Consultant on Project-Based Assessment at Educate!

Background 

We are looking for an Assessment Consultant with expertise in Project-Based Assessment and learning assessment data use. The Consultant will support our Education System Solutions (ESS) work in Rwanda. We have already partnered with governments in Rwanda and Kenya to support skills-based curriculum reforms through our education system solutions, and results from a rigorous impact evaluation have shown that our cost-effective solutions create a real impact on youth through national education systems. The Consultant will work closely with the Group Strategist Scale, Sustainability, government advocacy experts, and our programs teams in Rwanda. The work will be geared towards developing approaches to scaling project-based assessment. This will include strategies for learning assessment data-use to inform decision-making on teaching, learning, and assessment interventions, as well as teacher professional development needs. These will support long-term changes to education systems and meaningful, sustainable curriculum and assessment reforms.

Scope of Work

We are looking for an experienced Consultant who will lead the work and deliver on the following: 

1. Desk research on scaling of project-based assessments by looking at assessment systems that promote project based learning at the secondary school level
2. Review pilot study findings on project-based assessment and offer insights, lead a process to draw out key insights and recommendations on approaches to scaling project-based assessment
3. Desk research on learning assessment data-use for decision-making on teaching, learning, assessment, and education sector policy priorities.
4. Develop a process that supports the team to work through and answer these questions with government partners:
   1. What decisions and actions could data generated through an assessment management information system inform? 
   2. How can we build the capacity of system actors to identify the questions they can answer with this data, build the infrastructure for the system to analyze said data, and incentivize system actors at different levels to use that data to inform decisions?

Qualifications and Experience

1. A postgraduate degree in social sciences or development studies in international education
2. Prior experience with and knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methods and sampling strategies
3. Proven experience in developing, assessing, and evaluating project-based assessment projects in education programs (preferably in schools within Eastern Africa/ sub-Saharan Africa)
4. Proven track record of  working on learning assessment data analysis/assessment tools with governments within Eastern Africa 
5. East African candidates are preferred but not essential