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 in social and emotional learning who will be responsible for providing advice and capacity development to our education partners in a new project under the Teaching at the Right Level (TARL) programme. The Advisor will operate from our Uganda Country Office in Kampala, with frequent travel to the refugee and host community district of Isingiro. Do you want to take on this challenge? Then continue reading!
Result Areas:
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 primary education, teacher training models, and national developments in the education sector, and by external and internal networking, share new insights with local partners and VVOB colleagues
Who are you?
This position is open to Ugandan nationals only.
Overall expertise and experience required:
✓ MSc preferred or BSc with advanced experience in education, human sciences, or other relevant field.
✓ Demonstrable experience with social and emotional learning in crisis settings is a must-have.
✓ 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 the primary education sector in Uganda, and capability to appropriately utilise this understanding in function of the programme that you are assigned to.
✓ In-depth understanding of new trends in primary education and teacher training models in Uganda 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
What’s next? Interested candidates should submit their online application via the link below, not later than 11 February 2022. These positions are open to both internal and external applicants of Ugandan nationality.
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 that 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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