Education Advisor – Continuous Professional Development job at VVOB - Education tor Development

Responsibilities

• You collaborate with colleagues – (Global) Strategic Education Advisors, Education Advisors, and MERL Advisors – to guarantee the quality, coherence and scalability of the YES Green CPDs and education solutions.
• You offer technical advice, guidance and support to CPD providers to realise the educational change processes supported by YES Green and achieve the envisaged results. You adjust your approach to the needs of the partner and to particular situations and phases of the project.
• You co-create high-quality teaching and learning support materials (TLSM) together with users, including teachers and world of work actors. You make sure these are appropriate for the context and target learners, aligned with the curriculum and conform the principles and key features of the three YES Green education solutions.
• You contribute to the planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of YES Green to ensure that the project stays on track in terms of the quality and timeliness of deliverables, processes and results for which you are responsible.
• You keep abreast with new developments and latest research and thinking in your domain through external and internal networking and your own professional development efforts and share new insights with VVOB colleagues and partners.

Qualifications and experience

• Master’s degree in Education, Human Sciences, or other relevant field or equivalent through proven professional experience.
• At least three years of proven professional experience in teacher professional development (content development, blended delivery, quality assurance & accreditation) – for either (lower) secondary education or (lower) TVET.
• Knowledge of and practical familiarity with the three YES Green education solutions
• Experience with Blended CPD delivery, Planning and deploying a range of capacity development methods, o Co-creation of teaching and learning support materials, together with users, and o Contributing to MERL through quality data collection and reporting as well as meaningful formulation and integration of lessons learned
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and digital collaboration platforms.
• Attitudes: curious, self-motivated, disciplined.

Other details

• A dynamic working environment in an international context.
• An exciting job in a growing organisation with varied responsibilities and opportunities for professional development.
• An opportunity to contribute to exciting, evidence-based projects aimed at ensuring the education sector in Uganda is strengthened by bringing in innovative solutions for the professional development of school leaders and teachers.
• Fixed-term contract linked to project funding
• A complete remuneration package, which includes a base salary and benefits.

• Collaborate with (Global) Strategic Education Advisors, Education Advisors, and MERL Advisors to guarantee the quality, coherence and scalability of the YES Green CPDs and education solutions.
• Offer technical advice, guidance and support to CPD providers to realise the educational change processes supported by YES Green and achieve the envisaged results; adjust the approach to partner needs and project situations and phases.
• Co-create high-quality teaching and learning support materials (TLSM) with users, including teachers and world of work actors, ensuring they are appropriate for the context and target learners, aligned with the curriculum and conform to the principles and key features of the three YES Green education solutions.
• Contribute to the planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of YES Green to ensure project deliverables, processes and results stay on track in quality and timeliness.
• Keep abreast with new developments and latest research and thinking through networking and professional development, and share new insights with VVOB colleagues and partners.

• Knowledge of and practical familiarity with the three YES Green education solutions
• Experience with blended CPD delivery
• Planning and deploying a range of capacity development methods
• Co-creation of teaching and learning support materials together with users
• Contributing to MERL through quality data collection and reporting and meaningful formulation and integration of lessons learned
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and digital collaboration platforms
• Curious, self-motivated and disciplined

• Master’s degree in Education, Human Sciences, or other relevant field or equivalent through proven professional experience.
• At least three years of proven professional experience in teacher professional development (content development, blended delivery, quality assurance & accreditation) – for either (lower) secondary education or (lower) TVET.