TEAM/PROGRAMME: ECCEE Project Team

Required Position: 3

LOCATION: Ethiopia Country Office, Addis Ababa

GRADE: 2A

TYPE OF CONTRACT: National

Child Safeguarding:

Level 2:  The role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The ECCE Teacher Education play specialist is a member of the USAID/LEGO Foundation-supported Childhood Development Project team. The project is implemented by the Save the Children Ethiopia Office and local partners targeting crisis-affected pre-primary school-age children in five regions of Ethiopia. 

The ECCE Teacher Education Play Specialist will be involved in providing training on the comprehensive ECCE play-based approach, MHPSS, and referral pathways to ECCE facilitators, local implementing partners, and government staff. She/he provides training on Accelerated School Readiness (ASR) Curriculum to IDP sites ECCE facilitators. She/he provides coaching and mentoring support to local implementing partner (LIP) staff and school cluster supervisors on a comprehensive ECCE play-based approach. Actively participate in the development of supplementary materials to make ECCE teacher education courses gender-transformative, disability-inclusive and conflict-sensitive. She/he leads the joint meetings of regional Universities ECCE center of Excellence, ECCE Teacher Education Colleges, and ECCE Centers for sharing innovative approaches, ground-level experiences and challenges and better coordination.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Senior ECCE Teacher Education Advisor

Staff reporting to this post: None  

Budget Responsibilities: None

Role Dimensions:

The ECCE Teacher Education Play Specialist will collaborate with ECCE TE collages for the integration of play-based approaches into the ECCE Teacher Education program through consultative engagement and joint development of supplementary guides of transforming training into play-based approaches.

The ECCE Teacher Education Play Specialist will collaborate with the project’s technology-based team to ensure the use of audio-taped ECCE lessons and print materials at ECCE centers. She/he supports LIP staff to ensure ECCE facilitators hold interactive ECCE sessions at ECCE centers. She/he collaborates with ECCE Teacher Education Colleges to create work linkage with nearby target ECCE centers.  Ensure that LIP staff holds parental sessions to strengthen parents’ capacity and follow up the parents’ experience of implementing ELM at home sessions. She/he will adapt the monthly Teacher Learning Circle guide and monitor the documentation of progress and challenges of the monthly teachers learning circle sessions of the ECCE facilitators. She/he will follow up on the provisions and documentation of coaching and mentoring support by LIP and school cluster supervisors to ECCE facilitators. Ensure the target ECCE facilitators enroll and complete the diploma-level ECCE Teacher Education course. Participate in the organization of the one-month ECCE leadership training for women woreda education experts, and follow up the implementation of subsequent coaching and mentoring of ECCE facilitators by the education experts.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

A.  Technical Leadership:

• Involve in  the development/adaptation of a teacher's guide on comprehensive play-based ECCE approach, and ASR teacher's guide

• Participate in the development of ECCEiE play-based supplementary materials for ECCE Teacher Education Colleges depicting conflict sensitivity, gender transformation, and disability inclusion perspectives.

• Ensure  coaching and mentoring guide are properly used by LIP and school cluster supervisors and held the session with  ECCE facilitators or O-class teachers

• Involvement in the capacity build of training of LIP staff, government staff, and ECCE facilitators on comprehensive play-based ECCE approach and Accelerated School Readiness curriculum.

• Ensure monthly teacher learning circle (TLC)/experience sharing sessions are held with ECCE facilitators or O-class teachers using a teacher learning circle guide by LIP and government school cluster supervisors

• Provide coaching and mentoring support to LIPs and school cluster supervisors on play-based ECCE teacher training program

B. Ensuring Program Quality (Design & Implementation):

Work closely with new business development colleagues to identify and pursue funding

• Involvement in the technical scoping and sequencing of cascading training on comprehensive play-based approach for ECCE facilitators,, LIP and government staff.

• Participate in the organization and running of cascading training in a way that develops knowledge and skills on play-based ECCE approaches.

•  Participate in a workshop to develop supplementary materials to help ECCE Teacher Education college instructors make courses  gender transformative, disability-inclusive and conflict sensitivity

• Work with school cluster supervisors and LIP staff to ensure that monthly teacher learning circles are held to develop specific skills on play based ECCE approaches

•  Participate and run regular linkage forums among the regional Universities ECCE center of excellence, ECCE Teacher Education Colleges and pre-primary schools result in experience exchange and learning. Besides, monitor that lessons from the regular sessions are integrated into the monthly coaching and mentoring sessions for ECCE facilitators’ specific skills development on play-based ECCE approach.

• Involve in the development of criteria for the selection of ECCE facilitators which are selected to be sponsored for diploma-level ECCE course in the regional colleges and support LIP in the selection process,

• Participate in the selection process of ECCE facilitators and follow up their enrollment, and regular attendance and complete the ECCE Diploma teacher Education program successfully.

•  Contribute inputs for the development of TOR on Leadership Training for district-level female ECCE experts for one month, and lead the process of the technical institution selection, training of the experts and ensure completion of all enrolled Worda female ECCE experts.

• In collaboration with LIP, monitor leadership coaching and mentoring support to female ECCE facilitators by the woreda female education expert.

• Contribute inputs to the preparation of case stories, project lessons and technical briefs on ECCE facilitator's technical skills improvement, challenges and success on implementing comprehensive play-based ECCE approaches, ECCE facilitator's professional level upgrading and female leadership training and subsequent coaching of female ECCE facilitators.

• Participate in  SCI-Education sector community of practice on lessons and evidence of ECCE TE training, Cascading training, TLC session and coaching and mentoring practices to ECCE facilitators  

• Facilitate and participate in joint field visits to project sites on how coaching and mentoring of ECCE facilitators by implementing partners are supporting ECCE facilitators to make ECCE learning sessions play-based.

• Participate on emergency data collection on conflict sensitivity, gender and disability.

C.  Networking & External Engagement:

• Work with regional, zonal, and district ECCEiE actors (INGOs, NGOs, CBOs and UN agencies) on ECCE facilitator/pre-primary school teachers’ competency improvement in conflict and crisis-affected regions.

• Participate on regional ECCE technical working groups and district-level ECCEiE learning forums

• Participate on strengthening CBOs and CSOs support to volunteer ECCE facilitators on the delivery of comprehensive ECCE play-based sessions at ECCE centers.

• Coordinate with technical colleagues from across Save the Children-Education, Child Protection and livelihood teams at a field level for sharing project evidences and learning.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values

• Holds their team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in accordance with the context, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same

• widely shares Save the Children’s vision, and engages and motivates others future orientated, thinks strategically and on a national and global scale.

Collaboration:

• builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters

• values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength

• approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• develops and encourages new and innovative solutions

• willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

• The post holder must commit to work in an international agency that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion and fights racism, gender inequality and discrimination in all forms; and to model positive behaviours that demonstrate a commitment to equality and respect to all colleagues, partners and communities.

Job Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS

• BA/Bed  degree in Early childhood Care and Education, EiE, Teacher Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Psychology or related field

• Training in ECCE Teacher Education program, teacher training strategies, program, training in play-based approaches/methodologies

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• At least 8 years experience in leading the design and implementation of the Teacher Education Program and at least 1 year’s experience in the ECCE Teacher Education program.

• Exposure to ECCE Teacher Education Strategies, preparation of ECCE teacher education course, and ECCE play-based approach in TE program.

• Understanding of ECCE policy framework and education sector in Ethiopia

• Awareness of regional education clusters, regional ECCE forums, or ECCE Technical working groups.

• Familiarity with the teacher education program,  and ECCE teacher education monitoring and evaluation tools,

• Experience in developing project activity action plan

• Experience in mobilizing the community to create a conducive environment for ECCE services at the community level

• Experience in creating collaboration with teacher education colleges, District Education Office, and ECCE centers.

• Able to use digital software for data collection and analysis such as KOBO TOOL BOX.

• Experience in integrating gender equality and inclusion in ECCE or education projects.

• Experience in developing school/learning center disaster reduction preparedness plan

• Experience in facilitating training in play-based ECCE approach, PSS, SEL, conflict sensitivity, disability inclusion, gender transformative approach, and in coaching and mentoring

• Good report writing skills.

• Good communication/ English language skills

KEY COMPETENCIES Technical competencies:

•    Ensures all children’s access to quality education

•    Ensures all children’s wellbeing

•    Supports all children’s learning and development

Generic Competencies

•    Being the Voice of Children: Promotes evidence-based policy and public engagement that includes the voices of children and their communities

•    Advancing Equality & Inclusion: Displays a commitment to ensuring everything we do considers the most deprived and marginalized children

•    Building & Strengthening Partnerships: Promotes working with diverse partners as critical to the delivery

•    Child Rights: Promotes the rights of children in their own work and in work with colleagues and peers

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within the reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI’s global Diversity, Equity and

Inclusion and Gender Equality Policies, supported by relevant procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Safeguarding our Staff:

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

How to Apply

Application Information:

How to Apply

Interested applicants who meet the MINIMUM requirements should apply using the below link:  THIS LINK