SEL Specialist IRC Jobs

Job Title: SEL Specialist

·        Sector: Education

·        Employment Category: Regular

·        Employment Type: Full-Time

·        Open to Expatriates: No

·        Location: Maiduguri, Nigeria

·        Work Arrangement: In-person

Job Description

The SEL specialist under the supervision of the school and safety protection lead will:

• Lead the integration of SEL into access to quality education, TPD, and education actors’ capacity-building activities.
• Identify gaps in social, emotional, and behavioral atmosphere of the school and classroom, and develop plans of action around priorities.
• Work in partnership with various stakeholders, including students, parents, community organizations and mental health providers to update and adapt SEL “kernels of practice” for publication, training, and dissemination.
• Stay current on best practices in social and emotional learning, learning differences,
• Consult with principals and staff concerning social social-emotional learning needs of students.
• Guide designing social-emotional learning integration into the school.
• Provide professional development to support the social-emotional learning curriculum and instruction by using best practices, including research on learning theory and content standards.
• Support the integration of school-wide social and emotional learning education throughout school.
• Provide social and emotional learning education workshops for parents and the community.
• Provide technical support and modeling of social and emotional learning lessons to whole classes and small groups in accordance with the curriculum.
• Present professional development for school staff on social and emotional learning for students and on district SEL program goals and report requirements.
• Provide SEL professional development and training for schoolteachers and facilitators.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Competency profile

• Experience in management of a team.
• Excellent analysis and reporting skills.
• Excellent communication and organization skills.
• Punctuality and respect for applicable rules and procedures.
• Ethical and transparent decision-making.
• High regard toward preserving the confidentiality of work-related information and data.
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of local communities and customary rules.
• Independent work, i.e., with minimal supervision and under pressure.
• Self-motivation, goal/result-orientation, and teamwork.
• Flexibility, creativeness, tolerance, and maturity.
• Computer/IT literacy (OS Windows/Vista/Linux, MS Office, Internet etc.)

Position Reports to:  SSCP

Qualifications

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s in counseling, social work, psychology, or education; Master’s preferred.
• Five years of experience in education.
• Experience working on social, emotional, and behavioral support programs.
• Training in trauma-informed practices and/or restorative practices and experience teaching a social emotional curriculum to students.
• Classroom teaching or school-based management experience highly preferred.

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