Background: Over 80 years ago, Albert Einstein helped create the International Rescue Committee. Today, we are a leading humanitarian and development organization working in more than 40 countries and 26 U.S. cities to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future.
In partnership with the LEGO Foundation, the IRC is implementing an 18-month project (beginning in October 2021) aimed at bringing play-based learning activities to children whose education and wellbeing have been disrupted and damaged by the COVID-19 pandemic. The project will target marginalized communities in the DRC, Ethiopia and South Sudan. It will build on play-based social-emotional learning materials and approaches already developed in the region through the LEGO Foundation-supported Play Well and PlayMatters projects, led by the IRC in Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania. The project aims to work closely with the full range of education stakeholders, including government ministries and education offices, to build capacity to incorporate learning through play activities into formal and non-formal education activities, into distance and home-based learning responses to school closures, and into emergency preparedness and COVID-19 response plans.
In Ethiopia, the project will be implemented in the Somali Region and SNNPR.
Position Summary
The Education Manager will lead project implementation under the direction of the Addis-based Education and Child Protection Coordinator. The Education Manager will direct manage the project team and will develop constructive working relationships with education authorities and partners.
The position is anticipated to begin in November 2021.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Quality:
HR & Team Management:
Coordination
Key Working Relationships
Compliance
Confidentiality
Ensuring the non-disclosure of any information whatsoever relating to the practices and business of IRC acquired in the course of duty, to any other person or organization without authority, except in the normal execution of duty