TEAM/PROGRAMME: Program Implementation
LOCATION: Addis Ababa
GRADE: 1A
POST TYPE: National
Child Safeguarding:
Level 2: The role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
Role Purpose:
The Senior Advisor - Early Childhood Care and Education in Emergencies (ECCEiE) drives the quality, accountability and timeliness of the implementation of ECCEiE USAID-LEGO project in close collaboration with the local implementing partners. The senior advisor - ECCEiE will use his/her in-depth contextual understanding, technical expertise, and relationship building skills to ensure a full understanding and adoption of the comprehensive play based ECCEiE approach by ECCEiE project teams. The Senior advisor ECCEiE will ensure the implementing partners have the technical skills to implement a comprehensive play based ECCE approach in pre-primary school/Temporary learning centers. The Senior advisor ECCEiE will lead the development/adaptation of comprehensive play based ECCE manual, gender transformation, conflict sensitivity, and inclusion guides, and ECCEiE audio lessons productions for ECCE centers and village/home level use. He/she will involve in capacity building trainings on comprehensive play-based ECCEiE approach, conflict sensitivity, disability responsive and gender transformative approaches to master trainers, ECCEiE service providers and government representatives.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Technical Lead-ECCEiE
Staff reporting to this post: Four positions
Budget Responsibilities: None
Role Dimensions:
The Senior advisor - Early Childhood Care and Education in Emergency will ensure the provision of inter-sectoral services by supporting coordination between regions and partners on key services in nurturing care, play, and crosscutting themes such as inclusion, gender and conflict sensitivity. She/he will advise and support the project team on joint planning, implementation, mentorship and reporting of inter-sectoral work, and organize and execute capacity building to technical staff on nurturing care and play-based interventions. Collaborate with Senior advisor evidence and learning on the administration of IDELA assessment twice per year during the project period
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
A. Technical Leadership:
B. Ensuring Programme Quality (Design & Implementation):
C. Networking & External Engagement:
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
Ambition:
Collaboration:
Creativity:
Integrity
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
KEY COMPETENCIES
Technical competencies:
• Ensures all children’s access to quality education
• Ensures all children’s wellbeing
• Supports all children’s learning and development
Generic Competencies
Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.
Equal Opportunities
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI’s global Diversity, Equity and
Inclusion and Gender Equality Policies, supported by relevant procedures.
Child Safeguarding:
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Safeguarding our Staff:
The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy
Health and Safety
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.