Purpose

The EU Northwest Accelerating Basic Education and Livelihood Opportunities for Children and Youth Project aims towards emancipating the poorest, underserved, and most marginalized population groups including women, girls, youths and nomads to access quality, inclusive, gender and conflict sensitive education in Sokoto, Kano, and Jigawa.

The Project has a mandate to increase access to safe, quality, and inclusive alternative/ accelerated education programmes (ABEP) for 324,000 young girls and boys (194,400F & 129,600M, 32,400 persons with disabilities (PwDs)) and support their transition into formal or non-formal education using the Accelerated Basic Education Curriculum.

The ABEP curriculum and guideline have unique features that require facilitators/teachers and education managers to gain in-depth understanding for its effective delivery. The action will therefore support the training of a team of 5 master trainers (MTs) from each of Sokoto, Kano and Jigawa states.

To conduct the trainings, Plan International Nigeria will be identifying Training facilitators who have experience with ABEP curriculum and guideline to conduct the Training of Trainers at state level.

Training Facilitator

The training facilitator will be among other things be responsible for providing quality training to master trainers in Sokoto, Jigawa, Kano on the Accelerated Basic Education Program (ABEP). They will be responsible for reviewing and implementing the training manual and ensure training participants understand the program, the curriculum and the principles.

Specific objectives

• To identify and engage training facilitators who will train master trainers in Kano, Sokoto and Jigawa in order provide support on the Accelerated Basic Education Program (ABEP) to ensure children attending the Non-Formal Basic Education programme have equitable access to quality education in a protective learning environment.

  Roles and Responsibilities

• In addition to the above focus, the mentor Facilitator commits to the following:

• Build the Master Trainers’ capacities on content knowledge delivery, pedagogical and Social Emotional Learning skills whenever the need arise.

• Prepare gender sensitive training materials/resources and share with Plan International for review and subsequent approval.

• Ensure that training is done in line with the ABEP implementation guidelines, curriculum delivery methodology.

• To use the most appropriate and context specific methodology to deliver the training.

• Ensure the training on Social Emotional Learning is conducted effectively in line with the standard.

• Provide all necessary data and documents to the project staff as well as compile and submit report for training done.

• To train and ensure that the Master Trainers have the ability to understand, cope with any challenging situation they find themselves.

• Ensure adherence to Plan International Child Safeguarding and Gender/Child Protection Policies at all times.

  Plan International Nigeria shall

• Identify and select ABEP Training Facilitators

• Provide training materials to facilitators

• Organize Training of Trainers for the Master Trainers.

• Support in ensuring payment of incentives as per agreement during any engagement with facilitators in Plan activity.

  Others

• Training facilitators will be for the development of the training manuals.

• As per training, the training facilitators shall only be paid when invited and when engaged in activities.

• The training facilitators shall Inform Plan project staff in writing of any additional services that may be required which may be granted or declined based on availability of funds and project operational standards.

  QUALIFICATIONS

• Proven experience of the ABEP curriculum philosophy, framework and structure

• Clear understanding of the policy environment in the implementation of ABEP

• Cognate knowledge of the ABEP curriculum delivery approach and strategy

• Relevant experience in implementing ABEP

• Experience in facilitating trainings in similar contexts

• Understand the context of implementation

• Available to travel to conduct the training

• Masters or PHD in education, social sciences or similar field