Education In Emergencies Advisor

Company: Save the Children International

Company description:

Save the Children is the world's leading independent organisation for children.

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Save the Children is the world's leading independent organisation for children. It is a dual mandate organization and focuses on development and emergency response. We are currently working in 120 countries around the world touching the lives of 125 million children. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

Save the Children has been working in Myanmar since 1995. Our programmes include Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition, HIV/AIDS, WASH, Education, Food Security and Livelihoods, Child Protection and Child Rights Governance and Humanitarian Responses across the country.

Save the Children offers attractive salary including non-salary benefits which consists of paid medical benefits, various leave benefits, accident insurance, severance and other allowances.

Good Environment and Good Teamwork

• Engage in advocacy work related to the endorsement of the Safe Schools Declaration by Myanmar, and lead the development of a detailed advocacy plan (including communications materials), in close collaboration with Child Protection colleagues, the Advocacy Manager, and other partners (development and EiE)
• Engage in policy work related to the development of the EiE Framework for the Ministry of Education Myanmar, including representation at MoE workshops and events held with donors, partners, and key stakeholders.
• Develop policy briefs, position papers, and case-studies, drawing from EiE programming and EiE Sector, and in collaboration with the relevant technical teams (e.g. Child Protection)
• Represent Save the Children for EiE-related policy, advocacy and networking with strategic and implementation partners. UN organizations, Save the Children Members, national and international research institutions, media, civil society and government stakeholders.
• Ensure coordination, communication and liaison with key stakeholders including: MoE, UN agencies, international/national NGOs and other relevant civil society organisations.
• Develop communication materials, in collaboration with the Communications teams and ensuring the inclusion of technical input from the relevant project managers, to contribute to the EiE advocacy and programme strategy.
• Ensure that the voices of children guide advocacy and policy change objectives and related activities.
• In collaboration with MEAL team, ensure evidence of impact of EiE interventions is rigorously maintained, documented and disseminated internally and externally as appropriate, to contribute to improvements in programme quality and advocacy efforts.
Technical support:
• Ensure that the Education in Emergency teams and other programmatic sectors are updated with priority EiE strategies and approaches and support their implementation and use.
• Work closely with MEAL team and EiE MEAL staff to revise and implement an effective monitoring and evaluation framework for the EiE programme and ensure monitoring information is analysed and shared.
• Identify needs for technical support from in-country and external technical advisers, including cross-sectoral inputs (e.g. Child Protection, Social Cohesion/Peacebuilding).
• Work closely with Education Sector Lead and Education Head of Programme to develop an evidence-based EiE strategy for the country programme, in alignment with the Country Strategy Plan 2019-21, the Humanitarian Response Plan and EiE Sector Strategy, and the MMR CO Humanitarian Strategy.
• Provide technical inputs to proposal development and fundraising strategies that align with the EiE Strategy through collaboration with business development team, HOPs and Sector Leads.
• Work closely with the EiE Sector coordinator, to raise issues from regional and national clusters to the Myanmar Government and sector co-ordination groups. Represent Save the Children at Sector Coordination meetings and support SC’s EiE sector Co-chair in Rakhine (Program Manager) in achieving her/his duties within this representation and coordination task with all EiE partners.

• Bachelor Degree preferable Master’s Degree
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in education and emergencies programming, implementation and/or planning.
• Strong policy analysis and policy engagement experience; proven representation, influencing and advocacy skills and experience, especially with the government.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills, including influencing, negotiation and consensus building

• Male/ Female
• Salary is negotiable

No. 126 A, Damazaydi Road, Bahan Township, Yangon,Yangon
State/District: Yangon Region

Job Category: NGO, Charity & Voluntary jobs
Company Industry: INGO
Employment Type: Other
Full time: YES
Job posted: 25/3/2020

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