Teacher development advisor- Somali Diaspora expert

Job Description

Duties& Responsibilities

The Federal Government of Somalia’s Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education (MOECHE), through the technical assistance provided by the IOM MIDA FINNSOM III Health and education project, seeks to build the skills of its teacher development advisors.

Under the overall guidance and direct supervision of the Director General of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education Southwest state of Somalia, the advisor will ensure an integrated strategy to support teacher quality improvement across all education subsectors. This includes ensuring strong teacher support systems in place, as well as teachers’ proper supervision, and well-structured training programs to support in-service training. The advisor will support the development of quality training materials, by making sure that are well aligned with government quality standards, objectives and the need to better coordinate and guide efforts to improve teacher quality.

The advisor will carry out the following duties and responsibilities:

Conduct a thorough needs assessment to identify areas for improvement in teaching and learning.
Support the design and implementation of teacher training, teacher training tools and mentoring strategies.
Assessing the performance of lower secondary teachers.
Coordinate the development of training modules for teachers in instruction and curriculum content areas, derived through the results of the abovementioned assessment.
Provide coaching and mentoring to teachers to enhance their pedagogical skills and teaching methods to impart knowledge.
Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the existing professional development programs for teachers.
Provide technical guidance, strategic advice and programmatic direction for the implementation of the workplan.
Collaborate with school leadership and other stakeholders to ensure that the professional development programs for teachers are duly rolled out and align with the ESSP.
Facilitating collaboration and sharing of best practices and lessons learnt amongst teachers.
Timely complete all relevant program deliverables and reporting duties.
The MoECHE Project Coordinator, the MoECHE M&E Specialist, and IOM’s project team will support this assignment through interaction with the qualified expatriate and beneficiary institution.
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