Education Assistant

Location: Damboa

The Education Assistant will be a part of the Education team. He/she will assist the Education team with activities such as Enrolment, back to learning campaigns, community engagement with SBMCs, among other responsibilities assigned regarding enrolment and retention in schools. S/he will also support in ensuring Accountability in supported communities including information sharing, participation, and ensuring efficient feedback and response mechanisms. 

Reports to: Education Officer

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement delegated reaching out of school project in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements, and ensure high technical quality. 
• Contribute to assessments baseline, midline and endline, needs, market. 
• Ensure accurate project documentation, including collection of monitoring data and tracking of progress on output indicators; utilize data to contribute to reports as requested by management. 
• Facilitate relationships with communities and community leaders to ensure buy-in and Do No Harm. 
• Supervise and manage the teachers, including facilitation of teacher training. 
• Provide support on youth/adolescent programming, including, life skills, basic literacy/numeracy, and alternative/accelerated education. 
• Support identification of needs, and development and facilitation of training programs for teachers, PTAs, SBMCs 
• Facilitate recruitment of volunteer teachers and learning facilitators in the project 
• Contribute to proposal and strategy development through input on needs/gaps 
• Develop and maintain regular channels of communication with partners and key stakeholders at all levels Community, LGEA and State. 
• Ensure regular monitoring of projects results, documentation of projects case studies, lessons learnt, significant changes and best practices and coordinating learning and reflection meetings/sessions. 

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree/ Higher national diploma in Education or other related fields of study 
• At least 2 years of accrued working experience in program implementation. 
• Experience in strategic thinking and planning skills, be able to set priorities, prepare manageable plans and to evaluate progress. 
• Experience of working on TaRL and ABEP for Out of School Children OOSC. 
• Strong analytical skills and strategic planning abilities. 
• Ability to establish and maintain conducive collegial relations and perform effectively as a member of a team. 
• Willingness to travel and work in hard-to-reach areas, occasionally under strenuous conditions. 
• Computer literacy and excellent documentation skills are a must. 
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching 
• Excellent time management and planning capacity. 
• Fluent English language skills written and verbal and Local language skills Hausa, Fulfulde etc.. 
• Experience of working in remote field bases with limited infrastructure 
• Ability to synthesize and analyze information, and make clear, informed decisions 
• Ability to build relationships quickly with a wide range of people, both internally and externally 
• Strong planning, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organize a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities 
• Cultural awareness, with strong written and spoken communication and interpersonal skills in English.