Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 06 Sep 2018
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Purpose
Oversee the national Education Emergency Cluster Structure.
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Specific Tasks
Under the oversight of the Chief Education (P5), the post holder will support education cluster structures at the national level for the efficient management and delivery of humanitarian responses. This will involve the following:
Methodology
The above activities will be undertaken in strong collaboration with the Ministry of Education, where the consultant will be based within the Planing and Resource Mobilisation Directorate. Further, the Cluster Coordinator will be accountable to the education cluster partners, ensuring that they are provided with the required information and support to enable them to deliver humanitarian responses in the education sector. Lastly, the Cluster coordinator will work closely with the two co-lead cluster agencies (Save the Children and UNICEF Ethiopia) so as to ensure consistent messaging and advocacy on education cluster issues.
Expected Deliverables
1. To support service delivery by
1.1. Providing a platform that ensures service delivery is driven by the Strategic Response Plan and strategic priorities (demonstrated by at least monthly, minuted cluster coordination meetings)
1.2. Developing mechanisms to eliminate duplication of service delivery (demonstrated by maintained ‘5W’ cluster database)
1.3. Supporting the Cluster coordination at the MOE and specifically, to undertake necessary prepratory and follow-up actions for cluster coordination meetings including timely issuance of meeting invitations and minutes of meetings.
1.4. Strengthen inter-cluster coordination at national and sub national level, particularly with WASH, Health, Child Protection, and Nutrition Clusters to facilitate a comprehensive approach to addressing the issue of providing quality education in Ethiopia (demonstrated through adherence to integrated programming principles within the annual education cluster response plan)
2. To inform the Inter-cluster Coodination and HC/HCT’s strategic decision-making by
2.1. Preparing needs assessments and analysis of gaps (across and within sectors, using information management tools as needed), which explicitly considers gender disaggregated data (as demonstrated by production of education analysis paper from Belg Assessments)
2.2. Identifying and finding solutions for (emerging) gaps, obstacles, duplication and cross-cutting issues. (demonstrated as documented within cluster corodination meetings and monthly reports)
2.3. Formulating priorities on the basis of analysis (as demonstrated through annual cluster response plan)
3. To plan and develop strategy by
3.1. Developing sectoral plans, objectives and indicators that directly support realization of the response’s strategic priorities
3.2. Applying and adhering to common standards and guidelines (as demonstrated by availability of cluster response plan by January 30th 2018)
3.3. Clarifying funding requirements, helping to set priorities, and agreeing cluster contributions to the HC’s overall humanitarian funding proposals (as demonstrated by number of resource mobilization documents/proposals drafted by consultant)
4. To monitor and evaluate performance by
4.1. Ensure regular monitoring of cluster response activities and coordination against cluster indicators, including activity at operational level (quality, coverage, continuity and cost of service delivery interventions); and sub national and national level cluster coordination activities. Conduct analysis of best available information in order to benchmark progress of the response over time.
4.2. Monitoring and reporting on activities and needs
4.3. Measuring performance against the cluster strategy and agreed results (as demonstrated by progress reporting against planned results in each cluster meeting)
4.4. Recommending corrective action where necessary.
5. To build national capacity in preparedness, contingency and risk informed planning- including in relation to gender responsive humanitarian programming (as demonstrated by number of training conducted on Education in Emergencies and/or cluster engagement)
6. Advocacy
6.1. Identifying concerns that contribute to HC and HCT messaging and action
6.2. Undertaking advocacy on behalf of the cluster, cluster members, and affected people (as demonstrated by drafting of advocacy briefs on importance of education in emergency provision & costs)
7. Accountability to affected populations
7.1. Introducing a mechanism by which to obtain feedback from communities, ensuring this includes represents the full spectrum of stakeholders (including women, children and people with disabilities) on the effectiveness and efficiency of the education sector humanitarian response.
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Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
How to apply:
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