Turkey: Education Specialist (Turkey Programme)

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Position reporting to: Non-formal Education Project Manager

Positions reporting to the POST: No direct reports

Contract type: Fixed/Consultancy

Contract length: 12 months

Closing date: 10.10.2016

Travel not required

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Education Specialist will provide high quality technical advice to Save the Children's non-formal education project in Hatay, Turkey. The Education Specialist will develop an alternative learning curriculum (catch-up classes) for adolescents coming from crisis-affected contexts.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Lead development of an age- and needs-appropriate catch-up class curriculum for Save the Children’s non-formal education project for Syrian adolescents living in Turkey.
• Ultimately responsible for focus group discussions with Syrian and Turkish adolescents, making a special effort to reach adolescents living with disabilities and special needs, to identify the type, scope, and content of services to be provided.
• Link with governmental and non-governmental education and child protection actors, including Provincial Directorates of National Education, and Family and Social Policies to explore and advocate for the educational and psychosocial needs of adolescents in the province.
• Build the capacity of facilitators, child protection officers, and education officers to address adolescent needs, concerns, and interests based on good practices.
• Develop facilitator trainings, a mentoring manual for trainers, and a facilitator learning toolkit for the catch-up class component of the non-formal education project’s Alternative Learning Curriculum.
• Develop and/or refine a Training of Trainers curriculum for education and child protection officers to roll out with facilitators working with adolescents.
• Develop and or/refine materials needed to conduct activities with parents that will enable them to support children and youth in the areas of positive discipline and wellbeing.
• Facilitate a Training of Trainers for master trainers in line with education trainings on life skills development and wellbeing.
• Work with the Education Advisor to match priorities in education and adolescent programme work plans and strategy.
• Liaise with Save the Children’s regional and global technical staff to share lesson learned, monitoring and evaluation tools, best practices, toolkits and approaches used in the region and that could benefit the project.
• Review the evidence base about best practice in alternative learning programmes for adolescents in crisis and conflict affected contexts.
• Give guidance on key advocacy messages to identify meaningful and actionable ways to engage adolescents.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE AND ATTRIBUTES:

Essential

• Advanced degree in education, curriculum development, public policy management, international development, or a relevant field
• At least 5-7 years of demonstrated experience in education programming, implementation and evaluation.
• Technical experience in programming relevant to improving access to education, particularly community engagement, enrolment and student retention
• Experience in curriculum development and/or training experience.
• Demonstrated experience in education sector policy development and advocacy.
• Experience working with government authorities and providing senior level representation.
• Experience working with implementing partners.
• Experience developing and negotiating successful partnerships with institutional donors.
• Demonstrated experience writing for and speaking to large audiences.
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
• Excellent written and spoken English skills

Desirable

• Knowledge and/or experience of ethnic minority education
• Experience operating in areas of crisis or conflict
• Demonstrated experience with Child Protection in Emergencies
• Past teaching experience
• Fluency in Turkish and/or Arabic preferred

Benefits Package provided to National Staff:

• Salary commensurate with the pay-grade of the position.

• Annual leave

• Medical Scheme, Accidental and Life insurance.

• Transportation

• A motivating work environment

We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Please apply in English by sending your up to date CV with a cover letter as a single document explaining your salary expectations to turkey.recruit@savethechildren.org by 11th of October 2016 till 5:30 PM (Turkish local time) and mention the position that you are applying for to the subject section. In order for an application to be considered valid, a copy of the residency card must be attached with the application. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted