Early Years Education Specialist at Zizi Afrique Foundation

Operational Responsibilities / Tasks
Planning/Preparation

• Create or select short- and long-range plans based on the curriculum requirements, student profiles and instructional priorities.
• Identify specific intended learning outcomes that are challenging, meaningful, and measurable.
• Plan and prepare a variety of learning activities considering individual student’s culture, learning styles, special needs, and socio-economic background.
• Develop or select instructional activities which foster active involvement in the learning process.
• Identify, select and modify instructional materials to meet the needs of students with varying backgrounds, learning styles and special needs.
• Assist in assessing changing curricular needs and plans for improvement.

Assessment/Evaluation

• Develop and use assessment strategies, traditional and alternative, to assist the continuous development of learners.
• Analyze and identify reading problems.
• Interpret data including but not limited to standardized and other test results for diagnosis, instructional planning and program evaluation.
• Assist teachers in selecting, administering, and evaluating results of screening, diagnostic, and progress assessments.

Portfolio/Program Management & Oversight

• Serve as the Contracting/Agreement Officer’s Representative Activity Manager for the learning and education quality improvement activities.
• Provide overall technical guidance and oversight to education quality improvement education activities in the portfolio, including providing technical direction to partners; monitoring activities through regular site visits; review of annual work plans, progress reports, and technical reports; review of technical approaches and strategies; ensuring compliance with USAID guidelines and other established  guidelines, policies and procedures; tracking expenditures and accruals against obligations, making recommendations to implementing partners to increase project impact and enhance sustainability and reporting on project results.
• Direct, coordinate, and monitor activities necessary to attain specific results. Engage with implementing partners, and county government to assess the progress of activities towards achieving results and ensure that activities within the project portfolio are on track to meet time-bound targets, and if they are not, lead corrective actions with the necessary group of partners to get them back on track.

Job Competencies (Knowledge, Experience and Attributes / Skills).
Academic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in education or a related field and 7 years of relevant work experience.
• Previous relevant work experience required.
• Bachelor’s degree in education or a related field.
• 7 years’ experience on donor-based programming.
• Prior experience working with USAID partners or other donor partners is preferred.
• The Education Specialist must have experience in program design, management, and implementation of education programs in developing countries.
• A high degree of technical knowledge in improving the quality of education and learning outcomes is required. Prior experience working in early years grade reading or learning preferred.
• Can analyze programming issues and to develop a way to solve them; excellent writing and speaking skills; good interpersonal skills, including an ability to work as a member of a team, build consensus, provide leadership, and effectively coordinate with internal and external stakeholders in a multi-cultural setting.
• S/he must be able to organize work, develop schedules, and meet deadlines.