VVOB
VVOB is an international NGO with programmes and projects in 10 countries worldwide. Our head office is based in Brussels, Belgium. When you join VVOB, you become a key player in VVOB’s mission to ensure quality education as a key enabler for achieving the sustainable development goals. We implement our programmes and projects with one shared passion: to ensure the improvement of quality education. Our teams of national and international experts achieve this by providing technical assistance to governmental and other education actors. In doing so, worldwide we ensure capacity building of governmental and other education actors. Do you share our ambition to ensure that learners around the world can enjoy their fundamental human right to quality education, without exception? Are you convinced as well that quality education guarantees equal opportunities for everyone and is the key to a better world? We are looking for an Education Advisor with expertise and experience in instructional design and blended learning who will be responsible for providing advice and capacity development of our education partners towards developing and testing new approaches and solutions for Continuous Professional Development (CPD) and pre-service teacher training. Learning Entrepreneurship and Agriculture Practically (LEAP) aims at improving the quality of agriculture and entrepreneurship teaching and learning in Uganda’s lower secondary (O-level) and secondary technical and vocational education and training (TVET) schools. The programme will be implemented over five years in National Teachers Colleges of Mubende, Unyama, Kabale and at the National Instructors College of Abilonino. Education Advisors operate from our Uganda Country Office in Kampala, with frequent travel to our operational partners. Do you want to take on this challenge? Then continue reading!
Result Areas: Key responsibilities for Education Advisors are as follows:
Key responsibilities for Education Advisors are as follows:
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You offer technical advice, guidance and support to partners and align and collaborate with internal VVOB colleagues to achieve project results and realize the educational change processes supported by the project.
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You contribute to the identification, formulation, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the project that you are assigned to in order to realize the educational change processes supported by the project.
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You take up a variety of roles in the capacity development process of the partners according to the needs of the partner and particular situations and phases of the programme;
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You keep abreast with policy trends, new developments and latest research and thinking in agricultural education and training, positive youth development / youth economic empowerment and international development by external and internal networking and share new insights with partners and VVOB colleagues.
Who are you?
This position is open to Ugandan nationals only.
Your expertise and experience:
✓ Master’s degree in education, human sciences, or other relevant field preferred or equivalent, advanced experience in relevant role.
✓ Expertise and experience in setting up and leading instructional design processes is a must. Instructional design experience for blended or online learning programmes is an added advantage.
✓ Experience with change management and capacity development processes in the context of educational institutions.
✓ Capability to appropriately plan and deploy a range of capacity development methods – e.g., workshops, training, coaching, mentoring, events, study visits, etc. to strengthen educational institutions and accompany change processes.
✓ An in-depth understanding of the national education system and the latest developments in the education sector, specifically teacher and school leader professional development, and capability to appropriately utilise this understanding in function of the programme that you are assigned to.
✓ In-depth understanding of new trends in education design processes and education technology and capability to appropriately utilise this understanding in function of the programme that you are assigned to.
✓ Excellent communication skills in listening, writing and public speaking
✓ Knowledge of and experience with programme implementation, preferably project cycle management.
✓ Capacity to manage service providers in the education sector
How to apply
Interested candidates should submit their online application via the link below, not later than 11 February 2022.
Online application link: https://uganda.vvob.org/vvob-uganda-vacant-positions-january-2022
Only shortlisted candidates will be invited for a written test (home assignment), and selected candidates will be invited for a face-to-face interview. Reference checks will be conducted before a final offer of employment. Please note, applications submitted without attaching a motivation letter and CV will not be reviewed. Due to the high volume of applications submitted, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
VVOB firmly believes that quality education can only be achieved if equity is ensured. Qualities of people prevail, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or disability. Is this not exactly the job you are looking for? Please have a look at our other vacancies at: https://www.vvob.org/en/vacancies.
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