Education Advisor Primary Teaching & Learning (1 Position)
Position Summary Expectations - Duties, Responsibilities
Position within the team
The Education Advisor will strengthen our team’s early grade teaching and learning expertise with a special focus on math teaching for pre-service and in-service teachers. He/she will collaborate closely with the other Education Advisors, MEAL advisor and Operations Officers to achieve all programme goals.
The Education Advisor will report directly to the Country Programmes Manager.
Purpose of the function
The purpose of the function is to contribute to the realization of results of our current and upcoming development programmes financed by the Belgian Government and other donors. As such the Education Advisor:
- Contributes to the realization of the specific objective of the programme / project.
- Supports strategic and operational partners by developing and implementing capacity development trajectories to strengthen Primary (Math) teaching. This includes the development of learning materials, providing (online) training (internal and external?) and mentoring/coaching.
- Acts in accordance with VVOB’s vision, mission, values, policies, and guidelines.
- Contribute to the design and development of teaching and learning materials for primary-level maths.
- Support the implementation of the developed materials and learning trajectories.
- Facilitate meetings, workshops and training for different target groups, including pre- and in-service teachers, school leaders and ministry staff.Mentor and coach target groups to apply the new knowledge and skills in their daily practice
- Support the Operations Officers in their role to translate from English to Khmer and vice-versa, and provide quality assurance for translation and interpretation.
- Support the collection, analysis and reporting of M&E data in line with the programme’s objectives.
- Ensure compliance with VVOB’s financial policies and guidelines including adherence with accounting and procurement principles and requirements.
- Contribute to VVOB’s professional network in Cambodia and actively promote cooperation and coordination with relevant development partners to achieve harmonisation and synergies.
- Required Knowledge and Experience:
- Our ideal candidate has:
- At least a bachelor’s degree in primary education or in mathematics (preferably complemented with teacher training)
- At least 4-years of experience in teaching at a primary school and/or teaching mathematics or a related subject at lower or upper secondary school.
- In-depth understanding of:
- Primary curriculum and Early Grade teaching methodologies
- The national education system and policy and practices directed at teacher professional development, like the Teacher Career Pathway.
- Working proficiency in EnglishThe above describes our ideal candidate. Applications that fulfil at least two of the above criteria will be taken into consideration.
- Additional skills that are considered an asset:
- Knowledge of and/or experience with programme management, change management and capacity development within the Cambodian education system
- Experience with facilitating meetings, training, or workshops, providing comprehensive and convincing presentations to experts and/or advocacy with stakeholders
- Knowledge of and / or experience with equity and gender in education
- Knowledge of STEM education
- Language:
- Fluent in Khmer and English
- Other competencies:
- VVOB core competences:
- Cooperation
- Results orientation
- Continuous improvement
- Role specific competencesCreatvity
- Development Oriented
- 360 Empathy
- Communication Skils
- Problem Analysis & Judgement
