POSITION TITLE	Senior Bangla Literacy Specialist
LOCATION	Dhaka, Bangladesh (journey to implementation areas)
GROUP	Human Rights, Training, and Empowerment
REPORTS TO	Technical Director Training
STATUS	Full Time (yearly renewable)
TENTATIVE START DATE	April 2024

 

Winrock Worldwide is inviting functions for the place of Senior Bangla Literacy Specialist   for the U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement (USAID)-funded Esho Shikhi (Come and Study) Exercise in Bangladesh. Esho Shikhi is a five-year undertaking (2021–2026). The general goal of Esho Shikhi is to enhance the Bangla studying abilities of Grade 1 and Grade 2 college students and develop them as impartial readers. Esho Shikhi works to extend studying alternatives, enhance high quality training, and construct the capability of communities to help training and reply to disasters.

Wage:  will likely be commensurate with {qualifications} and expertise. Wonderful advantages are provided.

To Apply: 

candidates are requested to use on or earlier than March 31, 2024.  Nevertheless, functions will likely be reviewed on a rolling foundation and Winrock reserves the proper to make a suggestion previous to the deadline for functions.  Candidates are thus inspired to submit their functions on the earliest alternative. Candidates ought to go to https://www.winrock.org/join-us/careers/job-openings/ and submit a present curriculum vitae and canopy letter referencing Bangladesh Esho Shiki “Come and Study” Exercise: Senior Bangla Literacy Specialist 

POSITION SUMMARY:

Reporting to the Technical Director of Training, the Senior Bangla Literacy Specialist   has the duty to enhance the educational disabilities and people battling studying among the many early- grade college students and develop them as impartial readers in studying Bangla following the nationwide curriculum. The Senior Bangla Literacy Specialist will present high-quality instruction, help, and management to provide high-quality outcomes in Bangla literacy for the scholars of marginalized Bangladeshi youngsters in deprived and susceptible communities. The Senior Bangla Literacy Specialist will present interventions to researchers and work with academics to implement extra help within the classroom; will lead the cost in making a tradition of studying that ensures robust studying instruction, pleasure about books, and a real, institutional love for studying. The specialist tends to be a useful resource for academics, engaged on studying curricula, ordering essential supplies, and creating new actions for academics.

 

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Work with academics, the federal government, and different stakeholders on curriculum planning and Bangla literacy coaching.
• Contribute methods to enhance instruction to help literacy development throughout the curriculum.
• Creates and examines information to measure the success of literacy applications and instruction.
• Train focused literacy intervention to small teams of academics utilizing research-based methods and assets. Help to create the proof and to tell the coverage maker relating to the efficient methods and approaches of literacy
• Contribute technical imaginative and prescient, oversight, and steerage that helps attaining improved studying and writing instruction and scholar studying in Bangla.
• Present technical help and oversight to the undertaking approaches and supplies to enhance studying instruction at main stage.
• Contribute to the manufacturing of all project-supported supplies for trainers, academics, and college students; supervise and supply high quality assurance to provide activity-supported Literacy supplies, coaching, mentoring, and scholar testing efforts.
• Develop and disseminate Literacy interventions constructing on the teachings discovered and the research findings from ongoing cohort implementation.
• Collaborate with Authorities of Bangladesh training officers and implementing companions on instructor skilled improvement and group engagement to make sure a unified and technically sound method.
• Lead in creating and adapting educating and studying supplies; liaise with authorities representatives and technicians on technical issues.
• Contribute to technical dialogue on literacy (studying/writing) with key stakeholders comparable to GoB, offering technical perception on nationwide studying insurance policies and implementing the brand new cycle interventions within the classroom.
• Contribute to capacity-building actions for instructor mentors, Grasp trainers, and Govt main college academics.
• Contribute to decoding monitoring and analysis information to tell interventions to enhance scholar studying.
• Collaborate with the worldwide outcomes technical employees to jot down and publish project-related articles.
• Present technical help on national-level technique and Literacy-related insurance policies.
• Promote research-based literacy practices to reform school rooms.
• Present mentorship to technical literacy employees.
• Carry out extra duties as wanted and requested by the Technical Director Training.

 

REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

Training and work expertise:    

Grasp’s diploma and 5-7 years of expertise or bachelor’s diploma and eight – 10 years of expertise or equal mixture of training and expertise in training, studying and literacy instruction, or associated subject; specialization in studying and literacy most well-liked. Prior expertise creating early-grade studying supplies, instructor coaching applications, classroom monitoring and mentoring protocols, and assessments and assessments in Bangladesh most well-liked. Demonstrated expertise working with the federal government will likely be most well-liked.

Information and Abilities:

• Management abilities that allow them to work with different adults, comparable to classroom academics, Govt officers, different professionals, and the group.

• Sturdy Interpersonal Abilities.

• Understanding the social, financial, and political context governing training and social inclusion points in Bangladesh.
• Capacity to work underneath strain, independently, and handle a number of priorities on the identical time.
• Proficiency in MS Workplace functions with Bangla typing proficiency.
• Wonderful coordination abilities, particularly with project-specific stakeholders.
• Confirmed expertise organizing coaching, workshops, conferences, and seminars.
• Sturdy oral and written communication abilities with proficiency in Bangla, skilled proficiency in English.
• Capacity to collaborate successfully with native nation counterparts, undertaking employees, consultants, and different companions.
• Wonderful organizational abilities, course of and systems-oriented, with a robust consideration to element.
• Prior expertise working with donor-funded tasks, notably USAID.
• Sturdy candidates will exhibit glorious organizational and interpersonal abilities, potential to work underneath troublesome circumstances with restricted assets, and skill to kind productive relationships with counterparts and colleagues.

 

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