Recrutement de 01 Global Citizenship Education Schools Officer

Recrutement de 01 Global Citizenship Education Schools Officer
Our vision, our mission and our work are all defined by one goal – ending extreme poverty, whatever it takes. We believe that no-one should have to live in fear that they won't have a home to sleep in or enough food to feed their children. For over 50 years we have been working with the world's poorest people towards this goal.

Today we are a team of over 4,400 highly skilled and dedicated professionals from 50 countries who share an exceptional depth and diversity of experience. We want committed, values driven staff to join our Dublin team and are currently looking for a GCE Schools Officer to be part of our Global Citizenship department.

We are committed to providing our staff with the skills needed to excel in their jobs. Concern offers in-house management and leadership courses and tailored organisation-wide learning opportunities both in-person and online. All employees are required to undertake training in equality, diversity and inclusion; the Code of Conduct; and safeguarding, along with any other training required for the role.

Our culture is values driven and friendly. A global engagement survey conducted in 2022, responded to by 3,577 of our staff, showed that 89% of our staff would happily recommend Concern as a great place to work and 94% are proud to tell people that they work for Concern.

Our office is located in Dublin 2 and we are currently working a hybrid model (50% remote working) and offer flexi time.

The job: As a vibrant member of the Global Citizenship (GC) team, you will engage post primary students (aged 12-18) and teachers in Concern’s Global Citizenship Education programme. You will facilitate talks and workshops for students at junior cycle, TY and senior cycle levels as well as hosting Continuous Professional Development training for teachers, contribute to developing age appropriate GCE resources and other tasks as set out below.

Job Location: Dublin

If you join us, you will:

Report to the Schools Programme Manager, as well as work with colleagues in the wider GC Team and International Advocacy.
Plan and deliver high quality talks and workshops on themes such as hunger, conflict, climate justice and gender inequality using active learning and student-centred methodologies, both in person and online.
Take a lead in the organisation and delivery of Concern’s TY Academy, and Speak Act Do programme.
Be a support to teachers engaged in GCE by facilitating or contributing to Continuous Professional Development (CPD) workshops and training sessions.
Research and develop educational resources that support the post-primary curriculum focused on relevant global development themes.
Manage relationships with school networks, individual schools, teachers, and young people.
At a sectoral level, you will engage with colleagues in GCE partner organisations, consortia groups and networks.
Communications and Performance Measurement

Coordinate the production of the teachers and youth e-newsletters.
Use Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning tools to measure the outcomes of the programme for inclusion in reports as well as ongoing planning and development purposes.
Teamwork, compliance and values

Actively contribute to the work the debates programme, campaigns team, as well as engage with colleagues in the Strategy Advocacy and Learning Directorate and staff across the organisation.
Ensure full compliance with Safeguarding, GDPR and relevant Codes (eg. IDEA Code of Good Practice and Dóchas).
Uphold and promote Concern’s values, including our workplace equality, diversity and inclusion values.
Liaise closely with other parts of the organisation to ensure Concern’s work is communicated effectively.
Skills you will bring:

A Third level qualification in education or youth work with at least two (2) years’ experience working in formal education or in a youth worker position.
Experience in delivering/facilitating GCE workshops for students and teachers/youth leaders.
Experience working directly with teachers and/or youth leaders.
Experience in producing education resources.
Experience working as an effective and productive member of a team.
Excellent communication skills (written, verbal and presentation).
Excellent Microsoft Office skills.
You are available to occasionally work unsocial hours and travel to all parts of the country.
A full, clean driver’s license.
This role will be based in the Dublin office with a salary from €45,535 - €52,040 (Band 4). This is a permanent contract.

We encourage all eligible candidates, irrespective of gender, ethnicity and origin, disability, political beliefs, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status to apply to become a part of the organisation. Concern is against all forms of discrimination and unequal power relations, and is committed to promoting equality.

If this role sounds right for you, please apply with your CV and cover letter. We will respond to every applicant. Please be aware we may offer positions before the closing date.

If you have any concerns about our recruitment process and need particular assistance - for example if you have a visual impairment or are neuro-divergent - please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate you.

Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy accessible here. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies. Additionally, Concern is committed to the safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults and children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work or volunteer with vulnerable adults and children are recruited by us for such roles. Subsequently, working or volunteering with Concern is subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal background checking.

Your Personal Data

During this job application, you will provide Concern with your personal data. Concern takes its responsibilities towards this personal data very seriously and is committed to complying with all relevant data protection legislation.

Concern receives a substantial amount of funding from external donors each year. Increasingly donors are introducing requirements whereby future funding is conditional on ensuring that the name of any employee or volunteer (existing or new), does not appear on terrorism lists generated by the European Union (List of person, groups and entities to which Regulation (EC No. 2580/2001 applies), the US Government (Office of Foreign Assets Control list of specially designated Nationals and Blocked Persons) and the United Nations (Consolidated List).

Any offer of employment (either paid or voluntary) with Concern Worldwide will only be made following a successful clearance check being conducted on the applicant and such checks may be updated periodically during the course of the period of employment.

By submitting a formal application for paid or voluntary employment to Concern, you agree to Concern carrying out a clearance check as outlined above and that Concern will not proceed to recruit you should your name appear on any of the aforementioned lists

In certain circumstances, donors may request that personal data relating to employees to work on the activities that they fund be provided directly to them - so that they can perform their own counter terrorism checks. This may involve transferring some basic personal data outside the EEA. It will be a condition of your employment contract that Concern be allowed to share this information with institutional donors for these purposes.

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