Project Coordinator

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Program development and implementation

• Assess the situation of drought crisis affected areas (IDPs) and contribute in the development of appropriate and quality EiE project proposals.
• Facilitate and carry out baseline and endline studies, semi/annual reviews, and evaluations for the project.
• Coordinate evaluation & assessment of the existing data on targeted beneficiaries and their education needs
• Prepare detail implementation plan & work to ensure the effectiveness.

Coordination, partnership and networking

• Liaise with local government at field level to ensure compliance with government & zonal education cluster coordination.
• Represent WVE in zonal & regional education coordination meetings of agencies & government (clusters, task force meetings, networks & others)
• Provide regular updates to project manager on a weekly & monthly basis on the project progress, priorities & constraints.
• Coordinate with other EiE partners to maximize use of resources.

Resource Management

• Manage operation budget of the project in the implementation sites (procurement, & cost for the materials)
• Contribute to the selection of pre-qualification and bidding of local suppliers & contractors for logistics availability & purchase.
• Track regularly the project budget versus actual expenditure with EiE officers, field finance for timely correction.
• Make close follow up to project financial management (cash flow, field financial report review, monitoring)

Reporting and Documentation

• Work to ensure quality reports are submitted in a timely manner and in accordance with the donor and WVE requirements on target schools.
• Monitor the impact of ECW project in the framework of EiE response program and promote learning by documentation of best practices.
• Work with project manager to provide necessary information to the EiE program team at NO, NECR & regional cluster.
• Assist on the documentation of best practices & challenges for further learnings.

Duration of the contract: 12 months

Job Requirements

• BA degree in education and other education fields especially in pedagogy, educational planning and management, education leadership, curriculum and instruction are required.

Experience/BACKGROUND   

• Experience in leading the EiE project implementation specially in emergency program context
• Minimum three years relevant field experience in emergency or post-emergency settings, IDP and returnees & refugee setting experience is preferable and five years in the field of education.
• Technical experience in managing education program in both emergency and development, teaching methodology, need assessment, planning and facilitation skills is an asset
• Demonstrated understanding of the Ethiopian education policy and education in emergency programming
• Experience in life skills education and alternative basic education, accelerated learning program (ALP) & accelerated school readiness (ASR), psychosocial support, teachers training, community capacity enhancement, and related.

Special Criteria:  

• BA degree with strong planning, monitoring and evaluation, reporting and documentation of lessons learned
• Strong experience in collaborating and partnering with the government and other EiE partners
• Proven operational level experience and leadership in project management

How to Apply

Interested applicants should follow the below link https://worldvision.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/WorldVisionInternational/job/Southern-PH-Ethiopia/Project-Coordinator_R17014?shared_id=1296c6ad-4c21-4b49-b364-8a1ecaf2528d

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