PlayMatters Regional Technical Advisor Job at IRC

• In coordination with the MEL team, lead the consortium in tracking progress against the work plan, documenting challenges and adaptations.
• Develop or co-develop tools and guidelines as necessary to facilitate work processes and/or reporting.
• Spread/share promising/best practices and lessons from field implementation across PM countries and teams.

• Support PMC leadership to manage to the project work plan and to use other project documents, tools, and resources.
• Support PMC Leads to use project documentation (including, but not limited to, the Gantt and budget) to guide their daily work.
• Support PMCs in relationship building with external partners with an eye to the eventual scale of PM.

• Support the CDCs to coordinate their work and timelines and to communicate those to the wider consortium, helping them to set up processes for requests such as printing and translation (the “operational” side of their work), working closely with the curriculum specialist, who coordinates and supports the “technical” side of their work.
• Facilitate coordination between CDCs and PMCs and CDCs and policy leads.
• Conduct regular visits to field sites to support teams across the PM workstreams (Content/TPD, Policy, MEL, Research), helping to facilitate communication and collaboration.

Qualifications;

• Advanced degree (MA) from an accredited university in education, development, social work.
• Minimum of ten years of experience in leadership of Education programming, experience with education and child protection programming for refugees and displaced populations preferred.
• Significant previous experience implementing educational activities in conflict or crisis situations.
• Experience working in East Africa and/or Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda on Education programming.