International consultancy – Foundational Learning Specialist, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 90 days

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived kids. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each little one, in all places, on daily basis, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means quit. 

For each little one, outcomes.

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How will you make a distinction? 

Goal and Targets:

It’s in opposition to this background that UNICEF, in collaboration with the Ministry of Fundamental and Senior Secondary Training (MBSSE) and the Instructing Service Fee (TSC), seeks to rent a world marketing consultant to assist the event of the varsity readiness framework and the revision of the pre-primary educational core bundle. The academic core bundle includes the curriculum, studying final result, targets/minimal studying competencies, educating, studying, and evaluation supplies. The marketing consultant will even develop an in depth educating schedule, pattern lesson plans and studying materials for kids. In conducting their duties, the marketing consultant will even assist the MBSSE and the TSC in reviewing the doc on classes discovered and greatest practices in pre-primary schooling.

The goals of this task are:

1. To information and assist a nationwide early childhood schooling (ECE) technical staff of specialists to be established for the event of the pre-primary educational core bundle.
2. To evaluation and develop an educational core bundle on foundational studying for pre-primary.
3. To develop coaching content material/modules for the coaching of pre-primary lecturers, head lecturers, faculty high quality assurance officers and trainer coaching establishment instructors on pre-primary educational core packages.

Methodology and Technical Strategy:

The Worldwide Marketing consultant, will:

1. Develop the street map for this work in settlement with UNICEF, MBSSE and the TSC.
2. With the assist of the nationwide marketing consultant, evaluation the doc on classes discovered and greatest practices to be developed by the Ministry of Fundamental and Senior Secondary Training (MBSSE).
3. Evaluate present curriculum supplies and educating and studying supplies together with, however not restricted to, the early childhood care and schooling (ECCE) curriculum, ECCE curriculum information, early childhood improvement (ECD) image books, studying by play pre-school trainer coaching information and participant handbook, play primarily based early stimulation (0-2) coaching information and ECE curriculum posters.
4. Conduct in-depth interviews with key stakeholders at nationwide and sub-national ranges concerning the prevailing and desired educational core packages.
5. Primarily based on the above insights and findings from the interviews, conduct a nationwide SWOT evaluation of present educational core packages.
6. Develop a pre-primary/faculty readiness curriculum framework.
7. Conduct and facilitate workshops with the MBSSE, TSC, ECE technical working group, and the group of specialists on pre-primary curriculum improvement geared in direction of the event of the academic core packages for pre-primary.
8. Develop educational core bundle, educating and studying supplies, and related presentation supplies for dialogue with ECE Technical Working Group members, the MBSSE, the TSC and nationwide stakeholders.
9. Pilot the developed TLMs.
10. Finalise and validate the academic supplies primarily based on the outcomes of the pilot and suggestions and enter from key stakeholders.
11. Develop and/or adapt coaching guides for the coaching of lecturers, head lecturers, SQAOs and TTI instructors.
12. Help the supply of coaching to grasp trainers, head lecturers, and SQAOs on the brand new pre-primary curriculum bundle.

Particular Duties:

1. Lead in reviewing the teachings discovered and greatest practices in pre-primary schooling report.
2. Help the MBSSE and TSC in organising the Nationwide ECE Technical Crew:

• Present recommendations for key native members for the Nationwide Technical Crew devoted to pre-primary educating and studying.

3. Kick-off occasion preparation and supply:

• Help the MBSSE and TSC in making ready and delivering the kick-off occasion titled “Bettering pre-primary Training for All.”

4. Capability Constructing for the Nationwide Technical Crew:

• Information in contextualizing the science of educating and studying in pre-primary for the event of pre-literacy, pre-numeracy, socio-emotional, and motor expertise.

5. Stocktaking Train:

• Help the event and conduct of a stocktaking train to evaluation present pre-primary educational supplies in Sierra Leone developed with assist from key companions.

6. Definition of age and developmentally applicable educating and studying and scope:

• Contextualize anticipated studying outcomes and scope and sequence for pre-primary educating and studying on the prevailing curriculum in direction of play-based studying/ studying by play strategy.

7. Improvement of youngsters’s story books, image books, and workbooks:

• Lead in creating fashions of play primarily based classes.
• Lead in piloting the brand new curriculum bundle and doc the suggestions to feed finalization.
• Collaborate on growing last variations for nationwide implementation.

8. Preparation/Revision of complementary/supplementary supplies:

• Making ready or revising complementary/supplementary play and studying supplies, together with posters, charts and manipulatives for pre-literacy and pre-numeracy improvement.          

9. Help the coaching of grasp trainers, head lecturers, and SQAOs on the brand new pre-primary curriculum bundle.

Please see connected ToR for detailed info.  Tor – International GPE ECE consultant.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for each little one you’ll have… 

Superior college diploma (Masters, PhD) in Training, Psychology, Sociology, or associated social science fields within the disciplines of:

• Early Childhood Training
• Curriculum Improvement
• Studying Evaluation

Minimal of 5 years {of professional} expertise within the area of early childhood schooling, curriculum improvement, and early studying evaluation.

Robust technical experience in pre-literacy, pre-numeracy, socio-emotional and play primarily based studying.

Robust interpersonal expertise

Wonderful planning, designing, and coordination expertise within the improvement of the academic core bundle.

Fluency in written and spoken English.

Robust knowledge evaluation expertise

Understanding of expertise platforms and their use for studying and coaching

Skill to interact with a variety of individuals, together with authorities companions, educational facilities, formal and casual networks, NGOs/CSOs, and technical specialists if required to collate all related info.

For each Baby, you show… 

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS). 

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Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. 

People engaged beneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought-about “employees members” beneath the Workers Rules and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (similar to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service will probably be ruled by their contract and the Basic Situations of Contracts for the Companies of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are answerable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the cost of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines. 

The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for your complete interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which have to be met previous to taking on the task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and are usually not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply areas or instantly work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF during their consultancy contracts.