University Officer

Location: Amman, Jordan

Who We Are

IREX is a global solutions provider that partners with communities and institutions in the United States and around the world to cultivate leaders, expand access to education, and create economic opportunity. With deep expertise, a forward-looking vision, and world-class practices in AI for Education, Future-Ready Workforce, Higher Education Solutions, Leadership Development, and Online Safety, IREX delivers innovative and proven solutions that help people, institutions, and communities thrive in a rapidly changing world.

IREX seeks University Officer to support donor funded programs.

Job Summary

The University Officer helps plan, organize, carry out, track, and document ASAS activities with partner universities. The University Advisor supervises the position and provides technical guidance. The University Officer works closely with University Advisors, ASAS technical and operations staff, university leaders, quality assurance units, faculty members, and other partners to make sure activities are completed on time, carried out consistently, and properly documented.

The University Officer keeps the University Advisor updated on progress, challenges, delays, missing data or documents, and any issues that need guidance or management attention. The University Advisor sets the main goals, provides technical guidance, reviews key work, and helps resolve difficult or sensitive issues.

The University Officer also carries out other duties assigned by the manager to support the needs of the project team and the organization.

We're looking for our next team member—could it be you?

What You’ll Do

• Program Operations & Administration: The main duties are to support the HEICAT and PIAP processes, follow up on university in-kind contributions, and help with quality assurance activities under the ASAS Year 4 work plan. The University Officer keeps clear and accurate records, works with university focal points, tracks agreed actions and deadlines, prepares progress updates, and reports issues that need technical or management support.
• Participant, Partner & Stakeholder Engagement: Coordinate regularly with university focal points, faculty members, quality assurance units, and other partners. Schedule meetings and activities, communicate requirements and deadlines, follow up on agreed actions, respond to routine questions, and maintain clear records of participation, feedback, and decisions.
• Finance, Procurement & Grant Support: Support the collection and review of activity documentation, university in-kind contribution records, procurement requests, invoices, and other supporting documents. Coordinate with operations and finance staff to ensure submissions are complete, accurate, and provided on time.
• Team Collaboration & Continuous Improvement: Work closely with ASAS technical and operations teams, share updates and lessons learned, identify implementation challenges, and suggest practical improvements to tools, processes, and activity delivery.
• Growth & New Business Support: Contribute information, data, success stories, and supporting documents for reports, presentations, proposals, and other program-development needs, as requested.

Our Culture is Our People:

At IREX, our culture is built on our people—and on how we work together to create meaningful impact every day. We look for colleagues who bring purpose, intellectual curiosity, collaborative problem solving, and a results driven, bias for action to help strengthen communities and advance our mission.

Successful candidates build trust across differences, move ideas into action, seek new perspectives, embrace change, and represent IREX with authenticity and professionalism. We value people who bring strong expertise and a generous team spirit to work that advances our mission.

Skills & Experience

• Experience working with universities, higher education institutions, teacher education programs, quality assurance units, or institutional reform initiatives.
• Familiarity with Jordan’s higher education and pre-service teacher education context.
• Experience supporting institutional assessments, improvement plans, accreditation-readiness activities, or quality assurance processes.
• Experience tracking institutional or partner in-kind contributions.
• Experience with data-visualization tools such as Power BI.
• Familiarity with document-management and collaboration platforms such as Microsoft SharePoint.
• Experience working on donor-funded education or institutional-strengthening programs.
• Familiarity with HEICAT, PIAP, or comparable institutional assessment and performance-improvement tools.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Business Development, Data Analysis, Business Administration, Education, Higher Education Administration, Quality Assurance, or another related field.
• At least three years of relevant professional experience in project or program implementation, higher education programming, stakeholder coordination, quality assurance, monitoring and evaluation, data management, institutional development, or another relevant area.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating activities with multiple stakeholders and following up on agreed actions and deadlines.
• Experience collecting, organizing, checking, analyzing, and reporting quantitative and qualitative data.
• Experience maintaining project trackers, implementation records, monitoring tools, and supporting documentation.
• Experience preparing reports, presentations, meeting documentation, and implementation updates.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
• Fluency in Arabic and professional working proficiency in English.
• Valid proof of unrestricted authorization to work in Jordan.

You must have unrestricted authorization to work in the United States.

What We Offer

At IREX, you’ll work alongside committed, passionate, and collaborative colleagues who are united by a shared mission—making it a truly rewarding place to work. We offer learning, development, and growth opportunities, along with a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your overall well-being.

If you are excited by IREX’s mission and see yourself contributing to this work, we encourage you to apply—even if your experience does not align with every preferred qualification. We value a range of backgrounds and experiences and are especially interested in candidates who bring curiosity, initiative, strong collaboration skills, and a commitment to meaningful global impact.

Please note: While we aim to offer competitive compensation, not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range.

Disability Specifications

IREX will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments of 2008.

Equal Opportunity Employer

IREX seeks to attract the best-qualified candidates who support IREX’s mission and who respect and promote excellence through diversity. IREX is committed to equal opportunity and follows recruitment and selection practices that comply with all applicable employment laws. To this end, IREX recruits, hires, trains, and promotes individuals based on merit and experience.

We conduct background checks on all successful candidates.

This position is not eligible for Immigration Sponsorship. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE