Specialist-Material Developer & Quality Assurance (English), CODEC EPRC PROJECT

Job Description

Title: Specialist-Material Developer & Quality Assurance (English), CODEC EPRC PROJECT

Company Name: Community Development Centre-CODEC

Vacancy: 01

Age: Na

Job Location: Cox`s Bazar (Ukhia)

Salary: Tk. 100000 - 100000 (Monthly)

Experience:

• 5 to 6 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO, Development Agency

• Master of Arts (MA) in English

• 5 to 6 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO, Development Agency

Qualifications and Experience:

• Masters’ degree in English (with teaching experincein English)

• At least 5-6 years of experience in material development and quality assurance/English teaching experience in English medium schools/ secondary school or college, preferably in an education field.

• Proven experience in developing educational materials, especially lesson plans, contextualizing TG for education projects.

• Strong understanding of subject contents, subject-based pedagogy, methods, and techniques.

• Familiarity with the Pearson Edexcel Curriculum or any English medium curriculum and its implementation.

• Proficient in English (both written and spoken).

• Strong leadership, analytical, observation, problem solving and reporting skills.

• Demonstrated ability to work with diverse and marginalized communities.

Community Development Centre (CODEC) invites application for the position of Specialist-Material Developer & Quality Assurance (English) for implementing `Education and Protection for Refugee Children (EPRC) Project` funded by UNHCR, located at Ukhiya & Teknaf Cox’s Bazar)

Position Title: Specialist-Material Development & Quality Assurance (English)

Location: Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Reports to: Project Coordinator

Objectives of the Role:

• Design lesson plans, preparing teaching learning materials, contextualizing the TG of English and other materials based on the Pearson Edexcel Curriculum.

• Conduct teacher observations and monitoring visit to ensure effective delivery of the curriculum.

• Provide professional development support for the teachers and TOs .

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop comprehensive and interactive lesson plans for English for the diverse needs of the teachers.

• Conduct regular field visits, facilitate classroom observations and teaching practice, support teachers to develop teachers’ session facilitation skills (including pedagogical and subject contents skills).

• Observe training facilitation and facilitate teacher’s training/refreshers, ongoing professional development activities, identify gaps and provide solutions to mitigate those including facilitating capacity building initiatives for TOs as well as teacher (as needed).

• Analyze the use of teaching material in schools and teachers training (including training modules), provide feedback or develop new materials/adapt materials (as needed) to make sure the contents are relevant with curriculum/training subjects as well as age appropriateness.

• Monitor teachers and students’ progression, generate monthly reports on major findings with proposed solutions including initiating remedial activities.

• Support teachers in understanding the Teachers’ Guide (TG) so they can provide quality education in the classroom

• Develop and submit periodic reports on lesson plan development and quality assurance activities and others as required by the project management team

• Collaborate with focal, co-focal, HT and teacher to make sure harmonized implementation decisions (material/technical guidance/reporting etc) across schools and facilitate training/workshops.

• Lead in facilitating formative and summative assessment process (including developing guidelines/ questions etc).

 Reports and deliverables :

• Preparing & contextualizing lesson plans for English, and other subjects assigned by the supervisors and as per the project needs.

• Regular class observation and quality assurance activities reports with actionable feedback

• Recommendations for continuous improvement of teaching materials and practices.

• Evaluate Teachers’ performance/progression and students’ performance and report accordingly

• Preparing weekly/ bi-weekly/monthly report, training and event report

• Any other task assigned by the management.

Safeguarding & PSEA:

• S/he should abide by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)`s six core principles on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) policy.

• Ensure the safety of team members (in respect to Prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse - PSEA) from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the program`s goals on safeguarding implementation.

• Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.