Education Advisor - (1) position) - Kampala

EXCITING CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organization for children and has program presence in over 120 countries in the world. Save the Children envisions a Uganda in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. We strive to create impact for children by delivering our Programmes through partnerships, by being innovative, by acting as the voice for and of children, and by achieving results at scale. In Uganda, we implement programmes in six thematic programme areas of Child Protection, Child Rights Governance, Education, Livelihoods & Food Security, Health, Nutrition and HIV/AIDS in development and emergency contexts. Save the Children delivers programs in over 36 districts in the North, Rwenzori, North-Eastern and Central regions of Uganda, Currently, Save the Children has a staff complement of over 200 persons. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. In 2014, we reached over 143 million children through our work around 52m directly and 91 million indirectly around the world.

Save the Children seeks to fill the following vacant positions and applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced Persons for the operations.

Education Advisor – (1) position) – Kampala

Job Purpose:

The Education Advisor takes overall responsibility for the strategic direction, growth and coordination of Save the Children International’s work on basic education (including education in emergencies), teachers’ education, vocational skills, policy advocacy and community/children mobilisation in the Uganda Country Programme. As a senior member of the Programme Development and quality Department, the Education Advisor is responsible for leading and overseeing the development and delivery of high quality, innovative, cost effective programmes in education both in emergency as well as long-term development, resulting in immediate and lasting change for children. S/he is also responsible for monitoring programme quality, initiating and taking technical leadership in education-focused studies, documentation and dissemination of innovations and good practices by working together with other members of PDQ team; leading on policy research and advocacy on education through networking and collaboration with relevant civil society organisations and other institutions; playing a leading role in establishing, maintaining and expanding donor relations in the respective thematic area.

Academic back ground, Experience & Person Specifications;

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in education or a related field with additional training in education planning and management and project planning and management techniques


• Knowledge of current global and regional debates on quality and employment oriented education policies and models


• Minimum of eight years relevant technical experience with 2 at senior level


• Proven experience of developing and managing high quality, innovative and cost-effective technical education projects in fragile and insecure environments, preferably in Uganda context and with International NGOs


• Proven experience and skills in research and advocacy and influencing institutional, private and/or corporate donors and writing up high quality donor reports


• Experience of working with local/national governments and capacity building of systems, partners and staff