UKaid-Girls’ Education Challenge
Vacancy: Regional Co-ordinator
Background:
Wasichana Wote Wasome (WWW – ‘Let All Girls Read’) is a three year DfID
funded project that aims at improving school enrolment, retention,
attendance and learning outcomes for 81,000 marginalised girls in Kenya.
The project works in 500 primary schools and the communities they serve
in two contexts: Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) and urban slums in
eight counties namely: Kilifi, Kwale, Tana River, Marsabit, Samburu,
Turkana, Mombasa and Nairobi.
The project intends to achieve her objectives by driving change in four
dimensions: the community, the home, the school and the girl herself.
WWW project uses a holistic, integrated approach which combines
interventions across the four dimensions in order to overcome the
complex barriers to girls’ education in these two environments.
Core Responsibilities:
The Regional Co-ordinator will be based in the field and
will be responsible for coordinating planning and implementation of
project activities in Samburu and Marsabit counties.
The incumbent will be responsible for supervision and implementation of the teacher coaching components in the two counties.
S/he shall lead in planning and coordination of project
activities in the counties to ensure synergy across project components;
Backstopping role, supporting partners with field based
operational issues and providing field based reports to Project
Director;
Liaise and represent the project including government particularly (MoEST, TSC) and other stakeholders;
Support and strengthen the capacity of instructional
coaches and other interventions implemented to address key challenges
and issues impeding early grade & appropriate learning attainments;
Provide advisory services to instructional teacher coaches
in lesson planning and teaching, delivery and lesson modelling with
emphasis to early grade literacy and numeracy in project schools;
Review progress on the in-service training to support teachers/instructional coaches to interpret and clarify the syllabus;
Regularly provide leadership services to instructional coaches;
Support data collection, analysis and other related monitoring activities to track project progress and reporting;
Provide support inputs for development and review of
coaching and learning materials for the project and regular and routine
checks in schools to assess gender friendly, learning environment and
recommend ways of making them girl friendly
Qualifications
Minimum B. Ed degree;
Background in Teacher Education an added advantage;
Experience in the area of Early Primary Education;
Experience in teacher support and management;
Proven experience in teaching language Kiswahili/English;
Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills;
Excellent written and oral communication skills in English;
Experience in implementing behaviour change activities in schools and school community;
Experience & commitment to working in settings of
cultural, ethnic, educational and religious diversity with an aim of
improving education outcomes.
Interested and eligible candidates should submit a detailed CV and Cover
letter including current remuneration and three referees to
cfbt@cfbt-africa.com with the subject line job application and the name
of the post applied for.
Applications must be received on or before December 8th , 2014.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
The position has a possible interaction with children, youth and
disadvantaged communities and hence a background check will be done and a
certificate of good conduct will be mandatory for every applicant.
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