Job Title:

Education Officer

Job Location:

Gaziantep

Reporting to:

Project Coordinator

The application deadline is the 31 Aug 2024.

General Description of the Programme:

SENED is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit organization licensed and registered in Türkiye with the number 27-15-175. SENED Organization was established shortly after the Syrian Nakba and in response to the suffering of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey as well as internally displaced people in Syria, to alleviate suffering, achieving justice, equality, and freedom, strengthening the role of civil society, and supporting and developing the local community. SENED works in the humanitarian work sectors to support, empower, and educate the community through several programs, takes exceptional care of people with disabilities and their families and defends their issues.

SENED Association emphasizes creating safe, accessible, and participation-encouraging living conditions for individuals’ emotional, intellectual, physical, and social development by focusing on people with disabilities. Beyond the medical perspective on disability, it tries to find solutions to the problems faced by disabled people with a holistic perspective by considering the disabled people, their families, and the society they live in, focusing on the conditions they experience. SENED Association aims to create a safe and supportive environment and space by conducting family-oriented activities to help disabled individuals and their families become stronger, discover their potential and stand by with their children. By collecting data on refugee-disabled people and identifying problems and needs, SENED strives to ensure harmony between disabled refugees and local people with a voluntary, professional team and a community-based approach. All activities, education, research, advocacy, etc., are carried out on platforms created by local and disabled refugee people.

Job purpose:

Reporting to Project Coordinator, Education Officer is responsible for the daily planning, implementation, supervision, monitoring, and reporting of Cash2lift and EiE (Education in Emergencies) activities. The Education Officer is also responsible for arranging meetings, workshops and training courses pertaining to programme development, and provides support in making the necessary logistical and financial arrangements.

Duties, objectives and competencies:

· Plan, coordinate, monitor, and implement assigned projects

· Education focuses on case management follow up

· Planning and implementation of outreach for information dissemination regular and innovative ways

· Support Field Officer to implement education-focused case management

· Daily traveling Gaziantep districts (Nurdağı, Islahiye etc.) and Kahramanmaraş (city center and districts)

· Supervise project data, submit periodic reports.

· Prepare and write the order forms with the team depending on the need.

· Supporting the service mapping and keeping service map updated.

· Provides logistics, administrative, travel and secretarial support, in line with Sened rules and regulations, maintaining full confidentiality in all aspects of assignment; maintenance of protocol procedures, information flow and follow up on deadlines and commitments made.

· Cooperate with MEAL department for data management and monitor and evaluate the progress of beneficiaries.

· Supervise project activities, including needs assessment, meetings, training, workshops, and events.

· Support project coordinator for financial tasks and reporting.

· Perform any other duties as assigned.

Requirements: Essential

– Fluency in Arabic is required.

– Strong organizational and administrative skills.

– Minimum three year of relevant professional experience

Requirements (desired)

– Fluency in Turkish and/or English

– Minimum three years of relevant professional experience

– Proficiency in current office software applications and KoBo

– Bachelor’s degree certificate

– Professional experience in education, protection and case management

– professional experience of earthquake response.

– Professional experience with working children out of school

General terms and conditions

Safeguarding

Disabled beneficiaries, children and vulnerable adults must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that SENED shows this ongoing commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.

Diversity

SENED is committed to creating a genuinely inclusive, effective, and representative organizational culture, encouraging employee equity and diversity, and eliminating discrimination. Having a diverse profile of employees, different age groups, backgrounds, cultures, etc., including various experiences and capabilities, helps us understand, represent, and serve children better. Therefore, all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, religion, gender, disability, or age.

Procedures

If needed, SENED will submit a work permit application for the selected candidate after the job offer is accepted. Failure to provide the required documents or rejection of a work permit application by the Government of Türkiye will result in rescinding the employment offer.

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. SENED reserves the right to change this document. Any published closing dates are estimated. Due to the nature of SENED’s work, we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate, which may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to apply as early as possible.

SENED Organization does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. | SENED Kuruluşu işe alım sürecinin hiçbir adımında ücret talep etmemektedir.

SENED retains the discretion to re-advertise the vacancy, cancel the recruitment, offer a contract with a modified job description or for a different duration, or offer a contract at a lower grade.