Coach
Position Circumstances
- Career Category: Educate/Train/Teaching, Monitoring & Evaluation, Community Development
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: $500 - $600
This Coach’s main responsibility is to ensure the achievement of technical upgraded objectives which is targeted as 80% of the five-year-old class graduates are able to recognize 80% of Khmer’s consonants (27 characters) and 70% of Khmer’s vowels (16 characters).
Coach is a service-based position supervised by the senior coach and it will be responsible for building capacity of teachers through regular coaching services plus some monitoring and report tasks.
It is a consultancy-based position and the location of his/her residing is regarded as office.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Major Responsibilities
- Work with the senior coach to develop the coaching plan and other capacity development plans such technical meetings, class demonstration, instructional materials development…etc.
- Prepare budget plan for field travels, food, and other related expenses of instructional materials development.
- Participate in weekly meeting with senior coach.
- Participate in relevant capacity building activities such as meetings, trainings, workshops, and study visits…etc provided by KrY, government, and/ other stakeholders.
- Participate in monthly coaching forum to update the teacher’s coaching service with senior coach, ECE and M&E coordinators, management team.
- Coaching and Feedback
- Strictly implement the coaching guideline
- Observe the class activities, especially during the Khmer language subject (Learning and teaching as well as related personal hygienic activities; toothbrushing and hand- washing…etc.)
- Observe the learning and instructional materials (Teaching/session plan, teaching materials, and administrative documents or ledgers)
- Observe the class decoration (If it is made according to the standard)
- Conduct class demonstration when necessary.
- Interactive discussion to explore further gaps and challenges
- Providing feedbacks, suggesting possible solutions, and recommendations for further improvement.
- Provide training and material support to help teachers achieve their improvement according to the feedback/recommendations.
- Encourage school directors to participate in coaching/feedback session at least once a month.
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting
- Prepare the coaching report of each teacher under her/his supervision to the senior on regular basis (Follow to the coaching guideline)
- Ensure that additional Khmer’s teaching hours mainstreamed into other subjects to reach at least 8 learning hours per week (Ref. Coaching guideline)
- Assist the teachers to regularly administer and report the school readiness test and HCC’s literacy test for the five-year-old classes.
- Engage in appraising the performance of the teachers
- Work with school directors and teachers to ensure daily class operation will start from 7:00 to 11:00am and from 1:00 to 5:00pm for the afternoon shift.
- Collaborative Support with project officer
- Promptly share related concerned issues with the respective project officer in terms of school attendance, breakfast/snack and milk management, practice of hygienic activities, and situation of facilities as well as the playgrounds.
- Participate in problem-solving related to children and teachers’ issues (Ex. Low attendance, absence of teacher, maternity leaves, and recruitment of substitute teachers)
- Other tasks may be requested to perform by the senior coach when needed.
Expected Profile of Candidates
Qualifications:
- High School Diploma
Work History:
- With at least teaching experience for the state, community, and private pre-schools for 2 years
Skills & Knowledge:
General & Technical Skills
- At least completion of secondary education (Grade 12).
- Be trained for at least 15 days on pre-school pedagogy by governments, NGOs, and other institutions.
- Own smart phone and be able to use some communicable social media applications such Facebook, Chat Messenger, and Telegram…etc.
- Own a motorbike and be able to drive it.
Soft Skills
- Sound an interest in working in the rural communities and love children.
- Sound of good interpersonal and communication skills.
