Overview
Leads the implementation of education programmes in North Darfur / Sudan, ensuring quality delivery in line with strategies and donor requirements. Manages staff, budgets, and activities, targeting vulnerable populations, and building team capacity.
Key Responsibilities
- Leads the design, implementation, and quality assurance of education programming.
- Line manages project staff, oversees budgets, activities, and documentation.
- Strengthens team capacity through training and mentoring.
- Coordinates with internal departments and external stakeholders.
- Maintains high technical standards across education interventions.
- Supports innovation through market-based approaches and partnership development.
- Contributes to advocacy efforts and ensures effective reporting and collaboration.
- Oversees high quality implementation of education (including youth) grants.
- Develops capacities of a Sudanese project team.
- Develops relevant capacities and partnership with local education authorities, local partner organisations, and other civil society stakeholders.
- Leads a local market analysis for educational inputs and services.
- Supports and collaborates with NRC’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Team.
- Leads narrative reporting on activities delivered.
- Responsible for attending relevant Education specific meetings and coordination for a, representing NRC.
- Ensures age and culturally appropriate accountability mechanisms are rolled out and that the highest standards of safeguarding are met.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5 years of experience in education programming in humanitarian or recovery contexts.
- At least 2–3 years in a coordination or management role (e.g. Project Manager, Coordinator, Area-level).
- Demonstrated international experience in humanitarian contexts (outside home country), preferably in complex emergency or conflict-affected settings.
- Proven experience working in high-hardship, high-risk environments, with clear evidence of operating under security, access, and operational constraints.
- Strong technical expertise in education programming, including design, implementation, and adaptation in emergency contexts.
- Demonstrated track record of results delivery, including managing projects at scale and achieving outputs in challenging environments.
- Experience in start-up or scale-up operations, particularly in refugee or displacement settings.
- Strong experience in coordination and representation, including engagement with clusters, partners, and local authorities.
- Solid understanding of donor compliance and reporting.
- Demonstrated leadership and team management skills, with ability to manage diverse teams under pressure.
- Prior experience in Sudan or similar high-complexity contexts is highly desirable.
