Deadline: Ongoing
Creative Associates International is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Senior Reading Specialist in Maputo, Mozambique.
The Senior Reading Specialist will be responsible to provide overall technical oversight and guidance to the activity’s support to improved reading instruction, including reading standards, benchmarks, curricula, and assessment systems.
Creative’s mission is to support people around the world to realize the positive change they seek.
Key Jobs Responsibilities
The Senior Reading Specialist performs the following functions-
- Supervises the production of all activity-supported reading material, all activity-supported trainings in reading, all teachers and classroom supervision and monitoring, and all student testing efforts.
- Ensures complementarily of activity approaches in reading across the activity provinces and language areas, liaises with government representatives and technicians on technical matters, and bears ultimate responsibility for ensuring that children in activity-supported schools achieve improved outcomes in reading.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have-
- Master’s Degree in education with a specialty in early grade reading or another pedagogically-oriented specialty.
- At least 4 years of experience in work specifically to improve evidence-based early grade reading programming directed to rural, ethno-linguistic underserved populations.
- At least four additional years of experience improving educational quality in developing countries is required.
- At least five years of experience in sub-Saharan Africa is highly desired and prior experience in Southern or Eastern Sub-Saharan Africa or Mozambique is preferred.
- Prior proven experience with the development and implementation of evidence-based early grade reading materials, and preferably early grade reading materials in local languages, training programs, classroom monitoring protocols, and tests and assessments, including EGRA, is required.
- Prior experience with supporting family/community engagement and civil-society based monitoring of reading outcomes is required.
- Proficiency in written and spoken Portuguese (ILR 3+) and English (ILR 3+).
- Working knowledge of a Mozambican language or other Bantu language is preferred, but not required.
How to Apply
Applicants must submit their applications through online process.
For more information, please visit Creative.
