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Employer: Room to Read
Industry: Education and Teaching
Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka

Room to Read. World Change Starts with Educated Children!

Here at Room to Read, we believe there is no better investment than a child’s education. If you are as passionate as we are, we invite you to explore a career with Room to Read. Room to Read — Sri Lanka is an INGO registered with the Ministry of Social Services (Reg.No. FL-103204) and works in liaison with the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Child Development & Women’s Empowerment Ministry of Social Services and Social Welfare. We provide educational opportunities through two main programs namely Literacy and Girls Education.

Vacancy Announcement

Program Officer, Instructional Design & Teacher Support (IDTS) Tamil/Sinhala Medium – 2 Positions Base in Colombo

Position Overview:

The Literacy Instruction Program Officer will be responsible for carrying out all activities of Room to Read Literacy Program, including surveying, Instruction and library activities, teacher training, monitoring and evaluation, and project reporting. This position will involve frequent travel to all field locations and will report to the Manager, Instructional Design and Teacher Support.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Serves as the technical experts in the country office on literacy skills and the habit of reading and will coordinate closely with the Instructional and Teacher Support Unit to ensure they are successfully implementing the program design and able to provide feedback on how well it is working.
• Requires strong communication and coordination with the field team to get insight about the program implantation to plan for support measures.
• Collects information to assist LIPM to liaise with school principals, government officials to carry out surveying and implementation of Literacy program
• Organize logistical arrangements to conduct country level workshops and events.
• Actively involves in contextualization process of all Implementation Packages of RtR and provide healthy feedback to ensure the successful contextualization.
• Conduct training of CO Staff, Trainers, Field staff, teachers and librarians using contextualized packages
• Complete detailed written reports on a timely basis to headquarters regarding the status and progress of each site.
• Coordinate with operational and financial team and be vigilant on budget and spending.
• Attend to donor affairs including hosting donor site visits and documenting anecdotes that evolve through field work.
• Document best practices and lessons received from field and share with other project sites, relevant local staff, the Country Director and appropriate US based Program Officers
• Collects regular feedback from the field through POT on the quality improvements.
• Collects information from all LP Program sites and coordinate with QRM team for Instruction and literacy materials and material supplies.
• Assist in coordinating, conducting and facilitating training workshops on activities promoting literacy and library development
• Closely work with the core team/consultants.
• Provide technical assistance to develop scope and sequence and material development.
• Indirectly supervise the work of the Literacy Coaches and Library Management Facilitators, providing direction for his/her role in teaching monitoring and getting necessary data for the literacy program
• Represent Room to Read in different forums and advocate the importance of reading and need for libraries for children
• Participate in any other activities which may be required to be undertaken to fulfill the objectives of the organization and direction of IDTS PM.

Qualification:

• University degree on Education, Language, Linguistic, Social development, Business Management and other related field
• Minimum of 5 years related work experience
• Microsoft office package usages, Internet and related applications
• Good command of English (both written and oral)
• Experience working with project development preferred
• Good interpersonal skills and a team player
• Ability to monitor progress of program implementation

Compensation:

The salary range for this position will be determined based upon the experience of the candidate hired. Benefits including health, accident and provident fund are also provided. Additional benefits include a unique opportunity to be part of an innovative, meaningful, and rapidly growing organization that is changing the world through the lifelong gift of education.

Should you meet our expectations, please forward your detailed CV together with the names & contact details of 03 non-related referees within 10 days.

Please mention the post applied on the subject line) Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified. Room to Read is an equal opportunity employer

Canvassing will be a definite disqualification.

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