Pre-Primary National Teacher at Lutheran World Federation

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Initiate curriculum development process, its implementation and evaluation to ensure it is relevant and achievable in schools;
• Organise and provide appropriate education for early years programmes; plan and implement competence based curriculum for children aged 4-8 yrs.
• Impact knowledge and skills to the learners.
• Working with school management and other stakeholders to ensure successful implementation of competence based curriculum.
• Facilitate on pre-writing, pre-reading, numeracy and creative experimentation and availing learners with opportunities to learn and care for self.
• To engage learners in various activities in school that support them with psychosocial skills allowing them to communicate and associate effectively with others.
• Prepare and compile each learner’s assessment and store them for future reference.
• Preparing and updating professional documents and working as team to deliver the right content.
• Provide support and guidance to the learners to identify their abilities and talents.
• Participate in development of relevant play and learning materials for the learners.
• Identifying, assessing and referring learners with special interest and giving them support and attention.
• Ensuring safety of learners during education programs as well as teaching learning process.
• Capacity building of learners, incentives teachers and parents on specific needs, modification and accommodation of learners.
• Provide care and nurturing spiritual, moral, social and mental growth of the learners.
• Training on learners on toileting and personal hygiene.
• Support child protection by identifying, referring/supporting children with protection concerns and providing psychosocial support
• Work with protection focal teachers and teacher counsellors to improve safety and child protection in schools and community
• Coordinate gender mainstreaming issues for teachers and learners in curricular and co-curricular activities such as sports to ensure gender equity, equitable participation and maximization of potential of teachers and learners;

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• At least a certificate in ECDE education from a recognized teacher training institution.
• Must be currently serving as a pre-primary teacher with an experience of at least three (3) years.
• Experience working in an informal settlement either rural or urban is desirable.
• Must be registered by TSC with a valid registration certificate;

COMPETENCIES

• Experience of working in refugee schools or with refugee community in the camp or urban set up.
• Exemplary guidance and counselling skills, and experience in provision of psychosocial support
• Ability to use e-learning devices for teaching, data collection, analysis and dissemination
• Passionate for inclusive education
• High level of integrity, commitment and professional responsibility.
• Ability to tolerate cultural, educational and religious diversity in the work place.
• Passionate for inclusive education and some experience in mainstreaming child protection and gender issues in education
• High level of integrity, commitment and professional responsibility.
• Ability to tolerate cultural, educational and religious diversity in the work place.
• Good analytical and problem solving skills.

A person of high integrity that will model LWF/WS Kenya Somali Program core values:

• Dignity and justice
• Compassion and commitment
• Respect for diversity
• Inclusion and participation
• Transparency and accountability