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• Conduct
  evaluation of existing education system for gaps.
• Managing
  and leading student assessments.    
• In
  collaboration with government officials, adaptation and development of
  curriculum for formal education, non-formal basic education, and/or
  vocational/pre-vocational education.
• Developing
  community-driven systems for identifying and enrolling into school youth
  child laborers or those at risk of child labor.
• Designing
  and delivering teacher training on curricula as well as child labor
  awareness and unique education needs of withdrawn and at-risk child
  laborers.
• Creating
  and managing partnerships with academic institutions (technical colleges,
  training institutions, etc.) that provide training opportunities for
  youth.
• Designing
  and delivering a community child labor awareness and prevention campaign.
• Designing
  interventions for increasing government action to prevent child labor and
  improve education alternatives and decent work for youth.
• Managing
  staff in the field and overseeing education activities such as scholarship
  distribution and school improvement initiatives.
• Collaborating
  and maintaining working relationships with national and local government
  agencies (Ministry of Education and others), networks of educators,
  employers’ organizations, trade unions, and other relevant organizations.

• The
  applicant should possess a Bachelor’s level degree or higher in education
  or other social science.
• At
  least three years of professional experience in a technical role in
  implementation of child labor and/or complex basic education programs in
  developing countries such as: educational assessment of disadvantaged
  students; teacher training; educational materials development; educational
  management; monitoring and evaluation of basic education projects;
  education policy; educational quality and access improvement; and
  development of community participation in the improvement of basic
  education for disadvantaged children.
• Experience
  working with vulnerable children and their households in Uganda is
  required.
• Knowledge
  of exploitative child labor issues and experience in the development of
  formal, non-formal and vocational education programs for children removed
  from or at risk of exploitative child labor.
• Extensive
  experience in working successfully with ministries of education, networks
  of educators, employers’ organizations, and trade union representatives or
  comparable entities.
• Additional
  experience with education policy and monitoring and evaluation is an
  asset.
• Programmatic
  experience highly desired in gender, human trafficking, child labor, youth
  civic engagement and empowerment, and occupational safety and health (OSH)
  /decent work issues.
• Experience
  with donor-funded programs (preferably US government-funded) to reduce
  child labor desirable.
• Basic
  knowledge of child labor issues in the agriculture, fishing, forestry, and
  other relevant sectors in Uganda.
• Excellent
  written and oral communication skills in English required.
• Language
  Proficiency in Swahili and local languages an asset.

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