CAMRIS
International seeks a Senior Reading Specialist to serve on the upcoming USAID
Tanzania’s “Let’s Read Together Activity”. The purpose of this
contract is to acquire technical assistance and instruct
ional materials
targeted at improving lifelong learning skills, defined as mastery of early
grade reading, writing, and arithmetic. Technical assistance will cover: (1)
improving quality of basic skills instruction at the early primary level; (2) strengthening
Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT) skills delivery systems;
and (3) increasing community and parental engagement in early primary
education. These three components align with the Government of Tanzania (GoT)’s
ten-year Education Development Sector Plan (EDSP)(see Attachment 5, item 22)
and other reforms underway, such as Big Results Now (BRN), Performance4Results
(P4R), and Global Partnership for Education Literacy and Numeracy Support (GPE
LANES) program on 3R’s (reading, writing, and arithmetic) reform.
Responsibilities:
- The
senior reading specialist provides overall technical oversight and
guidance to the project’s support to improved reading instruction. - He/she
supervises the production of all Tusome Pamoja-supported reading material,
all Tusome Pamoja-supported trainings in reading, all teacher and
classroom supervision and monitoring and all student testing efforts. - He/she
ensures complementarity of activity approaches in reading across the
Tusome Pamoja regions, liaises with government representatives and
technicians on technical matters, and bears ultimate responsibility for
ensuring that children in Tusome Pamoja schools achieve improved outcomes
in reading
Qualifications
Education:
- Requires
a Master’s Degree in education, preferably with a specialty in early grade
reading. - A PhD
in education with a focus on early childhood education and/or early grade
learning is preferred.
Skills and
Experience:
- At
least 8 years of experience in programs in sub-Saharan Africa that work
specifically to improve early grade reading is required. - Prior
experience with the development of early grade reading materials, training
programs, classroom monitoring protocols, and tests and assessments,
including EGRA, is required. - Prior
experience with supporting civil-society based monitoring of reading
outcomes is preferred.
Language:
- The
candidate must be professionally proficient and fluent in written and
spoken English. It is preferred, but not required, that the candidate be
conversant and fluent in written and spoken Kiswahili (FS 2+).
If interested in
this position please submit a copy of your most up to date resume to include
three professional references with contact information (phone and email) to https://careers-camris.icims.com/jobs/1592/senior-reading-specialist—-…
