Save the Children ECCE Teacher Education Play Specialist Jobs in Ethiopia
Save the Children ECCE Teacher Education Play Specialist Jobs in Ethiopia
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.
Key Areas of Accountability: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
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.
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.
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
How to Apply
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