Subject to donor approval. Location: Sidoarjo or Malang District, East Java, Indonesia, with regular support to program operations with implementing partners in Bogor and Depok (West Java).
Role purpose: The TUNTAS Education Specialist is the program's technical education expert. The role supports the Program Manager in setting strategic direction, maintaining technical quality, and ensuring effective implementation, so that program investments align with the program design, agreed education quality standards, national education policies, and DBS Foundation commitments. The program provides integrated technical assistance to district and provincial governments to prevent school dropout and improve educational outcomes for vulnerable children and young people. It does this by strengthening life skills learning, supporting school-based Early Warning System (EWS) tools and education-focused case management, enhancing recovery learning and re-engagement pathways through Community Learning Centres (PKBM), and expanding inclusive, quality learning through youth empowerment and community engagement. The program covers four districts: Bogor and Depok (West Java), and Sidoarjo and Malang (East Java).
Key accountabilities:
- Technical support and program quality: serve as technical lead for the education components, provide quality assurance, integrate GEDSI, disability inclusion, climate change, child protection and child participation, align design with national policy and donor commitments, build partnerships with government, NGOs and CBOs, and support detailed implementation planning and reporting.
- Partnership management: work with district-level implementing partners to ensure high-quality, on-time delivery and reporting, develop capacity-strengthening plans, lead joint monitoring visits, and maintain relationships with local authorities and stakeholders.
- MEAL: conduct regular field visits, carry out education quality assurance visits, provide technical input to monitoring and evaluation, support needs assessments, analyze data, work with the MEAL team on logframes, indicators and tools, lead research and learning agendas, and manage knowledge.
- Support emergency response when needed.
Qualifications and experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Education, Education Management, Early Childhood Education or a related field; Master's highly preferred.
- Minimum 3-5 years designing and managing education programs, ideally in foundational learning and teacher professional development.
- Strong knowledge of Indonesia's formal and non-formal education system and policy environment.
- Experience with government counterparts, development partners and civil society; experience with an international NGO.
- Experience in donor compliance, financial and budgetary control, partnership management and partner capacity strengthening.
- Ability to lead, motivate and mentor teams; strong project cycle management skills.
- Fluency in written and spoken Bahasa Indonesia and strong English.
- Willingness to travel frequently to field locations.
- Commitment to Save the Children's values, child rights and safeguarding.
Closing date: 2026-11-03
HOW TO APPLY:
Apply online via the Save the Children careers portal: https://hcri.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/jobs/preview/18007/apply/email?lastSelectedFacet=POSTING_DATES&selectedPostingDatesFacet=30