Back Education and Youth Officer Iraq Nineveh

The purpose of the officer position is to oversee the day-to-day implementation of the education project. Education officer will oversee all operations and supervise education assistants.

Specific responsibilities 

• Implement education activities under direction of the Education Project Coordinator.
• Supervise the Education Assistants. Provide technical support and feedback to them in line with program objectives.
• Develop and maintain effective filing systems, both electronic and paper.
• Update and maintain effective project and individual work plans.
• Provide support to formal schools and incentive staff in line with NRC quality standards.
• Monitor and evaluate project implementation at field level, address and share challenges faced and suggest proper solutions for the challenges faced. 
• Conduct regular field visits to support education and PSS activities and closely follow up on project implementation.
• Ensure proper and regular communication with provide updates to relevant local authorities such as directorate of education, camp managers, etc. 
• Document technical issues and challenges, and channel to the Education PC.
• Ensure capacity building of project staff and transfer key skills. 
• Liaise and collaborate with relevant local authorities and other key stakeholders.
• Make decisions on the ground with limited or remote supervision.
• Any other task relevant to the position as requested by line manager.

  Generic professional competencies: 

• Experience from working as Education and Youth Project Officer in a humanitarian/recovery context

Specific skills, knowledge and experience: 

 Other Information:

Contract Duration: 6 months Extendable 

Duty Station: Northern Area Office Iraq – Mosul.

Travel: 50% Qayyarah.

Health Insurance is provided

Salary: G5/S1, According to NRC’s Iraq salary scale and terms and conditions.

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

NRC is an equal opportunity employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.

NRC is committed to our localization strategy including with respect to our workforce in Iraq, whenever possible NRC will recruit new staff from the local area of the programme operations.

NRC will endeavour  to hire staff that together represent the balance of diversity in the governorate of operations.  

For more information please read Job Description  The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across more than 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, our global provider of expertise, helps improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country. Employment with NRC may lead to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to considerable health, safety and security risks. NRC takes this very seriously and we have procedures in place to reduce known risks, but will never be able to take away all risks. NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.