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.