Unique Care and Support Foundation (CASFOD) is a children and women’s rights national non-governmental organization supporting the Humanitarian, Development and Peace (HDP) nexus. CASFOD envisions a world where all people even in remote areas of the world hold the power to create opportunities for themselves and others.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
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Job Title: Education Assistant
Location: Damboa, Borno
Reports to: Protection Coordinator
Reports to: Education Officer
Job Description
- The Education Assistant will be a part of the Education team. He/she will assist the Education team with activities such as Enrolment, back to learning campaigns, community engagement with SBMCs, among other responsibilities assigned regarding enrolment and retention in schools. S/he will also support in ensuring Accountability in supported communities including information sharing, participation, and ensuring efficient feedback and response mechanisms.
Key Responsibilities
- Implement delegated reaching out of school project in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements, and ensure high technical quality.
- Contribute to assessments (baseline, midline and endline, needs, market).
- Ensure accurate project documentation, including collection of monitoring data and tracking of progress on output indicators; utilize data to contribute to reports as requested by management.
- Facilitate relationships with communities and community leaders to ensure buy-in and Do No Harm.
- Supervise and manage the teachers, including facilitation of teacher training.
- Provide support on youth/adolescent programming, including, life skills, basic literacy/numeracy, and alternative/accelerated education.
- Support identification of needs, and development and facilitation of training programs for teachers, PTAs, SBMCs
- Facilitate recruitment of volunteer teachers and learning facilitators in the project
- Contribute to proposal and strategy development through input on needs/gaps
- Develop and maintain regular channels of communication with partners and key stakeholders at all levels (Community, LGEA and State).
- Ensure regular monitoring of projects results, documentation of projects case studies, lessons learnt, significant changes and best practices and coordinating learning and reflection meetings/sessions.
Qualifications and Experience
- Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree/ Higher National Diploma in Education or other related fields of study
- At least 2 years of accrued working experience in program implementation.
- Experience in strategic thinking and planning skills, be able to set priorities, prepare manageable plans and to evaluate progress.
- Experience of working on TaRL and ABEP for Out of School Children (OOSC).
- Strong analytical skills and strategic planning abilities.
- Ability to establish and maintain conducive collegial relations and perform effectively as a member of a team.
- Willingness to travel and work in hard-to-reach areas, occasionally under strenuous conditions.
- Computer literacy and excellent documentation skills are a must.
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching
- Excellent time management and planning capacity.
- Fluent English language skills (written and verbal) and Local language skills (Hausa, Fulfulde etc.).
- Experience of working in remote field bases with limited infrastructure
- Ability to synthesize and analyze information, and make clear, informed decisions
- Ability to build relationships quickly with a wide range of people, both internally and externally
- Strong planning, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organize a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities
- Cultural awareness, with strong written and spoken communication and interpersonal skills in English.
Application Closing Date
20th October, 2026.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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