About US:

 Mott MacDonald is a leading, employee-owned global management, engineering and development consultancy with £1 billion revenue and more than 14,000 staff working in 140 countries for both the public and private sectors. Our International Development Services Unit, IDS, operates portfolios within the international development sectors of Environment, Climate, Water, Roads, Rural & Urban Development, Education, Health, Social and Economic Development in over 40 countries. Together we implement and manage projects in developing countries and emerging economies around the world, supporting national governments and municipalities in policy, planning, project design and delivery. We are committed to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and to provide our expertise to improve the lives of people in need.

About SESIL Programme:

Cambridge Education has recently been appointed by the Department for International Development (DFID) as Managing Agent on the Uganda Strengthening Education Systems for Improved Learning (SESIL). SESIL is a 4.5-year programme which seeks to impact on the equity and quality of measurable learning outcomes for girls and boys in Uganda, the programme will focus on three core components:

• Building strong foundations – to increase the numbers of girls and boys reaching grade appropriate learning standards in literacy and numeracy in primary schools;
• Enhancing assessment and exams – to strengthen the assessment system so that it leads to more Ugandan children learning what matters for their future;
• Supporting a mixed economy – to support the Government of Uganda to work more effectively with non-state providers and financiers of education, including through direct support to a network of secondary schools.

Job Summary:

The District Systems Strengthening Coordinator will be required to do the following:

In conjunction with the Key Advisers, National Performance Leads and the regional support teams the District System Strengthening Coordinator (DSSC) based in each SESIL-supported district will support the implementation of the district support package. The DSSCs will work closely with and through a range of district level stakeholders, adopting a coaching, mentoring and facilitation approach. The DSCCs will also work closely and support the District / Municipal Education officials to implement programme activities. At the end of the programme, improved performance would be seen in:

• Raised standards of achievement in literacy and numeracy in grades 1-3
• Enhanced quality of experience for both pupils and teachers
• Sustained school-based staff development
• Improved school management
• Strengthened community involvement
• Improved accountability.

You will be embedded in each SESIL supported District to provide technical support for implementation of project activities involving mainly the districts support package. These officers will work closely with and through the District technical and political leadership.

The purpose of which is to strengthen district education management systems in order to achieve better learning outcomes for boys and girls, particularly at the lower primary level.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Provide day-to-day support for implementation of the District support package.

• Support and participate in activities pertaining to improving the performance of district education management and administration, in particular initiatives that support the strengthening of systems in:
• Prioritising: focussing on a small number of core priorities that offer the greatest potential for achieving better learning outcomes for all children.
• Using evidence: getting and using education performance data and information to monitor performance and drive improvement.
• Problem-solving: ability to adopt a problem-solving approach that identifies and analyses bottle-necks in performance

Support and participate in activities in the following key areas of district education management and administration:

• District education planning, budget and resource allocation, including the distribution and allocation of teachers (deployment and transfers)
• District education office management routines of progress checks on priorities and follow-up actions
• District monitoring and supervision of primary schools, including school inspection
• Establishing literacy and numeracy benchmarks through which to measure learning outcomes

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant must hold a relevant graduate (or postgraduate preferred) qualification in education preferred
• Varied and recent experience of working in service delivery with, or in, local government, preferably in a performance improvement capacity.
• Strong communication skills – ability to express ideas and information clearly and simply, both verbally and in writing. A high level of written and spoken English is essential.
• Strong analytical skills – ability to investigate and understand constraints and bottle-necks
• High levels of creativity and innovation – ability to develop and test new approaches to old problems
• Leadership and team work – ability to support others through mentoring and coaching
• Facilitation skills – ability to design, prepare and deliver training and consultation workshops
• Sound understanding of Uganda’s education system, decentralisation and local government processes and practices.
• Understanding of the concepts and principles of Managing for Results (or similar, e.g. Performance Management, Results Oriented Management, Deliverology)

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Closing Date : 05 April 2020