Job Title: Technical Specialist for Reading Application Deadline Date: 23 Apr 2012
Position Location: Kampala, Uganda; Lilongwe, Malawi or Federal Way, WA, USA Position Start Date: 15 May 2012
Region: North America Position End Date: 15 May 2015
Requisition Category: Domestic Recruitment Priority: Need Immediately
Country Name: United States of America Program/Office Name: Education & Life Skills
City/Province: Kampala, Uganda; Lilongwe, Malawi or Federal Way, WA, USA Employee Type: Contract Salaried
Job Grade Level: 15 Recruitment Status: Advertising in Progress
Is this a family post? Non-family - Staff only
Requisition Num: 2012NAPKEY-8SMUC4
PURPOSE OF POSITION:
The Technical Specialist for Reading is the go-to technical lead specialist for the Partnership on all matters related to improving the teaching and learning of reading. While WV intends to build comprehensive essential life skills instruction capacity across the partnership, it intends to rely on external partners specialized in reading for recognized and proven best practices in improving reading outcomes. This one Reading Specialist position then becomes WV's bridge to the best practices of reading-focused government and nongovernment agencies across the education development community.
The Technical Specialist for Reading will work closely with education's M&E team on developing the indicators, tools and guidance related to clarifying the practical aspects of monitoring specific levels of child reading abilities, s/he will also provide the institutional leadership around preferred practices around community-based reading improvement activities, the institutional leadership around preferred practices in teaching reading, the institutional leadership around the instructional design of learning-to-read resource material, and the institutional leadership in the training of regional trainers to train Local Area Education Coordinators in improving reading outcomes.
At the same time, WV is committed to action learning operational research around all the partner-led reading best practices it introduces to WV program impact areas to ensure that they are effectively adapted to match wider WV processes and structures and do, in fact, lead to the improved CWB outcomes the organization is seeking. The Technical Specialist for Reading is a field-based position in that the person filling this position will spend a significant portion of his or her time at a field site or sites functioning as a center of regional/partnership operational research on improving child reading outcomes
The Technical Specialist for Reading leads the process of introducing recognized methodologies for improving the teaching and learning of reading to the Partnership. S/he provides the oversight, vision and leadership to the application of partner-led reading improvement practices within WV structures S/he also plays a role in guiding the selection of global, regional, and national partners experienced in improving the teaching of reading in educationally-deprived areas of the developing world.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Technical Specialist for Reading supports the Education and Life Skills M&E Working Group in establishing and refining the indicators, tools, and guidance material associated with monitoring and evaluating reading outcomes.
The Technical Specialist for Reading is responsible for guiding the development of the reading technical components of WV action learning capacity building for marginally trained teachers and community educators
The Technical Specialist for Reading directly supports and mentors the five Regional Capacity Building Trainers in how to replicate partner-introduced reading improvement best practices across NOs in his or her region.
The Technical Specialist for Reading guides the development of generic resource editions of external best practice materials on the teaching and learning of reading. S/he leads the formative evaluation of newly introduced resource material aimed at improving the teaching and learning of reading.
The Technical Specialist for Reading provides oversight to action learning research aimed at adapting widely recognized best reading practices into WV contexts, structures, and systems.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
REQUIRED:
BA or BEd degree or related field
Expert in literacy and/or reading fluency
Expert teacher trainer
5-10 years of direct experience with literacy and/or reading instruction
International experience teaching reading to children among marginalized populations
Experienced in the use of web-based communication tools
PREFERRED:
Training of trainers experience, preferably for teacher of reading
Experience in helping children bridge literacy in their mother tongue to literacy in a second language
Experience building the capacity of volunteers to teach reading
Experience in designing primers for teaching initial literacy
Experience designing training manuals
Experience working with cross-institutional partnerships
How to Apply;
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