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Early Childhood Development (ECD) Field Technical Officer

Handicap International
Cairo, Egypt
Posted 3 years ago
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1. Bring traversal ECD technical expertise in Egypt ECD project. Ensure relevance of technical practices in Egypt ECD project implementation and possibly participate in the design stage of a new ECD Egypt project and ECD strategy development.

Tasks: 

  • Provides sectorial technical input to the Operational Strategy (StratOps) of the Programme within his/her scope and in his/her sector, in line with the global technical divisions’ strategy (StraTech) and ensure relevant follow up.
  • Ensures technical support to ECD Egypt project in line with the global technical frameworks and standards in his/her sectorial scope
  • Provides adequate technical guidance and support to ECD Egypt Project Manager when relevant (adapt standards to PM’s tools, contributes to proposal writing and reporting) in line with strategies, standards and mandatory transversal approaches
  • If needed, ensures adequate support to multi-sector responses within ECD Egypt project, in line with the other specialists
  • Ensures a local sectorial watch, best practices to adopt within his/her sectorial scope
  • Contributes to technical
  • Ensures technical learning from projects and Contributes to projects’ capitalization and ensures technical learning from ECD Egypt project.
  • Ensures the control & monitoring of the technical quality and the relevance of HI’s activities under his/her scope.
  • Ensure regular technical quality control of ECD Egypt project and issue warnings and recommendations
  • Monitor the implementation of audit recommendations, if applicable, in his/her sectorial scope
  • Ensures compliance of the technical proposition with nexus stakes.
  • Contributes to the development of research and innovation projects in Egypt or in the Middle-East region when relevant, in his/her sectorial scope.
  • Suggests and steers technical innovation projects
  • Contribute in the identification of priorities of Research and Studies and steers them
  • Contributes to the Technical Divisions professional channel animation.
  • Contributes to the global animation of the professional channels under his sectorial scope coming from the Technical Divisions (community of practices…)
  • Animates a local talent pool in his sectorial scope (produce recommendations, identify needs regarding trainings)

2. Create effective network with other ECD technical actors in Egypt and support missions to foster partnerships.

Tasks: 

  • Represents the technical expertise of HI throughout the local relevant networks
  • Contributes to advocacy on specific themes in line with the global advocacy priorities
  • Contributes to communication messages locally in line with the global communication priorities

3. Be up-to-date on the last international practices and directions and opportunities in the area of ECD. Use this knowledge to guide the Egypt programme towards new and more relevant and efficient technical programming. Ensure relevance of technical practices at project design stage and on strategy development.

Tasks: 

  • Contributes to the context analysis in his/her sectorial scope
  • Contributes to the design and writing of new projects in Egypt and when asked in other countries within the region
  • Identifies & transforms major opportunities in Egypt under his/her scope
  • Identifies & develops local partnerships and/or consortium with NGOs, Institutions, Companies on technical priorities or important topics in Egypt under his/her sectorial scope

Job Requirements

Education

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine, Pediatric or Physiotherapy;

 Work Experience

  • Advanced degree in ECD relative domains, with preference to rehabilitation profiles (pediatric physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists).
  • Master in ECD relative domain, with preference to rehabilitation profiles (pediatric physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists). Preferably in developing countries or humanitarian context.
  • Minimum 3 years’ experience in international development, or emergency and post-crisis environments, in technical positions.
  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience working in pediatric departments in his/her technical specialty.
  • Experience working in complex ECD units or structures.
  • Experience in working in the Middle-East.
  • Experience in project management.

Skills/Competencies

  • Strong organizational and analytical skills
  • Competent in the use of Microsoft Office Suite, including WORD, POWERPOINT,and EXCEL

Languages

  • Excellent knowledge (written and spoken) of Arabic and a very good knowledge (written and spoken) of English.

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