Teacher Educator

Established in August 2002, WADAN is an indigenous, government registered NGO. We undertake community and institutional development, civic education, education, drug control, human rights, anti-corruption, protection, livelihood and child protection initiatives. Headquartered in Kabul, WADAN has offices in provinces that provide national coverage.

For details please visit our website at www.wadan.org

Under the direct supervision of the Project Manager and Education officer, the incumbent of this position will coordinate with respective stakeholder of the project, record and collect data through FGDs, interviews, questionnaires, resolve emerged conflicts, ensure transparency and report to supervisor.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinate project activities with the district level authorities.
• Conduct Training Need Assessments (TNA) of the teachers and develop comprehensive training plan in line with the project goal and objectives.
• Map out training plans, design and develop training programs
• Provide training to the CBSs, ECCDs, and Catch-up teachers of GPE-STG Project.
• Choose appropriate training methods
• Evaluate the training sessions and summarize evaluation report for each training.
• Deliver high quality training workshops to the trainees where the project targeted beneficiaries learning and development requirement addressed effectively and efficiently.
• Identify the community structures to understand how they come together and decide upon key issues and to promote a reliable communication network for the implementation of activities in the sites.
• Conduct coordination meetings with identified community structures, influential people, elders and youths. 
• Conduct focused group discussions within the communities for raising public awareness about the project goal, objectives, activities and the beneficiaries.  He/she will spend approximately 80% of his/her working time in the sites.
• Organize and analyze the collected data for every applicant and maintain a database for all the applicants.
• Ensure transparency in all the events and activities of the project.
• Maintaining regular communication with the elders, youth and other influential people of the community.
• Reach out to the complains made by the residents and find out proper solutions for the issues and complains shared.
• Coordinate with supervisor and report on daily basis from the field.
• Provide relevant information about the scope of the project and resolve raised issues on the site.
• Record data in the relevant tools/database.
• Ensure the timely submission of data.
• Ensure that responses are recorded properly and precisely.
• Other tasks assigned by his/her direct supervisor.

Training Areas:

• Planning, organizing and scheduling the training.
• Preparing and designing the training materials (pretest, posttest etc.).
• Organizing a training workshop (logistics, finances, venue, refreshment, etc).
• Pre and posttests analysis and reporting the synthesis of this exercise to the Education Officer and through PO to the Project Manager.
• Demonstrating demo, preparing model lesson plans, and their handouts.
• Training the targeted trainees in methodology and other training packages specified for the project interventions.
• Observe and coach the trained teacher’s classroom.
• Monitor and supervise the impact of training based on the collected data.
• Eager to learn about new training areas and training contents needed for the CBS, ECCD, Catch-up, Remedial and other related programs.
• Support the provincial education team and project Manager with any technical issues or support where they need.
• Preparing/compiling individual training manuals for each training package.
• Regularly visit the CBSs, ECCDs, and Catch-up classes whether the training contents are being implemented in class/community environment to gauge the impact of the training delivered.
• Any other tasks assigned by his line supervisor and accountable to senior management.

• Minimum five years’ experience in teacher training, community mobilization, or education programs with a Bachelor’s degree, or three years with a Master’s degree.
• Bachelor’s degree in education, Social Science or relevant field, or three years with a Master’s degree is preferred.
• Knowledge of child development, pedagogy, and Afghan community structures.
• Experience in teacher mentoring, parent engagement, and mobilizing communities for school enrollment.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and negotiation skills in local languages.
• Ability to frequently travel to CBS, Catch-Up Classes, Formal Schools and villages, sometimes in remote areas.

Safeguarding, PSEA, and Compliance

• WADAN has zero-tolerance policy toward sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment, in line with UN standards.

WADAN is accepting applications from interested individuals.  If you are interested in being considered, please submit your CV and cover letter via (jobs@wadan.org) noting the position title in the subject line i.e., “ Teacher Educator W-0227” or your application will not be considered. Only short-listed individuals will be contacted for the written test and after that for an interview. If you are not contacted TWO or THREE WEEKS after the closing date, please know that your application has not been successful for the post.

When applying, please rename your CV with your full name e.g. Omid Ahmadi Otherwise, the system will not accept your application.

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