Vacancy title:
Adult Education Officer
Jobs at:
Finnish Refugee Council (FRC)Deadline of this Job:
Saturday, December 23 2023
Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, December 19 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
WHO WE ARE:
Finnish Refugee Council (FRC) is an INGO promoting adult education and community development among refugees since 1997 as an operational partner to UNHCR and OPM. FRC is seeking for suitably qualified and hardworking Ugandan to fill the following position:
Contract type Fixed term, with a possibility of a one-year renewal at a time
Location Palabek Refugee Settlement, Lamwo District
Reports To Team Leader
Project Access to Adult Education
Purpose of the Role:
The primary responsibility of this position is to plan, arrange and monitor adult education training to the adult refugees and host communities, and provide technical support and mentoring to the volunteer literacy and language instructors and adult education related mentoring to business skill facilitators.
KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES Technical Support and Training
• Plan and implement functional adult literacy (FAL) and language training – such as English for Adults (EFA), and business skill trainings following the agreed curricula, topics and themes.
• Provide professional support to and capacity building of volunteer instructors and facilitators in the field of adult teaching methods, literacy and language and training.
• Arrange and support practical exercises and small projects in support of functionality in FAL and EFA course.
• Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
• Collect data using FRC designed M & E tools and forms on learners’ performance and on instructors’ skills and competences.
• Analyse progress towards project outcome and outputs, record and discuss the lessons learnt and possible corrective actions.
• Innovation
• Develop methods and teaching approaches to enhance functionality and learners’ involvement and experiment new learning materials.
Qualifications and competencies:
• Bachelor’s degree in Adult Education or in Pedagogy/ Community Development with very strong experience in adult education and literacy.
• Strong experience on training, material development, participatory assessments.
• At least 2 years’ professional work experience in training with communities.
• Ability to work in remote areas with minimal supervision and achieve results.
• Ability to use standard computing packages.
• Knowledge of languages spoken by refugees from South-Sudan.
• Motorcycle riding skills is a MUST and will be tested.
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 24
Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Job application procedure
Email Application recruitment.uganda@refugeecouncil.fi by end of 23rd December 2023.
Application and CVs Should be ONE PDF document and a maximum of 5 pages.
Include in your application letter:
• Your gross salary request.
• Contact details (email and telephone) of 3 professional reference persons. Do not include copies of any certificates.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear from FRC by 15th January 2024, your application has not been successful.
Please note that FRC does not charge a fee at any stage of its recruitment process.
FRC is committed to observing all local, national, and international laws that protect children, vulnerable adults, and basic human rights of all. FRC is committed to a policy of “zero tolerance for sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment (SEAH)” and expects anyone who works for FRC to uphold protection and safeguarding as a priority.
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