Education Officer Oruchinga and Isingiro (All SouthWest locations)

Job Title

Education Project Manager - TVET

Location

Oruchinga, Isingiro (All Southwest locations)

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with NRC policies, guidelines, and standards.
• Ensure compliance with CC strategy, tools, handbooks, guidelines, and standards.
• Education-specific technical responsibility for implementation of technical activities of Education project(s).
• Education-specific technical responsibility for tracking of financial expenditures for technical activities of Education project(s).
• Education-specific technical responsibility for the quality control and monitoring of project activities.
• Education-specific technical responsibility for project documentation of technical activities of Education project(s).
• Provide specific technical support and capacity building towards project staff.
• Provide specific technical analysis and feedback to NRC representatives in coordination forums.
• Assess, promote, and document ideas for technical improvement and further program development options.
• Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need, and explore and assess new and better ways to assist.
• Promote the rights of refugees in line with the advocacy strategy.
• Development of holistic and needs-based programmes, including cash-based interventions and market-based programmes.
• Lead the implementation, monitoring, and reporting of education activities in accordance with the organization and donor requirements.
• Provide technical guidance on Life Skills, Digital Skills, and i-UPSHIFT implementation.
• Ensure consistency of project implementation and quality across primary, secondary, and TVET interventions.
• Coordinate beneficiary identification, enrolment, retention, certification, and transition pathways for youth participating in TVET programmes.
• Coordinate life skills activities in primary, secondary schools, and TVET institutions.
• Supervise and support vocational training centres, instructors, and apprenticeship partners to ensure quality training delivery.
• Conduct regular supervision and quality assurance visits to Vocational Skills Training Centres.
• Monitor learner attendance, retention, completion rates, and certification processes.
• Coordinate the distribution and accountability of vocational training materials, toolkits, equipment, and learning resources.
• Facilitate capacity building, mentorship, and performance improvement for trainers, instructors, and community-based structures.
• Promote inclusion, safeguarding, gender equality, disability inclusion, and protection principles across all TVET interventions.
• Represent NRC in relevant coordination forums and contribute to programme development, innovation, and continuous improvement of education and life skills activities.
• Any other task as assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications

• University degree (preferably Education or similar).
• 4 years’ experience working within technical expertise area in a humanitarian/recovery context.
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.
• Education Core competency expertise.
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.

Context/Specific Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• Knowledge of Uganda's TVET policy framework and UVTAB certification processes and Skills Development Facility approaches.
• Experience in labour market assessments, employer engagement, and private sector partnerships.
• Strong facilitation, mentoring, and capacity-building skills.
• Experience managing apprenticeship, internship, and job placement initiatives.
• Knowledge of entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and youth employability programming.
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal.

What We Offer

• Duty station: Oruchinga, Isingiro (All Southwest locations)
• Contract: national contract, 12 months (extension possible, dependent on funding)
• Travel: Frequent travel to the project sites
• Salary/benefits: grade 5 on NRC’s national salary scale.
• NRC is an equal opportunities employer.
• We think outside the box, encourage ideas, and give responsibility to all employees at all levels.

Important Information about the Application Process

• Internal candidates only: To apply, log in with your official NRC email address or click on Opportunity Marketplace.
• Application is online only; Qualified Ugandan Nationals only. Female Candidates are encouraged to apply.
• Applications that do not meet the minimum standards in terms of experience or qualifications will generally not be considered. Unsolicited applications not related to this specific job advertisement will not be considered.
• We receive many applications for each vacant position, as a result only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Why NRC?

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian Organisation helping people forced to flee. Our 15,000 staff work in crises across 40 countries, providing life-saving and long-term assistance to millions of people every year.

NRC’s programme in Uganda has a community-based approach and uses protection analysis to inform the response and target the most vulnerable refugees and host communities. The programme is multisector and anchored mainly on market-based interventions, with expertise in education, protection, livelihood and food security (LFS), water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) promotion, shelter and information, counselling and legal assistance (ICLA). NRC is present in all larger refugee hosting districts. Scaling up our activities with the hard-to-reach populations is our priority, resulting in an integrated urban programme, among other activities.

We are looking for people who are passionate about helping refugees and people forced to flee. Are you one of those people? If you are, NRC offers you the opportunity to:

• Do demanding and professional work, often in challenging contexts.
• Join a work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility.
• Be part of a welcoming and supportive community committed to human dignity.