Sector: Training & Development
Location: Pakistan
Employee Type: Regular
Employee Category: Full Time
Description
Program Background Summary: Pakistan Reading Project (PRP) is five year USAID funded project starting in June 2013 to support the provincial and regional Departments of Education (DoE) throughout Pakistan to improve reading skills of at least 1.3 million children in grade one and two. The project will achieve this goal through three major but interrelated initiatives that are working together to affect the quality of primary education, teacher education, policy reforms, and community engagement to re-establish a national culture of reading in Pakistan. The result will be improved reading and assessment of 23,800 teachers in 23,800 public schools with improved skills in teaching reading; 3,649 scholarships for ADE and B.Ed (Hons) students; and mobile bus libraries reaching out to 300 communities. PRP anticipates that 2.5 million children will be able to read at a level commensurate with standards at their grade level.
Job Overview/Summary
Major Responsibilities:
- Lead the material development process in Urdu/Sindhi/Pashto for in-service teacher training in the country under the project
- Manage multiple teams, assigning and monitoring tasks, building team unity around project goals, and troubleshooting as needed
- Use innovation and creativity in the material development process
- Ensure that all the materials including training manuals, TIG modules, scripted lesson plans, activity books, decodable readers, leveled readers, big books, flash cards, virtual mentoring videos and other digital material etc are contextually relevant, is in line with the national curriculum and is appropriate for early grade reading
- Regularly organize and lead meetings for review of material by material review committees at provincial/regional or national level
- Ensure timely printing and distribution of material to the project locations
- Work in close collaboration with the reading adviser, technical adviser and consultants (local and international)
- Monitor trainings, TIG meetings and visit schools to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of the material
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