EDC’s International Development Division (IDD) focuses on three major areas: literacy and basic education, youth livelihoods and workforce development, and health. Another key strand of EDC’s international work focuses on helping countries expand economic opportunity and build civic society.
EDC works with governments, agencies, and other partners in 35 countries to develop programs that are respectful of cultural traditions and beliefs. The international division comprises six regional centers coordinating EDC’s work in West and Central Africa, East and Southern Africa, North Africa and the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and South and Southeast Asia.
At the moment, EDC is preparing for a complex basic education project focused on improved improve early grade reading and writing outcomes in Malawi.
Community Mobilization and Engagement Specialist
- Experience mobilizing parents support to students’ acquisition of reading skills, in particular students enrolled in early grades of primary education.
- Experience developing easy to use training materials for training of communities in support of early grade reading activities.
- Demonstrated ability to transferring of reading instruction capacity to illiterate parents so that they in turn use the reading instruction skills to support students after classes
- Demonstrated successful professional career in community management, community mobilization, working through communities and working with communities.
- Ability to interact and build performing relationships with stakeholders especially with organizations, departments and institutions that complements the acquisition of reading skills at school and community level.
HOW TO APPLY:
Interested applicants may send resumes to IDDJobs@edc.org. Please list the position and region to which you are applying in the subject line of the email. No phone calls please.
