Education Officerer

 Job Position: Education Officerer
Duty Station: Morogoro Municipall
Agreement: Contractt
Job Objective: Responsible for overall coordination of education interventions.ns.

Vacant post: 1 postost

Main Duties & Responsibilities:
Lead the implementation of the Whole School Approach (WSA) in primary schools, including leading and participating in WSA related stakeholder meetings and trainings.
Support the District Implementation Teams including Ward Education Coordinator (WEC), Ward Executive Officer (WEO), and District Education Officer (DEO) to implement WSA.
Support community mobilization and mapping to identify school related needs to inform the School Development Plan.
Support District Implementation Teams to finalize the School Development Plan to improve OVC access to education and disseminate the plan to the community.Support School Development Plan implementation, bi-annual reviews and re-planning sessions to assess progress toward targets.
 Ensure that block grants to primary and schools in wards implementing School Development Plans are coordinated with the WSA activities.
Support WEC to identify trends in the WSA processes and outcomes, with technical support from Pact’s Technical Services Coordinators-Education.
Support Local Government Authorities to conduct semi-annual planning and review meeting of girls’ transition with all WEC.
Map pre-primary providers in target districts, and identify target pre-schools/communities.
Participate in low cost material development training and then ensure high quality trainings to preschool teachers.
Provide monitoring and continuous support to primary schools implementing the WSA and to pre-primary schools implementing low cost material development.Work with the M&E officer to ensure WSA and Low Cost Material Development data are accurate and produced at least monthly; use data for decision-making.

Qualification and Experience:

Education Background:
-Advanced diploma or Bachelor’s degree in education, international development or the equivalent;

Working Experience:
-At least 3 years of solid experience working in education programming and international development;
-Thorough understanding of the global and national efforts in education.
-Experience of working with teams in remote locations;
-Familiarity with monitoring and evaluation methodologies and logical frameworks;
-Demonstrated capacity to write high quality reports;
-Strong leadership, teamwork and management skills;
-Ability to multi-task and work on tight timelines;
-Good written and verbal skills in English. Knowledge of Kiswahili will be an advantage;
-Positive communication and organisation skills;

All qualified candidates should send their fully filled Applications including a covering letter, academic certificates (copies) and detailed CV to :hacocavacancies@gmail.com

 Deadline for applications is 16:00 May 1st 2017. Only Short-listed candidates will be contacted.