Education and Skills Development Advisor

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Key Responsibilities:

TheEducation and Skills Development Advisorplays a pivotal role inestablishingWorld Visions strategic technical leadership in basic education and skills development. This position ensures that interventionsparticularly those focused on foundational literacy numeracy and life skillsare effectively embedded within the Integrated Programming Framework (IPF) and aligned with the Country Strategy.Theadvisorcore functionand primary responsibilitiesinclude: 1.Strategy and Programmatic (IPF) AlignmentSectoralIntegration and Technical Advisory;2.Resource Acquisition Sectoral Advocacy and Stakeholder Engagement;3.Knowledge Management and Stakeholder Engagement and4.Technical Advisory and Support to Humanitarian Programming and Response.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Strategy and Programmatic (IPF) Alignment Sectoral Integration and Technical Advisory

• Provide technical counsel and strategic recommendations on program design adaptation and impact measurement for education and skills development interventions. This includes defining the technical parameters for: 1. The Integrated Programming Framework (IPF); 2. Technical-operational business processes; 3. impact measurement indicators methodologies and toolkits; and 4). capacity building plan for staff
• Provide technical review and validate core program models frameworks and curriculum tools to guarantee evidence-based rigor and strategic alignment. This entails providing oversight for: 1. Early childhood learning interventions are seamless integrated (Learning Roots) into ECD framework in technical consultation with the ECCD Advisor; 2. Skills Development are integrated with children participation and empowerment in technical consultation with CPP Advisor and 2. Primary reading and numeracy interventions through the Unlock Literacy core project model.
• Recommend and provide expert guidance on sector-specific project indicators and targets ensuring they are technically sound context-appropriate measurable and aligned with program objectives and SDGs.
• Support in the review and refinement of indicators and project models to reflect realistic outcomes and contribute to evidence-based planning and performance tracking
• Advise field implementation leadership on the systemic integration of foundational literacy numeracy and life skills development. Provide strategic oversight and monitoring guidance on the adoption of these interventions helping field teams proactively identify and navigate gaps in program execution.
• Collaborate and agree with other sector advisors and Operations Managers to ensure basic education interventions are integrated with other sectors (ECD CPP etc.) and guidance are readily made available for field implementation
• Provide strategic capacity-building oversight to field implementation teams establishing a structured mechanism for regular technical coaching mentoring and advanced technical consultation for matrix reporting education and skills development specialists.

Resource Acquisition Sectoral Advocacy and Stakeholder Engagement

• Serve as the technical resource for the Resource Development (RD) during project ideation. Provide guidance and technical inputs for the formulation of high-quality concept papers and project designs for grants and non-sponsorship initiatives at both national and sub-national levels.
• Partner with the Resource Development team to appraise Private Non-Sponsorship (PNS) and grant opportunities. Lead the technical review of proposals to ensure technical soundness strategic alignment and the integration of mandatory standards
• Actively represent WVDF in strategic national education networks and coalitions. Drive technical advocacy and policy dialogue with key institutions identify technical sector advocacy opportunities and influence
• Liaison and collaborate with the World Vision Regional Office (RO) and Global Center (GC) to provide guidance on international partnership standards. Ensure national education frameworks policies and quality benchmarks are harmonized with partnership mandates.
• Serve as subject matter expert for external engagement.

Knowledge Learning and Capacity Advisory

• Serve as a key technical resource during regular national and field office operational planning mid-term reviews and reflection processes. Provide evidence-based technical insights and strategic recommendations to enhance the quality of planning implementation technical monitoring and impact measurement.
• Define and design the overarching technical capacity-building framework for field implementation teams. Identify the essential knowledge skills technical competencies and attitudes required
• Oversee the technical standards curation and alignment of official guidance documents project models and intervention toolkits to ensure they are accessible and technically sound. Provide technical guidance on systematically capturing documenting and replicating field-validated best practices and innovations.
• Advise Operations Managers (OMs) and the SMEAL/SMIL team on the adoption and rigorous adherence to standard indicators across Area Programs (APs). Ensure child learning development and literacy core project models or evidence-based curriculum are accurately measured to track and demonstrate the programs contribution. Provides technical review of sector-specific data /reports and supports analysis to inform programmatic decisions/adjustments.

Technical Advisory and Support to Humanitarian Programming and Response

• Serve as the technical advisor for education interventions across the humanitarian programming providing strategic guidance during the relief early recovery and long-term rehabilitation phases in close coordination with Humanitarian Emergency Affairs (HEA).
• Collaborate with other sectoral advisors and field implementation team to establish technical standards and quality benchmarks for Education in Emergencies and provide technical guidance on the curation of age-appropriate context-specific interventions
• Represent WVDF as the primary technical lead in Cluster meetings actively contributing to national coordination joint rapid assessments and sector-wide policy formulations during major disaster responses.
• Deploy to emergency zones as a technical specialist to assist HEA and field management in rapid situational assessments project design verification and the quality assurance of ongoing sector response interventions.

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS:

World Vision is committed to safeguarding all children as well as adults living where World Vision operates. We have zero tolerance for incidents of violence or abuse against children or adults including sexual exploitation or abuse committed either by employees or others affiliated with our work. Therefore World Vision does not hire staff whose background is not suitable for working with children or vulnerable adults even if their role does not interact directly with them. Each potential team member needs to understand the importance of these issues and be open to further training and guidance on our safeguarding policies and responsibilities.

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