Girl Friendly Teacher Trainer- Kenya

World University Service of Canada

Short Term Consulting - Kenya, Africa

Apply by: 14th August 2013

World University Service of Canada
Call for Candidates- Kenya Girl Friendly Teacher Trainer

World University Service of Canada (WUSC) is a Canadian non-profit organization with a mission to foster human development and global understanding through education and training. We are professionals, students, volunteers, faculty, and community leaders working together to find solutions and provide opportunities to the world’s most marginalized people.

WUSC is seeking qualified candidates for a consultancy in girl friendly teacher training for the Kenya Equity in Education Program (KEEP) - a DFID funded girl’s education project in northern Kenya. Please circulate this call amongst your networks. 

Summary of the Project: 

The key objective of the project is to build increased support for girls’ education in Kenyan refugee camps and host communities by developing improved school and community education environments. The project will work with and support the efforts of the government (national and local), refugee camp education partners (UNHCR and other national and international agencies), teachers, parents and students. In parallel, it is expected that the project will build the capacity of the Ministry of Education and other education partners to effectively manage and improve the system for girls’ education in and around the refugee camps.

The Girl Friendly Teacher Training activity is a key input to achieving an improved girl friendly school environment. In principle, being fully child-centred will necessarily mean being gender-sensitive, responsive to and supportive of the differences between (and amongst) girls and boys as learners. KEEP recognizes, however, that ensuring the rights of girls to participate, progress and learn requires specifically affirmative girl-friendly pedagogy and classroom management. The project will provide training and monitoring aimed at strengthening the capacity of teachers to better understand and effectively address the ways in which girls are excluded from, and can be included in, learning. It will encourage them to assess the situation for all children in the classroom, but especially girls, decide where improvements are needed, take appropriate action and monitor the progress they make. 

General Duties

WUSC is seeking an experienced gender and education consultant to design and deliver training content to support teachers in developing their capacity to deliver girl-friendly teaching and learning in the classroom. This activity is envisioned as a train the trainers approach. The Consultant will work closely with a local trainer and girl child education specialist (Kenyan) to develop training content. Training effectiveness will be evaluated based on the teachers’ abilities to: 
• engage with girls and boys differentially as individuals and as learners, and fairly assess their readiness, capacities and progress; and
• Integrate gender-sensitive, girl-friendly principles into their classroom management, lesson planning and handling of teaching/learning materials.

The training will train 200 teachers selected from the 89 KEEP target schools in both refugee and host communities. 

Qualifications – skills and experience of all candidates

 A minimum of 7 years of related work experience in training design and delivery;
 A minimum of 5 years of experience working in a developing-country (preferably in East Africa); 
 Minimum Bachelor Degree (advanced University degree preferred) in education or a related field of study;
 Experience in donor-funded training. monitoring and evaluation (e.g. workshop design, facilitation, coaching/mentoring, monitoring, controlling and reporting) – work with DFID considered an asset; 
 Experience in working with and supporting capacity development of government education staff (teachers, management), education stakeholders, schools, parents and learners;
 Knowledge and experience in integrating gender equality into programming;
 Experience in education, especially child-centered learning pedagogies and gender equity in the classroom;
 Minimum 2 years of teaching experience.

This initial consultancy is being offered for 28 days to be executed between August 2013 and December 2013 with potential for two additional assignments over the course of the project (until December 2015). 

Interested candidates should contact: 

World University Service of Canada (WUSC) jobs@wusc.ca quoting ‘Kenya GFTT’ in the subject line (e.g. ‘Kenya Girl Friendly Teacher Trainer’).

Please include a cover letter and CV indicating your qualifications, experience and availability for the consultancy. 

WUSC is an equal opportunity employer. Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. No telephone calls please.

Deadline: August 14th, 2013