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About the Role

The Education Senior Specialist ensures the effective coordination, coherence, and consistent implementation of War Child’s Evidence-Based Methods (EBMs) in a thematic area across an assigned cluster of partners and countries. This role translates strategies, standards, and methodologies into contextually relevant support, ensuring high quality and impact. The Specialist oversees EBM quality assurance, partner onboarding, thematic guidance, and adaptive learning, connecting strategy to practice by guiding and managing supporting staff within a cluster. The role may also involve direct support to a country or partner.

Responsibilities

Maintain cluster-level oversight of thematic quality assurance for EBM integration, implementation, and scaling by partners.
Coordinate thematic support provided by Specialists within a cluster, ensuring prioritization and advising on resource allocation.
Ensure operationalization of thematic and EBM guidance and standards for contextual relevance and tailored support to countries and partners.
Lead and/or facilitate adaptive learning cycles for EBMs at cluster level, ensuring learning agendas are developed and executed, lessons learned are documented, and findings inform practice and strategic direction.
Strengthen organizational and partner capacity in Education EBMs through training, mentoring, and scalable learning approaches.
Represent and build the profile and reputation of War Child's EBM Care System Portfolio and thematic expertise externally.
Contribute to the learning agenda for EBMs within the portfolio, including gathering and sharing learnings on partner experiences and feedback.
Act as primary internal and external thematic focal point for an assigned cluster.
Oversee thematic components of partnership engagement within a cluster, liaising with partnership colleagues and other cluster Coordinators.
Collaborate effectively with the Partnership Department, ensuring appropriate matrix management of Specialists and complementary responsibilities.
Contribute to the development of EBMs Partnership Packages and other relevant resources.
Contribute to the strengthening and evolution of the Education EBM Care System portfolio, including compiling knowledge and lessons learned from countries and partners in the cluster.
Coordinate and contribute to learning activities, task teams, working groups, and Communities of Practice related to their thematic area and EBMs.
Support scalable learning approaches, including compiling cluster-level inputs for training content and learning materials.
Coordinate support to MEAL processes within a cluster, including compliance with Quality of Care indicators.
Provide thematic/EBM surge support in emergencies or priority contexts where needed.
Contribute thematic inputs into organizational processes such as strategy development and delivery, and annual plans.
Lead cluster-level reporting for organizational-wide reporting processes related to EBMs in their portfolio and contribute to grant/project reporting processes.
Collaborate closely with teams in their department (MEAL and Humanitarian) and with other relevant departments.
Act as a back-stop for Specialists where necessary.

Requirements

Relevant academic background in Education or a closely related field.
Relevant experience in the thematic area, including in humanitarian or post-conflict contexts.
Experience working with partners on co-creation and delivery of programmes.
Demonstrated experience in programme design, needs assessment, learning cycles, and quality assurance.
Experience developing methods, tools, guidelines, training, and learning materials.
Experience facilitating trainings, workshops, and virtual learning.
Fluency in English is required.
Strong understanding of quality standards, evidence-based programming, and MEAL integration.
Knowledge of cross-sectoral integration (Education, Child Protection, MHPSS).
Understanding of localization, accountability, and participation principles.
Familiarity with digital collaboration and learning tools (e.g. Mural, Miro, SharePoint, MS Teams).

Skills

Education EBMs
Thematic quality assurance
EBM integration, implementation, and scaling
Coordination of thematic support
Resource allocation
Operationalization of guidance and standards
Adaptive learning cycles
Capacity strengthening
Training
Mentoring
Scalable learning approaches
External representation
Stakeholder engagement
Interagency collaboration
Policy shaping
Sector discourse contribution
Learning agenda contribution
Partner feedback utilization
Partnership engagement
Matrix management
EBMs Partnership Packages development
Knowledge compilation
Lessons learned documentation
Learning activities coordination
Task team coordination
Working group coordination
Communities of Practice coordination
Blended learning
Training pools
ToT/ToF models
MEAL process support
Quality of Care indicators compliance
Thematic/EBM surge support
Organizational reporting
Grant/project reporting
Cross-departmental collaboration
Back-stopping support

Location

Afghanistan
Central African Republic
Colombia
DR Congo
Germany
Jordan
Lebanon
Occupied Palestinian territory
South Sudan
Sweden
Syria
Uganda
Ukraine
Yemen
Netherlands
United Kingdom

Work Type

Locally contracted position

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

Relevant academic background in Education or a closely related field

About the Company

The War Child Alliance is an international non-governmental organization committed to providing psychosocial support, child protection, youth empowerment programming, and quality education to children affected by armed conflict.
We implement evidence-based interventions to empower key stakeholders—including governments, educators, caregivers, and communities—to foster children’s wellbeing, education, and self-determination.
We work with global teams with team members being based in different locations.
War Child is currently operates in: Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Colombia, DR Congo, Germany, Jordan, Lebanon, the occupied Palestinian territory, South Sudan, Sweden, Syria, Uganda, Ukraine (soon to be registered), and Yemen.
We also have offices in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Learn more about War Child and our programmes https://www.warchild.net/

Equal Opportunity

Our work with children and at-risk adults to keep them safe is the most important thing we do. We are committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults in all areas of our work. We have zero tolerance for any behaviours and practices that puts children and/or vulnerable adults at risk of abuse and/or harm. All (prospective) employees will be expected to be compliant with and sign up to our Child Safeguarding policy, our Code of Conduct and PSEA: Adults at Risk Policy.
We value diversity and inclusion and are committed to ensuring that all our people and job applicants are treated fairly, irrespective of where, what or whom they were born, or of other characteristics. We want to offer a safe and inclusive workplace where all our people, especially those who are currently marginalised or underrepresented, can be themselves at work.