Organization: VVOB – Education for development
Location: Accra | Nairobi
Grade: Level not specified – Level not specified
Occupational Groups:
Women’s Empowerment and Gender Mainstreaming
Education, Learning and Training
Closing Date: 2024-09-02
About Us
VVOB is an international NGO with programmes and projects in 9 countries worldwide. Our head office is based in Brussels, Belgium.
When you join VVOB, you become a key player in VVOB’s mission to ensure quality education as a key enabler for achieving the sustainable development goals. We implement our programmes and projects with one shared passion: to ensure the improvement of quality education. Our teams of national and international experts achieve this by providing technical assistance to governmental and other education actors. In doing so, worldwide we ensure capacity building of governmental and other education actors.
Do you share our ambition to ensure that learners around the world can enjoy their fundamental human right to quality education, without exception? Are you convinced as well that quality education guarantees equal opportunities for everyone and is the key to a better world?
We are looking for a Regional Strategic Education Advisor who will operate from our office in Kenya, Nairobi to contribute to the development of VVOB’s Gender Transformative Pedagogy (GTP) initiative as part of the Regional Teachers Initiative for Africa (RTIA) in different parts of Africa, starting in Kenya, Ghana and South Africa.
Do you want to take on this challenge? Continue reading!
Responsibilities of the Regional Strategic Education Advisor:
Contribute to the ambition and values of VVOB by providing technical and strategic advice and guidance within VVOB and outside.
Reporting to the Regional Technical Lead based in Kenya, you will work in close collaboration with the Global and Regional Strategic Advisors and Regional Coordinator, and VVOB regional and country teams.
You will:
Design and develop relevant Teacher Professional Development (TPD) for Gender Transformative Pedagogy (GTP) projects, in close collaboration with internal and external regional stakeholders.
Provide strategic advice and guidance to VVOB and VVOB’s partners on TPD for GTP, in line with policy trends, new developments and the latest research and thinking in education and international development.
Take up a variety of roles in the capacity development process according to the needs, particular situations, and phases of the programme cycle, including scaling.
Create and manage partnerships and strong networks with relevant partners, institutions, and organizations working on TPD for GTP initiatives.
Contribute to internal and external knowledge development and learning, by systemizing lessons learned and sharing pro-actively lessons learned between partners, colleagues and other VVOB country teams through relevant learning platforms and communities of practice (CoP).
Support the Strategic Communication Advisor on developing content for communication (e.g., website, video, social media…) and contribute to the dissemination of findings and results (e.g., international conferences, seminars, workshops, and other events) on TPD for GTP initiatives.
If you’re our Strategic Education Advisor, your workweek at the office may include the following highlights:
Together with VVOB and RTIA partners, you provide support, and give input and strategic thinking for a proposal for a new TPD for GTP project to be implemented in South Africa.
You think of strategic adjustments that need to be made to one of the ongoing GTP initiatives, to ensure quality of delivery and sustainability and increased opportunities for scaling. You develop strategic actions that would need to happen for these changes to be made, which you put into a presentation to be shared with the regional team.
Lunch! A perfect way to informally check in with your VVOB colleagues to hear the latest updates about the inception and implementation phases of the RTIA.
You prepare for a workshop on TPD for GTP with key members in the Ministry of Education in Ghana, liaising with key colleagues for their inputs in the planning.
You take some deep-dive time to work on your comparative report on factors and variables influencing scalability of GTP initiatives in various African countries.
Your expertise and experience
Master’s degree in education, human sciences, or related field or equivalent experience
In depth understanding of the regional education systems and education in development, especially on teacher professional development, gender equity and gender transformative pedagogy /education in the African continent
Experience with developing and implementing multi-country education programmes in the African continent
Experience in organizational and institutional capacity strengthening for national and regional partners
Experience in scaling strategies for innovations in education desirable
Experience in building strong networks and partnerships at the regional level
Fluent in English, French or Portuguese is an advantage
You are authorized to work in Kenya on a local contract
Matching competences
VVOB core competences:
Result-oriented
Continuous improvement
Cooperation
Function specific competencies:
Strategic Networking and Partnership Building
Persuasiveness
Creativity
Vision Building
Problem Analysis and Judgement
What we’re offering:
A dynamic working environment in an international context
An exciting job in a growing organization with varied responsibilities and opportunities for professional development
A competitive salary and benefits package, including a 13th month. The gross salary range for this position is: 300,000 to 350,000KES depending on seniority.
Please send your motivation letter and CV no later than Monday September 2nd, 2024, to recruitmentkenya@vvob.org
Shortlisted candidates will take a written test, go through an interview process and an assessment, before a final offer.
VVOB firmly believes that quality education can only be achieved if equity is ensured. Qualities of people prevail, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or disability.
Is this not exactly the job you are looking for? Please have a look at our other vacancies at: https://www.vvob.org/en/vacancies .