KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :

The  Program Coordinator will be accountable for the following areas of work, reporting to the MYRP Steering Committee, and in conjunction with two team members: (Information and Communications Coordinator and M&E Specialist)

Program Quality, Monitoring, and Evaluation:

• Liaise with all relevant stakeholders, including the Education Cluster, local government offices and the various committees and units established within the MoE to support MoE’s overall leadership of the MYRP.
• Ensure that the education program is implemented by partners to a high technical quality and standard, aligned to and utilizing inter-agency, national and global education standards with particular focus on Education in Emergencies. 
• Consolidate progress updates on implementation of the MYRP for the Steering Committee, including achievements and gaps, and prepare related reports and periodic updates for dissemination to relevant stakeholders
• Prepare recommendations on updates /revision of the MYRP on an annual basis in consultation with concerned stakeholders (including the ECW Seed funding Grantees and Education Cluster) for review and approval by the Steering Committee
• Ensure that MYRP planning is based on the experience of implementation as well as changes in the country context.
•  Set up a Monitoring and Evaluation framework and system for the MYRP, building on existing systems within the MoE, Education Management Information System (EMIS) and inputs from the Education Cluster and ECW Seed funding Grantees. In addition, manage the delivery of the MYRP Baseline and Endline for the overall plan.
• Conduct monitoring visits of program implementation and identify areas in need of support and follow-up; support partners to implement corrective actions.
• Work with the M&E specialist to ensure that the monitoring and evaluation system is supportive of quality implementation and recommendations are implemented in line with quality standards.
• Develop and oversee Quality Benchmarks for the Education Cannot Wait for the program.
• Ensure that program implementation is gender-sensitive and gender-responsive (considering the needs and conditions of girls, boys, women, and men).
• Ensure that that sex-disaggregated data relevant to country program are provided as integral part of programming.
• Ensure the program reaches and reports on the most marginalized groups especially children with disabilities
• Program monitoring and evaluations effectively conducted to improve program performance, and program status reports are prepared on time.

Advocacy, resource mobilization and representation

• Undertake key advocacy with a range of donors in order to mobilize further investment in the $165m MYRP plan
• Deliver advocacy briefs and other documents as needed, in support of MYRP resource mobilization and delivery
• Represent the MYRP Steering Committee within the education and wider humanitarian and development sectors, in consultation with the MYRP Steering Committee, MoE and the Education Cluster.

Support to the MYRP Steering Committee:

• Support the Steering Committee in its coordination and oversight role to the whole MYRP, including:
• Providing secretarial support to the Steering Committee (with the Information and Communications Coordinator), including organizing Steering Committee meetings, sending invitations for meetings, preparing meeting minutes and other required documentation, ensuring that Steering Committee members are furnished with all pertinent information in a timely manner, maintaining updated lists of contacts, maintain records and archive information pertinent to the Steering Committee, and providing other related administrative support for the Steering Committee to implement its roles;
• Ensure that decisions made by the Steering Committee are communicated through appropriate channels to other relevant stakeholders including MoE, ECW Seed funding Grantees, and Education Cluster

Training & Capacity Development:

• Oversee the development of  technical training packages for the field and program staff with a focus on education in emergencies
• Coordinate the field testing, monitoring, and redesign of technical training packages accordingly
• Facilitate training and capacity development for partner staff and field-level government partners and beneficiaries. 
• Strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Education and the Education Cluster to respond to emergencies. This includes supporting coordination mechanisms, data collection, and advocacy.

Coordination, information, and learning

• Support coordination in order to ensure the MYRP is aligned with and informed by the education sector and its stakeholders – specifically supporting the linkages between the following stakeholders in relation to the delivery of the MYRP: the Steering Committee, concerned government agencies, local government offices, relevant committees and units within MoE, relevant humanitarian and development actors, existing coordination systems at national, district, and refugee settlement.
• Undertake the collection, processing, and analysis of relevant data on the education in crisis contexts in Ethiopia, and produce standardized information products in collaboration with other key sectors and stakeholders
• Document and disseminate learning, best practice, ways of working, innovations and technical approaches that relate to the MYRP and the EiE response, in conjunction with the Education Cluster, ECW Seed funding Grantees, other Grantees (if applicable), MoE and other education sector stakeholders

• Ensure that the Mult-Year Resilience Programming and the Education Cannot Wait are supporting and strengthening existing EiE coordination mechanisms and the Education Cluster.
• Identify opportunities and materials that will support the communication and advocacy work of Education in Emergency.