Summary
Date Posted: Monday, January 31, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Key responsibilities for Education Advisors are as follows:
• You offer technical advice, guidance and support to partners and align and collaborate with internal VVOB colleagues to achieve project results and realize the educational change processes
• supported by the project.
• You contribute to the identification, formulation, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and
• evaluation of the project that you are assigned to in order to realize the educational change processes supported by the project.
• You take up a variety of roles in the capacity development process of the partners according to the
• needs of the partner and particular situations and phases of the programme;
• You keep abreast with policy trends, new developments and latest research and thinking in primary education, teacher training models, and national developments in the education sector, and
• by external and internal networking, share new insights with local partners and VVOB colleagues.
• If you are our Education Advisor, your workweek will include the following
• highlights:
• You will meet with representatives of NCDC, the TaRL Coalition, MoES
• to review the TaRL methodology for its SEL potential and to identify
• context-appropriate low-cost, low-burden targeted SEL activities to
• complement TaRL.
• Together with the Strategic M&E and Research Advisor and MEAL
• Advisor, you have a meeting with the international knowledge partners
• supporting the project team. You jointly review emerging evidence from
• process monitoring and reflect on how it can improve implementation.
• Next, you meet with the District Support Coordinators and Master
• Trainers to incorporate the lessons learned from evidence to strengthen
• the next round of refresher trainings for teachers and mentors.
• You will represent VVOB at an event, to present the results of our work
• in Isingiro and network with colleagues from other implementing
• organisations.

Who are you?
• This position is open to Ugandan nationals only.
• Overall expertise and experience required:
• MSc preferred or BSc with advanced experience in education, human sciences, or other
• relevant field.
• Demonstrable experience with social and emotional learning in crisis settings is a must-have.
• Experience with change management and capacity development processes in the context of
• educational institutions.
• Capability to appropriately plan and deploy a range of capacity development methods – e.g.,
• workshops, training, coaching, mentoring, events, study visits, etc. to strengthen educational
• institutions and accompany change processes.
• An in-depth understanding of the national education system and the latest developments in
• the education sector, specifically the primary education sector in Uganda, and capability to
• appropriately utilise this understanding in function of the programme that you are assigned
• to.
• In-depth understanding of new trends in primary education and teacher training models in
• Uganda and capability to appropriately utilise this understanding in function of the
• programme that you are assigned to.
• Excellent communication skills in listening, writing and public speaking
• Knowledge of and experience with programme implementation, preferably project cycle
• management.
• Capacity to manage service providers in the education sector

Matching Competences
• VVOB core competences:
• Cooperation
• Continuous improvement
• Result Orientation
• Function specific competencies:
• Creativity
• Development oriented
• 360° Empathy
• Communication skills
• Problem Analysis and Judgement


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
To apply follow this link https://uganda.vvob.org/vvob-uganda-vacant-positions-january-2022 

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