Vacant Positions: Tusome Early Grade Reading Activity
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The Tusome Early Grade Reading Activity is focused on classroom support, teacher training and improved access to learning materials to improve the quality of early literacy instruction in formal and APBET schools through a national literacy intervention.
Senior Education Specialist – Nairobi
The Senior Education Specialist will provide technical support for the implementation of Tusome in a large part of Kenya.
The Specialist will supervise technical teams in three offices in their work of developing and revising training materials, implementing training plans, and classroom supervision.
The Senior Education Specialist will work with RTI technical staff to identify, develop, and harmonize effective literacy instructional approaches to be used in Class 1 and 2.
The Senior Education Specialist will report to the Deputy Chief of Party Programs and will supervise the work of Education Officers for high quality and timely delivery of work, work closely with the MoEST and county officials, provide support to technical implementation and lead several technical teams.
S/he will also provide support to TAC tutors and instructional coaches in the implementation of Tusome.
Geographically, the Senior Education Specialist will supervise three offices and activities in APBET institutions, as well as manage additional technical activities as assigned.
The assignment is designed to provide high level technical support for effective project implementation.
Required Qualifications and Experience:
Minimum 10 year’s relevant experience in education development.
S/he needs to have a Minimum of Master’s degree in Education or in a related field.
S/he needs to have proven record in teacher training, teacher management, and experience supervising education officers.
Experience and knowledge working in early literacy is an added advantage, as is experience with APBET institutions.
Familiarity with the policies and procedures of the Ministry of Education, Science & Technology, the Teachers’ Service Commission, county level education leadership and local school communities is required.
Oral and written English and Kiswahili language skills are required.
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer – Nanyuki
The M&E Officer will work closely with the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and is responsible for supporting M&E activities for the Nanyuki region, supporting several counties.
S/he will manage the monitoring data and share it with external internal experts to improve Tusome’s use of data for decision-making.
S/he will submit high quality and clean data for aggregation to national level, and be able to quickly generate high quality periodic reports on Tusome progress.
The M&E Officer will also oversee particular research studies and supervise M&E Assistants in the organization.
The officer will support a small team of M&E Assistants, and play a proactive role to ensure that Tusome data is of high quality, that reports are done well and on time, and that decision-makers have data for decision-making.
S/he will provide direct assistance to build clients’ capabilities in M&E and act as a trainer of other technical assistance providers as needed.
Qualifications & Experience
- Minimum of Master’s degree in Statistics, Demography, population studies or a related field in Social Sciences with at least (8) eight years of experience in monitoring & evaluation.
- Experience in M&E capacity building for individuals and organizations required.
- Previous M&E experience on a donor funded program desired.
- Proficiency in evaluation design and development of indicators; designing and conducting small-scale research studies; report writing and working knowledge of descriptive and inferential statistics required.
- Stata or SPSS skills preferred. Previous supervisory experience required.
Temporary Graphic Designer – Nairobi
The graphic designer is responsible for creating design solutions for learning materials.
The role involves listening to RTI staff and other stakeholders and understanding their design needs; thinking creatively to produce new concepts, through developing designs to improve learning outcomes purpose.
Drawing and developing charts, graphs, basic illustrations, and other artwork, and laying out learning materials is the core part of the work.
The designer should have experience in supervising illustrators and using Adobe InDesign and other design software, including Illustrator and Photoshop or equivalent tools.
Qualifications & Experience:
- A diploma or bachelor degree in Fine Art, Communication design, Media arts, Print and digital media management or Visual communication and design.
- At least five years of experience as a graphic designer in a mainstream publishing outlet with demonstrated experience in layout and creative services.
- S/he needs to have proven competence in desktop publishing tools and design and image processing software.
- Accuracy and attention to detail and professional approach to time, costs and deadlines a must.
- Experience in developing instructional material for the education sector will be an added advantage.
To apply, please email cover letter and CV to hrapplications@nb.rti.org by 12th June, 2015 at 2.00pm.
Applicants must include job title in the subject line of the email.
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