Regional Coordinator for the African Centre for School Leadership

VVOB is an international NGO with programmes and projects in 9 countries worldwide. Our head office is 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 a Regional Coordinator who will operate from the African Centre for School Leadership’s office in Kigali, Rwanda, to contribute to the development of the African Centre for School Leadership (ACSL), coordinating its activities in close consultation with partners in different parts of Africa, starting in Rwanda, Kenya and Ghana.

Responsibilities of the Regional Coordinator

As Regional Coordinator for the African Centre for School Leadership you contribute to the ambition and values of VVOB to initiate and develop the ACSL and to support Governments in the region to put school leadership on the education transformation agenda. Reporting to the Country Programmes Manager of VVOB Rwanda, you are the coordinator of support activities to partners of the Centre, in the first instance in Rwanda, Kenya and Ghana. Based on an assessment of their needs, you work closely with these partners and strengthen their capacity in the development of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) content and the design, development and delivery of CPD programmes and initiatives for school leaders. You are the primary point of contact for these partners. You work closely with the VVOB colleagues in Rwanda, in Kenya and at Head Office and with representatives of all partners of the Centre.

You will:

• Identify potential partners in the 3 countries in collaboration with the VVOB team and Ministries of Education.
• You coordinate the co-creation of CPD content and organize workshops on CPD delivery, including on the online and blended delivery of CPD.
• Set up appropriate structures and working arrangements with the selected partners through embedded country coordinators in the respective partner countries and organise regular coordination and progress meetings to steer the delivery of CPD programmes and initiatives.
• Follow up on delivery of CPD programmes in the partner countries through regular monitoring and evaluation, including through country visits, in close cooperation with the Strategic Education Advisor M&E and Research.
• Document lessons learned and best practices and facilitate learning between the different partners. You contribute to internal and external knowledge development and learning, by systemizing lessons learned and sharing these proactively between partners and colleagues.
• Contribute to regular process updates and reporting to the Centre’s partners, including donors and investors.
• Work together and support the Centre’s Strategic Education Advisor School Leadership in the development of regional standards on effective school leadership as well as in the development of CPD content amongst others on Gender and School leadership and on Ubuntu School Leadership.
• Reach out to potential additional partners of the Centre, represent VVOB and the Centre in relevant platforms and proactively look for synergies and complementarities.
• Work together with the VVOB team to identify potential learning partners as needed and potential financial partners who could further support the Centre.