Organization: NRC – Norwegian Refugee Council
Location: Addis Ababa
Grade: Mid level – Mid level
Occupational Groups:
Education, Learning and Training
Project and Programme Management
Managerial positions
Closing Date: 2025-01-09
Descroption
One psychosocial support (PSS) program that can be included into educational programming is the Better Learning Programme (BLP) of the NRC. For kids in areas affected by crises, it is the NRC’s premier PSS intervention that takes place in the classroom. The curriculum takes a comprehensive approach to helping kids heal and enhancing their learning environments. Three program intervention components make up the BLP. The first, BLP-1, is a general PSS technique that is taught in classrooms and is intended for all children and adolescents. The second, called BLP-2, is a small-group intervention designed to help a more focused target group of academic underachievers develop resilience. The third, BLP-3, is a specialized PSS method for treating nightmares, a persistent sign of traumatic stress that many kids encounter.
Responsibilities:
The BLP Technical Coordinator will work under the Education core competency and be responsible for:
- providing technical support and monitoring the implementation of the BLP in the area offices in Ethiopia
- mapping capacity building needs,
- designing and implementing capacity building packages,
- monitoring programme quality using existing tools and guidelines and providing implementation support and guidance to each AO to ensure that BLP is implemented and reported according to the programme log frames and proposals.
Generic Responsibilities:
- Adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures.
- Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need of protection, explore and assess new and better ways to assist;
- Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy;
- Contribute to the development of education guidance both technical and implementation;
- Support the roll-out of the NRC BLP education activities under the technical management of the Education CC Specialist;
- Provide PSS technical direction and ensure high technical quality of project activities;
- Provide regular progress reports to the Education Specialist;
- Ensure capacity building of AO staff and transfer key skills Country offices (BLP, Teacher’s in Crisis Contexts, Child Safeguarding);
Specific Responsibilities:
- Support the mainstreaming of BLP into the Education strategy\ programme and contribute to the BLP Action Plan (2023-2025).
- Ensure BLP is planned, implemented and reported in accordance with the education log frames and proposals and in line with the BLP manuals, and toolkits including capacity building, students’ sessions and data collection.
- Ensure all BLP activities are carried out with the active inclusion of the most vulnerable people (girls, children with disabilities, teaching and non-teaching staff and guardians).
- Responsible for mapping the BLP staff capacity needs, to deliver capacity building to project staff and transferring key skills through on-the-job training and mentoring in coordination with the education specialist, PMs, and PCs.
- Focal person for BLP M&E and responsible for keeping accurate records of assessment activities, BLP baseline, workshop and training reports.
- Participate in the NRC- MoE BLP technical steering committee meetings and work closely to MoE members on following up on the contextualization\ integration of BLP with the education specialist, PMs and PCs.
- Provide support to the Education Specialist in the development of BLP activities in proposal development and reporting requirements.
- Support the education teams (NRC staff and partners staff) in implementing and monitoring of BLP activities
- Act as BLP technical person for upcoming BLP partnerships which includes capacity building, technical support and quality monitoring;
- Develop a workplan to support AOs supporting their BLP-PSS and Educatiaon Strategy;
- Roll-out across relevant Area Offices BLP materials (such as the BLP Guidance Kit, Monitoring Evaluation and Research toolkits, the BLP children\ youth wellbeing programmatic documents, the capacity development Kit etc.);
- Compile and disseminate best practice, lessons learnt, recommendations, and case studies from BLP implementation, creating and tracking against a project improvement plan.
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Geneva leads NRC’s representation with the IASC and UN agencies, and coordinates donor engagement with the UN and Swiss donors. NRC strives to assist and protect vulnerable and displaced people during crises, especially in situations of conflict. Established in 1946, NRC is an independent, humanitarian, non-profit, non-governmental organisation working in around 31 countries with approximately 14’000 staff. NRC employs a rights based approach, challenging those with responsibility to uphold the rights of displaced people set out within national and International Laws. NRC endeavors to secure the acceptance of local stakeholders for activities and is committed to the principles of humanity, neutrality, independence and impartiality.
NRC seeks to engage with all relevant actors in order to promote the full respect for the rights of displaced and vulnerable people; secure and maintain access for humanitarian operations and promote the achievement of durable solutions. NRC Geneva, with the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC), are NRC’s primary presence in Geneva.
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