Early Childhood Education Advisor, Zambia READ
Position Summary
CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL is seeking an Early Childhood
Education Advisor to work on an expected 5 year, USAID-funded Reading Project
in Zambia. Let’s Read Zambia will target approximately 1.4 million students in
4,000 public and community primary schools, including Early Childhood Centers
that are clustered in an estimated 400 zones in 48 districts in the provinces
of Lusaka, Southern, Muchinga, Eastern, and Northwestern. The Activity will
ensure that students attending Grades 1, 2, and 3 in Zambian public and
community schools in five targeted provinces will have an opportunity to learn
to read grade level text with comprehension and to write at grade level in one
of the seven local official languages of instruction: Cinyanja, Chitonga,
Icibemba, Kiikaonde, Lunda, Luvale and Silozi after three years of primary
schooling in Grades 1-3. Pre-primary (Kindergarten) students in all of the
targeted provinces will develop oral language skills and emergent literacy
skills to prepare them for successful literacy acquisition when they enter
Grade 1.
The Early Childhood Education Advisor will be responsible
for the design, implementation and monitoring of ECE activities on the program.
This will include:
- Provide
technical programming, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation
support to country offices with ECE programming for children from birth to
eight years.
- Develop,
adapt, test, and refine ECE products based on needs of the project
- Lead
the ECE team in the development of a pre-primary curriculum with teacher
guide, daily lessons, formative assessment tools, and supplemental
materials based on country experience and the global strategy.
- Use
evidence to drive activity design and improvement and develop innovations.
- Monitor
new developments in ECE and participate in promoting the application of
best practices.
- Collaborate
on the adaptation and implementation of the MELQO assessment tool and
other appropriate early literacy assessment tools.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s
degree (Master’s preferred) in early childhood development, primary
education, or related field
- Seven
years’ experience in early childhood development related programming in
developing country context
- Experience
in materials development to support ECE programming
- Experience
facilitating workshops for adults
- Experience
working with teams to develop technical materials and support research
- Strong
communication and training skills
- Experience
working in the education sector in Africa, particularly in Zambia is
preferred
- Sound
knowledge of USAID rules and regulations
- Proficiency
in English is required
Eligibility: Zambian nationals are encouraged to
apply.
This position is contingent on funding.
Interested applicants are advised to email their
applications and detailed CVs to zambiaoffice@childfund.org and hmusukula@childfund.org .Application
letters clearly stating the position being applied for as the subject matter to
the above address are due no later than 5:00 pm 2nd February,
2018.
Please note that only short listed candidates will be
contacted.
ChildFund Zambia is an equal opportunity employer.
