Education Sub-Cluster Coordinator (Officer)

Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organization for children, working in 120 countries. We save children’s lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfill their potential. We work together, with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.  We have over two million supporters worldwide and raised 1.6 billion dollars last year to reach more children than ever before, through programmes in health, nutrition, education, protection and child rights, also in times of humanitarian crises. 
In January 2009, the Education Cluster was activated for the coordination of urgent humanitarian response to the populations affected by the military offensive on Gaza, then expanded to all of the occupied Palestinian territory. The overall role of a country level Education Cluster is to support and coordinate a coherent and effective humanitarian response to the education sector. This includes the coordination of needs assessments; development of a response strategy, long-term planning, cross-sector collaboration, and advocacy.
As part of this process, an education sub-cluster has been constituted in the West Bank to ensure coordination amongst the mobilized and adequately resourced groups of agencies, organizations, NGOs, local communities etc in Gaza, including close work with the Ministry of Education.
Save the Children is seeking qualified candidates to fulfill the following vacancy:
 
Education Sub-Cluster Coordinator (Officer) based in West Bank at the Save the Children Ramallah office

Main Responsibilities:
-Identify and make contact with relevant stakeholders including national/sub-national authorities, national and international organisations and representatives of affected populations in West Bank.
-Ensure appropriate coordination with national authorities at West Bank level involving, in some cases co-chairing the meetings with relevant national authorities, until transition plan in place.
-Ensure appropriate education cluster planning and coordinate responses to micro- and macro-emergencies in the West Bank, in particular as outlined in the Education-Child Protection joint response framework.
-Maintain appropriate inter cluster mechanisms, in particular working as a team with the International Cluster Coordinator and with the Gaza sub-cluster Coordinator, and support as needed to intra-cluster coordination mechanisms, in line with the cluster coordination strategies.
-Identify and support the existing sector coordination mechanisms at West Bank level including the support for the national, voluntary coordination platforms
-Ensure appropriate distribution of responsibilities amongst the cluster partners, with designated focal points and working groups for specific issues as necessary.
-Represent the Education Cluster as needed at West Bank inter-cluster fora (participation as necessary in the ICCG and/or other fora as needed and planned with the International Cluster coordinator.
-Lead on development and maintaining of data management systems for the West Bank including the Vulnerable School Matrix, 3W database and OCHA Response Tracker. Retain overall ‘ownership’ of these data management systems for the national cluster
-Lead the coordination for the HPC process in the West Bank, and ensuring coherence of the strategy in line with the National HPC strategy as led by the International Cluster Coordinator.
-Ensure coherence between the sub-cluster level operational and strategic plans and the national level Education cluster strategies and approaches.
-Ensure adequate reporting and information sharing within the cluster at West Bank level. This includes encouraging, supporting partners for collection, sharing, uploading and extracting of information on Education Cluster data management systems (VSM, 3Ws, response tracker), contributing to the Education Cluster sit-reps, developing and sharing the minutes of meetings (clusters and working groups) etc.
-Ensure that the sub-cluster partners use common and agreed standards and tools for information and data management including needs assessment and monitoring.
-Facilitate joint, inter-cluster needs assessment and analysis with a focus on West Bank.
-Lead (at West Bank level) and contribute towards national level education cluster early recovery, contingency planning and preparedness activities.
-Identify core advocacy concerns for the cluster and contribute the key messages to the broader initiatives of the HC and other actors.
-As an ‘Honest Broker’, provide leadership and direction to sub-cluster partners in developing and submitting proposals for inclusion in the HPC, Flash Appeals, CERF, ERF and such other funding processes, in line with the agreed national level strategic objectives and priorities for Education response.
-Identify and conduct training, learning needs of the cluster partners and encourage the support from the cluster partner agencies for addressing the capacity building as appropriate, based on the respective core competencies
-Contribute towards cluster’s analysis, identification of gaps and response strategies.
-Inform the Education Cluster Coordinator and thereby the UNICEF Special Representative and the Save the Children country directors/representative about any critical gaps in response, as identified by the sub-cluster at West Bank level, which cannot be covered by any cluster partners. Thereby, advocate for the Cluster Co-Lead Agencies to take the necessary action in its capacity as ‘Provider of Last Resort.’


 
Qualifications and Experience:

-University degree (preference at Master’s Degree level) desirably in subjects/ area of Education.  Note that work experience may substitute for higher degree qualification.
-A minimum of 2 years experience of responding to first phases of an emergency and 3 years with either the UN and/or NGO. 
-Fluency in Arabic and English (verbal and writing).
-Knowledge of humanitarian reform principles, international humanitarian law, inter-connectedness and reform pillars & reform updates
-Knowledge of the Cluster approach guidelines and terms of Reference

Application Process:

Applications should be submitted to [email protected] no later than Friday March 7, 2014.  Please make sure to mention in the subject the position title. The selection committee will review all applications as they are received. All applicants must meet the minimum requirements described above, and those unable to meet these requirements will not be considered.

Application package should include the following:
-Cover letter with the applicant’s current contact information and position applying for in the subject.
-Resume (no more than 3 pages) including Professional References (minimum of three, with complete contact information).

Only short listed candidates will be contacted. All applicants will also be subject to Save the Children’s Child Safeguarding Policy and reference checking process.

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