JOB DESCRIPTION

TITLE:  Education Advisor
TEAM/PROGRAMME: MMR CO – Education    LOCATION: Yangon, Head Office
Number of Position: 1
Grade – NAT-2    CONTRACT LENGTH: Fixed Term

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level 3:  the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:
Under the leadership of Education Technical Lead, the Education Advisor takes the overall responsibility for the design and quality implementation support for both humanitarian and development context focused education progrmmes like ECW, DFAT, DFAT-AHP, GPE ESPIG/STG, MHF, ECHO, NORAD and other programs in the pipeline. The position holder provides overall technical direction for these programs and works with Program Implentation Team and Area Offices for a harmonized quality implementation of these programmes.

Education Advisor plays a major role in ensuring the technical excellence of the education programs (for humanitarian contexts) and representation, coordination within the sector, advocacy, policy-setting, donor engagement, as well as maintaining a high-quality education projects implementation.

Education Advisor technically supports the consortium partners where SCI is working as a Grant Agent or Consortium Lead (GPE ESPIG/STG, ECW, DFAT) and ensures that SCI programmes leverages both a high-level technical response and harmonization across all partners. S/he represents Save the Children Myanmar in technical and coordination forums and advocates to quality learning for children.

The Education Advisor collaborates with Member Office technical advisors in ensuring SCI education programmes are of high notch technical standards and contributes substantially in generating evidences of good practices.

The purpose of the Education Advisor role is to (1) contribute in education program development, (2) provide technical support to the Education Programme staff in field and CO to strengthen our Education Programming in align with Joint Response Framework (nexus approach), (3) represent Save the Children at EiE-related meetings with partners, and/or donors, and (4) work with other GAs and partners for the program planning and adaptation

Education has been identified as a priority area for development within our Humanitarian Strategy, along with Child Protection. As such, we will require dedicated technical support to ensure the quality and scope of our programming is able to meet the growing needs of the children in crisis-affected areas of the country. The Education  Advisor will be responsible for providing support to the advocacy strategy and technical components of our Education Programme. This position will require frequent travel to program implementation areas and crisis-affected areas. The Education Advisor will deputize the Technical Lead during his/her absence.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Education Technical Lead

Staff reporting to this post: TBD
Budget responsibility: Nil
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY : Deliverables for the role include:

Program Development and Quality Assurance
•    Support the development of new proposals to donors, particularly ensuring proposals that are harmonized and reflect the quality dimensions of SCI including the Common Approaches and the appropriate technical approaches fit to the context
•    Fully engage in and technically support the TL for the preparation of funding proposals ensuring strong theory of change and value for money with proposed interventions, as well as strong partnerships and localization agenda
•    Review and ensure evidence of strong performance, impact and need is packaged and shared with donors and other key stakeholders, including an official update for the representative forums like ESRG, EESR, EDPG and EiE Cluster
•    Conduct regular field trips and provide on the site technical support for the SCI and partners staff in ensuring the quality parameters like Quality Benchmark for the quality program implementation.
•    Collaborate with program implementation team for quality assurance in reporting.
•    Collaborate with other Grant Agents, Grantees and Consortium Partners in adapting the education programs fit for the purpose and the context.

Technical support:
•    Ensure that the Education in Emergency teams and other programmatic sectors are updated with priority education strategies and approaches and support their implementation and use.
•    Work closely with MEAL staff to revise and implement an effective monitoring and evaluation framework for the EiE programme and ensure monitoring information is analyzed and shared.
•    Identify needs for technical support from in-country and external technical advisers, including cross-sectoral inputs (e.g. Child Protection, Social Cohesion/Peacebuilding).
•    Work closely with Education Technical Lead and Education Head of Programme to develop an evidence-based strategies for the country programme, in alignment with the Country Strategy Plan 2025-2027, the Humanitarian Response Plan and EiE Sector Strategy, and the MMR CO Humanitarian Strategy.
•    Work closely with the EiE Sector coordinator, to raise issues from regional and national clusters to the Myanmar Government and sector co-ordination groups. Represent Save the Children at Sector Coordination meetings within this representation and coordination task with all education partners.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

•    Support MEAL to conduct needs assessment and ensure that results are shared and feedback into programming as well as other evidence collation to inform programme design in collaboration with consortium partners
•    Collaborate together with other Grantees to develop appropriate monitoring tools, and ensure they are understood and used by the consortium partners
•    Contribute to the development of an MEAL framework and tools for education that monitors the impact of projects and progress towards strategic operational and advocacy objectives
•    Ensure learning is fed back into programme design
•    Provide technical expertise in evaluations and research related to EiE and work with MEAL across the consortium to utilize and build on the recommendations of these

Advocacy and Representation
•    Engage in advocacy work related to Education sector works in  Myanmar, and lead the development of a detailed advocacy plan (including communications materials), in close collaboration with Child Protection colleagues, Program Information Unit team, and other partners ( both development and EiE)
•    Engage in policy work related to the development of the Education Response Framework together with key education actors UNICEF, UNESCO, MEC, including representation at all appropriate forums including the government when permissible and events held with donors, partners, and key stakeholders.
•    Develop policy briefs, position papers, and case-studies, drawing from education programming, EiE Sector, and in collaboration with the relevant technical teams (e.g. Child Protection)
•    Represent Save the Children for Education related policy, advocacy and networking with strategic and implementation partners. UN organizations, Save the Children Members, national and international research institutions, media, civil society and government stakeholders.
•    Ensure coordination, communication and liaison with key stakeholders including UN agencies, international/national NGOs and other relevant civil society organizations.
•    Develop communication materials, in collaboration with the Communications teams and ensuring the inclusion of technical input from the relevant project managers, to contribute to the EiE advocacy and programme strategy.
•    Ensure that the voices of children guide advocacy and policy change objectives and related activities.
•    In collaboration with MEAL team, ensure evidence of impact of education  interventions is rigorously maintained, documented and disseminated internally and externally as appropriate, to contribute to improvements in programme quality and advocacy efforts.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
Accountability:
•    Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
•    Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
•    Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
•    Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
•    Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
•    Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
•    Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
•    Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
•    Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
•    Willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
•    Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
•    Always acts in the best interests of children
QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential
•    Knowledge of current global and regional evidence and research within the education sector; with a preference for knowledge of refugee education.
•    Ability to identify the main gaps in EiE in the given context to inform a holistic response for children.
•    Good knowledge of and experience in using established inter-agency standards or SCI packages in Education/ EiE, such as the INEE, LWiE, ELM, Life Skills, DRR, TICC, TaRL, Catch Up & Remediation, ILET etc.
•    Experience in monitoring and evaluating EiE programmes in emergency, transition and development contexts.
•    Experience in capacity building and in strengthening various duty bearers understanding of and response to EiE
•    Recommended a minimum of eight years of relevant  experience including at senior level
•    Proven experience of developing and managing high quality, innovative and cost-effective technical education projects in complex environments
•    Proven experience and skills in research and advocacy and influencing institutional, private and/or corporate donors and writing up high quality donor reports
•    Experience of working with local/national governments and capacity building of systems, partners and staff
•    Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation, steering and coaching
•    Experience in management of finance and budget monitoring and risk management.
•    Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy-in
•    Highly numerically articulated with a track record of data manipulation and reporting systems.
•    Highly diplomatic with strong oral and written communication skills in (English)
•    Commitment to Save the Children values.

Desirable
•    Substantial experience in humanitarian context
•    Cluster coordination training and / or experience
•    Demonstrable understanding of ECHO, ECW, DFAT, GPE, NORAD guidelines as well as other donors
•    Ability to coach and mentor partners
Qualifications
•    Master’s Degree
•    Excellent Myanmar language skills required, as well as fluency in written and spoken English
•    Good computer skills, particularly Microsoft Office applications Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles
Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.
Equal Opportunities
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
Child Safeguarding:
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

All staff has an obligation and a responsibility to:
•    Ensure they fully understand the provisions of the Child Safeguarding Policy, the Code of Conduct and Local/Country Procedures.
•    Conduct themselves in accordance with the rules of the Child Safeguarding Policy, in their personal and professional lives – which includes reporting suspicions of child abuse.
•    Ensure the way they are carrying out their work is not putting children at risk (or further risk) – this means constantly scrutinizing their work through a child safeguarding lens and talking to children about possible design/implementation “flaws”.
•    Promote the message of child safeguarding to colleagues in other organizations and government ministries, children in their own and beneficiary families, and community members in general.
•    Be vigilant about observing possible child abuse/harm in their personal and professional lives.

All managers have the above responsibilities as well as ensuring
•    Their staff are doing the above.
•    That child safeguarding is integrated and given a “voice” in all management processes including recruitment, induction, performance management, team meetings, annual planning processes, field level monitoring, etc.

Safeguarding our Staff:
The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy.
Health and Safety
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.
Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: No requirements