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Job Title:  Education Advisor  

Organisation: VVOB International

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About Organisation:

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.

About LEAP Programme:

The LEAP programme is being implemented in national teachers’ colleges of Mubende and Unyama, Gulu University and the National Instructors College of Abilonino partnering with the Ministry of Education and Sports, and a range of other partners in the skilling, agriculture and education sectors.

Job Summary:   The Education Advisor will be responsible for co-designing and delivering capacity development trajectories that ensure partners are able to design and test a new Continuous Professional Development package for in-service teachers and school leaders. The education advisor will also offer his or her expertise towards instructional design and blended learning in the context of pre-service training and capacity development trajectories. Together with other advisors on the programme, s/he will support the quality and fidelity of implementation of the programme at the college level.

Education Advisors report to the Education Manager and work closely and directly with colleagues in the LEAP programme, the education department, and all other departments of VVOB in Uganda.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• You offer technical advice, guidance and support to partners and align and collaborate with in-ternal VVOB colleagues to achieve project results and realize the educational change processes supported by the project.
• 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 pro-cesses supported by the project.
• 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;
• You keep abreast with policy trends, new developments and latest research and thinking in agri-cultural 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.

Qualifications, Skills 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

Matching Competences

VVOB core competences:

• Cooperation
• Continuous improvement
• Result Orientation
• Function specific competencies:
• Creativity
• Development oriented
• 360° Empathy
• Communication skills
• Problem Analysis and Judgement

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested candidates should submit their online application via the link below

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Deadline: 12th July 2024.

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