Director of Education at KIREHE DISTRICT kubantu bize ubwarimu : Deadline: Feb 23, 2022

Job Description

– Coordinate the identification of the District’s education needs and priorities to facilitate an integrated planning, budgeting, resource mobilization, implementation, monitoring and evaluation reporting related to Education at the Unit, Sector and education facility levels and instill the practice of knowledge management;
– Coordinate a multi-stakeholders’ elaboration of actionable strategies or plans meant to localize national policies and the District Council’s decisions pertaining to education and oversee their implementation;
– Coordinate the implementation of campaigns meant to raise local population awareness on the benefits of universal education, promote children’s rights related to access to quality education, and fight against school dropouts;
– Coordinate, in close collaboration with the school construction engineer, the identification of school construction and rehabilitation needs and coordinate the elaboration and regular update of the District’s school map;
– Maintain an updated consolidated database on education and work hand in hand with the Human Resource Unit in the identification of staffing needs and elaboration of capacity building initiatives meant to address capacity gaps in the education sector across the District;
– Serve as a member of the District Technical Coordination Committee and advise the institution on matters pertaining to education.
– Elaborate a local strategy and actionable plan on secondary and TVET education, monitor its implementation across Sectors and produce consolidated reports thereof;
– Carry out, together with other relevant stakeholders, regular inspection of secondary and TVET schools in respect with quality education and administrative standards, elaborate secondary and TVET schools maps and maintain an updated database thereof;
– Identify and consolidate secondary and TVET school construction needs, carry out training needs of teachers therein, and work hand in hand with the Human Resources Unit to deliver tailor-made capacity building support across the District;
– Develop project proposals for the mobilization of additional funds to improve the functioning of Secondary and TVET education, initiate and coordinate the implementation of advocacy campaigns meant to meet the secondary and TVET education needs of vulnerable people across the District;
– Organize, in collaboration with other relevant stakeholders, and supervise the implementation of regular campaigns meant to raise local population’s awareness on the benefits of adhering to secondary and TVET education programs.