Mastercard Foundation's Accelerating Impact for Young Women in partnership with BRAC (AIM)

Technical Sector Officer (TSO) - Education

Central and Upper West Region ( one per region)

Reporting to

Regional Manager

No. of people supervised (including the name of the positions)

Direct Reportees: 0

Indirect Reportees: 5

Supervision received by:

(Name of the position)

Direct supervision by the Regional Manager, AIM

A dotted line to the Education Specialist, AIM

About the AIM Program

The Mastercard Foundation Accelerating Impact for Young Women (AIM) in Partnership with BRAC is equipping 2 million adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) with age-appropriate entrepreneurship, employability, and life-skills training, as well as the tools to start and scale their own businesses. The nine-year program (2021-2030) applies BRAC’s proven model using microfinance, youth empowerment, agriculture, education and skills development to improve lives and livelihoods. It currently operates in seven African countries: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and Kenya. Based on the AGYW age, needs, and circumstances, AGYW are placed on one of two pathways of the AIM program: an education pathway or a livelihood pathway.

About the AIM Education Pathway

This AIM education pathway is closely aligned with the Mastercard Foundation’s strategic priorities under its Young Africa Works initiative, particularly the emphasis on improving the quality and accessibility of secondary education to better prepare young people for meaningful work. Through a set of integrated interventions, AIM Education targets structural and social challenges that often hinder girls’ educationincluding financial barriers, inadequate infrastructure, undertrained teachers, harmful gender norms, lack of community support, and weak school governance systems.

The Technical Sector Officer (TSO) - Education will support the AIM Regional Manager in planning, implementing, and ensuring the quality delivery of the AIM education pathway.

They will be responsible for technical & implementation-related tasks under AIM education pathway, i,e. facilitating training, reviewing content and curriculum and adapting it to their context, and supporting teachers' professional development as well as school leadership's school improvement planning processes. They will also contribute to staff capacity development through targeted training and supervision.

The TSO-Education will collaborate with the region & country level program team, other sectral TSOs for any technical need/query, to improve program quality, contextualize training modules, and train staff on new materials and tools. They will ensure effective delivery of gender responsive training for the teachers and school management and support creating an enabling learning environment in the AIM supported secondary schools. Also ensure effective delivery of parental engagement to support in increasing access to and completion of quality secondary education for very young adolescents (VYAs) and adolescent girls (AGs) aged 12-17 years.

An ideal candidate for this role is one with strong technical skills and experience in developing and reviewing quality education curriculum content, teachers’ guides, teacher training manuals, including a strong background in training teachers and educators. S/he should have strong training skills, coordination and negotiation skills, be proactive, passionate, resourceful, and enjoy being a team player.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical Support

Support AIM team in the inception phase activities (in delivering education messages during community mobilization and inception meetings, family meetings, YDC meetings, etc.).

Work closely with the AIM Education Specialist in preparing the MoU templates for the schools.

Support in obtaining Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with relevant ministries at the regional and/or district/county level, and schools.

Meet with relevant regional and district officials and share the MoU that outlines the key objectives of AIM education pathways and how MoE and the district will support and allow access to local education departments and schools, and school records.

Support developing/reviewing/updating/adapting, existing teachers’ guide and contents for the teachers and school leadership in the country context in coordination with the AIM education specialist and BRAC International (BI) technical anchors.

Support developing /reviewing/updating/adapting the training guide on school management and school improvement plans in close coordination with the AIM education specialist and BI technical anchors.

Support developing a training guide for the peer mentors, support groups, and tutoring in close coordination with the AIM education specialist and BI technical anchors.

Support AIM program assistants (PAs) to identify Teacher Champions in the schools

Support the AIM education specialist to ensure the establishment of a robust system for the smooth transfer of school-related support costs to ensure AGs' financial support to continue their education.

B. Direct Operational Support

Facilitate training for AIM PAs, teachers, and school leadership on gender responsive pedagogy, mentorship, and tutoring.

Facilitate training for school leadership, school management/and parent-teacher associations (PTAs) on school improvement planning.

Work closely with the school administrations, head teachers, teachers and school management committees (SMCs)/PTAs for the inception and introduce the AIM education pathway activities.

Support AIM PAs to do monthly follow-ups of the AIM education pathway interventions for quality program outputs.

Conduct/attend different levels of staff meetings.

Identify the knowledge gap of programme staff and take necessary steps for their improvement.

C. Coordination, Planning and Partnership and M&E

Support coordination with a range of stakeholders, including teachers, school leadership, school management, parents' teachers association, Government education officials, to support school-related interventions

Work with the identified Alternative Education providers in the region and coordinate to enrol eligible AIM participants

Contribute to the design and implementation of a monitoring framework to track progress, assess impact, and inform adjustments of the training plans and delivery

Report back to the Government education officials/MoE as outlined in the MoU on activities done by BRAC

D. Reporting, Documentation and Communication

Contribute to program reports and deliverables as required.

Identify and document best practices, most significant change stories, and share this knowledge with colleagues.

Ensure quality reporting on enabling learning environments at school, and document good practices.

Support regional managers, branch managers, and programme assistants regularly to ensure timely and high-quality programmatic data entry and reporting in the relevant manual and digital MIS (BInsight).

Support the AIM Education Specialist in the documentation of program wins and success stories / case studies

Ensure timely preparation and submission of programmatic management information system (MIS), training reports and share project progress reports regularly with the AIM regional manager and education specialist.

E. Safeguarding

Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation to achieve the project goals on safeguarding implementation.

Practice, promote, and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.

MAJOR CHALLENGES

Access of hard to reach locations in the communities AIM serves

Coordination with different schools

Coordination with the BI team in different time zones

Managing coordination among several team members within the BRAC family

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (KPIs)

Timely achievement of project activities.

Quality of the training guides and content prepared

Efficient and quality delivery of the different AIM education pathway training.

Effective staff, teachers, and school leadership capacity building on gender responsiveness

Effective use of resources and tools.

Strong partnerships established with schools and the Government education officials

Individual/specific KPIs as agreed with the supervisor

DECISION MAKING

Decision taken independently: Training plan as per the AIM Education pathways, contextualization of developed training modules, documentation, an effective training plan, and field visit plans.

Decision referred to the Supervisor: Anything related to coordination, partnership, and all others not mentioned above.

RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER ROLES

Within the program or department (position names): BI technical anchors, AIM team, Program operations team, Other BRAC programmes

Outside the Programme or Department (Programme & position names): Accounts & Finance, M&L,

WHO DOES PERFORMANCE REVIEWS FOR THIS ROLE?

Regional Manager, AIM (In consultation with the Education Specialist, AIM)

ANY OTHER ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES?

Support project-related procurement, training organization (including finalizing training venues) and any other job assigned by supervisor/management.

BUDGET under this POSITION: [Budget holds/provided to spend for the project or programme or the signing authority of the position (If any)]

NUMBER OF REPORTEES

Indirect: 0

EXPERIENCE (including sector/industry)

3 years of relevant experience in education training, development of education guide, contents and curriculum, gender equality, social inclusion, community engagement, and school engagement .

Previous experience in providing technical assistance, especially related to teachers’ training module development and execution, and training facilitation

Experience working in integrated programs targeted for adolescent girls and young women is a plus.

Previous experience in the development of SBCC messages, tools, and materials for community-based dialogues and other activities.

Experience in conducting advocacy, community mobilization and engagement activities is also an added advantage

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

Training materials development, staff capacity building, and facilitation skills

Computer literacy and presentation skills

Report writing and documentation of Most Significant Change Stories

Proactive, self-starter and independent worker with the ability to support large teams

Demonstrate commitment to community mobilization work around education, GESI, SRHR, and advocacy work, applying rights-based, human-centered, and survivor-centered approaches.

Exhibit empathy and positive interpersonal skills, including cultural competence.

SPECIFIC EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

Degree: Graduate / Post Graduate

Concentration / Major: Education/International Development/Gender/Sociology /Social Sciences

PROFESSIONAL DEGREE / CERTIFICATION

Qualified and interested applicants should submit their application torecruitment.ghana@brac.net stating the job title and the preferred location in the email subject.

Qualified and interested female candidates in the Upper West Region and Central Regionof Ghana are encouraged to apply and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Technical Sector Officer (tso) - Education

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