Education Officer

Responsibilities & Context

Type of Contract: Fixed-Term

Duration of the Contract: As early as possible to 24 February 2025

Mission 1: Operational implementation

Objective 1: Training and Material Development (Inclusive Education)

Provide technical guidance to field-level educational facilitators (teaching staff) & non-teaching staff to address their challenges in implementing inclusive education such as classroom management, reasonable accommodations, Individual Education Plan (IEP), and harmonization among children with disabilities.

Communicate with relevant partner organizations and officials for developing inclusive education plans for education facilities.

Regular communication with technical staff in rehabilitation and accessibility to implement comprehensive support on specific learning needs of children with disabilities and teachers.

In Coordination with STO, He or she is responsible for the modification and adjustment of learning materials appropriate for the specific type of children with disabilities.

Monitor inclusive educational activities of targeted children from an expected technical outcome based on respective IEP & IRP.

Participating in close collaboration with the STO on the design or update of tools and processes according to the needs.

Supervising the implementation of the field tools validated by inclusive technical referent (HI).Checking the quality of learning materials/raw materials (for developing accessible educational material) purchased before receiving a delivery from the supply chain.

Raising the urge for change, providing updates, and identifying improvement areas of relevant education activities according to the field requirement.

Regular communication at the field level with external education actors and reporting updates to the line manager.

Objective 2: Supervision and Coordination

Identify technical weaknesses, challenges, and strengths of the targeted educational facilities and provide concrete solutions and capacity building to address these issues.

Identify opportunities for possible internal and external coordination and notify TM.

Monitoring the activities of targeted educational facilities for quality, efficiency, and appropriate response to the identified needs and reporting immediately.

Supervised and on-the-job capacity building of community volunteers in the field.

Objective 3: Monitoring, Documentation, and Reporting

Ensure relevant breakdown of data in the documentation and event reports.

Ensure the data consolidation and archiving from the very beginning of joining.

Documentation of narrative case studies maintaining proper sequence of improvement stages both in photographs and videos (in excellent resolution) and including provided services of multi-disciplinary TEAM members towards a specific type of children with disabilities.

Objective 4: External Coordination

In coordination with TM, provide training to other external partners.

Regularly participate in the meetings of local authoritative stakeholders e.g., Camp Coordination. Meetings Meeting at CiC offices, Upazila Coordination Meeting, etc.

Regular communication with CiC as per need.

Take lead monthly sharing on the case study, gaps, challenges, and way forwards.

Participate in the capacity development sessions (both online and offline) arranged by Cox’s Bazar Education Sector and disseminate the learning among TEAM members.

Mission 2: Emergency Preparedness and Response

Contribute to the programme’s emergency preparedness initiatives, and in an emergency, adapt his/her working arrangements to contribute to an effective humanitarian response from HI.