• Master’s degree in education, Child Development or related field, or equivalent level of experience and expertise.
  

• At least 5-7 years working in education with a focus on active teaching and learning methodologies, including in refugee-hosting or crisis-affected contexts
  

Skills and Competencies

• Extensive experience working in teacher professional development, curriculum design, developing content and/or overseeing program design for large-scale programs focused on active teaching and learning methodologies or a related field
  

• Primary or pre-primary school teaching experience
  

• Proven ability to provide high-quality technical assistance, guidance and coaching to staff and partners
  

• Excellent knowledge of pedagogies related to learning through play
  

• Experience working in conflict and crisis settings, and knowledge of humanitarian programming
  

1. Content:

• Ensure that PlayMatters’ definition of Learning through Play as an active teaching method is clearly understood and implemented in practice through content, facilitation, and teaching and learning materials across locations and partners.
  

• Provide technical guidance and support to country teams in designing and implementing a strategy to review, select, adapt, co-create, test and improve active teaching and learning content, including trainer-facing, teacher-facing and instructional leader-facing content, that adheres to the PlayMatters vision and framework, with a goal of scaling this content within government and humanitarian education systems
  

• Provide technical guidance to the multimedia enhancements, ensuring it is aligned with country-level content strategies and support development and testing of digital solutions in line with identified needs, including distance learning solutions for educators and system actors.
  

2. Implementation and Quality Improvement:

• Provide technical guidance to country teams in designing and implementing programs that integrate active teaching and learning content, ensuring that programs are evidence-based, cost-effective and scalable.
  

• Provide technical guidance to support the implementation of quality improvement through supervision, coaching and monitoring and testing of improvement strategies, working in close collaboration with the country teams and RMEAL teams.
  

• Track and analyze the different types of implementation models used across the three countries and assess trends and variations.
  

3. Supporting Scaling and Sustaining LtP Programming:

• Work with the Policy and Advocacy (P&A) team and the country teams to ensure content and program models are aligned with local or national standards for early childhood development, pre-primary education and primary education.
  

• Collaborate with the P&A team to work with systems actors to ensure LtP/ active teaching and learning is well understood and integrated into education policies, systems, structures, and strategies as we generate evidence and learning.
  

• Collaborate with the EiE team to ensure that education models adapted for crisis interventions are aligned to the general project model
  

4. External and internal representation

• Ensure that the PlayMatters senior management from the IRC and partners are aware of successes and challenges, and provide regular updates Guide and assist in the writing and development of reports and other documents, for the donor and for internal and/or external audiences.
  

• Raise understanding and the profile of the PlayMatters Project within the region, both internally and externally.