IRC Technical Lead Jobs Ethiopia 2024
IRC Technical Lead Jobs Ethiopia 2024: International Rescue Committee has announced latest Job vacancy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. You can apply to the job before the Application deadline Oct 30th, 2024. Before applying we suggest read the job description very carefully and also requirements about this position.
Position Quick Info
- Job Id: req53441
- Location: Addis Ababa
- Country: Ethiopia
- Category: Technical Units
- Employee Category Proposal
- Job Type: Full Time
- Work Arrangement: In-person
- Open To Expatriates: No
- Currency: Ethiopia Birr
- Compensation: Monthly
Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities:
Responsible for overall design and delivery of a high-quality, evidence-driven and relevant technical assistance approach, aligned with the priorities of the Ethiopia Ministry of Education (MoE) as well as FCDO and the World Bank managed ETOL programme & STEP.
Leads the refinement of the programme’s technical scope in close coordination with FCDO, the MoE, and ETOL.
Designing feasible and evidence generating interventions that will be positioned for scale-up in the larger ETOL programme.
Ensures overall quality assurance for all technical assistance provided under the TREE TA programme.
Supervise direct reports (technical specialists) and manage short-term consultants and technical service providers.
Serve as the lead TREE focal point for the technical coordination with ETOL and STEP programmes (lead on technical alignment).
Ensures continuous learning and capacity building of regional governments and national partners, supported by detailed planning and implementation.
Ensures coordination of research, learning, and best practice sharing across targeted provinces.
Ensure adequate technical resourcing of the TREE programme from both in-country resources and globally available resources, as well as demand-driven STTA from a pool of available candidates, to meet the specific short-term TA needs of provincial governments.
Qualifications:
At least 10 years of experience providing technical assistance in Ethiopia or in similar contexts.
In depth knowledge and understanding of Ethiopia’s education landscape, delivery chain, and major barriers in delivering inclusive and quality education through formal and non-formal government initiatives.
Expertise in supporting program implementation at all government levels (regional, zonal, woreda, and school) through technical assistance, capacity building and basic education sector reforms and systems strengthening.
Experience with evidence generation through research and ensuring alignment between global best practice and country level implementation.
Expertise in the use of data to inform programming in a dynamic and ongoing fashion and recommends evidence-based course correction
In-depth understanding of supporting the delivery of education programs with strong elements of Inclusion, including gender consideration in program delivery, disability inclusion, and religious inclusion.
Expertise in areas of teaching and learning including curriculum material development, teacher professional development, assessment, school leadership and administration
Strong leadership and communication skills to guide and mentor the project team members as well as foster collaboration with stakeholders.
Problem solving capabilities – strong analytical and troubleshooting skills to resolve issues and ensure project goals are met in a timely manner.
Ability to work effectively and collaboratively and develop constructive relationships with government at both strategic/policy and service delivery levels, including positive influencing skills.
Extensive experience in directly delivering and coordinating large-scale Technical Assistance programs to influence education policy reform in similar contexts.
Knowledge of local context and networks in Ethiopia ensuring that strong working relationships are maintained with academic institutions, civil society, and other development partners.
Experience in managing high-level technical staff and quality assurance of technical outputs such as reports.
Having fluency in any of the needed language skills (Amharic and English) is preferred.