Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic, and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 500,000 children to go to school and learn and supported over 33,000 caregivers to set up businesses so they can afford the cost of educating their children.
The Inclusive Education Manager will provide technical guidance and continuous support to Implementing Partners in the development, implementation, and improvement of Inclusive Education programmes in the Community Based Education project funded by ECW in 15 provinces of Afghanistan. The focus would be to ensure more children with disabilities are safe, in school and learning. The manager would work in coordination within the Inclusion Task Force (Comprising of Street Child/ CIC and two other organizations with expertise in the inclusion space) to develop a training module, advocacy packages and tools to embed inclusion into the Community Based Education Projects.
Generic Responsibilities:
A strong commitment to Street Childs vision, mission and values
Adhere to all Street Child’s policies and procedures
Able to represent Street Child appropriately both internally and externally
Carry out all reasonable requests that are within the broad remit of the role.
Specific Responsibilities:
Develop project implementation strategies, operation plans and ensure quality assurance to meet the projects’ objectives within the project time frame through the technical perspectives. This shall include development of:
Sensitive Translation and Contextualization of a Validated Assessment tool to identify children with disabilities.
Capacity Strengthening Session for Project Managers of Implementing Partners on disability inclusive programming.
Capacity Strengthening Session for teacher trainers of IP on teaching practices relevant to inclusive and special education.
Inclusion of Disability Data in MIS and classroom registers in terms of enrollment, attendance and provision of services.
Continuous on-the-job professional development and coaching as well as surge support for provincial staff/teachers through a cohort of teacher trainers/ advisors (under CIC payroll) through remote and in-person support.
Provide strategic leadership to ensure strong coordination with Inclusion Task Force and Implementing Partners for smooth planning and implementation of project activities.
Upskill the project team on the project components and organizational management.
Maintain effective team cooperation via coordination meeting and regular meetings with the project team, so that there are efficient internal communications of information between team members, supervisors, consortium partners and implementing partners.
Liaise with project related stakeholders to explore various possibilities for developing / bringing in policy level changes.
Represent Street Child/ CIC in technical working groups related to the multiyear program.
Ensure technical support and technical monitoring of activities.
Develop appropriate technical tools and guidelines in line with the global documentations and in close coordination with the Global GESI Manager.
Experience and Knowledge:
Bachelors/ Masters Degree in Education (specialization in Inclusive education would be a plus) or any other relevant field.
At least 5 years documented experience in in education in development and/ or in emergency, in designing technical tools and materials and providing capacity building in education projects.
Skills and Abilities:
Experience in managing inclusive/special education projects and working with persons with disabilities, especially children.
Knowledge of the global practices which are proven to be impactful for effective inclusive education program in Low and Medium Income Countries.
Experience in working with Ministry of Education and international and local humanitarian/ development partners for Inclusive Education/Special Education interventions.
Proficient in report writing for humanitarian or development organizations.
Proficient in training and coaching provincial staff and teachers.
Proficient in managing productive and cordial relationships with partner organizations.
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their CV (03 pages maximum) and Cover Letter (01 page maximum) to the following email address hr.afg@street-child.org not later than the deadline. Please indicate the position title and Vacancy Number in the e-mail subject line. Any application without position title and vacancy number will not be considered. Also, please do not send additional documents.
Interested and qualified candidates should also fill Children in Crisis Recruitment Form (MANDATORY) through below link:
https://forms.gle/Vwm8XhfYkQSMMRB49
Only short-listed candidates whose education and experiences correspond to the above criteria will be contacted for further consideration and in case you did not hear from us after 3 weeks of deadline, please consider that as a rejection.
NOTE: CANDIDATE’S APPLICATION SHALL NOT BE CONSIDERED IF THE STREET CHILD/ CHILDREN IN CRISIS RECRUITMENT FORM OR CV IS NOT SUBMITTED.
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