VVOB is an international NGO with programmes and projects in 10 countries worldwide. Our head office is based in Brussels, Belgium.
When you join VVOB, you become a key player in VVOB’s mission to ensure quality education as a key enabler for achieving the sustainable development goals. We implement our programmes and projects with one shared passion: to ensure the improvement of quality education. Our teams of national and international experts achieve this by providing technical assistance to governmental and other education actors. In doing so, worldwide we ensure capacity building of governmental and other education actors.

Do you share our ambition to ensure that learners around the world can enjoy their fundamental human right to quality education, without exception? Are you convinced as well that quality education guarantees equal opportunities for everyone and is the key to a better world?
We are looking for a Project Coordinator who will operate from our Uganda Country office, and will be responsible for coordinating the planning, implementation and monitoring of Teaching at the Right Level (TARL) being implemented between 2020 and 2024, focusing on enabling upper primary learners to acquire basic skills in numeracy and literacy by grouping them according to their performance instead of age or grade, and by using learner-centered pedagogies. Do you want to take on this challenge? Then continue reading!

Summary
Position: Project Coordinator TaRL.
Duty Station: Kampala with frequent travel to Madi-Okollo, Terego and Isingiro.
Start Date: November 17, 2021.
Salary Range: From UGX 7,513,105 – 10,282,202 dependent on years of experience.
Contract duration: May 31, 2022, with possibility of extension, depending on performance.

Job description
The Project Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating the planning, implementation, and monitoring of Teaching at the Right Level (TARL) being implemented between 2020 and 2024. TaRL enables upper primary learners to acquire basic skills in numeracy and literacy by grouping them according to their performance instead of age or grade, and by using learner-centered pedagogies. VVOB cooperates with UNICEF, the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) and other partners to implement the TaRL methodology through which we support primary 4 and 5 children to acquire an appropriate level of foundational skills, enabling a smooth transition to post-primary learning pathways or the world of work. The project is currently being implemented in 180 schools in the refugee hosting districts of Isingiro, Terego and Madi-Okollo. You can read more about the project here.