Job Details:
Organisation: International Rescue Committee (IRC)-USA
Deadline Tue, 7 Jul 2015
Job type: Permanent
Location:
United States
Background/IRC Summary:
The International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) bold and urgent mission is t o help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. The Child and Youth Protection and Development (CYPD) Technical Unit is a dynamic team of 30 professionals in the child and youth protection and education sectors. The CYPD team puts children and youth at the center of its work: we see them as resilient and powerful, and work in partnership with them, their families, schools, communities and workplaces, to ensure that they are safe from all forms of violence and able to develop to their fullest potential.
Job Overview/Summary:
IRC created a new Policy and Practice unit, comprised of technical, communications and advocacy teams, just over a year ago. Since then, the global policy discourse has been filled with discussions about the imminent launch of the SDGs, increasing scale and severity of humanitarian crises, growing numbers of children out of school alongside shrinking education aid budgets. IRC’s excellent track record implementing education programs in the most challenging contexts means we have a great deal of experience and country-specific knowledge to bring to bear in these policy discussions. In order to do this effectively, the IRC seeks an Education Policy Advisor to create a coherent set of well-researched, field-supported policy messages and develop a strategy for pushing these messages into external audiences.
Responsibilities:
- Policy research and analysis
- Support Sr Director and STA for Education to develop clear and coherent global education policy agenda, including IRC policy positions and actions IRC should take to influence and advance these positions.
- Create a living map of the political landscape in global education policy – where and who holds influence, around which issues, how these relate to one another.
- Conduct policy research to inform IRC’s education policy positions and the political landscape.
- Communications
- Draft policy positions for various mediums – op-ed, blogs, speeches
- Draft more general communications material on education as needed
- Representation and networking
- Be the contact point for communication with key groups and actors in the education policy space
- Identify most important existing forums/ meetings through which IRC should send its messages, exert its influence
- Recommend to Sr Director and STA new forums, meetings, media opportunities, relationships IRC should invest in to advance its policy agenda
Job Requirements:
Requirements
- At least 5 years of research or program management in the education field.
- Master’s degree in education or closely related field.
- Excellent research and analysis skills in the education policy field: strong understanding of the political landscape in global education/ education in emergencies; ability to identify the most salient issues in education, formulate policy positions and present facts and information to substantiate such positions
- Excellent written and oral communications skills; ability to communicate with many and diverse audiences; you listen intently and actively to all audiences; your communications avoid jargon and rhetorical questions, are direct, simple and respectful.
- Fluency in English.
Working Environment: 5% travel to Washington, D.C. and Europe.
Please follow this link to apply: http://www.aplitrak.com/?adid=c2dyYW50LjE1MDY4LjQ4MTBAaXJjLmFwbGl0cmFrLmNvbQ
Advisor, Education Policy
Job posted by: International Rescue Committee (IRC)-USA - Fri, 8 May 2015Job Details:
Organisation: International Rescue Committee (IRC)-USA
Deadline Tue, 7 Jul 2015
Job type: Permanent
Location: United States
Background/IRC Summary:
The International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) bold and urgent mission is t o help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. The Child and Youth Protection and Development (CYPD) Technical Unit is a dynamic team of 30 professionals in the child and youth protection and education sectors. The CYPD team puts children and youth at the center of its work: we see them as resilient and powerful, and work in partnership with them, their families, schools, communities and workplaces, to ensure that they are safe from all forms of violence and able to develop to their fullest potential.
Job Overview/Summary:
IRC created a new Policy and Practice unit, comprised of technical, communications and advocacy teams, just over a year ago. Since then, the global policy discourse has been filled with discussions about the imminent launch of the SDGs, increasing scale and severity of humanitarian crises, growing numbers of children out of school alongside shrinking education aid budgets. IRC’s excellent track record implementing education programs in the most challenging contexts means we have a great deal of experience and country-specific knowledge to bring to bear in these policy discussions. In order to do this effectively, the IRC seeks an Education Policy Advisor to create a coherent set of well-researched, field-supported policy messages and develop a strategy for pushing these messages into external audiences.
Responsibilities:
Job Requirements:
Requirements
Working Environment: 5% travel to Washington, D.C. and Europe.
Please follow this link to apply: http://www.aplitrak.com/?adid=c2dyYW50LjE1MDY4LjQ4MTBAaXJjLmFwbGl0cmFrLmNvbQ