Job Description

About CRS

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.

In partnership with Caritas Iraq, CRS Iraq is supporting conflict-affected people to live in dignity through upgrades to shelter conditions and improved access to water and sanitation facilities, educational and psychosocial (PSS) support for children, livelihoods support, social cohesion, and multi-purpose cash assistance.

Job Summary:

As a lead for the Education project team in Ninewa and Duhok governorate, you will facilitate the achievement of project objectives through coordinating, and reporting on, all project activities in target schools across Ninewa and Duhok, advancing Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) work serving the poor and vulnerable. You will lead project implementation in Ninewa and Duhok by providing technical guidance and advice to staff and working directly with Directorate of Education (DoE), school staff and community members. Your coordination and relationship management skills will ensure that the project for which you are responsible applies best practices and constantly works towards improving the impact of its benefits to those we serve.

Roles and Key Responsibilities:

• Organize and lead the implementation of all Education project activities in Ninewa/Duhok, as outlined in the detailed implementation plan, and in line with CRS program quality principles and standards, donor requirements, and good practices.
• Ensure learning properly accompanies project activities throughout the project cycle. Analyze implementation challenges and report any inconsistencies and/or gaps to inform adjustments to plans and implementation schedules.
• Coordinate and oversee working relationships with all local project stakeholders and serve as the liaison between them and the project team to mobilize local actors and promote project activities and
• Supervise and perform ad-hoc inspections of various processes and resources at project sites to ensure timely project activities implementation and adherence to established process standards and procedures. Ensure proper tracking of resource use for project activities through periodic budget
• Support and coordinate capacity building and technical support activities to ensure assigned project activities are implemented per project guidelines and standards.
• Lead on the logistical and administrative implementation of education project activities when needed, including preparing purchasing and payment documents.

• Ensure project documentation for assigned activities is complete with all required documents and is filed per agency and donor requirements.

• Represent the organization with INGO working groups, UN, relevant local partners and relevant local government and community actors for EDU.

Skills Required

• MS Excel
• MS Office
• project coordinator
• team managment
• MS WORD
• project manager
• education
• arabic language
• English language