Unique Care and Support Foundation (CASFOD) is a children and women’s rights national nongovernmental organization supporting the Humanitarian, Development and Peace (HDP) nexus in Nigeria. CASFOD envisions a world where all people even in remote areas of the world hold the power to create opportunities for themselves and others.
CASFOD operates with a 5-pillar strategy encompassing health & nutrition, education, protection, WASH and livelihood supporting emergencies affected persons including women and children with humanitarian and development services.
CASFOD seeks dedicated staff members who are enthusiastic about contributing to our organization’s innovative programming initiatives aimed at supporting children and women.
Role Purpose:
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.
Method of Application
- Interested persons who meet the qualifications and experience and are confident of meeting key responsibilities are to complete the LINK.
- Vacancy closes on the 26th of January 2025
- No applications will be received at CASFOD office neither through any email address.
- CASFOD is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Women and persons with disability are highly encouraged to apply.
- Background and reference checks will be conducted, and ethics is part of annual performance appraisals.
- CASFOD will require applicants to self-declare prior issues of sexual or other misconduct, termination of past employment, criminal records, and concerns registered with government authorities regarding contact with children, and to consent to the disclosure of any such information by their former employers during verification of references.
