ABRA / READS Coordinator at World Vision International Rwanda: Deadline: 20-12-2020

% Time

Major Activities

End Results Expected

60%

1. Planning, coordination, and implementation

•  Responsible and accountable for project planning and action research activities in the targeted schools with gender and inclusion considerations
•  Ensure alignment of project research activities with other project hubs in Kenya and Bangladesh
•  Ensure access, maintenance, and security of project ICT equipment through control measures
•  Keep in touch with head teachers to ensure proper use and functionality of the project equipment
• Conduct reflection meetings with teachers and head teachers and address any gaps in capacity/skills
•  Ensure facilitation and coordination for the implementation of project activities for sustainability purposes
•  Manage ABRA/READS ambassadors
•  Liaise with Child Protection and Education sector leads to ensure integration of the project activities to ongoing WVR education and child protection programming
•  Report directly to the Child Protection and Education Technical Programme Manager and Buranga Cluster Manager

• Targeted children benefit from the project
•   Research activities are implemented on schedule, budget, and targets
•   Research ethics review and government approvals are secured

•  Research labs are properly set up in each participating school
• All project ICT equipment is safely maintained and utilized
• Teachers are well supported to implement ABRA/READS Necessary support provided to all stakeholders
• The project shares best practices and recommendations for informing WVR of ongoing education projects.\
• Effective project coordination is don
• Proper management of ABRA/READS teacher ambassadors
•  Planning and reflection meetings are held and minutes/action items documented for sharing with project stakeholders’ improvements made to the CB curriculum.

20%

2. Monitoring and Evaluation, Learning and reporting

•   Review effective implementation of the project activities
• Ensure effective implementation of the project activities as per the donor and WVR policies & guidelines
•    Ensure budgetary utilization is within acceptable limits/range.
•  Oversee effective documentation of all the information related to the project successes, innovations, and promising practices and disseminate through appropriate mechanisms.
•  Review and compile monthly and quarterly narrative reports and budgets
•  Produce timely, accurate, and quality reports for project committees and direct/indirect reports
• Gather insight into how the software is being used and suggest design improvements
• Provide new initiatives to facilitate scaling up of the project to other schools

• Monitoring and evaluation tools developed
•  All project activities are implemented as planned
• Research data is collected with timeliness and accuracy and shared with project research analysts and stakeholders
• Proper documentation of the success stories and best practices is done regularly
•  Monthly and quarterly reports and budgets are timely and accurate for monitoring project implementation
•    Meetings held for sharing project progress with stakeholders, including government
• Lessons learned and best practices are shared to inform improvement in the project.
• The project complements the national literacy programme.
•  New initiatives/processes are implemented and documented to test project scale-up approaches

15%

3. Capacity building

• Ensure capacity building for teachers, ABRA/READS ambassadors, Head Teachers, SEOs, and MoE officials
• Co-facilitate initial 3-day teacher ABRA/READS workshop and any follow up training
• Facilitate curriculum support officers and sub county education officers to coach and monitor the implementation of the research project.
•  Conduct planning and reflection meetings with teachers, head teachers, CSOs and education officers to address any gaps in capacity/skills

•  All stakeholders/actors have sufficient capacity and skills to fulfil roles and responsibilities in the project
• Ownership of the project by community stakeholders and government
• Teachers are monitored and coached by CSOs and education officers in the application of ABRA/READS as part of regular evaluation processes

5%

Other duties

•  Support any other duty as assigned by the supervisor or his/her designee
• Attend and participate in the daily devotions

• Other duties supported effectively