Emergency Education, Early Childhood & Development Coordinator

The Emergency Education, Early Childhood & Development Coordinator is a member of the IRC’s Global Surge Team providing specialist support for short-term deployments in emergency and non-emergency contexts. The role involves leading assessments, designing and managing education and early childhood development programs in acute crises, coordinating with partners, and ensuring high-quality program delivery and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high quality and timely assessments of Education in Emergency including Early Childhood Development needs in large scale/complex emergences and provide prioritized recommendations for Education and ECD interventions to the Emergency Country Director and/or Deputy Director for Programs.
• Design creative, context and client -responsive Education and/or ECD program responses and strategy in line with the Education unit’s EiE approach and in collaboration with local partners/actors where relevant.
• Inter-agency representation including education cluster and other spaces.
• Understanding and knowledge of how to apply global EIE/ECDIE guidelines, global resources and materials.
• Lead the rapid start-up (or scale up where needed) and management of holistic EIE and/or ECD interventions focused on either school aged or preschool aged children in acute crises, including recruitment and onboarding, technical supervision and coaching, procurement, financial monitoring, and proactive transition and handover planning.
• Design and implement appropriate monitoring and evaluation systems ensuring consistent reporting and analysis of results to enhance program effectiveness and quality.
• Work closely with the IRC’s Emergency Protection, health and economic recovery and development units to promote cross sector collaboration in line with client needs and priorities.
• Oversee the delivery of high-quality technical proposals and reports, in line with donor requirements.
• Work in close collaboration with IRC grants and finance staff to finalize proposals and respond to any requests for additional information.
• Manage grant/program implementation including staff recruitment and training, work plan development, procurement and inventory planning, and budget management.
• Ensure consistent reporting and analysis of results to enhance program effectiveness and quality.
• Ensure – through program design and practice, team capacity and behavior – that children, teachers and other education stakeholders and their caregivers participate in the design and implementation of IRC programs, and that their access to services and programs is meaningful and safe.
• Comply with and ensure that new Education staff understand the IRC Code of Conduct and policies related to Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Child Safeguarding.
• Coordinate and liaise with local/regional education authorities, NGOs, private sector actors, coordination mechanisms, and other international partners including UN agencies on all education program activities.
• Coordinate with internal and external actors, particularly linking as relevant to early learning, education continuity, health and nutrition services and cash programming targeting children, teachers and caregivers.
• Support media and communications activities as requested by the Emergency Country Director/CD/in-county emergency lead.
• Provide a comprehensive handover to a successor including ensuring transfer of all related documentation, program monitoring data and staff performance information.

Requirements

• Ability to commit to deployment within 72 hours of notification of assignment for up to 12 weeks.
• At least five years of experience developing and managing Education programming with preference with experience in ECD programming in humanitarian contexts, including demonstrated experience with rapid program start up in acute emergencies.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with agencies, local governments and community leaders and develop multi-stakeholder support for humanitarian priorities and advocacy initiatives.
• Ability to support both direct and indirect implementation by working closely with local partners and when possible co designing content and activities collaboratively.
• Demonstrated ability to identify creative and appropriate solutions for the populations affected by crisis, considering factors including the context and an individual client's developmental stage, gender and status.
• Strong program planning, fiscal management, organizational and communication skills.
• Supervision and training experience, specific experience training for local teams and local partners as an asset.
• Experience implementing programs for large public and private donors.
• Strong report and proposal writing experience.
• Prior experience in representation and coordination.
• Fluency in English is a requirement and professional Arabic language skills strongly preferable.
• French language skills an advantage.

Skills

• Emergency Education Programming
• Early Childhood Development
• Humanitarian Programme Management
• Rapid Program Start-up
• Stakeholder Coordination
• Advocacy Activities
• Local Partner Engagement
• Programme Planning
• Fiscal Management
• Organizational Skills
• Report Writing
• Proposal Writing
• Training and Supervision
• Donor Programme Implementation
• Representation and Coordination
• Assessment Design
• Program Delivery Management
• English Language Proficiency
• Language Proficiency in Arabic

Languages

English, Arabic, French