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IMPORTANT: All applicants must be legally eligible to work in the country where the position is located. Room to Read is not able to provide sponsorship.

Position Overview

The Girls’ Education Program Technical Facilitator (GTF) will be primarily responsible for supporting the government officer to scale up the life skills in the secondary and high schools in the assigned target by building the capacity of government officers including but not limited to conducting training on life skills for the government teachers, building the capacity of the District Resource Person (DRP) and school director to be able to support and coach teachers for the long term sustainability. This position will involve frequent travel to the assigned target schools, as well as regular facilitation with DRPs and teachers, the school director, the Technical Subject Leader, and the District of Education Officer (DOE) for implementing the scale-up approaches for life skill education. The position report directly to the Field Manager.

Roles and Responsibilities

District Resource Officer and Teacher Capacity Building (50%)

• Conduct periodic lesson observation, in target schools and provide ongoing coaching and mentoring support as agreed plan including demonstrating and supporting District Resource Person (DRP) to provide effective coaching and mentoring to teachers.

• Support District Resource Person in organizing quarterly Professional Learning Communities (PLC) at the district level including District Resource Person, and teachers from different schools.

• Support District Resource Person to organise quarterly technical reflections at the school level with teachers, and School Management.

• Support PO to coordinate annual program reflection meetings at the provincial level with all district.

• Develop Training of Trainer (TOT) on life skills education

• Support District Resource Person to cascade life skills training to teachers and support District Resource Person in conducting refresher training for existing teachers as needed.

• Develop Training of Trainer for District Resource Person training on life skills

• Conduct Training of Trainer training life skills education in lower secondary schools to National Trainer, District Resource Person.

• Conduct refresher training for District Resource Person based on the need

• Develop Training of Trainer for District Resource Person training on mentoring and coaching package

• Conduct District Resource Person training on mentoring and coaching package

Program Planning, Implementation (30%)

• Support Field Manager to identify new potential target for project scale up

• Provide input to the refresh contextualized training packages led by the technical team.

• Support Field Manager to prepare letters to Provincial office Education, District office Education, and teachers to join Room to Read life skill training

• Attend quarterly technical meetings with program managers.

• Supports logistics and facilitates training and maintaining capacity building to Training of Trainers of teachers and school administrators on life skills education and scale-up approaches activities.

• Complete monthly Program Implementation Monitoring report with high accuracy and submit to Field Manager follow agreed timelines.

• Ensure having clear actions to be taken which were found in the previous Program Implementation Monitoring Report

• Monitors and gathers information/data for reports on the status and progress of project sites.

• Timely prepare and submit monthly activities plan and report against suggested recommendation to supervisor.

• Assists in preparing program reports: monthly progress report, quarterly report, annual completion report and submit to supervisor and partners on a timely basis.

• Documents best practices and lessons learned observed during field visits and meetings and submit to relevant sections for communicating to external parties (government, donors, regional & global staff).

• Assist with collecting data for baseline survey for new target schools

• Represents Room to Read by attending and speaking at relevant forums and advocating for the importance of life skills at the district level.

Other tasks (20%)

• Write success story/ case study from the field

• Support stakeholder visits to the project side

• Attend other training/meetings as required

• Performs other duties as assigned by direct supervisor.

Qualification:

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in related fields (Teacher training, pedagogy, education development…etc).

• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in education, relevant experiences with girl education and gender equality or teacher training is a plus

• Mature and demonstrate great skills in providing life skills training

• Sound good knowledge in gender equality and gender sensitization

• Prior experience working with students, teachers, school administrators,

• Demonstrate mature and good skills in dealing with government officials at least DoE and Schools Director level as well as relevant stakeholders.

• Have good coaching, facilitation, presentation and communication skills with teachers and students.

• Have a strong passion for girls’ education and gender equality, development, and social work.

• Ability to travel frequently and work in rural areas.

• Computer literate: basic Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Preferred

• Prior experience in developing/using life skills training packages and tools

• Effectiveness in working in a non-profit organization that is focused on maintaining high-quality work

• Ability to communicate basically in English.

Compensation:

Room to Read offers a competitive salary with attractive benefits. Benefits include 13th month salary, provident fund, monthly medical allowance and yearly medical check-up, health and accidental insurances for staff and their family, leaves and staff professional development are also provided. The non-monetary compensation includes a unique opportunity to be part of an innovative, meaningful, fun, and rapidly growing organization that is changing transforming the lives of millions of children in developing countries by focusing on literacy and gender equality in education.

Child Protection Principles

• Room to Read is committed to the education and welfare of children and protecting them from abuse and exploitation
• Room to Read has zero tolerance for child abuse and exploitation.
• All children have the right to be free from abuse and exploitation, including neglect, maltreatment, and physical, mental or sexual violence, injury or abuse.
• All children should be treated with respect and dignity.
• The well-being of the child is Room to Read’s first priority when dealing with all identified or suspected cases of child abuse.
• Room to Read shall integrate child protection into all its organizational strategies, structures and work practices.

Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Principles

• Room to Read Representatives must create and maintain an environment that prevents sexual exploitation and sexual abuse.
• Room to Read has zero tolerance for adult sexual exploitation and abuse.
• Sexual exploitation and abuse are serious violations of fundamental human rights and will not be accepted or tolerated.
• All adults should be treated with respect and dignity.
• Room to Read implements a survivor-centered approach, putting the survivor’s rights and dignity at the forefront.
• Survivors referred to available professional assistance (e.g. mental health counselling), upon consent.

Room to Read is an equal opportunity employer committed to identifying and developing the skills and leadership of people from diverse backgrounds.

Read is a child-safe organization; all personnel must adhere to Room to Read’s Child Protection Policy, Child Protection Code of Conduct and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Policy.