaatari, and Azraq camps) and urban-based refugee assistance (Mafraq, Ramtha, Irbid).

Ahlan Simsim Program

In December 2017, Sesame Workshop and the IRC were awarded the MacArthur Foundation’s inaugural 100&Change grant to make real progress toward solving a critical problem of our time and in December 2018 received another award from the LEGO Foundation to support early education programs. With these extraordinary investments, our partnership will transform the language, early reading, math, and social-emotional skills of a generation of children ages 0-8 affected by conflicts. Focusing on children in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, the inclusive plan combines the depth of in-person services, reaching 1.5 million children, with the breadth of mass media, reaching 9.4 million children. For more information, please visit: http://refugee.sesameinternational.org/

Job Overview

The ECD technical officer will be responsible to support and follow up, on a daily and weekly basis, on the curriculum implementation and facilitators’ performance in all centers in both urban and camp settings. Also, the ECD Technical officer will technically capacitate and train volunteers on Ahlan Simsim ECD content. He/she will also assist in data collection and conducting field assessment visits. The ECD Technical officer will report directly to the ECD technical manager.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the work of the field-based ECD facilitators by conducting regular onsite visits and assessments to ensure program quality.
• Provide technical assistance to facilitators in all centers either for direct implementation or partnership
• Support in capacitating ECD facilitators and IRC partners through planning and delivering ECD technical trainings in coordination with the ECD technical manager.
• Support in conducting refresher trainings for facilitator on ECD content on a monthly basis.
• Ensure facilitators are implementing the IRC ECD/Ahlan Simsim curriculum for children and caregivers in all centers.
• Identify and report to the supervisor quality improvement needs and recommendations within specified geographic areas.
• Support in conducting assessments and data collection based on the Ahlan Simsim curriculum monitoring and evaluation tools.
• Conduct regular field visits to ensure successful program implementation for the centers and for the home visiting program using specific program monitoring tools provided by the supervisor.
• Submit weekly field reports including progress against targets and monitoring checklist results.
• Prepare a weekly schedule for trainings and field visits.
• Coordinate with IRC teams to collect recycled bottles, bottle caps, containers and cardboard
• Collaborate with relevant IRC field teams to enhance quality of program implementation.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor.

      Key Working Relationships

Position Reports to:  ECD technical manager

Position directly supervises:  N/A

Indirect Reporting: ECD scaling Manager
Other Internal and/or external contacts:

Internal: ECD operation assistant /scaling officer and MEAL officer

External: Upon Request

Qualifications
Job Requirements

Education

• University degree in the field of early childhood, social science and international development.
• Background in education/childhood development.

Experience

• Approximately 2 years of professional experience working with non-profit organizations or NGOs.
• Relevant experience and exposure to field work.
• Work experience in refugee camps and with projects directed to children, refugees      and vulnerable populations are an asset.

       Skills and Abilities

• Fluency in written and spoken Arabic and English
• Capacity to work under pressure, multitask and be a team player
• Capacity to operate in a multicultural environment
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word and Excel)
• Strong communication, facilitation and coordination skills

Working Environment:

IRC Amman office with frequent visits to the camps (Zaatri and Azraq) also the urban cites (Irbid, Ramatha, and Southern arears)

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The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct.  These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability.  In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.