The role of the Education Officer is to provide technical leadership in curriculum implementation, monitoring, and tracking of learning outcomes across all schools supported by the Lutheran World Federation (LWF). The officer is responsible for establishing, maintaining, and improving curriculum implementation standards and quality, while ensuring strict adherence to Ministry of Education (MoE) policies.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership in curriculum implementation, monitoring, and tracking of learning outcomes in all schools.
- Responsible for establishing, maintaining and improving curriculum implementation standards and quality in all schools.
- Responsible for interpretation and implementation of MoE policies in schools.
- Provide technical support to all teacher in development and implementation of Competency Based Education (CBE) and support Head teachers in development of curriculum based establishment.
- Co-ordinate and facilitate the organization and implementation of co-curriculum activities in the schools in line with MoE co-curriculum activities calendar.
- Vetting of all teachers and other education staff to ensure they comply with National curriculum standards.
- Conducting regular school visits, hold meetings with head teachers and Boards of Management (BoM) to discuss emerging issues and come up with strategies for addressing the same.
- In charge of disaster risk assessment and reduction in schools and enhancing school safety for learners and teachers.
- Reviewing annual work plans and activity plans of the unit for comprehensiveness, clarity and adherence to LWF/WS goals and objectives.
- Ensuring regular meaningful communication and interaction between the Education Sector Management staff and teachers, and the school management committees, sub County Education Office, and other development partners and agencies.
- Coordination internal school assessment to measure learners’ progressive achievement towards achieving quality learning outcomes.
- Working with the head teachers to develop tools for teacher performance appraisal in line with TSC Teacher Professional Development model.
- To organize for both short term (pedagogical skills development) and long term (professional certified) training programs for teachers.
- In charge of equitable deployment of teachers in schools along the parameters of gender, training and nationality.
Supervisory Responsibilities
This role involves the supervision of:
- National Principals
- National Heads of Institutions
- National Teachers
- National Teacher Interns
Qualifications and Experience
- Must have a degree in education from a recognized institution.
- Must be a registered teacher by Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
- Technical expertise in curriculum implementation.
- Technical expertise in education in emergencies (EiE).
- Proven academic or on-job training and understanding of the Project Cycle model in managing humanitarian assistance with at least three (3) years in education programming.
- A very good understanding of Comprehensive School Safety or Disaster Management.
- Experience in coordination of teacher training programs.
- Strong analytical, administration and documentation skills in the management of educational institutions or programs consisting of primary education.
- Experience in Training of Trainers/Facilitators skills (TOT & TOF) is an advantage.
- Excellent communication, time management, organization and presentation skills.
- Demonstrate ability to supervise, mentor and provide professional support to other teachers.
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