Programme Support & Education Officer

Contract Grade: A

Contract Length: 1 year

Date Needed By: asap

New Post or Replacement: New

Accompanied / Unaccompanied: Unaccompanied

Exact Job Location: Sanliurfa, Turkey with frequent travel to other locations in Turkey.

Reports To: Assistant Country Director Programmes

Responsible For: Education Project Manager,

Liaises With: Country Management Team (CMT)

Job Purpose:

1. To enhance programme quality by contributing to the development of proposals, programmes and reports to the highest standards and to ensure that Concern’s work is well documented and that proposals submitted are of the highest possible standard.
2. To provide technical guidance on the design and implementation of Education projects in Turkey and Syria

Specific Responsibilities

Grants Management

• Assist programme teams and partners in the production of high quality proposals to donors and reports in line and compatible with the donor formats as needed
• Assist Communications team on production of high quality visibility and communications pieces on Concern projects implemented in Turkey.
• Ensure compliance of all programmes with donor visibility requirements
• Assist in developing programme strategies and the Syria/Turkey Country Strategic Plan in line with How Concern Understands Extreme Poverty.
• Prepare and update as required, reporting schedules in coordination with ACDP and Programme Managers, to ensure that reporting requirements are met in a timely manner.

Education

• Provide technical support to the design and implementation whilst ensuring quality assurance of the Education programme

General:

• Support emergency responses when required including assessments, planning and reporting
• Support Concern Turkey /Syria SMT members participation in coordination meetings through collating information in advance
• Attend Education coordination meetings as required.
• Contribute to all aspects of the Programme e.g. by applying How Concern Understands Extreme poverty through addressing equality, protection, and risk and vulnerability
• Collaborate on advocacy work and identify sound, reliable and evidence-based research
• Ensure compliance with Programme Participant Protection Policy and Accountability standards
• Contribute to development, review, and revisions of institutional and country programme strategies policy set by HQ and assist SMT with research related to relevant UN and government strategy plans and progress reports, as requested and agreed
• Any other tasks mutually agreed with the Assistant Country Director Programmes and /or the CD

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Education & Qualifications Required:

Essential: Relevant masters level degree in Education and/or Development Management or other relevant discipline.

Experience Required:

Essential:

• Previous      experience with an International NGO in a grants management role

• Previous experience with an International NGO in implementing Education related projects and/or grants management experience

Desirable:

• Experience of managing major donor      grants such as ECHO, EU, UN, Irish Aid, OFDA, UNHCR.
• Experience of education, protection      and psychosocial programming.
• Experience of working/living in      insecure and sensitive environments.

Special Skills, Aptitude or Personality Requirements:

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Knowledge of Arabic and/or Turkish an      advantage
• Demonstrated training      and capacity building skills
• Ability to work on own      initiative
• Flexible and adaptable      approach to working

• Ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines
• Ability to contribute to a small team environment.

All applications should be submitted through our website at https://jobs.concern.net by closing date

CV’s should be no more than 4 pages in length.

All candidates who are short-listed for a first round interview will be notified via email after the application deadline.

Concern Worldwide is an Irish-based non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.

Concern has a Staff Code of Conduct and a Programme Participant Protection Policy which have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organization, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context staff have a responsibility to the organization to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Programme Participant Protection Policy and the Concern Staff Code of Conduct as an appendix to their contract of employment.   By signing the Programme Participant Protection Policy and the Concern Staff Code of Conduct candidates acknowledge that they have understood the contents of both the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and the Programme Participant Protection Policy and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these two documents.

Concern receives a substantial amount of funding from external donors each year. Increasingly donors are introducing requirements whereby future funding is conditional on Concern ensuring that the names of any new employee or volunteer do not appear on terrorism lists generated by the European Union (List of person, groups and entities to which Regulation (EC No. 2580/2001 applies), the US Government (Office of Foreign Assets Control list of specially designated Nationals and Blocked Persons) and the United Nations (Consolidated List). Any offer of employment (either paid or voluntary) with Concern Worldwide will not be made pending a clearance check being conducted on the applicant. For additional information please consult our web site or contact the Human Resource Division in our Head Office.

Concern Worldwide is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.