Eiman Bashab
Khartoum
Summary
An Expert Education Program Manager and Senior Program staff of ten years and more with a progressive mindset. A professional and technical development practitioner with experience in implementing development programs/project and education in emergency projects focus on, protection and education of children and their families, children education, women and girls’ education, livelihood’s gender focused interventions, capacity building of local communities, and inclusive Education for marginalized groups, in Sudan. Contributing valued input as a member of the Senior Management Team, through creative, strategic, and analytical thinking, with excellent problem-solving decision-making abilities and strong leadership attributes. Committed to continuous learning and research. Excellent networking skills and connections, gained through the building of relationships and partnerships with line ministries, local partners, and related INGOs and UN agencies in Sudan over several years.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
2016
2016
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Education Program Specialist – EiE
UNICEF Sudan
01.2024 - Current
- Contribute to the efficiency and effectiveness of the education in emergency (EiE) program to support children, youth and communities affected by crises to improve quality of education and ensure continuity of learning
- Contribute to design, development, and implementation of education programs in emergencies, ensuring alignment with international standards (INEE Minimum Standards)
- Ensure the curriculum and delivery are adaptable to the emergency context, considering different learning needs, including those of displaced populations
- Support and participate in rapid needs assessments to evaluate the educational needs of children and youth in emergency settings
- Provide technical guidance in rapid response situations, ensuring a swift and effective educational response to crises
- Provide training and technical support to local education staff, teachers, and partners in emergency education delivery
- Actively participate and support national and sub-sectors meeting and collaborate with relevant stakeholders including government bodies, NGOs, UN agencies, education partners to coordinate education interventions and ensure an integrated approach to emergency response
- Advocate for the rights of children to education in emergencies, ensuring their needs are included in humanitarian response plans
- Regularly monitor and evaluate the progress and impact of education programs in emergencies
- Compile and submit timely reports to donors and internal stakeholders, ensuring that program objectives and outcomes are clearly communicated
- Support fundraising efforts for EiE programs, including writing proposals, engaging with donors, and ensuring the sustainability of education programs in crises
- Ensure all educational activities are designed with a focus on child protection, gender equality, and the inclusion of marginalized groups (e.g., girls, children with disabilities, and refugees)
Education Program Specialist
UNICEF Sudan
02.2022 - 12.2023
- Contribute to the efficiency and efficacy of the education programme preparation, planning and implementation, to achievement of sustainable results to improve learning outcomes of quality, equitable and inclusive education for children in Kordofan and for the National Scope Office in Port Sudan
- Support the preparation, design and updating of the situation analysis for the education programmes to ensure that current and comprehensive data on education is available to support efforts on education programmes
- Help supervisors to set priorities, strategies, design and implementation plans supporting education
- Participate in strategic programme discussion on the planning, design and prepare of education programme proposals for the sector
- Establish specific goals, objectives, strategies and implementation plans for the sector using results-based planning terminology and methodology (RBM)
- Prepare required documentations for programme review and approval
- Work closely and with internal colleagues, state ministry of education representatives and partners to discuss strategies and methodologies, and to determine national priorities to ensure the achievement of concrete and sustainable results
- Provide technical and operational support of education programming processes and to ensure integration of programmes/projects with other UNICEF sectors and achievement of results as planned and allocated
- Plan and collaborate with internal colleagues and external partners to establish monitoring benchmarks, performance indicators to deliver of sustainable results for education programmes
- Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, and annual reviews with the government and other counterparts to assess progress and to determine required action/interventions to achieve results
- Prepare and assess monitoring and evaluation reports to identify gaps, strengths, and weaknesses in programme management
- Identify lessons learned and use knowledge gained for development planning and timely intervention to achieve goals
- Monitor programmes/projects through field visits and surveys, and exchange information with stakeholders to assess progress, identify potential problems to resolve issues and/or refer to relevant officials for timely resolution
- Monitor and verify appropriate use of sectoral programme resources confirming compliance with organizational and donor rules, regulations
- Prepare regular and mandated programme reports for management, donors and partners to keep them informed of programme progress
- Provide technical guidance and operational support to government counterparts, NGO, UN system and country office partners and donors on interpretation, application and understanding of UNICEF policies, strategies, processes and best practices and approaches on education and related issues to support programme management, implementation, and delivery of results
- Participate in education programme meetings including programme development and contingency planning to provide technical and operational information, advice and support
- Build and sustain effective close working partnerships with relevant government counterparts, national stakeholders, global partners, donors, and academia through active networking, advocacy and effective communication to build capacity, exchange knowledge/expertise and to reinforce cooperation to achieve sustainable and broad results on education programmes
- Prepare communication and information materials for CO programme advocacy to promote awareness, establish partnerships and support fund raising for education programmes
- Participate and UNICEF in appropriate inter-agency (UNCT) discussions on education and related issues to collaborate with inter-agency partners/colleagues on UNDAF planning and preparation of programmes/projects ensuring organizational position, interests and priorities are fully considered and integrated in the UNDAF process in development planning and agenda setting
- Apply and introduce innovative approaches and good practices to build the capacity of partners and stakeholders and to support the implementation and delivery of concrete and sustainable programme results
- Keep abreast, research, benchmark, and implement best practices in education management
- Assess, institutionalize and share best practices and knowledge learned
- Contribute to the development and implementation of policies and procedures to ensure optimum efficiency and efficacy of sustainable programmes and projects
- Organize and implement capacity building initiatives to enhance the competencies of clients/stakeholders to promote sustainable results on education and related programmes/projects
- Successfully contribute to education programs management life cycle, to effectively achieve project deliverables on time and on budget in Kordofan
- Successfully lead education program implementation in Kordofan of EU, PROSPECT and Educate a Child and other donors through strong partnerships I developed in Kordofan with UNICEF and IPs of international and national organization, supporting almost 55000 children in school age in Kordofans
- As education section head in Kordofan, I have positioned UNICEF as a strong education partner in Kordofan and secured the organization’s participation at different consortium partnerships include EU, PROSPECT, KFW and EAC
- Maintained professional and trustful relations with government stakeholders, UN agency, INGOs and NGOs in Kordofan through sectors, partnership, and program implementations
Deputy Programs Director/ADRA Education Expert
Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Sudan
01.2020 - 01.2022
- Provide programmatic and managerial technical support to management teams across the program and projects life cycle including Education Programs in WN, Darfur and Khartoum
- Collaborates with teams to develop program and projects detailed delivery plans including budgets
- Contribute and support organization education assessments and other project, baselines to develop proposals, letters of interest, concept papers, and proposals to donors to support education interventions
- Lead with the programs’ director development of education programs and its strategic priorities in the country
- Monitor projects implementation, promptly reporting challenges, problems including budget fluctuation risk allowance to organization top management to support and facilitate proper solutions and overcome strategies on time
- Managing the program budget with the Project Managers including budget activities replanning if needed with focus on development education program in ADRA
- Contribute to provide quality accurate timely reports on projects activities to the organization management, stakeholders, and donors to support proper
- Establish contracts of partnership agreements, resources and expertise terms of reference, memorandum of understanding with stakeholders and consortium partners
- Collaborate on design and preparation and facilitation of workshop sessions of capacity building support to staff, local IP and government national officials
- Effectively mitigate programs/projects challenges through risk management from design to delivery
- Lead selection and evaluation due diligences of local national organization partners of ADRA
- Ensure appropriate representation at Sector meetings and various platforms including UNICEF, UNCHR Protection Group, UNICEF SAG & OCHA SHF Proposal Review Committee
- Insuring ADRA Safeguarding policy and policies against PESA and GBV are in place
- Support and collaborate on selection and procurement of organization programs human resources
- Deputize ADRA Programs Director in her absence
- Successfully contribute to programs management life cycle, to effectively achieve project deliverables on time and on budget
- Under my leadership, nine projects have been completed to the donors’ satisfaction
- Successfully lead education program development and implementation on going education program as Education Focal Persons of 'Breaking Barriers, Improving Girls’ Education, Hope and Totality' (BRIGHT) Project in West Darfur benefiting 1200, girls, boys, women and men (2020-2021) and Khartoum Urban Women Education Project (KUWP) benefiting 1400 women in 2020
- As education focal lead in the organization, I have positioned ADRA as a strong education partner in Sudan and secured the organization’s participation at different consortium partnerships include GAC, BFW and UNHCR
- Maintained professional and trustful relations with government stakeholders and donors in Sudan through sectors, partnership, and program implementations
- Successfully create professional and trustful relations with government stakeholders and donors in Sudan
Education Project Manager/Education Expert
Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)
10.2010 - 12.2019
- Lead and implemented education programs focus on; Inclusive education, EIE, non-formal education including literacy and TEVT, girls and women, gender and girl’s education targeting HC, Returnees, IDPS and Refugees
- Advocate for EiE that support children physical and psychological health and protection and promotes child development and learning
- Reviewing the National Education policies and promote mainstreaming global education policies standards and in the national strategic plans
- Lead programs staff procurement and selection utilizing tools ensure quality programs staff
- Support organizing, communicating, and conducting of projects interventions assessments, surveys and evaluation
- Managed projects orientation and start up workshop including staff orientation, contractual requirements and project plans refinement, approaches, methodologies, and tools
- Lead development of projects DIP and lead implementation of activities of ADRA Education Projects in Khartoum, White Nile, and West Darfur
- Advocate with related government authorities for education and for girls’ education
- Organizes and participates in working groups, meetings, conferences, consultations with other agencies and partners on humanitarian and emergency relief-related matters
- Coordination with national and local authorities and stakeholders and to ensure IDPs, refuges and returnees child protection, children out of schools and women proper needs responses and interventions
- Strengthening the capacity of related government of staff and officials on child protection policies, Inclusive education policies, girls, PSEA and disable education policies in national education strategy
- Provide quality regular reports on progress, results, achievement and challenges to the organization management and donors
- Management and monitor of donor funds expenditure and disbursement as specified to complete project goals and objectives
- Created an integrated working approach between the project teams and departments to ensure harmonization
- Ensure appropriate representation at education Sector meetings and various platforms including UNICEF, UNCHR Protection Group, UNICEF SAG & OCHA SHF Proposal Review Committees
- Successfully led the implementation of three projects phases of three years each, funded by BFW, SMC, NORAD and GAC which contributed to wellbeing of women and children educationally and economically across Sudan
- Contribute with MoE adult Education department of Ministry of Education in developing REFLCT literacy manuals benefiting more 10 thousand women participants graduated from the literacy program in Khartoum
- Contributed to the improvement of quality of life for approximately 10,000 women through literacy education, credit associations, and vocational trainings program in the Khartoum State of Sudan
Teacher/Trainer
Al Alamia Computer and Technical Studies Women and the Ideal Institutions
09.2000 - 06.2009
- Company Overview: Saudi Arabia
- Teaching English subjects for–Secretariat Department (English and Arabic subjects)
- Teaching for English subjects in Computer Department
- Conducting training and workshops
- Teaching specialized (ESP) and general courses of English
- Monitoring the teachers, students’ exams, and tests
- Saudi Arabia
- Successfully support and contribute on graduation of considerable number of girls from the institutions who completed the learning program
Education
M.A - English Language - English for Specific Purposes
Khartoum University
M.A - Peace and Development Studies
University of Juba
High Diploma - Planning & Development Studies
Khartoum University
B.A. - English Language and Linguistics
University of Khartoum
B.Sc. - Economics and Social Studies
University of Juba
Skills
Advocate for teamwork
Professional Development
- Introduction to UNICEF Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action, 09/01/23
- Prevention of sexual harassment and abuse of authority, 03/01/22
- Ethics and Integrity at UNICEF, 03/01/22
- Prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA), 07/01/22
- Performance Planning at UNICEF, 07/01/22
- Education in Emergencies Global Course UNICEF, 09/01/22
- EiE Education in Emergencies Fundamentals Course -Professional Development Program (SC), 02/01/21
- Protection Against Sexual Exploitation & Abuse Training (ADRA Canada), 08/01/20
- Safeguarding Summit Training (ADRA International), 11/01/20
- Gender Equity Training (ADRA Canada), 11/01/20
- Emergency Cycle & Gender, Age, Diversity Training (BFW Ethiopia), 06/01/19
- Refugees Education in Sudan Workshop (UNHCR), 06/01/16
- Managing Projects in Emergencies, 07/01/16
- Co-facilitating the Contextualization of the INEE Minimum Standards in Sudan (UNICEF), 11/01/15
- DO NO Harm Approach M& E training workshop - ADRA International, 03/01/13
Timeline
Education Program Specialist – EiE
UNICEF Sudan
01.2024 - Current
Education Program Specialist
UNICEF Sudan
02.2022 - 12.2023
Deputy Programs Director/ADRA Education Expert
Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Sudan
01.2020 - 01.2022
Education Project Manager/Education Expert
Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)
10.2010 - 12.2019
Teacher/Trainer
Al Alamia Computer and Technical Studies Women and the Ideal Institutions
09.2000 - 06.2009
M.A - Peace and Development Studies
University of Juba
High Diploma - Planning & Development Studies
Khartoum University
B.A. - English Language and Linguistics
University of Khartoum
B.Sc. - Economics and Social Studies
University of Juba
M.A - English Language - English for Specific Purposes
Khartoum University
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