About the Role
The Education Programme Manager will ensure timely and qualitative implementation of education programming. This role involves leading sectoral needs assessments, program implementation, staff management, monitoring, financial oversight, and procurement coordination.
Responsibilities
- Ensure timely and high-quality implementation of SCI’s education programme in Gaza.
- Coordinate with the EiE specialist and education team, ensuring alignment with international standards and SCI’s response strategy.
- Support human resources in recruiting education staff and Community Engagement Workers.
- Oversee the implementation of education activities in the field and provide regular progress updates.
- Support the development of new project proposals, including budget, log frame, and narrative.
- Contribute to accurate and timely donor reports, including case studies and field stories.
- Collaborate with the MEAL team to ensure monitoring and evaluation plans are understood and data is collected promptly.
- Provide capacity building and technical support to education staff, partners, and CEWs.
- Represent Save the Children in education forums and liaise with relevant organizations.
- Strengthen links between education and other sectors for integrated community working.
- Liaise with finance, logistics, and administration for smooth program operations.
- Share education issues at the field level that require advocacy.
- Comply with Save the Children’s policies, including health, safety, security, child safeguarding, and code of conduct.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of working with an NGO in education.
- Experience in designing, managing, monitoring, and evaluating education programmes in emergency, transition, and development contexts.
- Ability to identify key education gaps in a given context to inform a holistic response for children.
- Knowledge of established inter-agency standards and guidelines in education, particularly the INEE Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies.
- Familiarity with key humanitarian principles, SPHERE standards, the humanitarian architecture, and donors.
- Experience liaising with NGOs and UN bodies.
- Experience in staff training and capacity building of organizational and partner staff.
- Flexibility and adaptability.
- Results orientation.
- Fluency in Arabic and English.
Skills
- Education programming
- Needs assessment
- Program implementation
- Staff management
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Financial oversight
- Procurement
- Proposal development
- Donor reporting
- Capacity building
- Inter-agency coordination
- Humanitarian principles
- SPHERE standards
- INEE Minimum Standards
Location
- Gaza Field Office
Work Type
- Full-time
- National terms and conditions
Experience Level
- Minimum of 5 years of working with an NGO in education
About the Company
- Save the Children works in development and humanitarian contexts with children and partners to help families, communities, and governments identify and use innovations to ensure all children survive, learn and are protected.
- We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection.
- We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
- We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030: No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday; All children learn from a quality basic education; Violence against children is no longer tolerated.
- We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
Equal Opportunity
- Save the Children promotes a diverse and inclusive work environment, women and people with different abilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
- 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.
- All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.
