Team Leader - Access to Adult Education Project job at Finnish Refugee Council

Finnish Refugee Council

Team Leader - Access to Adult Education Project job Post

Location: Jobs in Uganda 2022 - 2023

Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day

Salary: UGX

No. of vacancies: 01

Deadline: 10 April 2022

Hiring Organization: Finnish Refugee Council

Job Details:

Finnish Refugee Council (FRC) is an INGO promoting adult education and community development among refugees since 1997 as an operational partner to UNHCR and OPM. FRC is here by seeking suitably qualified and hardworking Ugandans to fill the following positions.

Position: Team Leader – Access to Adult Education Project
Vacancies 1
Contract type Fixed Term
Location Adjumani
Reports to Project Manager

Job purpose:
Adult Education Team Leader provides technical support on adult education and learning techniques, approaches and methodologies as well as on learner support for quality implementation of courses on literacy, English language, business skill, financial literacy and alike for refugees and host community. She/he has 6 to 8 Adult Education Officers to supervise.

Key tasks:
• Mentor and develop skills of field staff in regard of techniques, approaches, methodologies for adult learning and teaching.
• Provide technical knowhow and expertise on remedial education, transfer of literacy skills and developmental literacy as pre-requisite for other adult education.
• Provide knowhow in use and design of training materials and tools for adult learning mostly in refugee context and in rural environment.
• Explore techniques and approaches for adult learner support such as digital learning.
• Provide support and lead on planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of adult education activities.
Other tasks:
• Conduct regular field visits to review and report on project progress and impact.
• Support and include environment and resilience approaches, community & beneficiary involvement and gender, disability and HIV issues into adult education courses.
• Support active monitoring and evaluation amongst field staff, ensure M&E mechanisms are used appropriately, collect and analyse the data gathered.
• Write and provide high-quality internal and external reports.
• Review and contribute into development of training materials, curricula and topics.

Qualification and Competencies
• Bachelor’s degree in Adult Education with strong experience in training material design / development.
• At least 3-year experience at team leader level.
• Willingness to travel and live in rural project locations.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and achieve results.
• Ability to use standard computing packages and basic M&E data tools.

Application procedure

Email Application to frcugandaadmin@refugeecouncil.fi by 10th April 2022
Application and CVs Should be one PDF document and a maximum of 5 pages
Include in your application letter:
• Gross salary request,
• Contact details (email and telephone) of 3 professional reference persons.
Please quote the Position and Location in the subject line
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
Do not email copies of certificates.
If you do not hear from FRC by end of April, your application has not been successful