Technical Expert-EiE (Education in Emergencies)

The Education Expert will provide technical support to the ECHO-funded SURAKKHA project, ensuring quality, inclusive, and protection-sensitive Education in Emergencies interventions for crisis-affected children and adolescents in Cox’s Bazar. The role promotes teaching and learning, Social and Emotional Learning, child wellbeing, safeguarding, disability inclusion, and gender-responsive approaches across project activities, strengthening programme quality through technical support, monitoring, and capacity building.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to the ECHO-funded SURAKKHA project to ensure quality, inclusive, and protection-sensitive Education in Emergencies interventions.
• Promote teaching and learning, Social and Emotional Learning, child wellbeing, safeguarding, disability inclusion, and gender-responsive approaches across project activities.
• Strengthen programme quality through technical support, monitoring, and capacity building.
• Coordinate with partners and stakeholders to ensure responsive, accountable, and effective education programming.
• Design and facilitate Training of Trainers (ToT), teacher development programmes, coaching, mentoring, and continuous professional development initiatives.
• Develop, adapt, contextualize, and review curricula, learning materials, facilitator guides, assessment tools, training packages, and technical resources tailored to humanitarian and displacement settings.
• Lead assessments, learning reviews, programme monitoring, indicator tracking, quality assurance processes, and evidence generation to support adaptive management and continuous programme improvement.
• Coordinate with government authorities, Education Sector partners, INGOs, local organizations, consortium members, and community stakeholders.
• Represent the organization in technical forums, working groups, and sector coordination platforms.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Education, Social Sciences, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible experience in education programming.
• At least 3 years of experience in Education in Emergencies (EiE) or humanitarian settings in Cox’s Bazar in a similar role.
• Experience supporting institutional donor-funded programmes with strong knowledge of donor compliance, reporting requirements, project cycle management, accountability standards, and humanitarian programme implementation.
• Experience with ECHO-funded projects of at least 1 year is a significant advantage.
• Demonstrated experience in child-centred pedagogy, foundational learning, Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), inclusive education, and safe learning environments.
• Proven ability to integrate safeguarding, Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE), PSEA, disability inclusion, gender equality, conflict-sensitive education, and protection mainstreaming into education programmes.
• Extensive experience in designing and facilitating Training of Trainers (ToT), teacher development programmes, coaching, mentoring, and continuous professional development initiatives.
• Demonstrated expertise in developing, adapting, contextualizing, and reviewing curricula, learning materials, facilitator guides, assessment tools, training packages, and technical resources tailored to humanitarian and displacement settings.
• Strong experience leading assessments, learning reviews, programme monitoring, indicator tracking, quality assurance processes, and evidence generation to support adaptive management and continuous programme improvement.
• Excellent ability to coordinate with government authorities, Education Sector partners, INGOs, local organizations, consortium members, and community stakeholders.
• Strong report-writing, documentation, analytical, and communication skills in English.
• Only Bangladeshi citizens are eligible to apply.

Skills

• Education Programming
• Education in Emergencies
• Humanitarian Programme Management
• Donor Compliance
• Project Cycle Management
• Accountability Standards
• ECHO-funded Projects
• Child-centred Pedagogy
• Foundational Learning Strengthening
• Social-Emotional Learning
• Inclusive Education
• Safe Learning Environments
• Safeguarding
• Child Protection in Emergencies
• PSEA Integration
• Disability Inclusion
• Gender Equality
• Conflict-sensitive Education
• Protection Mainstreaming
• Training of Trainers Workshops
• Teacher Development
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Curriculum Design
• Learning Materials Design
• Assessment Tools Development
• Programme Monitoring
• Indicator Tracking
• Quality Assurance
• Evidence Generation
• Adaptive Management
• Stakeholder Coordination
• Report Writing
• Documentation
• Analytical Skills
• Communications Skills

Languages

English