TEAM/PROGRAMME: Program Implementation

LOCATION:  Addis Ababa

GRADE: 1A

POST TYPE: National

Child Safeguarding:

Level 2:  The role 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 in country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

Role Purpose:

The Senior Advisor - Early Childhood Care and Education in Emergencies (ECCEiE) drives the quality, accountability and timeliness of the implementation of ECCEiE USAID-LEGO project in close collaboration with the local implementing partners. The senior advisor - ECCEiE will use his/her in-depth contextual understanding, technical expertise, and relationship building skills to ensure a full understanding and adoption of the comprehensive play based ECCEiE approach by ECCEiE project teams. The Senior advisor ECCEiE will ensure the implementing partners have the technical skills to implement a comprehensive play based ECCE approach in pre-primary school/Temporary learning centers. The Senior advisor ECCEiE will lead the development/adaptation of comprehensive play based ECCE manual, gender transformation, conflict sensitivity, and inclusion guides, and ECCEiE audio lessons productions for ECCE centers and village/home level use. He/she will involve in capacity building trainings on comprehensive play-based ECCEiE approach, conflict sensitivity, disability responsive and gender transformative approaches to master trainers, ECCEiE service providers and government representatives.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Technical Lead-ECCEiE

Staff reporting to this post: Four positions  

Budget Responsibilities: None

Role Dimensions:

The Senior advisor - Early Childhood Care and Education in Emergency will ensure the provision of inter-sectoral services by supporting coordination between regions and partners on key services in nurturing care, play, and crosscutting themes such as inclusion, gender and conflict sensitivity. She/he will advise and support the project team on joint planning, implementation, mentorship and reporting of inter-sectoral work, and organize and execute capacity building to technical staff on nurturing care and play-based interventions. Collaborate with Senior advisor evidence and learning on the administration of IDELA assessment twice per year during the project period

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

A.  Technical Leadership:

• Lead the development of comprehensive play-based ECCE manual, Conflict sensitivity, gender transformative and disability inclusive guidelines, SEL and parenting manuals.

• Drive the development of play-based ECCEiE tools and its implementation with local implementing partners

• Ensure SCI Ready to Learn Approach is implemented by LIP in the target preprimary schools and TLS

• Involve in capacity build of project technical staff, LIP staff, and government staff

• Provide coaching and mentoring support to ECCEiE technical team and LIPs

   B. Ensuring Programme Quality (Design & Implementation):

• Lead the technical scoping, annual planning, and detailed implementation plan design and facilitate technical staff engagement with LIP staff.

•  Ensure that gender, disability, and resilience considerations are reflected in the ECCEiE planning and implementation.

• Work with Community based Intervention and Teacher Education teams to ensure play-based ECCE services are implemented by LIPs

•  Promote ECCEiE is recognized and prioritized in the regional education bureau, zone education and woreda education offices educational interventions.

• Provide oversight and guidance to the ECCEiE local implementing partners to ensure that the ECCEiE programme components are technically sound, implementation methods are consistent with USAID-LEGO strategies,

• Promote and monitor integrated programming of ECCEiE in a way that increases the overall development of the young children receiving the play-based ECCE services.

•  Work with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) teams to carry out regular IDELA data collection, analysis and interpretation of the ECCE services. Support MEAL team on participatory data collection and analysis on gender responsiveness, conflict sensitivity and disability inclusive nature of the ECCEiE program implementation by LIP.

• Extract and produce case stories, project lessons and technical briefs on play-based ECCEiE services.

• Initiate and lead regional ECCE technical working groups and woreda level ECCEiE discussion forums on evidences of play-based ECCE services implementation

•  Contribute to  SCI-Education sector community of practice  

• Undertake field visits to project sites to support LIPs with the challenges they encounter in the implementation of the comprehensive ECCE paly-based approach at ECCE center and ELM at home at a community level.

• Collaborate with humanitarian team on emergency data collection on conflict sensitivity, gender and disability.

• Contribute to the quality, clarity and consistency of technical components of internal and external reports (e.g. donor report, report to SCI, and report to government) of the ECCEiE project working with the local implementing partners.

• Collaborate with senior advisor - evidence and learning on proper administration of IDELA assessment to both children and the sampled children parents and lead the interpretation of the results submitted from the evidence learning/MEAL team

C.  Networking & External Engagement:

• In alignment with SCI-Ethiopia CO strategy, engage with regional, zonal, district ECCEiE actors (INGOs, NGOs, CBOs and UN agencies) in prioritizing ECCEiE intervention in conflict and crisis affected regions.

• Contribute to Save the Children is influencing and learning from ECCE regional technical working groups and district level ECCEiE learning forums.

• Contribute to strengthen CBOs and CSOs engagement in ECCEiE program implementation in collaboration with the local implementing partners.

• Represent the ECCEiE project in regional and district level as required..

• Leverage and liaise with technical colleagues from across Save the Children-Education, Child Protection and livelihood teams for sharing project evidences and learning.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our 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 others to do the same

• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others

• Future orientated, thinks strategically

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

Job Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• BA/B.Ed.  degree in in education, Early childhood Care and Education, Developmental Psychology or related field

• Training in project or program, strategy design and ensuring quality and child right based programing is an asset.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• At least 12 years’ experience of leading the design and implementation of ECCE or education project in emergency and development context.

• Proven experience in ECCE policy framework, Implementation strategy, and  education policy and strategy analysis

• Through understanding of the education sector in Ethiopia

• Familiar with education systems (humanitarian/cluster systems as needed) for ex. ECCE policy and ECCE program implementation.

• Demonstrated program design, monitoring and evaluation skills, including designing pathways to sustainable impact at scale.

• Experience of strategy development and planning

• Experience of context, capacity and policy analysis, and influencing and advocacy at regional and regional level for children right’s to ECCE services.

• Skilled at networking, representation and partnership development in order promote learning, and establish/strengthen the regional ECCE working group.

• Able to use digital software for data collection and analysis such as KOBO TOOL BOX and SPSS.

• Experienced in generating and use of data and evidence to innovate, deliver, learn and share what works and what doesn’t work for children

• Experience of promoting quality and impact through at least one cross-cutting area: gender equality and inclusion, adaptive and safer programming; child rights; disability; migration and displacement.

• Experience of supporting humanitarian preparedness, response and recovery

• Significant experience in facilitating training in education technical areas, project design and development, and in coaching and mentoring

• Fluent in English and high level of English writing skills.

KEY COMPETENCIES

Technical competencies:

•    Ensures all children’s access to quality education

•    Ensures all children’s wellbeing

•    Supports all children’s learning and development

Generic Competencies

• Being the Voice of Children: Promotes evidence-based policy and public engagement that includes the voices of children and their communities

• Advancing Equality & Inclusion: Displays a commitment to ensuring everything we do considers the most deprived and marginalized children

• Building & Strengthening Partnerships: Promotes working with diverse partners as critical to delivery

• Child Rights: Promotes the rights of children in own work and in work with colleagues and peers

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 SCI’s global Diversity, Equity and

Inclusion and Gender Equality Policies, supported by relevant 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.

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.

How to Apply

Application Information:

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, it the Link  and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. 

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 employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.