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About the Role

The IRC is seeking an Education & Early Childhood Development (ECD) Technical Advisor to provide temporary coverage during a 6-month parental leave assignment. This role focuses on supporting education and ECD programs within the Middle East, North Africa & Ukraine (MENAU) region, ensuring high-quality, evidence-based interventions for young children and families affected by conflict and crisis.

Responsibilities

• Support designated MENAU country and regional programs to design winning submissions and position IRC for success in Education and ECD.
• Promote and support design collaboration with partners and clients.
• Advise on program modalities and strategic partnership development.
• Advise on and/or provide hands-on support on assessments, including application and contextualization of technical standards.
• Review technical design quality, including alignment of narratives, log-frames, and budgets to IRC standards and outcomes.
• Support country and regional programs and other stakeholders with the recruitment and training of technical coordinators.
• Assess program quality and inform improvements, providing follow-up support as needed.
• Collaborate with country and regional program colleagues to monitor and analyze key indicators for periodic review, program adaptation, and course-correction.
• Provide technical capacity strengthening through ongoing mentoring, coaching, and trainings with country program focal points.
• Document learnings from program activities and share takeaways and opportunities.
• Share cross-contextual learnings with country program staff across the MENAU region.
• Refresh the sectoral evidence base in collaboration with global and regional staff to influence approaches.
• Collaborate with other technical advisors within the region to promote integrated programming leadership.
• Contribute to the delivery of education strategic priorities.
• Maintain currency with sectoral best practices through continual learning and development.
• Coordinate closely and maintain a regular check-in with the ECD Content Specialist and relevant Regional ECD Portfolio Team to align on country requests, agree on division of labor, and avoid duplicative deliverables.

Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in implementing and/or managing ECD education programs, preferably with on-the-ground programmatic experience in humanitarian or crisis-affected contexts.
• Experience and familiarity with related donors, peer agencies, and national contexts required, preferably in humanitarian and transitional, post-crisis contexts within the MENAU region.
• Demonstrated expertise in technical program design, monitoring and evaluation, research methods, and data analysis, with the ability to turn concepts and strategy into measurable action.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills; proven ability to prioritize and deliver projects on time and independently.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate a dynamic, cross-functional, global team structure in a large multi-national organization.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong analytic problem-solving skills, data analysis, and data visualization skills.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite.
• Ability to manage and work through change in a proactive and positive manner.
• Strong cross-cultural communication skills and familiarity with the MENAU region’s humanitarian context.
• Adherence to IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct (Integrity, Service, Equality, Accountability).

Skills

• Education and ECD technical assistance
• Cross-cultural communication
• Program design
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Research methods
• Data analysis
• Problem-solving
• Data visualization
• Microsoft Office suite proficiency
• Arabic (spoken and written)
• English (spoken and written)

Location

• MENAU region
• Jordan
• Lebanon
• United Kingdom

Work Type

• Remote
• Fixed-term
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• 10+ years of relevant experience

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree in Education or a relevant field required
• Master’s degree preferred

Salary/Compensations

• £52,210-£61,999/yr (UK Pay Rate)

Benefits

• Local employment contract
• Local salary scale

About the Company

• The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster.
• Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities.
• IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions.
• The IRC’s Technical Excellence department helps achieve that aim by generating evidence, sharing learning, and providing technical assistance to IRC’s country program staff.
• Technical Excellence is comprised of Technical Units (TUs) – Health; Economic Recovery and Development (ERD); Education; and Violence Prevention and Response (VPR) – including Global Practice Teams, regionally aligned technical teams, and supporting units for MEAL, policy and advocacy, and partnerships and program development.
• In 2025, the IRC reached over 600,000 children and youth in 20 countries with early childhood development and education programs.
• The Middle East, North Africa & Ukraine (MENAU) region is one of IRC’s largest and most complex areas of operation, encompassing protracted conflict, displacement, and recovery contexts across multiple country programs.
• Regional TU teams provide dedicated, context-relevant technical assistance to these country programs across the program cycle, aligned with the IRC Technical Assistance model and service charter.

Equal Opportunity

• IRC is committed to taking all necessary preventive measures and creating an environment where people feel safe, and to take all necessary actions and corrective measures when harm occurs.
• IRC builds teams of professionals who promote critical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the best possible services to our clients.