The International Rescue Committee is hiring an ECD Technical Manager to provide strategic and technical leadership for our Early Childhood Development programming in Lebanon. In this role, you will design, adapt, and implement an integrated ECD package for household visits and group sessions, ensuring alignment with national frameworks and effective integration across program platforms.
What You'll Do
- Lead the development of an integrated ECD package for household visits and group sessions, aligned with the National Curriculum Framework and based on evidence-based models.
- Adapt curricula, tools, and materials to the Lebanese context, reflecting identified needs, contextual challenges, and cross-cutting priorities.
- Integrate disability inclusion, mental health and psychosocial support, and child protection components into the ECD package, in close coordination with IRC’s technical units.
- Develop a caregiver kit and age-appropriate learning materials to support caregiver engagement and behavior change.
- Review existing ECD-related programs and initiatives to capture lessons learned, assess cost implications, and propose a practical plan for national scale-up.
- Ensure the ECD package aligns with national systems, social service programs, databases, and established referral pathways.
- Advise on national policy and programmatic integration of ECD approaches, providing technical expertise as needed.
- Design tailored training modules, facilitation guidelines, and job aids for various frontline worker roles.
- Deliver training sessions to frontline workers piloting household visits and group sessions on ECD principles, caregiver engagement, safe identification and referral, and integrated service delivery.
- Facilitate Training of Trainers sessions for selected Ministry of Social Affairs social workers to enable cascade training beyond the pilot phase.
- Provide ongoing technical support, mentoring, and supervision at field level in three governorates to ensure quality implementation.
- Support monitoring and evaluation of ECD package implementation, ensuring lessons learned inform adaptation and scale-up.
- Maintain oversight of technical quality and consistency of ECD content and service delivery across household visits and group sessions through regular national field visits.
- Contribute to documentation, reports, and dissemination of best practices at national and field levels.
What We're Looking For
- A Master’s or Bachelor of Arts in Early Childhood Development or a relevant certificate; a Teaching Diploma for early childhood, nutrition, or a related field is required.
- A strong understanding of the ECD context in Lebanon.
- Demonstrated understanding of monitoring and evaluation tools.
- Experience in curriculum development under ECD domains, such as early learning, health and nutrition, parenting, and safety.
- Working experience with Lebanese Government entities, including the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, and the Ministry of Public Health.
- Working experience in non-governmental or international non-governmental organizations.
- Excellent problem-solving, coordination, and communication skills, with adaptability and flexibility.
- A positive and professional attitude, including the ability to work well in a team setting.
- Strong ability to organize work, meet deadlines, prioritize work under pressure, and coordinate multiple tasks.
Team & Environment
This position reports to an ECD Specialist or ECD Senior Manager. Internally, you will collaborate with the ECD Project Manager, ECD Senior Officers, the ECD Specialist, the broader Program Team, and IRC’s technical units and focal points for Education-ECD, Health and Nutrition, Child Protection, and Inclusion. Externally, you will coordinate with the Ministry of Social Affairs, Social Development Centers, the Ministry of Public Health, the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, other ECD partners, technical consultants, and service providers.
Work Mode
This is a local, in-country position based in Beirut, Lebanon.
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