Short-Term Education Systems Specialist

AMIDEAST/Lebanon is looking for a short-term Education Systems Specialist - Capacity Needs Assessment (CNA) to work on an education-related project from August through December 2018.

The main responsibilities of the Education Systems Specialist include:

1. Work collaboratively with the CNA team to integrate technical elements relating to systems reform into the capacity needs assessment tools.
2. Lead the systems and resources element of the capacity needs assessment and provide quality control for outputs from these tools.
3. Conduct research and analysis of legal frameworks shaping governance processes and management procedures in the education sector in Lebanon.
4. Conduct capacity needs assessment interviews with relevant individuals who are pivotal to systems reform in the education sector.
5. Design relevant and accessible checklists on systems and resources support systems level reform in the education sector
6. Ensure coherence on education specific information and processes between the CNA (design and results) work with the wider technical assistance team, to avoid duplication.
7. Ensure coherence and complementarity between the education management and other elements of the CNA.
8. Work collaboratively with stakeholders to encourage engagement with the questionnaires and interviews, and provide specific information regarding areas for further support and training.
9. Collect, analyze and report on data collected through questionnaires and interviews.

Required Qualifications:

• Expertise in systems reform processes at the national government level
• Experience in delivering capacity needs assessments
• Experience in capacity development design and delivery

Desirable Qualifications:

• Experience in Lebanon
• Experience working on education sector reform
• Fluent in written and spoken Arabic and French

 Interested candidates should send a resume to rmelki@amideast.org with the following in the subject line: “Short-Term Education Systems Specialist”. The deadline to apply is Thursday, August 23, 2018.

Additional details about this vacancy will be provided at a later stage.