Team Leader / Coordinator

Tasks of the Team Leader:

• Remotely manage the local and international experts and overall responsibility for the advisory packages of the contractor.
• Coordination of the international and local STE missions based on the requirements of the project.
• Ensuring the coherence and complementarity of the contractor’s services with other services delivered by the project at the local and national levels.
• Coordinating and ensuring communication with GIZ, partners and other stakeholders involved in the project
• Coordinate and assure the quality of deliverables and all capacity development measures.
• Overall responsibility of monitoring and evaluation in line with the GIZ results-based monitoring.
• Responsibility for managing expenditures and costs, accounting processes and invoicing per GIZ’s requirements.
• Regular short progress report with key achievements every 3 months from the aware of the contract to contribute to the overall MEL system. In addition to, a final report with all achievements in the context of the assignment shall be submitted at the end of the contract period. All reports shall be submitted in English
• Responsibility for checking the use of funds and financial management in consultation with the officer responsible for the commission at GIZ.
• Technical backstopping on: stakeholder management, cross cutting themes, M&E approaches, capacity building material and action plan preperation development.

Qualifications of the Team Leader:

• Education/training : University qualification (Master) in Social Science, Education or any related field.
• Language : C1 language skills in English in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference
• General professional experience : 10 years of professional experience in the steering and management of complex development cooperation projects.
• Specific professional experience: 6 years of professional experience in the field of education.
• Leadership/management experience: 6 years of management/leadership experience as project team leader or manager in a company
• Regional experience: 5 years of experience in MENA region
• Development Cooperation (DC) experience: 6 years of experience in DC projects
• Other: 2 years’ experience in financial management

Key Expert 1

 Tasks of the Expert 1:

Tasks are generally jointly carried out between Expert 1 and Expert Pool and are demand-driven,
also depending on the possibility to travel internationally.
Capacity Building

• Develop concept on the implications of digitalization, blended and online learning on effective implementation of ECA
• Develop concept on the international best practices in implementing ECA in overcrowded schools
• Develop concept on the international best practices in implementing inclusive ECA
• Advising on the skills and professincy to develop ECA teachers training manual and TOT material

Qualifications of the Expert 1:

• Education/training: University qualification (Master) in Education Sciences, Political Sciences, Social Sciences, International policy or closely related.
• Language: C1 CERF language skills in English
• General professional experience: with 10 years of professional experience in the Education Sector
• Specific professional experience (2.2.4):
  • 4 years of professional experience in the area of ECA
  • 2 years of professional experience in the area of inclusive education
  • 2 years of professional experience in the area of degitalization and blended learning
• Regional experience: 5 years of professional experience in MENA region
• Development Cooperation (DC) experience: 2 years of professional experience in DC

Short-term expert pool (local expertise) with minimum 2, maximum 3 experts

Tasks of the Expert Pool

ECA Action Plan

• Communication and coordination with MoE in Jordan, with the GIZ staff and main stakeholders and actors in the field
• Intensifying cooperation between MoE and other stakeholders and actors on Jordan ECA action plan
• Facilitating, organizing and documenting stakeholders and actors’ consultations and dissemination sessions in close cooperation and coordination with MoE
• Advising on specific strategies to improve the ECA implementation in Jordan and magnify impact.
• Development of Jordan ECA action plan with monitoring schemes and all related documents.
• Ensuring that all developed material are available in Arabic and English
• Ensuring that all materials developed are approved by MoE and advising on scalingand institutionalization strategies.

Capacity Building

• Support the international expert with useful related resources in order to carry out the assignment.
• Support the international expert in contextualizing the concepts developed and integrade into the ECA capacity development material.
• Development of the teachers training manual, the TOT materials and all the related documents
• Facilitating, organizing and documenting Key Trainers training sessions
• Development of cascade training plan
• Development and implementation of feedback tools and mechanism
• Communication and coordination with MoE in Jordan, and with the GIZ staff
• Ensuring that all materials developed are approved by MoE and advising on scalingand institutionalization strategies

Qualifications of the short-term expert pool 

• Education/training: All experts with a university qualification (Master) in Education, Social Science or related field
• Language: All experts C1 language skills in English, All experts C2 language skills in Arabic
• General professional experience: All experts with 10 years (each) of professional work experience in the Jordan Education sector
• Specific professional experience: all fields have to be covered by the expert pool cumulatively (it is not required that each expert covers all fields):
  • 10 years of professional experience in developing teacher training materials and delivering teacher training
  • 10 years of experience in political stakeholder management, of this 5 years of cooperating with the Jordan Ministry of Education
  • 5 years experience in development, implementing, managing or monitoring ECA at public schools
  • 5 years experenice in M&E and data analysis
  • 5 years experience in inclusive education
• Development Cooperation (DC) experience: All experts with 5 years of experience in DC
• Other: 5 years of experience in the area of digitalization and blended learning