Senior Project Officer

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.