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Education Programme Intern

: SAVE THE CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL

: Nonprofits / องค์กรไม่แสวงหาผลกำไร

: 1587

: 12 December 2023

08 January 2024

Save the Children is the world's leading independent organisation for children. It is a dual mandate organization and focuses on development and emergency response. We are currently working in 120 countries around the world touching the lives of 125 million children. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

Save the Children offers attractive salary including non-salary benefits which consists of paid medical benefits, various leave benefits, accident insurance, severance and other allowances.

We are currently inviting motivated and talented individuals to apply for Education Programme Intern position for remote working. Please see the following detailed information.

SAVE THE CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

ROLE PROFILE

TITLE: Education Programme Intern

TEAM/PROGRAMME: Education Consortium

LOCATION: Remote working

GRADE: Unpaid Internship

CONTRACT LENGTH: Fixed Term 6 months at 25% Level of Effort (equivalent of 10 hrs per week) [January – June 2024]

ROLE PURPOSE:

As a multi-donor funded programme, the consortium partners with selected ethnic and monastic education providers to strengthen their capacity to deliver and sustain good quality learning opportunities for children considered to be hard-to-reach in Myanmar. Applying a ‘systems-strengthening’ approach, the programme provides funding, coordination, technical assistance and research across different complementary education systems to promote continuous improvement of education services. The programme works with its partners, established education providers, to place an emphasis on developing the quality and inclusivity of education in Myanmar, including improved learning outcomes; and with a broader range of diverse stakeholders to address key barriers for the achievement of equitable education. In line with its current 2021-25 programme strategy, the overall aim for the programme is that hard-to-reach children access education services that meet their learning and well-being needs.

The role holder will support education team and further professionalise its approach to partner support and technical engagement. Working closely with the members of the Education team, the intern will work to contribute to the development and implementation of education initiatives through partnerships.  

The role holder must possess excellent communication skills and have interest and experience of providing education technical support and building technical capacity to implement, measure and continuously strengthen basic education programmes. S/he will also have the opportunity to work as part of a dynamic, interdisciplinary team and to further develop his/her own professional expertise.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to:  Education Director

Staff reporting to this post: None

Travel:  None, only if requested

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :

Education Programme Support

• Ensure efficient and timely technical support to the Education Director and Department Heads, as requested.
• Conduct background research on various education topics, including lesson planning, teacher training, and assessment, to inform training and development learning materials, policies and guidelines;
• Support cross-cutting teams such as GEDSI and CSG with research and capacity building activities;
• Assist with MTB-MLE research, creation of online learning forum, and review of teaching-learning materials for quality assurance;
• Edit and proofread reports, presentations, and manuals, as requested;
• Other tasks/assignments as agreed based on the interests and talents of the post holder.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
• Always acts in the best interests of children.

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Student (undergraduate or graduate) of development or international studies or related discipline seeking to gain experience in management aspects of working in the development and/or humanitarian field;
• Fluency in written and spoken English;
• Ability to proofread and edit reports, training, presentations, and education materials;
• Keen interest in research and evaluation of education programmes such as MTB-MLE,  Inclusive Education, Social Emotional Learning, and etc., 
• Excellent people skills, politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and respect;
• Ability to work independently as well as with a team;
• The capacity and willingness to be flexible and accommodating in light of challenging circumstances;
• Ability to work under pressure to produce outputs within a per-determined timeframe;
• Background in education and/or the Myanmar context desired but not required.

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

 

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

All staff has an obligation and a responsibility to:

• Ensure they fully understand the provisions of the Child Safeguarding Policy, the Code of Conduct and Local/Country Procedures.
• Conduct themselves in accordance with the rules of the Child Safeguarding Policy, in their personal and professional lives – which includes reporting suspicions of child abuse.
• Ensure the way they are carrying out their work is not putting children at risk (or further risk) – this means constantly scrutinizing their work through a child safeguarding lens and talking to children about possible design/implementation “flaws”.
• Promote the message of child safeguarding to colleagues in other organizations and government ministries, children in their own and beneficiary families, and community members in general.
• Be vigilant about observing possible child abuse/harm in their personal and professional lives.

All managers have the above responsibilities as well as ensuring

• Their staff are doing the above.
• That child safeguarding is integrated and given a “voice” in all management processes including recruitment, induction, performance management, team meetings, annual planning processes, field level monitoring, etc.

Safeguarding our Staff:

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

Interested and qualified candidates are requested to send an Application Letter, Curriculum Vitae to:

 

                                           Human Resources Department | Save the Children International|

                                               Email: recruitment.asiasubregionaloffice@savethechildren.org

 

Not later than 5 P.M., 08 January 2024(Monday)

Candidates are also requested to mention in the applications if there is, blood/marriage relationships with the existing Save the Children employees or any Education Program Partner Organizations.  No requirement of photo or copy of certificates and only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Remark: For those who failed to mention or incorrectly mention the apply position title, Programme/Sector name and location in their applications, we will consider those as disqualify and we will not consider for short list.

Contact : nawehywa.phaw@savethechildren.org

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