Madrasa Early Childhood Development Program, Uganda (MECPU) is an initiative of the Aga Khan Foundation that delivers ECD caregivers/teacher training services, as well as community-based programmes and policy engagement with government and other stakeholders.
MECP was first established in Kenya in 1986 with the objective of enabling communities to establish and sustain their own Early Childhood Education (ECE) centres and initiatives to prepare and enable girls and boys to go to school, stay in school, and learn.

MECPU delivers ECD caregivers/teacher training through the Madrasa Early Childhood Development Institute (MECDI), which was established to provide quality professional development courses for both pre-service and in-service ECD caregivers/teacher trainees. Through its community-based programmes and policy engagement, MECPU supports parenting programs and ECD policy development, dissemination and implementation, and analysis

The ECD Project Officers will be responsible for supporting programs currently being implemented in Yumbe; Foundations for Learning, LEGO and Highgate. The Officers will perform their duties under the close supervision of the ECD Program Coordinator. The Project Officers will be based in West Nile Region.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Organize centre based training courses for caregivers undertaking their professional courses in the Institute.
• Deliver site based mentoring and coaching activities for the caregivers undertaking the professional teacher training program
• Providing technical support, mentoring and coaching to the teachers undertaking the Diploma course and Teach like a Champion Teacher/caregivers in Arua or Yumbe
• Organise training including both Centre based and site based mentoring for CMCs to support caregivers undertaking the training courses in the target project area.
• Participate in District level events that are geared towards supporting ECD
• Support the distribution of materials including but not limited to ‘Let’s Make a Toy Play Boxes’ to households with children aged 3-6.
• Follow-up families to ensure they utilise all the materials to facilitate children`s continued learning.
• Organise and conduct activities including workshops and review meetings for local government leaders, teachers and parents geared towards supporting ECD.
• Provide timely accurate activity reports including lessons learnt, success stories and challenges with implementation.
• Engages with MERL/M&E team during data collection, analysis and dissemination of major ongoing findings.
• Routinely monitors all ongoing project implementation activities.
• Conducts regular post-training support including monitoring and assessments of project performance, and execute continuous remedial coaching and mentoring for teachers, head teachers, parents, community and government field staff.
• Perform other relevant duties as and when assigned by or via the  Programme Coordinator.