United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - Education in Emergency Advisor

The Advisor ensures the development of integrated education approaches alongside psychosocial, child protection, food security & livelihoods programming and leads the implementation of the Education in Emergencies Strategy. Our technical advisors lead in developing new approaches for our work, based on research and sector good practice, and ensure quality across proposal development processes.

The ideal candidate will have substantial experience and skill in conducting rapid emergency assessments, high-level interagency coordination, capacity building and competency development, education programme monitoring and evaluation, including knowledge of relevant sector standards, and developing and supporting innovative approaches. This role is UK-based although with expected travel up to 30% of the time (subject to security considerations).

Contract Type:

Fixed term contract to end of 2023

Working Hours:

Full-time, 37.5 hours

Travel to country offices throughout the year (likely 3 trips of around 2 weeks)

Salary Range:

£44,000 circa salary per annum

Your role

As part of the Programme Quality Team, the Education in Emergencies Advisor is responsible for supporting the strategic direction for War Child UK’s Education related work in line with the global strategy and theory of change, and providing guidance and technical support to WCUK supported education and Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs in a wide range of conflict settings.

The Advisor provides hands-on support to WCUK country teams to develop, position and implement education programmes in conflict affected contexts from acute emergencies to protracted humanitarian crises, to longer term system building. The focus is on ensuring that teams and partners have the skills and capacity to meet technical quality standards in our education work, and that the organisation is able to achieve and evidence outcomes and impact in our work based on sound technical design. The selected candidate would be responsible for developing toolkits/guidance documents to support to our country programmes in providing quality Education and ECD programming. The role includes field work though both deployments and capacity building missions to WCUK Country Offices to be planned with the Head of Programme Quality and likely to form short-term 3 trips throughout year of around two weeks. This will be informed by country office needs and budget. In addition, it’s likely the advisor would need to attend short sectoral coordination meetings that may be within the UK or abroad.

The Advisor plays a crucial role in ensuring that War Chid is active and well represented on external coordination fora, and in initiatives to develop WCUK's leadership and profile globally. Representation on NGO, UN and donor networks is an important feature of the role, ensuring that War Child is effectively networked across the sector, and that our programmes learn from the experience of others.

The Advisor will also collaborate with teams to develop strategies and proposals for the country programmes, providing essential technical expertise in programme design and assuring that our interventions meet sector quality standards.

How to apply

For more info and a full JD please go to our website https://www.warchild.org.uk/who-we-are/work-for-us/latest-vacancies

You will need to submit your CV and fill in a very short application form