Chief of Party/Senior Technical Experts, Basic Education Programs
General Information
Location: Worldwide
Division: Education Programs Division
Reports To: Director of Education Programs
Date Posted: 11/1/2013
Application Deadline: 10/31/2014
Division: Education Programs Division
Reports To: Director of Education Programs
Date Posted: 11/1/2013
Application Deadline: 10/31/2014
Position Summary
IREX seeks Chief of Party and Sr. Technical Expert candidates for anticipated Basic Education programs. Individuals should be able to demonstrate experience in implementing and managing basic/primary education programs, and have a proven track record of providing expertise through training, mentoring, analysis or on-site consulting in one or more of the following areas:
• Basic education, including expertise in best practices of literacy and numeracy instruction, teacher development, school management, EGRA methodology, and technology for education;
• Ministry of Education-level capacity building.
Positions are contingent on funding.
Duties & Responsibilities
IREX COPs maintain overall responsibility for meeting program objectives and are based in the country of performance. Among other duties COPs:
• Provide strategic and technical leadership, ensuring that all program objectives are met
• Serve as point of contact for donor, ensuring high quality deliverables.
• Oversee and manage implementing partner relationships
• Liaise and collaborate with national and local government officials
• Develop and maintain effective partnerships with the local Ministry of Education, schools, and public and private sector institutions
• Design and manage delivery of capacity building programs for teachers, ministry staff, and school officials
• Manage and mentor project staff
• Coordinate with Home Office, ensuring that organizational and USG policies are implemented faithfully
• Oversee financial management, administration, compliance, monitoring, evaluation and reporting on program activities
• Represent IREX publicly and support its organizational development
Senior Technical Expert duties include:
• Provide creative vision, technical design, and implementation oversight to basic education programs, with focus in literacy and numeracy instruction, teacher development, school management, EGRA methodology, and/or technology for education
• Oversee and develop the creation of appropriate training curriculum for teachers, ministry staff, and school officials.
• Ensure that activities and milestones are implemented on track and that deliverables are of high quality.
• Contribute to the development of annual plans, work plans, and reports.
• Manage project staff and implementing partners.
• Maintain effective working relationships with local partners and stakeholders, including government officials.
Qualifications
• 7-10 years professional experience in basic education development
• Demonstrated commitment to education professionalism and development required
• Demonstrated ability to design and deliver effective capacity building programming and/or professional consultations in one or more of the mentioned areas of education sector support
• Field experience strongly preferred
• Experience managing donor-funded activities required; USAID experience strongly preferred
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop staff, manage budgets and plan strategically and creatively to meet specified objectives
• Strong representational and organizational skills required
• Ability to communicate professionally and provide written reporting in English required; knowledge of additional languages preferred
How to apply:
****To Apply****
Go to http://www.irex.org/careers and click on Current Openings. Then click on the corresponding position and apply through our website. Please supply a resume and a cover letter with your application. If you are creating a new profile you need to do so and then go back in to apply for a position.
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