Advisor for Education and Skills

Job location: Prague or home-based with frequent field visits (30%)

Starting date: May 2019 or based on agreement

Duration: 12 months with planned extension

Salary: as per the PIN salary scales

Main task

• in line with PIN’s Education and Skills Development Strategy for 2017-2021, develop the quality and scale of PIN’s education programming.

Main focus

• strengthening PIN country programs and employees’ capacity to design and implement effective education interventions in 2 areas:

1. Ensuring inclusive and equitable access to quality education for all children;
2. Increasing gainful self-employment and wage-employment of youth and adults through ensuring access to high-quality professional education and training, which integrates key vocational, business and life skills.

Main responsibilities:

• support PIN country programs in developing effective and relevant education interventions and funding proposals
• mentor and develop the technical skills of PIN’s Program and Project Managers ensuring quality education, including conducting trainings on core topics (such as learner-centred teaching strategies, positive discipline, inclusive education, safe learning environments, teacher mentoring and coaching, tools for measuring student learning outcomes, establishing VET-market linkages, work-based learning) and regular update skype calls
• assist the country teams with development and delivery of new training modules
• identify the most effective approaches, key lessons learnt and most useful resources related to education and ensure that relevant PIN staff are aware of them and use them
• develop tools and resources to assist with education program design, implementation and M&E (including standardising the tools and indicators being used to monitor education interventions across the country programs, utilising PIN’s IndiKit and results-based M&E framework)
• promote and advocate for education approaches and innovations across PIN’s programs
• evaluate the ongoing and completed interventions and share the results, highlighting good practices and lessons learned
• ensure networking with organizations working in education field and pursue partnership opportunities
• facilitate know-how sharing (incl. documentation) among PIN’s mission working on education
• close cooperation with PIN’s Advisor for Education in Emergencies

• Ensuring inclusive and equitable access to quality education for all children;
• Increasing gainful self-employment and wage-employment of youth and adults through ensuring access to high-quality professional education and training, which integrates key vocational, business and life skills.

Desired Qualifications:

• at least 5-year experience with developing and/or implementing education interventions in areas of enhancing education quality and access, inclusive education, vocational education and training
• substantial experience with training design and delivery
• sound technical understanding of education approaches in the context of developing countries in formal and non-formal settings
• at least 5 years’ experience with proposal development for major donors
• familiarity with the main education actors (donors, international platforms, research institutions, implementing agencies)
• willingness to travel to the countries of PIN’s operation (up to 3-4 months per year)
• fluent English

People in Need offers:

• Environment of well-established and growing organization
• Being part of a committed, professional and friendly team with an informal atmosphere
• Salary according to PIN salary scale
• 25 days of paid leave annually
• Working from home or being based in Prague (with frequent travels as described above)
• PIN covers all costs related to the country programme visits such as vaccination, flights, visas and accommodation

How to Apply: 

Kindly send us your CV (no more than 4 pages) and short cover letter via this link. 

Please note only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted.