Overview
The Education Adviser will provide technical expertise to support the design, implementation, and quality assurance of Education in Emergencies (EiE) programmes. The role focuses on strengthening access to safe, inclusive, and quality education for conflict-affected children.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide structured technical advice on remedial education, learning recovery, PSS/SEL, inclusive approaches, and teacher mentoring.
- Conduct periodic technical support visits and provide written recommendations.
- Analyse education data and produce technical briefs with evidence-based recommendations.
- Support contextual adaptation of tools, guidance notes, and training materials.
- Review technical components of workplans, concept notes, and reports.
- Provide technical input on beneficiary targeting criteria.
- Identify programmatic bottlenecks and propose corrective measures.
- Facilitate technical peer-exchange sessions.
- Monitor application of safeguarding principles and child protection referral pathways.
- Maintain technical dialogue with education stakeholders.
- Strengthen coordination with the Ministry of Education and Science (MoES).
Required Experience
- Minimum 4 years of progressively responsible experience in Education in Emergencies, humanitarian education programming, or formal education sector development in Ukraine or comparable conflict-affected contexts.
- Demonstrated experience working within or in close coordination with the Ukrainian formal education system.
- Experience working with conflict-affected, displaced, and returnee populations.
- Solid knowledge of INEE Minimum Standards and their application within formal school settings.
- Proven analytical skills.
- Experience conducting participatory needs assessments and education context analysis.
- Strong coordination and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently in a technical advisory capacity.
- Experience analysing barriers to access, retention, and transition.
- Demonstrated experience supporting inclusive education approaches.
- Proven ability to integrate protection risk mitigation measures and referral pathways.
- Practical experience supporting implementation of psychosocial support (PSS) and social-emotional learning (SEL) approaches.
- Experience adapting remedial education and learning recovery methodologies.
- Experience supporting teacher professional development.
- Ability to strengthen teachers’ use of formative and summative assessment tools.
- Solid understanding of inclusive pedagogy, positive discipline, and trauma-informed teaching practices.
- Experience analysing teacher capacity gaps and contributing to structured supervision or mentoring systems.
- Ability to support development and contextual adaptation of monitoring tools.
Qualifications
Degree Level Master's Degree
