Position:  Education Assistant 
Job site:  Aden
Start:  01 March 2025
Status: Full-time
Reports to: Project Coordinator DAFI project
Deadline: 23rd February, 2025.

Project Description:

UNHCR’s DAFI higher education scholarship program, best known by its acronym DAFI, plays an integral role in enabling refugees in Yemen to access higher education . Since its inception in 1992, the DAFI program has grown considerably, enabling over 2,240 refugee students annually to study at universities and colleges in 41 countries of asylum in 2014.

The DAFI program enables young refugees to continue post-secondary education and motivates refugee children to stay in school and succeed academically. For students and graduates, the DAFI program serves as a foundation for social and professional development, allowing them to build careers in competitive fields of employment. The social returns of the DAFI program exceed investment at the individual level. Highly educated refugees reduce economic and psychological dependence of whole communities in asylum, improving their self-reliance and preparing them for long-term solutions.

Purpose / Objectives:

The Education Assist supports the DAFI project manager with the day-to-day follow-up of students enrolled in DAFI scholarship programme in universities.
“DAFI Scholarship Programme – Tertiary Education for Refugees" is a project funded by UNHCR.

Responsibilities/duties:

Main responsibilities:

• Be the focal point to receive and send all the incoming and outgoing information to/from the students, universities, and partners per location
• Ensure close monitoring on students as individual beneficiaries, and follow up on the students (academically and personally)
• Support and guide DAFI Students Union (DSU) activities planning and implementation
• Plan, organize, and monitor training and Capacity Building for DAFI Students
• Ensure planning, implementation, and reporting on social activities for students
• Assist the PM in developing annual, quarterly, monthly, and weekly work plans and be the focal point to coordinate the implementation of the planned activities and monitor the implementation progress
• Maintain good working relationships and ensure smooth communication with the different partners: educational partners, students, student unions, refugee communities, and organization staff.  
• Verification on the targeting of beneficiaries
• Organize meetings, workshops, seminars, and general project events as the work plan requires  
• Ensure reporting incidents/concerns in a proactive manner to Project Manager 
• Develop and maintain archiving system for the project per location
• Coordinate and oversee the day-to-day implementation of the project plan in the Project Manager's absence
• Do interpretation and translation work to serve the project activities (English-Arabic)
• Carry out other tasks assigned by the PM

PROFESSIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum bachelor's degree (preferably in education or social-related field)
• Minimum 2 years of relevant professional experience with local and international NGOs in Yemen
• Demonstrated experience in education and youth projects, experience in coordination or supervisory role 
• Practical experience in M&E.  

Qualifications, skills, and traits:

• Demonstrated excellent computer literacy (Excel, word, e-mail)
• Good command of spoken and written English
• Arabic native speaker
• Excellent communication and organization
• Punctuality and respect for applicable rules and procedures
• Attention for details and quality
• Strongly objective and impartial reasoning
• Ethical and transparent decision-making
• Independence, i.e., conducting tasks with minimal supervision, and stress resilience
• Self-motivation, goal/result orientation and teamwork
• Flexibility, tolerance and maturity
• Able to work under pressure.