Job Description
Job Description
Crisis-Orientated Resilience Education (CORE) programmes are ECW’s flexible, integrated, multi-year financing approach for emergencies and protracted crises. Designed and implemented by country-level partners, CORE programmes bring together crisis preparedness, emergency response and resilience-building into a single, streamlined approach. This enables faster financing to protect learning during emergencies while strengthening education systems to sustain learning and resilience in protracted fragile and conflict-affected contexts.
The objective of this consultancy is to lead the drafting and completion of the Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Crisis-Orientated Resilience Education (CORE) programme for one of five designated countries. The consultants will serve as penholder and produce a high-quality, costed three-year CORE programme for submission to ECW’s Executive Committee, working remotely and in close coordination with ECW Secretariat teams, in-country partners, and coordination mechanisms. A short field mission may be required. The selected individual will be contracted by the International Rescue Committee, but will be administratively seconded to ECW to work directly with them on the required deliverables.
Scope of Work
The Consultant will serve as the technical penholder for the ECW CORE programme and lead the drafting process to a high analytical and editorial standard, in close collaboration with national authorities, existing education sector coordination mechanisms, and ECW partners. The Consultant will support the establishment and effective functioning of the CORE programme Development Committee in one of five country contexts (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Myanmar, and South Sudan), ensuring an inclusive, government-led (where possible), and partner-driven process, and will map, review, and synthesize relevant education sector policies, strategies, plans, and humanitarian and conflict analyses. Based on this evidence base, the Consultant will produce a joint education needs analysis addressing access, quality, continuity, protection, gender equality, disability inclusion, refugee inclusion where relevant, and mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), and will define the scope, priorities, and value-add of the ECW CORE programme, including crisis preparedness and emergency response components. The Consultant will develop a Theory of Change demonstrating humanitarian-development-peace nexus linkages, a joint results framework aligned with existing sector strategies and endorsed by key stakeholders, and support the CORE programme costing and financing analysis, identifying funding flows, gaps, and priorities. The Consultant will facilitate a transparent and conflict-of-interest-free selection of ECW grantee(s), support the development of sustainability, implementation, and transition arrangements, prepare required ECW annexes (including results framework, budget, and risk matrix), and present the draft country CORE programme to relevant ECW technical reference groups, revising the document based on consolidated feedback.
Deliverables and Indicative Timeline
- Country CORE programme Development Committee established – within 2 weeks
- Joint needs analysis and draft Sections 1–2 – within 4 weeks
- Theory of Change, results framework, and costing – mid-assignment
- Complete draft CORE programme and annexes – prior to quality assurance review
- Final CORE programme incorporating all feedback – end of assignment
Required Qualifications and Experience
- Advanced university degree (Master’s preferred) in Education, Social Sciences, International Relations, or related field
- Proven experience in education MYRP/FER program design in humanitarian and fragile contexts
- Strong analytical, synthesis, and drafting skills
- Ability to work under tight deadlines
- Experience integrating protection, gender equality, disability inclusion, and MHPSS
- Capacity to deftly navigate complex political and social contexts and build consensus among diverse actors
- Fluency in English required; French and/or Arabic an asset
Administrative Information
- Individuals from the Global South, particularly crisis-affect countries and especially nationals of the five countries listed above are encouraged to apply.
- Selected consultants will be administratively contracted by INEE's primary host organization, International Rescue Committee, but will be programmatic responsible to the ECW Chief of Education, in accordance with an agreement between ECW and INEE.
- Contract duration shall be for approximately 90 working days over at least a six-month period, beginning in March 2026.
- Applicants will be evaluated based on their technical and financial proposals for this work, with the technical proposal accounting for 75% of one's evaluation score and the financial proposal accounting for 25%.
- In preparing the technical proposal, applicants must indicate the context for which they are applying. Applicants must also indicate this in the submission email's subject line.
- The selected candidate will be paid by deliverable. Financial proposals must therefore be responsive to the deliverables listed above.
- Travel costs for up to one field mission shall be provided for by INEE, based on standard protocols and procedures. As such, while travel will be required, it does not need to be included in the financial proposal.
- All payments will be made upon receipt of invoice(s) and approval of deliverables.
- Selection and subsequent contracting is subject to funding confirmation. Contracts will not be formally issued until funding is approved and candidates will not be asked to work prior to contracts being issued and fully executed.
- Selected consultants will be bound by IRC's standard consulting terms and conditions.
- No direct contact with children and no handling of child personal data is anticipated as part of this consultancy.
Application Process
Application Process
Interested candidates should submit the below documents in PDF or Microsoft Word formats to jobs@inee.org.
- Cover letter summarizing expertise and competences as applicable to the assignment
- CV detailing work experience, educational credentials, and skills as applicable to the assignment
- Three professional references (names, titles, organizations, relationship to applicant, and email addresses)
- Technical proposal not longer than 3 pages (in a format of the applicant’s choosing) describing how the applicant would approach the work and outlining any tentative steps the applicant would take to produce the deliverables
- Financial proposal not longer than 1 page defining the proposed fees by deliverable and the basis for the proposed fees
When submitting their applications, candidates must use the subject line “ECW CORE Penholders Consultancy” and also include in the subject line the country for which they are applying to be the ECW CORE programme penholder. Applications will be reviewed by country, so those that do not indicate this in the subject line will not be considered.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, but the final deadline for application is Wednesday, February 25, 2026, at 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time).
Applicants who are shortlisted will be expected to be available for an interview within a few days of the final deadline and to take up the consultancy in early March
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