Jordan: Can’t Wait to Learn, Senior Programme Manager

Background

Can’t Wait to Learn (CWtL) proposes new (cost-) effective solutions to the urgent challenges facing education for children in emergencies. By utilising innovative technological solutions with a focus on serious gaming, CWtL builds on concepts which have been successfully piloted in Sudan (e-Learning Sudan). CWtL has ambitions to increase the number of children with access to quality education in mathematics in areas affected by conflict in Africa and the Middle East, including in Jordan. The CWtL team, including its technical partners, will work together to digitise the Jordanian curriculum onto tablets, which will be used by children with guidance from a trained facilitator. In addition to mathematics, reading and psychosocial well-being –focused materials will be introduced to the CWtL portfolio during 2017. Developing fresh, interactive materials based on the national curricula and creating effective partnership structures to distribute these, creates new opportunities for making education accessible to those children who have been excluded. By facilitating their access to an effective and innovative learning tool, the CWtL programme seeks to increase children's resilience and support their educational (re)integration and progression.

Globally the programme is led by War Child Holland. War Child UK is the programme lead in Jordan. In Jordan, programme implementation will involve both local and international partner organisations, as well as self-implementation.

Purpose of the Job

The purpose of the position is to realise the results and ambitions of the multi-year CWtL programme in Jordan, according to War Child UK (WCUK) and Holland (WCH) quality standards and donor requirements. The initial CWtL programme budget (2016 – 2017) for programming in Jordan is €2,117,298 with potential to scale up during years two and three based on existing and future grant applications. The positon involves strategic partnership development, programme and project planning, project implementation and management of a complex stakeholder programme in Jordan.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

1. Programme development, planning, management, implementation and reporting.

2. Grant management, reporting and fundraising

3. Partnership management, networking & sector contribution

· All War Child application forms must reach War Child at recruitment@warchild.org.uk by 5pm of 31^st January 2016.

· Due to limited resources War Child HR will contact only the shortlisted candidates.

· First round interviews will be held on week commencing 8^th February 2016.

· Second round interviews for selected candidates will be held on week commencing 15^th February 2016.