Save the Children ABE Quality Assurance and Standards Officer Job in Dadaab Kenya

Position Name: ABE Quality Assurance and Standards Officer

Position Code: SCI- ABE Daadab

Status: New

Team /  Programme: Programmes

Location: Dadaab 

Grade: 4

Post Type: National (1 year contract with possibility of extension)
 

Child Safeguarding: Level 3 - the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people

Role Purpose: To effectively Implement the SC Education Programme activities of the ABE Project in Dadaab camps and the host community in Dadaab and Fafi. He/she will ensure quality delivery of programmes and maintenance of high professional standards of all our Education Programmes.

Reports to: Education Coordinator-ABE 

Dimensions: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners. 

Current programming focuses on child protection, child rights governance, education, health, HIV/AIDS, livelihoods, nutrition and WASH. In 2012, as part of a global reorganization process, Save the Children combined the programmes of SC UK, SC Canada and SC Finland to create a single operation in Kenya. 

In February 2014, we completed a second transition, which saw us join forces with the British INGO, Merlin, and merge their health and nutrition programmes with our own. 

Save the Children now has an operational presence in Bungoma, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Garissa, Mandera, Nairobi, Turkana and Wajir. 

We work through partners in many other parts of the country. We have a staff complement of around 300 staff and an operating annual budget of approximately US$25 million in 2014.

Staff directly reporting to this post: None

Key Areas of Accountability:  

• Work as part of a team to ensure quality programming
• Travel Frequently to implementation sites to liaise with teachers community leaders, Partners, local governments and beneficiaries to ensure continued participation and support for the project
• Carryout regular monitoring activities and engagement with schools and communities to support project
• Curriculum development, implementation, supervision and evaluation.
• Train ABE teachers on general methods of teaching amongst others.
• Capacity building Boards of Managements in schools
• Ensure that the ABE centres are child friendly and child centred methods of learning are adapted
• Introduce current trends in Education at the ABE centres
• Inspection of  teaching tools e.g. lesson plans, schemes of works and ensure that they are of quality
• Supporting the Education Officers in carrying out general supervision in the ABE centres.
• Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
• Any other duty  as assigned by the Coordinator.

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

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in education or its equivalent
• Minimum of five (5) years’ work experience in education sector especially Child Friendly School initiative, Girl child education, SNE, Non-formal Education in the Somali Context.
• Knowledge of education in emergencies, education sector policy, child rights and protection issues
• Experiences of facilitating teacher training, community-based training, capacity building Board of managements in schools, and awareness campaigns.
• Experience in teacher mentorship, assessment and evaluation in the education sector
• Excellent skills in  interactive  learner friendly teaching and learning material development
• Strong self-starter, able to take initiative and adapt to changing circumstances and priorities
• Positive attitude towards community work with emphasis on the ability to learn from communities and support participatory, innovative approaches to problem solving
• Excellent communication skills and a willingness to be respectful, kind, sensitive and empathise with all children and their carers
• Fluent in written and spoken English, Kiswahili and the local language in the camps and the host community
• Good report writing skills
• Willingness and capacity to be flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions
• Commitment to Save the Children’s Child Protection Policy.

Desirable Qualifications

• Previous experience in working with teachers in delivering non-formal education and girl child education services.
• Understanding of the dynamics of the refugees is essential
• Experience of working with communities and other agencies that support education

Working Contacts:

• External: The job holder is required to have regular contact with other similar organizations, education institutions, children, community, and government departments.
• Internal: The job requires the job holder to have direct relationship with all staff and management at all levels in ensuring the organizational policies and procedures are adhered to and complied with.  

How to Apply

Interested candidates are required to submit a CV and mandatory Cover letter to Kenya.jobapplications@savethechildren.org indicating the Position Code & Title on the subject line by 22nd December 2014. 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.