Contribute to achieving retention of adolescent girls in schools through planning, monitoring and implementing the an early warning system for drop out of school and supporting the roll out of best practices and models in a manner that promotes ownership and sustainability.
Areas of Responsibility:
Project planning and implementation
- Plan and coordinate all district based project activities in consultant with the Education Specialist
- Supervise and monitor ongoing school based project activities.
- Ensure quality in rolling out of education project models ensuring sufficient funds allocated to particular activities in annual plans
- Ensure that teachers and adolescent girls are supported in breaking down models into simpler work breakdown structures for easy implementation
- Track and manage activity budgets and ensure timely and cost effective project implementation.
- Produce timely, accurate, compliant and quality reports
- Participant in project management meetings and reflection forums
- Support and participate in district education Advocacy initiatives
- Ensure cross cutting themes are mainstreamed in education project.
Technical support and training
- Develop a district capacity building plan and mobilize participants for capacity building
- Mobilization of and conducting trainings to build capacities on early Warning Systems
- Provide mentoring and coaching to teachers and district staff to build local capacity for understanding and connecting with community linkages.
- Identify technical experts to train district and community groups
- Liaise with the Program manager for technical support on capacity building in Early Warning systems for drop out
Partnership and networking
- Identify and build strategic linkages, relations, collaborations and networks with partners and other stakeholders in implementation at the District level.
- Mobilization of teachers and parents for project activities
- Participate and represent WVU in key technical working forums at district,
- Point of contact for consultation on issues to do with project education programming.
- Conduct advocacy campaigns for education in general and girl child education in particular
Documentation and Reporting
- Conduct school mapping and peer group mapping in preparation for project activities
- Effectively document all information related to girl child enrolment trends in targeted school
- Responsible for capturing individual children attendance, performance and behavior indicators related to drop out of children
- Document good practices and project success stories and share them
Educational Background:
A Bachelor’s Degree in Education, social science or any related field
Skills/Experience:
- 2 years practical experience in education programming , experience in secondary education is desirable and practical experience in HIV/AIDS programming will be an added advantage
- Experience at working with youth and adolescents (including at risk youth) in schools
- Good Training facilitation and coordination skills
- Excellent monitoring documentation and evaluation skills
- Experience in conducting school mapping and report writing
- Experience in working with youths and adolescents
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jan 30 2018
Active Until:
Mar 3 2018
Hiring Organization:
World Vision
industry:
Nonprofit