Company Overview

Imagine1Day International Organization (Imagine1Day) is a Canadian non-religious and non-profit humanitarian and development NGO. Since 2008, Imagine1Day has been actively investing in Ethiopia, focusing on Education, WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene), Livelihood, Emergency Responses, Leadership, and Opportunity Development pillars. The organization's ultimate goal is to ensure that all Ethiopians have access to quality education without relying on foreign aid by the year 2030. In collaboration with UNICEF, Imagine1Day is currently in the planning phase to implement an integrated Education and Child Protection project in the Afar region. To support this initiative, Imagine1Day is seeking qualified experts for the following position.

 Position Summary

The Education Program Officer will play a critical role in ensuring equitable access to safe and supportive learning environments for girls, boys, and children with disabilities affected by draught. This position involves establishing a strong connection between Education in Emergency (EiE) interventions and the broader education sector development in the Afar region. The Program Officer will focus on specific areas of intervention to uphold minimum standards and enhance the quality, relevance, retention, and transition of education for those affected by draught. They will provide support to ASR facilitators, ALP teachers and supervisors, while also strengthening the capacity of education institutions and communities to deliver crisis-sensitive education. Additionally, the Program Officer will be responsible for fostering effective partnerships with relevant stakeholders.

 Job title: Education Program officer                 

Location:  Amibera, Afar Zone Three

Contract Type:  Contract for 12 Months

Salary: As per the organization salary scale

Number: One

Reporting to:  Regional Program Manager

Functional Relationships:  Education Specialist

 Key Duties and Responsibilities

Work for Overall organizational development

• Comply with Imagine 1 Day policies and practices with respect to Safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

• Be innovative in practicing organizational policies, rules and guidelines in order to achieve the intended Imagine 1 Day’s vision, goal, and mission. 

• Organize experiences that can help as basis for project proposals in education sector

• Take appropriate, coordinated, and consistent actions to handle situations of personal risks and risks for others.

 Specific activities

• Work to enroll OOSC and pre-primary school aged children including children with disability by conducting back to school campaign programs.

• Follow the teaching learning process in each school and work for further improvement of attendance rate, and high achievements of competency skills.

• Monitor the implementation performance of ASR facilitators and ALP supervisors having a quality bench mark checklist.

• Ensure that all education in emergency activities is implemented on time, within the budget, according to quality standards and as per the plan

• Follow-up maintenance of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in schools/TLS (e.g. handwashing station)

• Support schools/TLS to organize children’s club activities (or other community/learning/recreation/play based groups) to promote children’s friendly activities, life skills and psychosocial activities

• Follow-up for provision of accelerated learning program via the Ministry of Education’s endorsed Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) for out of school children to reenter formal schooling

• Monitor and supervise the project learning opportunities to early childhood care and education (ECCE) age children and parents/caregivers to improve school readiness via the Ministry of Education’s endorsed Accelerated School Readiness (ASR)

• Planning and facilitating Workshop with teachers on the use of innovative techniques for the continuity of learning (incl. use of low-high tech innovations, e.g. use of solar radios)

Capacity development:

• Train PTA’s and other community-based structures, ASR facilitators, ALP teachers, and supervisors in line to achieving the project objectives and leaving footprints on the education system.

• Identify training needs and develop a capacity building strategy. Based on the defined strategy, coordinates and conducts refresher and other training for Teachers and PTA;

• Handle proper distribution of training manuals, ASR/ALP books including designed supplementary materials.

• Monitor the quality of training delivery via different dimensions

• Work for continuous scale up of the training in each site

• Measure the impact of each training for sustainable project outcomes.

• Give constructive feedback to team members especially the direct reports in order to enhance capabilities and responsibilities of the team.

• Work to ensure that the workplace is inclusive, and the talents of individuals are guided to achieve synergies and individuals and organizational success.

Partnership Development:

• Work with school principals, teachers, and Camp coordinators and assure every structure created in the camp is appropriate to education in emergency issues

• Coordinate and oversee working relationships with all local project stakeholders and serve as the liaison between them and the project team to mobilize local actors and promote project activities and impact.

• Coordinate and working closely with the Wereda Education Office to plan and implement teaching quality activities.

• Coordinate with other humanitarian partners and local authorities in the target areas, as relevant for the effective and efficient implementation of the EiE project and attend clusters and working groups, sub-clusters and task forces

•  participate at Wereda wise educational meetings by representing imagine 1 Day

 Financial and Supply management

• Assess demands, Plan and Provision supportive learning devices/materials for children living with disabilities at the crisis time

• Distribute and follow-up of teaching/learning and curricula materials as per organizational distribution template (e.g. syllabi, textbooks, and teachers’ guides) to school’s/learning spaces

• Plan and distribute hygiene promotion supplies as per organizational distribution template for school’s/learning environments to support safe operation of learning programs

• Distribute and follow-up of teaching and learning materials (TLM), Furniture’s, COVID, 19 supplies, ASR and ALP recreational supplies as per organizational distribution template for crisis affected ASR, ALP and host communities’ children

 Participate in Human Resource Management Activities

• Participate in recruiting ASR and ALP facilitators.  

• In Collaboration with HR team strategically plan staffing needs to implement the program

• Assure the implementation of Imagine 1Day’s policy and work discipline of every staff that comprises child safe guarding and child protection code of conduct policy, harassment policy, PSEA policy, criminal background check policy, crises management and incidence procedure policy, and others

• Participate and consult HR team in Measuring the performance of ASR/ALP facilitators as per of Imagine 1Day’s performance measuring tool/ (score card template)

• Create a good team spirit, with appropriate provision for having successor.

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Coordinate base line/need assessment, and post implementation assessments 

• Monitoring the interventions on bi-annual basis, find out the gaps, share the gaps with the staff and make a proper action plan.

• Ensure that project is on track in sense of indicators and immediate outcomes.
  Share the findings in the forms of monitoring reports

• Working closely with MEAL team, Develop M&E plan, and conduct a periodic and an ad hoc M&E in each target area for every activity

• Circulate formal feedbacks of field visits, and discussion results

• Lead project coordination meeting with relevant team members (ASR and ALP) to monitor the progress, identifying actions and adapting the work plans on bi-weekly/ monthly basis.

• Support drafting and finalization of the MEAL deliverables (Monthly report. MEAL plans, baseline & end line reports, jointly with MEAL team.)

• Conduct regular field monitoring visits according to requirements and plans, ensure quality of project reporting and flag any concerns to the concerned body

Reporting and communication

• Report project baseline and end line assessment results based on the donors and partner’s requirements.

• Report situational reports, narrative reports on monthly, quarterly, biannual and annual basis as per donors and partner’s requirements.

• Analyze implementation challenges and report any inconsistencies and/or gaps to inform adjustments to plans and implementation schedules.

• Monitor and report on results of capacity building efforts

Job Requirements

• BED/MED/degree in Educational Planning and Management, School Leadership, Instructional Leadership, Pedagogical Science or other related educational fields

• Three years and above work experience in project coordination, trainings facilitation and management areas in National and International NGO’s

• Experience to lead projects on emergency and development settings

• Excellent in all computer skills

• Experience in reporting to donors in an NGO environment

• Excellent communication skill in Local Language and English 

Personal Attributes

• Great attention to detail and a flexible approach to work.

• High level of commitment and self-motivation.

• High professional and ethical standards.

• Positive outlook and outgoing personality with solid interpersonal and diplomatic skills.

• Structured and process-oriented.

• Excellent time management skills with the ability to balance multiple priorities.

• Motivated to learn and perform and not afraid to ask questions.

• Passionate and driven to succeed.

How to Apply

Review of complete applications will be on a rolling basis. In the event that we identify an outstanding candidate early in the search process, we reserve the right to appoint before the deadline. For this reason, we encourage interested candidates to apply at the earliest possible time. Due to the high volume of applications, we regret that we will only be able to contact shortlisted candidates.

 Please send the information listed below, as a single PDF file, to the following link:

Click here to apply

1. A detailed CV and Covering Letter,

2. A 300-word essay on the below questions:

    a) What experience have you gained that makes you the most qualified candidate for the role?

    b With reference to practical examples, briefly explain how you would ensure accelerated education program implementation in drought-affected areas of the Afar region.

Female applicants are highly encouraged to apply.