Educational Technical Advisor

Position Description

The Education Technical Advisor is responsible for supporting grantee access to and use of the best available evidence and materials to support teaching and learning activities under Objective 3: Increased access to and retention in inclusive, quality education, particularly for the most marginalized learners. The position will also support project activities more broadly across all objectives. The Education Technical Advisor reports to the Chief of Party (COP). This position can be based in the United States or Latin America, with preference for Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, or Mexico.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities of the Education Technical Advisor include, but are not limited to:

Lead the development of evidence-based approaches to improving classroom instruction for reading for use by grantee organizations, including materials development and teacher training. Contribute to the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of all activities that grantees undertake that aim to improve teaching and learning. Ensure that prior work by USAID, donor community and education sector is integrated into design, planning, and implementation. Ensure integration of learning improvement technical activities by leading the technical aspect of the annual work planning process, implementing the annual workplan, ensuring close integration of technical activities with monitoring, evaluation, and learning efforts, and cost-effective operational management. Provide inputs to reporting and deliverables as required, including but not limited to weekly progress reports, quarterly reports, annual reports, etc. Promote and support a community of practice linked to a broader knowledge base on teaching and learning, with a particular emphasis on foundational skills development for marginalized and vulnerable learners. Maintain relationships with key sector partners, donors, consultants, counterparts and stakeholders. Organize and undertake trips to program sites across the LAC region to ensure sound implementation of program teaching and learning activities. Demonstrate professional behavior, including a commitment to conflict-sensitivity, gender sensitivity and social inclusion and environmental protection and being a team player within the project, and growing and learning. Perform other duties as assigned by the COP.
Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree and 12 years of experience, or a Master’s and 9 years of experience. Degrees in education, reading and literacy instruction or related field; specialization in reading and literacy preferred.  Nine years’ professional work experience in the education sector, experience in international funded programming in reading a plus. Experience implementing education development programs in primary and/or middle school, particularly in reading in LAC region preferred. Knowledge/experience in primary/middle school teacher training in LAC region. Strong oral and written communication skills. Excellent organizational skills, process and systems-oriented, with a strong attention to detail. Proficiency in Spanish, Professional proficiency in English. Prior experience working with donor-funded projects, particularly USAID.

Disclaimer

The above information in this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

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