Country: Sierra Leone
Closing date: 29 Jun 2016
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC delivers education programs in 22 conflict-affected or post-conflict countries around the world.
This position is for a Curriculum Materials Development Consultant who will provide technical, strategic and facilitation support to enable the development of easy-to-use and quality lesson plans for secondary school Mathematics teachers. The consultant will help support a team of two national consultants, and 13 subject specialists who will develop the lessons plans that align with the relevant government curriculum.
The consultancy will include the following specific services:
- Working with the Maths lesson plans development team to develop work-plans and piloting strategies.
- Provide technical and strategic support to the team to develop high quality and user-friendly lesson plans within the given timeline.
- Ensure that best practices in Maths and active teaching practices suitable for primary level children are integrated into lesson plans, incorporating methodologies that are suitable to a low-resource teaching environment.
- Arrange and oversee the testing of the lesson plans. Collect feedback from all participants, after each test lesson, and ensure feedback is incorporated before final approval.
- Together with national consultant, review, edit and format the lessons plan modules as they are developed.
- Ensure the implementation of comments from both interim internal review process and final external review processes. The external review will be done by a panel of independent reviewers, to be assigned by Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.
- Together with the national consultant, develop a two-day training material to train teachers in the use of the lesson plans to aid their teaching.
How to apply:
Apply online: http://chm.tbe.taleo.net/chm03/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=IRC&cws=1&rid=13895