Senior School Education Officer

Date: 4th December 2024

Vacancy announcement

Group of Helping Hands (SAHAS) Nepal is a non-governmental development organization established in 1996 and working on sustainable agriculture and food security, Disaster risk reduction and climate change, natural resource management, lobby and advocacy, civic quality education, infrastructure development, social mobilization and movement. The organisation focuses to work with vulnerable families and communities, and smallholder farmers to improve their livelihood. At present, the organization is implementing several projects in a total of 21 districts of Nepal.

SAHAS Nepal is currently implementing a pilot project in Ramechhap, which aims on the one hand to close the COVID-related learning gaps of the students and on the other hand to sustainably improve the quality of education in the project schools. This is to be achieved by training the teachers by qualified, experienced, and well-trained school officers and accompanying them in their dailywork. At the same time, village communities are mobilized and empowered to run learning camps.

SAHAS Nepal is seeking energetic, committed and creative candidates young to work on closing learning gaps and supporting schools to establish quality education for the following positions:

1. Position: Senior School Education Officer

Duty Station: Khadadevi Rural Municipality, Ramechhap district

Required number: 1

Academic qualification/experiences:

• A Bachelor’s degree in education, social science or relevant field with minimum 3 years of experience in teaching or in the sector of education
• Should have a good understanding of the concept of learning gaps and how they impact student achievement
• Good knowledge and experience on Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting
• Good Interpersonal skills and analytical skills
• Good facilitation and reporting skills

Key responsibilities:

• Assist Education coordinator as requested in technical and official matters
• Work with school teachers and SAMVAD animators of learning camps to identify areas where students are struggling
• Support in the conducting of assessment to determine the root cause of the learning gaps, the learning level of students and guide them with appropriate worksheets and other learning support.
• Monitor the progress of students, teachers and the school as a whole in implementing the strategies to address learning gaps. This may involve conducting regular assessments, analyzing data and providing feedback to teachers and learning camp facilitators
• Proper planning (Yearly, Quarterly and Monthly) of the project activities based on the project plan and the implementation
• Provide technical backstopping to the Learning camp facilitators in project related activities and also strong handholding to the teachers for the regular class support and for the extracurricular activities 
• Produce and submit periodic progress reports to the education coordinator that include the valid and concise information
• Represent at communities, rural municipal, district level agencies to ensure effective communication, coordination and cooperation with project partners, key development facilitators and project stakeholders.

Salary and Benefits: As per the rules and regulations of SAHAS Nepal.

Interested Nepali citizens are requested to send their updated CV with cover letter showing their interest including mailing address and telephone number along with two references to Executive Director by 10th December, 2024 to sahasnepalvacancy@gmail.com

Telephone enquiries will not be entertained. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for further screening process. SAHAS Nepal reserves the right to reject any or all applications without assigning any reasons.

SAHAS Nepal promotes workforce diversity and applies positive decimation to candidates from discriminated groups. Applications from and members of indigenous and disadvantaged groups are highly encouraged.

(“SAHAS Nepal is committed to safeguarding and a zero-tolerance organization related to abuse, corruption, bribery, fraud etc.”)