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Plan International Tanzania is looking for an Education in Emergencies Officer to lead the day-to-day implementation of PlayMatters – Learning Through Play Project activities in Nduta/Mtendeli refugees camps. The project is aimed at supporting play-based learning for children aged 3-12 years in the 2 refugee camps and host communities in the Kigoma region. The project will focus on reaching out to nearly 1 million pre-primary and primary school aged refugee and host community children impacted by the humanitarian crises in East Africa and living in Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania. This project aims to build children’s social, emotional, cognitive, physical and creative skills through play in their homes, schools, and communities and will be implemented in partnership with War Child, International Rescue Committee, Ubongo, Behavioural Insights Team and Innovations for Poverty Action.
The EiE Officer will be fully responsible for timely, efficient, and gender-responsive day-to-day implementation of all project interventions in a bid to achieve the project outcomes aimed at ensuring that:
1) Principal caregivers and community play leaders apply Learning Through Play at home and in the community 2) Educators integrate high-quality, Learning Through Play in their classroom;
3) System Influencers, Humanitarian Actors & Policy Makers integrate Learning Through Play into their services and policies.
The Education in Emergencies Officer will be responsible and ultimately accountable for day-to-day implementation of project activities, quality delivery of results, coordination and collaboration and relations with project consortium members, teachers, PTAs, caregivers and community and religious leaders, and other stakeholders at camp level. The post holder will also be responsible to ensure that project activities are implemented in a timely and quality manner and in compliance with donor requirements. The EiE Officer will ensure timely data collection and analysis is used in periodic reporting and to inform project activities. S/he will be responsible for representing Plan International EiE team in relevant stakeholders’ meetings such as Education Working Group meetings on camp level and camp coordination meetings.
S/He will demonstrate ability to execute project activities, flexibility, organization and communication skills, while ensuring Plan International’s systems and policies and donor requirements are adhered to; especially Child Protection and Safeguarding, gender and Disability Inclusion.
External - Close collaboration and strong working relationship with project consortium partners and members of the Education Working Group (IRC, Caritas, Save the Children, UNHCR, UNICEF, MHA, District Councils) etc. The EiE Officer will also maintain a relationship with local authorities, relevant Government institutions, and UN agencies to ensure Plan’s work is well linked to other initiatives.
Internally- The EiE Officer will report to the Program Manager, and S/he will coordinate with EiE MEAL Coordinator for the implementation of project activities at the camp level. S/he will also work closely with the finance officer, Procurement team, Communications and advocacy team, and Human resources team. S/He will also work closely with the Child Protection team and ensure that protection is integrated in all Education activities.
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The job holder requires 40 % fieldwork in 2 camps and 60 % office-based environments.
Level of contact with children
High interaction with children
Location: Kibondo
Reports to: Programme Manager
Grade: C2
Closing Date: 27th September 2020
Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.