National consultancy to support Education Sector Working Group Coordinator, Kigali, Rwanda,12 months (Office based) – For Rwandan Nationals ONLY

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Background:

The Ministry of Schooling (MINEDUC), together with its affiliated companies (REB, NESA, RTB, HEC), and Schooling Growth Companions (EDPs), maintains a collaborative relationship by the Schooling Sector Working Group (ESWG). This group serves as a discussion board the place MINEDUC and stakeholders interact in oversight, governance, and administration discussions associated to schooling sector priorities outlined in authorities insurance policies and plans. The ESWG’s main objective is to enhance the standard of schooling by coordinating interventions from EDPs and guaranteeing environment friendly use of growth help aligned with schooling sector priorities. By means of coverage dialogue and coordination, the ESWG goals to stop duplication of efforts, resulting in the efficient utilization of EDP help for the good thing about the schooling sector.

In formalizing it operations, The ESWG has developed the Rwanda Schooling Sector Working Group Operational Framework to information the group, coordination, and administration of the ESWG. The framework supplies for the institution of an ESWG Secretariat to make sure efficient functioning and coordination of the schooling sector. The framework envisaged the necessity for no less than one full-time workers devoted to the duties and duties of the Secretariat. As well as, the ESWG Secretariat will work carefully with the Director Basic in command of Schooling Sector Planning, Monitoring and Analysis in MINEDUC on all issues concerning the sector coordination with all EDPs and different schooling stakeholders. The Secretariat might be headed by a coordinator reporting to the Chair and Co-Chairs of the ESWG.

 

Key Duties:

The most important roles and duties of the schooling sector working group coordinator encompasses duties and features, associated to efficient administration and governance of the sector working group, together with monitoring, analysis and studying, communication, and capability growth inside the schooling sector working group function. They key duties embody the next.

 

1. Help implementation of the Rwanda ESWG operational framework, particularly to make sure the ESWG constructions as outlined within the operational framework are practical. This may even embody offering secretariat help to the ESWG to make sure efficient coordination and alignment of sector companions’ supported programmes with authorities priorities to keep away from duplication and create synergies and maximize outcomes of programmes.

Help the event, implementation, and monitoring of schooling sector precedence actions associated to the Schooling Sector. This entails growing and supporting implementation of framework for programmes

2. supported by sector companions. It additionally entails conducting common visits to evaluate ESWG members’ actions and guarantee a radical understanding of all facets of their programmes in addition to growing a collective method involving all EDPs, facilitating data dissemination and sharing of greatest practices.
3. Help the communication and advocacy to solicit help for ESWG priorities. This may contain growing and implementing communication methods to successfully convey sector priorities, achievements, and challenges. It can additionally contain supporting the communication and coordination of the subsector and technical working teams and taskforces as wanted.
4. Strengthen capacities of the MINEDUC and the affiliated companies to operationalize the joint ESWG work plans in collaboration with EDPs. In session with the Chair and Co-Chairs, the coordinator will determine particular person coaching wants for self, or some other workers concerned within the work of the Secretariat to reinforce capability for efficient supply of the ESWG plans and actions.  The coordinator will plan and observe up implementation of capability constructing interventions to satisfy the recognized coaching wants as applicable.

Undertake different duties as delegated by the Chair or Co-Chairs of the ESWG.

 

Duties/Milestone:

• Help the coordination and alignment of the Schooling Companions programmes, interventions and sources to the schooling sector to keep away from duplication and create synergies.
• Help the coordination of quarterly ESWG conferences together with setting the agenda and venue in coordination with the ESWG Co-chairs.  
• Facilitate communication and general coordination between MINEDUC (Chair) and the Co-Chairs of the ESWG together with points concerning funding of tasks, budgeting, and progress updates.
• Help the event, implementation, and monitoring of schooling sector precedence actions in alignment with the Rwanda Schooling Sector Working Group Framework
• Help the group and coordination of the forward-looking Joint Evaluation of the Schooling Sector (JRES) organized in collaboration with Director Basic in command of Planning.
• Help the communication and advocacy of the ESWG and the sector.
• Help the capacities of the MIEDUC workforce to operationalize the joint ESWG work plans with EDPs.
• Conducting common visits to evaluate ESWG members’ actions and facilitate data sharing and change of greatest practices.
• Put together ESWG plans, experiences, and different strategic paperwork for consideration by the Chair and Co-Chairs of the ESWG in session with ESWG members.
• Help the group and coordination of the backward-looking Joint Evaluation of the Schooling Sector (JRES) organized in collaboration with Director Basic in command of Planning.
• Evaluation and replace the ESWG implementation work plan and report annual progress to co-chairs.
• Put together abstract of ESWG and subsector and technical working group plans and progress replace

 

Deliverables/Outputs:

1. Month-to-month work plan and progress report
2. Annual work plan of the ESWG linked to the ESWG Operational framework.
3. Quarterly ESWG assembly minutes detailing discussions, selections, motion objects, and any follow-up duties circulated to members.
4. ESWG plans, experiences, and strategic paperwork put collectively and shared with members as applicable.
5. Exercise monitoring report
6. Discipline visits organized and coordinated prior to each deliberate sector overview.
7. JRS overview report and shows shared.
8. Communication plan for the ESWG Developed.
9. Capability constructing plans developed.
10. Quarterly ESWG assembly held and circulated to members.
11. Finest practices recognized and shared with ESWG members.
12. Up to date standing of JRS resolutions implementation
13. JRS report with clear motion factors shared.
14. Annual progress report on the ESWG work plan
15. Closing report summarizing key achievements, classes discovered and suggestions for enhancing sector coordination.
16. Abstract of subsector and technical working group workplans and actions taken in implementing the ESWG work plan.

Period and Responsibility Location

This consultancy might be accomplished inside 12 months. The consultancy is workplace primarily based in MINEDUC.

Choice Standards

Purposes shall be assessed primarily based on their technical and monetary proposals. Most scores for technical and monetary functions might be 75% and 25%, respectively.

 

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

• A complicated college diploma (Grasp’s or increased) in schooling, worldwide growth, Economics, and social sciences.
• A minimum of 5 years {of professional} expertise at nationwide or sub-national ranges in coordinating the implementation of instructional packages, coverage, or technique.
• Expertise working and offering technical help or implementing packages within the Rwandan schooling sector or within the area.
• Expertise in organizing multi-stakeholder conferences and follow-up of choices and actions.
• Fluency in English is required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or an area language is an asset. 

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Remarks:  

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