National General Education Adviser II

The Quality Education Strategic Support Programme (QESSP) is a four year DFID funded programme aimed at creating an enabling environment to maximise the efficiency and impact of all other programmes in the education sector through capacity building, enhancing policy dialogue and improving the evidence base on impact of education reforms. British Council is the management agent providing technical and management support to the programme.

The British Council is the United Kingdom’s international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations operating in more than 100 countries and territories worldwide and has been in Ethiopia for the last 70 years.  We build trust and understanding between people worldwide by enabling them to share ideas and knowledge.  We call this “cultural relations”.

Brief description of the role

• Produce high level direction paper (Lead Plan) to guide periodic plans;
• Quality review and synthesize plans and reports of various departments and regional education bureaus;
• Develop and implement a robust system for tracking and reporting of progress of the implementation of strategic plans at Federal, Sectoral, Regional levels, and Woreda levels;
• Develop and implement agreed standards for reporting.
• Support directorates and REBs to submit agreed, good quality and implementable proposals for QESSP funding.
• Provide high level technical support to QESSP funded projects within the sub sector and Produce analytical products in the form of policy briefs;
• Provide high quality and timely strategic and technical advice to the General Education State Minister, Directors and Heads of Regional Education Bureaus;
• Provide technical support to policy review and formulation initiatives relevant to the general education sub sector.
• Review quality of study reports, policy and other key documents;
• Ensure that the various directorates are benefitting from the work of each other particularly in relation to studies commissioned, capacity building initiatives, etc;
• Facilitate information sharing and better communication among the various directorates in the sub sector.
• Lead capacity assessment for the sub sector and coordinate capacity building initiatives together with other Directors in the Ministry;
• Implement and lead a continuous quality improvement process for the sub sector;
• Lead on building the capacity of directorates in the general education sub sector and regional education bureaus in planning, follow up and reporting;
• Develop and implement quality standards for the various activities of the sub sector;
• Actively identify opportunities for development within and outside of the Ministry and develop a system for matching the opportunities with the appropriate beneficiaries;

Terms of contract: Starting August 12 months with a possibility of extension

Required qualifications and experience

• Excellent analytical skills
• Skill of synthesizing information and excellent report writing skills
• Good understanding of the Ethiopian education system*
• Knowledge of other donor programme priorities
• Experience of coordinating Government – donor partnerships
• Master’s degree or equivalent in education*