Head of Education Programs

Reports to: Program Development and Quality Director Staff directly reporting to this post: Project Managers/ officers KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY: • Lead the technical design and implementation of education interventions for both humanitarian and development contexts. • Provide technical oversight and backstopping of all education project activities to ensure successful program implementation. • Improve program quality by leading the development, review, and cataloguing of standardized education technical tools, manuals, guidelines, trainings, regulations and protocols. • Lead on partner and staff capacity building and mentoring for education interventions. • Work cross-functionally (programs, finance, awards, and advocacy, media and communications departments) to lead on education technical initiatives. • Lead the implementation of the education strategy in line with Save the Children’s global priority areas of early childhood care and development (ECCD), basic education, education in emergencies, disability inclusion, and gender equality. • Keep abreast of global and national education sector trends, developments and policies, and adapt and promote introduction of new methodologies, innovations and best practices. • Work closely with the Ministry of Education and key stakeholders to strengthen early education systems, policy and governance – including school leadership and management – to explicitly address barriers to early and inclusive learning, factors driving exclusion; educational continuity, teacher wellbeing and professional development. • Regularly liaise with Save the Children’s global internal forums, as well as the Regional Education Technical Advisor. • Work closely with the SC Jordan Senior Leadership Team to support fundraising for education initiatives, including engagement with donor technical focal points, and development of high-quality concept notes, proposals, and logical frameworks. • Oversee the development of program and donor reports on education projects in compliance with internal Save the Children Jordan requirements and any relevant external donor requirements. • Provide general oversight to education budgets on projects, consultancies and other education initiatives. • Working closely with the HR team, identify inclusive education staffing needs (both national and international) and ensure rapid recruitment, induction, and training of new staff. • Lead on early, inclusive assessment design and information analysis with the monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) team. • Working closely with the MEAL team, put in place education monitoring plans, project quality indicators, ensuring links to reporting requirements, SC’s Common Approaches, and build the capacity of field staff in carrying out MEAL activities. • Work closely with the MEAL team to put in place accountability activities for education, ensuring that feedback from all partners / relevant stakeholders is considered in program design. • Ensure valid and standardized measurement tools and assessments capture outcomes, allow for analysis, and promote an iterative process of program implementation to regularly address evolving gaps, needs, and barriers to keep programming highly adaptive and effective. • Ensure lessons learned and good practices are documented and disseminated to shape in-country strategies, program approaches, and contribute to broader sector learning. • Ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the Minimum Standards for Education in Humanitarian Settings, the Sphere Charter, and Red Cross Code of Conduct.