Technical Facilitator, GEP
Location: Thmor Kuol District
Position Overview
The GEP Technical Facilitator will be primarily responsible for supporting the government officer to scale up the life skills in the secondary and high schools in the assigned target by building the capacity of government officers including but not limited to conducting training on life skills for the government teachers, building the capacity of the District Resource Person (DRP) and school director to be able to support and coach teachers for the long term sustainability. This position will involve frequent travel to the assigned target schools, as well as regular facilitation with DRPs and teachers, the school director, the Technical Subject Leader, and the District Of Education Officer (DOE) for implementing the GEP scale-up approaches for life skill education. The position will report directly to the Girls’ Education Program Officer/Field Manager.
Compensation:
The salary range for this position will be determined based upon the experience of the candidate hired. Benefits including 13th month salary, performance bonus, provident fund, health and accidental insurances, leaves and staff professional development are also provided. Additional benefits include a unique opportunity to be part of an innovative, meaningful, and rapidly growing organization that is changing the world through the lifelong gift of education.
- DRP and Teacher Capacity Building
- Conduct periodic lesson observation, in target schools and provide ongoing coaching and mentoring support as agreed plan including demonstrating and supporting DRP to provide effective coaching and mentoring to teachers.
- Support DRP in organizing quarterly Professional Learning Communities (PLC) at the district level including DRPs, and teachers from different schools.
- Support DRP to organize quarterly technical reflections at the school level with teachers, and School Management.
- Support PO to coordinate annual program reflection meetings at the provincial level with all district DRPs.
- Develop TOT of life skills education
- Support DRP to cascade life skills training to teachers and support DRPs in conducting refresher training for existing teachers as needed.
- Develop TOT for DRP training on life skills
- Conduct ToT training life skills education in lower secondary schools to National Trainer, DRPs.
- Conduct refresher training for DRP based on the need
- Develop TOT for DRP training on mentoring and coaching package
- Conduct DRP training on mentoring and coaching package
- Program Planning, Implementation
- Support PO to identify new potential target for project scale up
- Provide input to the refresh contextualized training packages led by the technical team.
- Support PO to prepare letters to PoE, DoEs, and teachers to join RtR life skill training
- Attend quarterly technical meetings with program managers.
- Supports logistics and facilitates training and maintaining capacity building to Training of Trainers of teachers and school administrators on life skills education and scale-up approaches activities.
- Complete monthly PIM report with high accuracy and submit to PO follow agreed timelines.
- Ensure having clear actions to be taken which were found in the previous PIM Report
- Monitors and gathers information/data for reports on the status and progress of project sites.
- Timely prepare and submit monthly activities plan and report against suggested recommendation to supervisor.
- Assists in preparing program reports: monthly progress report, quarterly report, annual completion report and submit to supervisor and partners on a timely basis.
- Documents best practices and lessons learned observed during field visits and meetings and submit to relevant sections for communicating to external parties (government, donors, regional & global staff).
- Assist with collecting data for baseline survey for new target schools
- Represents Room to Read by attending and speaking at relevant forums and advocating for the importance of life skills at the district level.
- Other tasks
- Write a success story/ case study from the field
- Support stakeholder visits to the project site
- Attend other training/meetings as required
- Performs other duties as assigned by direct supervisor.
- Required
- Bachelor’s degree in related fields (Teacher training, pedagogy, education development…etc).
- Minimum 3 years of professional experience in education, relevant experiences with girl education and gender equality or teacher training is a plus
- Mature and demonstrate great skills in providing life skills training
- Sound good knowledge in gender equality and gender sensitization
- Prior experience working with students, teachers, school administrators,
- Demonstrate mature and good skills in dealing with government officials at least DoE and Schools Director level as well as relevant stakeholders.
- Have good coaching, facilitation, presentation and communication skills with teachers and students.
- Have a strong passion for girls’ education and gender equality, development, and social work.
- Ability to travel frequently and work in rural areas.
- Computer literate: basic Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- Preferred
- Prior experience in developing/using life skills training packages and tools
- High commitment and trustworthy
- Effectiveness in working in a non-profit organization that is focused on maintaining high-quality work
- Enjoy working with girls’ education programs to improve their life skills, traveling to communities in remote rural villages.
- Knowledge of basic project management and budgeting
- Ability to communicate basically in English.
