Purpose of the Role

IRC in Bangladesh is going to implement a three-year project funded by Education Cannot Wait (ECW) in coordination with education sector starting from 2022. The project mainly focuses on both the Rohingya and host community with a specific focus on access, quality education, inclusion, MHPSS, Children with Disability and gender equality. The age group that will be supported under this project is 3 – 18 years old for the Rohingya community and 4 – 6 years old for the host community.

This role will be responsible for supporting field-level partner staff with day-to-day activities with a focus on implementation level capacity building and helping Sr. Manager with procurement, budget management and partner management. He/she will support the technical manager with identifying partner project staff needs on capacity building, tools development, support with training and facilitation. The personnel will be also responsible for project-related documentation process (i.e., module, case study, success story). As a team member of the Education program, he/she will also closely work with Program and Operations team to foster quality program implementation on the ground.

Highlights of Key Responsibilities

Support partner field staff with day-to-day activities with a focus on implementation level capacity building.Ensure age-appropriate all necessary teaching-learning materials for children through the partner.Support developing activity-based training modules for learning facilitators and partner/project personnel.Support facilitating capacity-building initiatives for learning facilitators and partner/project personnel.Ensure in-service coaching/mentoring support to learning facilitators and partner/project personnel.Develop guidelines on facilitators learning cycle (FLC) as per education sector standards.Assess partner/project personnel/facilitators’ skills and take necessary initiatives for improvement.Assess children’s progress on learning outcomes and recommend necessary initiatives for improvement.Identify good practices from community people on teaching learning materials development and replication of those good practices.Coordination between program and operation team to ensure implementation of planned activities.Regular visits to project areas (Camps and host) for developing project activities and quality implementation. Ensure project-related quality documentation (i.e., case study, success story).Functional working relationship with Education and other teams and extend support where necessary and rationale. Any other relevant tasks assigned from IRC management.

Major Challenges/Difficulties of this role

Should be willing to travel to project areas (Camps & Host) on a regular basis. Understanding and sensitivity to the local context.Ability to work under pressure.