Education Manager

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The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future. The Education Manager is responsible for overseeing the delivery of the PM3.0 core package by partner organizations, ensuring that agreed targets in the Play Matters project plan are achieved. This role involves close collaboration with partners to provide support, monitor progress, and ensure that planned results are delivered effectively around Woldia-North Wollo area schools selected by local partners. The Education Manager will play a key role in planning, monitoring, and reporting on PM3.0 core package activities within the education sector. In addition, She/He will support partner teams to address the diverse needs of boys, girls, men, women, and individuals with special needs, ensuring inclusive and equitable access to education services. Major Responsibilities: Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Support the CO office team in the process of strategic education initiatives development and implementation in collaboration with implementing partners, ensuring alignment with IRC's mission, vision, and strategic goals. Represent IRC's education programs in interagency regional, zonal and woreda level cluster coordination meetings, providing updates and sharing action items. Identify critical education needs of crisis-affected communities and support the effort to secure funding opportunities through rapid needs assessments, concept notes, and proposal development. Capture lessons learned from education projects implementation by partners and ensure they inform program scale-up and improvement. Provide ongoing support to partners implementing PM3.0 Core Packages through on-the-job training, mentoring, and technical guidance in collaboration with the Project Coordinator. Liaise closely with regional, zonal and woreda level system actors and government officials to ensure PlayMatters system level engagement, timely and effective program planning and implementation, while jointly addressing challenges affecting delivery. Undertake other responsibilities or projects as requested by the immediate or matrix manager. Project Planning and Implementation Support the implementing partners to develop work plans, procurement plans, and spending plans in a timely manner to ensure the timely procurement and distribution of teaching learning materials Provide remote and onsite technical support for the quality implementation of projects in collaboration with the CO technical team. Set up periodic (bi-weekly) check-in meetings with implementing partners (emergency) to update progress, spot bottlenecks, and suggest and implement solutions. Actively participate in the project cycle meetings to reflect on the needs, success, and challenges of the project and document and apply lessons learned. Monitor and review partners budgets versus actual expenditures reports (BvA) on a monthly basis, reflect on variances amounting to greater or equal to 5% and guide the partners to take appropriate action based on the status of spending on a specific project. Document the number of clients in each project with age and gender disaggregated and file for future use and reporting. Grant Monitoring and Reporting Conduct regular site monitoring visits and provide support for the partners for taking corrective measures. Document key findings of the internal and external assessments for planning purposes. Review reports from the partners, provide timely feedback and follow up the implementation of the actions Deliver well-reviewed reports to the technical team in Addis within the given timeframe. Work with the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Coordinator to ensure that monitoring and evaluation systems are in place as well as inputs are provided in a timely manner. Staff Management and Development. Engage in technical supervision and capacity development for of partners staff to fulfill the minimum skills set across both the education sectors. Share insights on the performance management of partners' staff with the PlayMatters Project Coordinator. Maintain open and professional relations with the implementing partners, promoting a strong team spirit and providing guidance to enable partners to successfully perform in their positio