Your mission
War Child is an independent and impartial international non-governmental child rights organization investing in a peaceful future for children and young people affected by armed conflict. With a focus on child protection, mental health, and psychosocial support, we strive to empower children and young people, while enabling adults to bring about positive and lasting change in the lives of conflict-affected children and young people. War Child has been working in the oPt since 2006 and has offices in Jerusalem, Hebron, the Jordan Valley, and Gaza.
War Child is seeking a motivated Education Officer who can fulfill the following Job description to join the organization.
Your profile
Job Summary/ Scope of Work:The primary purpose of this position is to support the Senior Program Coordinator in overseeing the daily operations and effective implementation of the project, ensuring alignment with the approved project design, budget framework, donor requirements, and compliance with War Child’s policies, procedures, and technical quality standards. The role will play a vital part in ensuring that the project meets its objectives efficiently and with high quality.
Responsibilities and Tasks
Job Responsibility #1: Ensure the implementation of the education -based activities.- Implement the education activities in alignment with War Child’s goals and donor requirements.
- Collaborate with teachers, parents, and community leaders to identify education needs, priorities, and strategies for intervention.
- Provide academic based- PSS to Children /students affected by the crises in the targeted areas.
- Develop need assessments to identify children’s educational needs, strengths, and areas for improvement.
- Follow-up the individualized guidance and counseling to children to address academic, behavioral, and emotional issues that may impact their learning and well-being as a result of the crises.
Job Responsibility #2: Ensure the partnership with other main players in Education. - Foster partnerships with community members, local organizations, and educational agencies to promote education initiatives and address barriers to learning within the crisis.
- Advocate for the rights of children to access education.
- Track progress towards the project goals and objectives, identify challenges and lessons learned, and make recommendations for areas for improvement.
- Train teachers, education administrators, and community volunteers on best practices in education during emergencies and child development.
- Support the establishment of education-based committees and a student gathering safe space to promote student education, leadership, participation, and empowerment.
Job Responsibility #3: Coordination and Collaboration. - Assist in mapping of existing teaching and learning materials being used in the displacement and host community shelters and identify playful activities at the community level against a framework to identify areas of integration, adaptation, and development of content;
- Engage with field-level coordination leads, implementing partners, teachers, parents, community leaders and children through structured co-creation processes
- Support the development/adaptation of training content and testing for teachers, parents and community in displacement communities through participatory and consultative process involving local TLSS and other education partners.
Job Responsibility #4: Coordination with (M&E) Department.- Ensure continuous coordination with the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) department to systematically collect and analyze data related to educational activities.
- Contribute to the development of M&E tools specific to educational projects and ensure their effective implementation in the field.
- Support periodic evaluations to measure the impact of educational programs on children and targeted communities.
- Submit regular reports to the M&E department on the progress of activity implementation, challenges, outcomes, and recommendations for performance improvement.
- Ensure proper documentation of all educational activities and related outcomes to promote transparency and accountability
Job Profile Requirements: - Bachelor's degree in education, social sciences, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in educational development activities in the humanitarian context.
- Knowledge of education policies, curriculum frameworks, and pedagogical approaches.
- Experience working with children.
- Ability to work effectively in a team and collaborate with multiple stakeholders.
- Commitment to promoting gender equality, inclusion, and child rights in education programming.
- Excellent in English, both written and verbal.
Deadline for Applications:
11 May 2025
About us
About usThe War Child Alliance is an international non-governmental organization committed to providing psychosocial support, child protection, youth empowerment programming and quality education to the children affected by armed conflict. We implement evidence-based interventions to empower key stakeholders—including governments, educators, caregivers, and communities—to foster children’s wellbeing, education, and self-determination. War Child has a presence in 19 countries: Jordan, Lebanon, the occupied Palestinian territory, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Colombia, Burundi, DR Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Ukraine, Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States of America.
Learn more about War Child and our programmes
https://www.warchild.net/ SafeguardingWar Child is committed to
humanitarian values, standards and norms and we expect the same from job applicants. War Child is especially committed to safeguarding the children and youth we support and doesn’t tolerate any form of abuse. Because we want to prevent and deter any actions that place children and youth at risk, conduct references are an important part of our recruitment procedure. As part of the selection process, War Child will request standardized references in accordance with the
Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and a recent Criminal Records statement.
The safety of children is essential to War Child. War Child does not tolerate or accept any form of abuse. This subject is addressed in our recruitment and selection procedures.
