UWS is an international non-profit organisation strengthening primary education systems in remote and marginalised contexts. UWS seeks at least three experienced Senior Education Officers to lead, manage, and support Education Officers to work closely with targeted schools and build the capacity of school staff and community bodies to provide inclusive, quality primary education to children living in remote and marginalised contexts in Cambodia, including the implementation and coordination the process of successful transition the targeted schools. The ideal candidate will have exceptional management skills, and have a high level of knowledge of Cambodia’s education development programmes and policies, with strong experience in training and building the capacity of project teams, and community development.
About UWS
UWS was founded in Cambodia in 2008 and currently operates in Cambodia, Nepal, Myanmar and Madagascar. UWS strengthens primary education systems through working with national and local governments, in partnership with communities, to establish functional, quality and inclusive primary education facilities for children in remote regions who were previously out-of-school. To date, UWS has reached over 51,000 students, built capacity in 276 primary schools, and transitioned 59 schools to national education systems.
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Category:
Educate/Train/Teaching
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Type :
Job Opportunity
- Location:
Ratanak Kiri Province
- Schedule: Full-time
- Salary:
N/A
Department Education Program
Location / Duty Station: Mondulkiri & Stung Treng with frequent travel (up to 50%) to school projects in remote communities
Role Purpose / Summary
The Senior Education officer will lead and support Education Officers to effectively implement project activities in line with the work plan, targets and budget of project activities including implementation of school transition, capacity building and community engagement workshops in their territory. He/She will responsible to the overall engagement and coordination works at the district level through networking and working closely with district education officer, commune leaders, NGOs partners, private sector partners to effectively coordinate and collaborate to sustain school functioning.
Reports To Program Coordinator
Type of Contract Full – Time with Unspecify Duration Contract
Working Hours 40 hours per week
Remuneration
Negotiable according to qualification and experiences
Benefits
- Travel and Medical Insurance
- NSFF, seniority payment
- Communications
- Public Holiday according to labour law
- People Management and Leadership:
- Responsible for leading and managing up 3 Education Officers (EOs)
- Support and coach Education Officers (EOs) to monitor and deliver school development programme, engage community school principal for providing a good quality inclusive education
- Provide timely response to the needs and feedback to EOs on their performance plan making sure the committed target is achieved.
- Program Delivery and Support:
- A focal person at the districts/provincial education meeting and represent UWS.
- Organise the workshops, meetings, events, and capacity building with different levels of government bodies and key stakeholders to share best practices and build strong collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
- Participate within the education team to develop a national and regional education plan/strategy
- Develop and managing monthly/quarterly work plan and budget with EOs to ensure program activities are delivery on time in good quality.
- Establish/maintain relationships with networks and collaborate various educational stakeholders such as government bodies, NGOs, international organisations, and communities.
- Support EOs to build the capacity of SSCs and school principals to develop clear and achievable Annual Operation Plans that respond to the needs of communities and improve teaching quality and quality transition.
- Program Quality Assurance:
- Coordinate with MEAL team to conduct UWS School Development Report and other M&E tools to monitor teaching quality
- Conduct monitoring trips and spot checks across target schools for quality checking and to identify EO’s M&E training needs.
- Coordinate and participate in development of quarterly reports for provincial education departments and for UWS Cambodia country reports in targeted schools.
- Coordinate and support the Transition team to implement and coordinate schools transition process within the target schools by developing clear schools transition action plans setting (pre, during, and post transition) and keep tracking the progress/challenges by working closely with EOs and key stakeholders to maintain good practice and implementation of school transition.
- Regularly meet with Eos to listen to concerns/challenges and provide technical and advisory support to overcome the challenges.
- Mobilise community resources by actively engage and collaborate with local authorities and commune level for mobilising local funding for the schools developments, inclusive education
- Support EOs to build the capacity of SSCs and school principals to develop clear and achievable Annual Operation Plans that respond to the needs of communities and improve teaching quality and quality transition.
- Child Safeguarding and Reporting
- Responsible as the regional Child Protection Lead and be the key person for EOs in the province to raise concerns and respond to cause for concerns in the province in collaboration with local authority and local authority children’s social care services.
- Building EOs capacity to deliver CPS interventions and uphold the UWS CPS Policy, ensuring EOs are on track to achieve school-level CPS implementation targets.
- Adhere to the guidelines laid out in the UWS Child Protection Policy,
- Collaborate with the National Inclusion Lead Support Education Officers to implement inclusion and child protection and safeguarding procedures and policies in schools.
- Any other reasonable tasks as required by the line manager.
Requirements
- ESSENTIAL
- Cambodian national and passionate working with children
- Bachelors in the field of Education, development study, social sciences and related fields.
- At least 3 years’ experiences working in social work, child protection, youth development, gender and social inclusion, education program, sector in particular primary education
- Experience managing capacity building program as well as train to staffs and local government partners
- Good Command in English
- Strong communications, coordination and passionate in working with governments and schools’ stakeholders
- Ability to documents case study, and produce narrative report in English
- Open-minded person, flexibility and travel in a long distance
- Candidates must display characteristics/skills relevant to the UWS child protection policy with supervisory skills to support and develop good practice of child protection and reporting mechanisms e.g. A commitment to child rights.
- Ability to produce high quality reports, presentations and other communications to a range of current and potential stakeholders.
- Computer literate Excellent verbal and written communication skills (in Khmer and English)
- Enthusiastic, adaptable, patient, innovative, understanding, team player
- DESIRABLE
- Female candidates are strongly encouraging to apply
- A degree in education and have at least three years experience working in the education sector in particular primary education.
- Good people management and leadership skills
- Good documentations skills and be able to write report in English
- Has good technical skills on project cycle managements
- Sound interesting in development works in particular primary education in remote areas
- Flexible and Open-minded person, willing to learn new things
- Strong initiative, innovative and creative
- High commitment and demonstrates good accountability
To apply for this position, please send a covering letter & CV of no more than 5 pages. The deadline for applications is 5pm on October 12, 2023. Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis and the vacancy will be closed when filled. You should give the names, positions, organisations and telephone contact numbers of two references, one of whom should be your current/most recent employer. References will only be taken once your express permission has been granted.
UWS Cambodia invites applications from eligible Cambodian candidates for the following full-time positions. Please note only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis and the vacancy will be closed when filled.
Applications should be made via email to email provided in the contact details.
