Program Officer (Technical Support-Education)

The Program Officer (Technical Support – Education) provides technical support for education programs through training design and facilitation, ongoing support to program implementation staff, and field-level monitoring to ensure high-quality education services in assigned and targeted areas. The role involves designing training materials, delivering training sessions, conducting follow-up and monitoring, and collaborating with technical teams to support education programs including ECCD, Basic Education, and Non-Formal Education.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop training plans, training designs, and learning materials for education programs including ECCD, Basic Education, and Non-Formal Education.
• Apply participatory, interactive, and learner-centered training methodologies that empower caregivers, teachers, and community-based organizations.
• Deliver ECCD, BE, and NFE training sessions to program staff, partner staff, educators, community members, and relevant stakeholders.
• Design and facilitate Training of Trainers sessions to strengthen local training capacity and support program scale-up.
• Conduct regular follow-up meetings, coaching, and field monitoring visits to ensure effective implementation and application of technical knowledge and skills.
• Maintain accurate records of trainings, follow-up meetings, and field visits; ensure proper documentation; and prepare meeting records and training reports.
• Consult and collaborate with the BE Advisor and technical teams to develop and adapt training materials, IEC resources, and technical approaches.
• Monitor, mentor and document the progress of project activities in geographic area/s of assignment.
• Prepare and submit training reports on the projects.
• Ensure that project resources for specific location are used optimally and that expenditures comply with internal controls set by the Finance/Grants Units.
• Ensure that project related information are relayed to the Project Assistants.
• Prepare communication materials to partners within area/s of jurisdiction.
• Prepare periodic work plans and training module with supervisor in a timely manner.
• Keep records of activities and report periodically on program progress with recommendations in a timely manner.
• Assist with periodic and other reporting as necessary.
• Assist in documentation of process and impact of the program as needed.
• Provide technical support to staff, partners, teachers and community on Child Safeguarding training and support community to identify and address risks of children caused by training design.
• Ensure work is carried out without putting children at risk, scrutinizing work through a child safeguarding lens and engaging with children about possible design/implementation flaws.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Education, Social Sciences, or a related field.
• Minimum 3–5 years of experience in education program implementation, preferably in ECCD, BE, or NFE.
• Demonstrated experience in training design, facilitation, and capacity building with excellent communication and facilitation skills.
• Strong understanding of participatory learning approaches and adult learning principles.
• Proactive and open to learning new technical approaches, with the flexibility to adapt them to different contexts.
• Willingness and ability to travel to field locations as required.
• Desirable: Knowledge of Save the Children’s education approaches and frameworks.
• Desirable: Experience in emergency or development education programs.
• Desirable: Fluency in local languages with good English proficiency.

Skills

• Education Programme Implementation
• Training Design
• Training Facilitation
• Capacity Building
• Participatory Approaches
• Adult Learning
• Field Monitoring
• Program Support
• ECCD Program Knowledge
• Basic Education Knowledge
• Non-Formal Education Knowledge
• Education Programme Monitoring
• Technical Support to Education Programmes
• Emergency Education
• Development Education

Languages

English