Who are we?
VVOB – education for development is an international non-profit organisation with over 40 years’ experience in strengthening the quality of education systems in Africa, Asia and South America in close partnership with ministries of education and their institutions. Our head office is based in Brussels, Belgium.
We implement our programmes and projects with one shared passion: to ensure the improvement of quality education. In striving for that ambition, we place our values ‘commitment’, ‘integrity’, ‘respect’, ‘quality’ and ‘innovation’ central.
Do you share our ambition to ensure that learners around the world can enjoy their fundamental human right to quality education, without exception? Are you convinced as well that quality education guarantees equal opportunities for everyone and is the key to a better world?
We are looking for an Education Advisor who will operate from our Uganda Country Office in Kampala. Do you want to take on this challenge? Then continue reading!
Position in the organisation:
As an Education Advisor, you provide technical support focusing on training of partners, Development of Teaching Learning Support Materials (TLSMs), capacity development of VVOB staff and partners, planning, implementation and monitoring of the project.
The Education Advisor reports to the Education Manager. You are part of and work closely with your direct colleagues of the Programme Team and with the Project Coordinator when relevant. Furthermore, you work closely together with all other departments in your country, specifically the Strategic Education Advisors in your country, and with the Global Strategic Education Advisors at HQ.
Result areas of this position:
· Offer technical advice, guidance and support to internal VVOB colleagues to achieve project results and to partners in order to realise educational change processes supported by the project.
· Contribute to the identification, formulation, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the project in order to realise educational change processes supported by the project.
· Take up a variety of roles in the capacity development process of the partners according to the needs of the partner and particular situations and phases of the programme;
· Keep abreast with policy trends, new developments and latest research and thinking in education and international development by external and internal networking and share new insights with partners and VVOB colleagues.
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