BTL Educator Staff/ Officer

World Vision International

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Location: Syria - Raqqa
Number of Positions: 6
Salary: As per the salary scale proposed by UNICEF

Job purpose:

The Back to Learning (BTL) Officer is responsible for supporting the implementation, coordination, monitoring, and quality assurance of Back to Learning activities under the UNICEF-funded non-formal education project in Raqqa.

The role focuses on identifying and enrolling out-of-school children, supporting community mobilization and awareness activities, coordinating with education stakeholders, supervising field-level BTL activities, and ensuring that project targets and quality standards are achieved in accordance with UNICEF, organizational, and Ministry of Education requirements.

Major Responsibilities

• Implementation of Back to Learning activities in targeted communities according to the workplan and agreed criteria.
• Ensure effective outreach and identification of out-of-school children and adolescents eligible for non-formal education programs.
• Coordinate beneficiary registration, verification, and enrollment processes in line with project criteria.
• Ensure timely referral of vulnerable children to relevant education, child protection, and other support services when required.
• Promote community participation and ownership of educational activities.
• Track enrollment, attendance, retention, and transition of learners across education programs.
• Identify implementation challenges and recommend corrective actions to improve program performance.
• Ensure compliance with project guidelines, UNICEF standards, safeguarding requirements, and organizational policies.
• Maintain accurate beneficiary records and activity documentation.
• Collect, verify, and compile project data from the field in a timely manner.
• Prepare weekly, monthly, and ad hoc activity reports for submission to the BTL Coordinator.
• Support data quality assurance processes and ensure information is entered accurately into project databases.
• Contribute to project assessments, surveys, and monitoring exercises.

Safeguarding

a. Report adult and child safeguarding incidents for designated area programmes (Levels 1-3).

b. Support proper implementation of the office’s Safeguarding Incident Preparedness Plans at local area programme level.

Any additional tasks required by the line manager.

Knowledge/Qualifications for the Role

Required Professional Experience:

• 2-4 years’ work experience in the field of education.
• Experience of working with humanitarian agencies in Syria.

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification:

• University degree in education or related field – Essential.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications:

• Strong inter-personal communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong documentation and report writing skills.
• Knowledge of common national education issues and violations.
• Ability to work individually and in a team – Essential.
• Attention to detail – Essential.
• Computer literate mainly in Microsoft Office package – Essential.