About Save the Children
Save the Children is the leading independent organization for children in need, with programs in over 120 countries. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Save the Children is working in Nigeria because one in five children in Nigeria dies before their fifth birthday. About 40% of children miss out on school and have to work to survive while nearly 2 million children have lost one or both parents to an AIDS-related disease.
Tittle: Education Officer
Location:Borno
CONTRACT LENGTH: 1 year (renewable based on performance & funding)
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY
Project Coordination & Management:
• Implement the Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) project across the BAY States, Nigeria in line with the design of the project and donor requirements.
• Support the Education Programme Manager to establish, maintain, and strengthen linkages in the design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, reporting of Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) project.
• Contribute to assessments (baseline, needs).
• Ensure that procurement and distribution of materials and equipment is timely and in line with SCI policies and procedures; ensure accuracy of portfolio inventory (assets, supplies, materials).
• Ensure accurate project documentation, including collection of monitoring data and tracking of progress on output indicators; utilize data to contribute to reports as required.
• Facilitate relationships with communities and community leaders to ensure buy-in and Do No Harm.
• Create and sustain positive working relationships with the partners, government officials and other key stakeholders and work in collaboration with relevant education authorities to support the review of the national policy on IECD.
• Supervise and manage the teachers/learning facilitators, including facilitation of teacher training.
• Support in planning and coordinating State and LGAs level engagement with education authorities and other key stakeholders.
• Facilitate recruitment of volunteer teachers in the project.
• Contribute to ensuring timely and quality reports are submitted as per the reporting requirements to the Head of Education.
• Working closely with Education Programme Manager to ensure quality programme design, delivery, documentation and reporting of education activities in the respective States.
Operational Planning and implementation
• Work closely with the Education Programme Manager to provide support in developing, planning and monitoring project detail implementation plan, procurement plan, phased budget, MEAL Plan with documentation and reporting for all Education interventions in the State.
• Recommend technical solutions to speed up the implementation and budget performance in line with the project plan and budget.
• Effectively support the projects staff in developing annual plans, in line with best practices for education project design and Save the Children International planning guidelines and ensure compliance with the agreed work plans and that programme objectives and targets are being achieved in line with the funding proposal.
• Maintain high standard of safeguarding, transparency and accountability during programme design and support in expediting implementation while ensuring integrity and timeliness of project duration and meeting programme objectives, compliance with donors & Save the Children policies.
• Support in providing regular operations and implementation updates to the Project Manager on project progress and challenges to allow for timely interventions and corrective actions by the management.
• Ensure the timely reviews and adjustments for the project operational and implementation plan and budget as may be required from time to time.
Finance and Budget Management
• Support project monitoring, suggest necessary revisions and prepare draft reports for corrective actions.
• Support the Education Programme Manager in ensuring that the budget variance analysis (BVA) is monitored and reported as per in time and with accurate information.
QUALIFICATIONS
• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Education (Early Childhood Development and Education is an advantage) or other related fields. Experience in managing integrated programmes across different thematic areas such as Education, teacher education, Early Childhood Development and Education, Teacher Professional Development (TPD), Cahild protection, child rights or governance is an advantage.
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Essential
• At least 3 years of accrued working experience in program implementation with an NGO and those applying partnership approaches is desirable.
• Experience in strategic thinking and planning skills, being able to set priorities, prepare manageable plans and to evaluate progress.
• Experience of working on and supporting the implementation of ECDE interventions in humanitarian or development setting is an added advantage.
• Ability to coach, mentor and build the capacity of ECDE teachers in a humanitarian or development setting will be an added advantage.
• Experience of working with diverse group of stakeholders at the community, LG, State and National levels.
• Strong analytical skills and strategic planning abilities.
• Ability to establish and maintain cordial relations and perform effectively as a member of a team.
• Willingness to travel and work in hard-to-reach areas, occasionally under strenuous conditions.
• Computer literacy and excellent documentation skills are a must.
• Availability and willingness to work extra hours during times of humanitarian responses.
• Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
• Ability to intervene with crisis management or troubleshooting as necessary.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching.
• Excellent time management and planning capacity.
• Fluent English language skills (written and verbal) and any local language.
Application Dealine 04/2/2026
METHOD OF APPLICATION
Interested and Qualified candidates should use link below to Apply.
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