Organization: Unique Care and Support Foundation (CASFOD)
Project: ECHO HIP Project
Employment Type: Fixed Term
Location: Damboa, Borno State
Number of Positions: 1
Reports To: Education Officer
Application Deadline: 20 October 2026
About CASFOD
The Unique Care and Support Foundation (CASFOD) is a national non-governmental organization dedicated to the protection of womenโs and childrenโs rights. Operating within the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus in Nigeria, CASFOD envisions a world where even the most remote populations possess the agency to create sustainable opportunities for themselves and their communities.
About the Project
In strategic partnership with Plan International, CASFOD is implementing an ECHO HIP Project in Rann, Kala Balge and Damboa LGA, Borno State.
The initiative seeks to strengthen community resilience by expanding equitable access to inclusive, high-quality education and protective services for vulnerable children and youth, both in schools and across the wider community.
Job Purpose
The Education Assistant will be part of the Education team and will support activities including enrolment, back-to-learning campaigns and community engagement with School-Based Management Committees (SBMCs).
The role will also support accountability in project communities through information sharing, participation, and effective feedback and response mechanisms.
Key Responsibilities
- Implement delegated out-of-school children project activities in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements while ensuring high technical quality.
- Contribute to baseline, midline, endline, needs and market assessments.
- Ensure accurate project documentation, including collection of monitoring data and tracking progress on output indicators.
- Utilize data to contribute to reports as requested by management.
- Facilitate relationships with communities and community leaders to ensure buy-in and application of the Do No Harm principle.
- Supervise and manage teachers, including facilitation of teacher training.
- Provide support to youth and adolescent programming, including life skills, basic literacy/numeracy and alternative/accelerated education.
- Support identification of needs and development and facilitation of training programmes for teachers, PTAs and SBMCs.
- Facilitate recruitment of volunteer teachers and learning facilitators within the project.
- Contribute to proposal and strategy development through input on needs and gaps.
- Develop and maintain regular communication channels with partners and key stakeholders at community, LGEA and state levels.
- Ensure regular monitoring of project results.
- Document project case studies, lessons learned, significant changes and best practices.
- Coordinate learning and reflection meetings and sessions.
Qualifications & Experience
- Minimum of Bachelorโs Degree/Higher National Diploma (HND) in Education or another related field.
- At least 2 years of accrued working experience in programme implementation.
- Experience in strategic thinking and planning, including setting priorities, preparing manageable plans and evaluating progress.
- Experience working on TaRL and ABEP for Out-of-School Children (OOSC).
- Strong analytical skills and strategic planning abilities.
- Ability to establish and maintain conducive collegial relationships and work effectively as part of a team.
- Willingness to travel and work in hard-to-reach areas, occasionally under strenuous conditions.
- Computer literacy and excellent documentation skills.
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills, including influencing, negotiation and coaching.
- Excellent time management and planning capacity.
- Fluent English language skills, both written and verbal, and local language skills such as Hausa and Fulfulde.
- Experience working in remote field bases with limited infrastructure.
- Ability to synthesize and analyze information and make clear, informed decisions.
- Ability to build relationships quickly with a wide range of people, both internally and externally.
- Strong planning, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organize a substantial workload comprising complex and diverse tasks and responsibilities.
- Cultural awareness with strong written and spoken communication and interpersonal skills in English.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates who meet the outlined experience and core competencies are encouraged to apply through the official online application portal.
Application Link: Insert official application link
Application Deadline: 20 October 2026
Important: Physical applications will not be accepted. Only submissions through the official online portal will be considered.
Equal Opportunity & Safeguarding
- CASFOD is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Women and persons with disabilities (PWDs) are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Successful candidates will be subject to thorough background and reference checks, including PSEA (Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) vetting.
- Adherence to ethical standards and the CASFOD Code of Conduct is an integral part of recruitment and annual performance appraisal.
- Only shortlisted candidates who meet the requirements will be contacted.
