Early Childhood Education Coordinator

Duration & Goal: INSPIRED is a 3 year UK funded programme that will improve quality of Early Childhood Education (ECE) and foundational learning skills for 200,000 Kenyan children, including 100,000 of the most marginalized in Wajir and Mandera Counties.

Delivery & Technical Partners: INSPIRED will be delivered by Education Development Trust (EDT) alongside partners Agakhan Foundation (AKF), Sight Savers, Wajir Peace & Development Agency (WPDA) and Voice of Peace for All (VOPA).

Programme Components: INSPIRED will be delivered through the following 3 main components to achieve quality, equitable, inclusive and sustainable impact across the board:

• C1: Support Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms (PWPER) around foundational learning
• C2: Deliver strong evidence based Early Childhood Education (ECE) models in Wajir and Mandera for existing government-funded ECE centres
• C3: Generate robust evidence on effective strategies for delivering ECE to influence policy and practice.

We are currently seeking a Early Childhood Education (ECE) Coordinator to provide technical expertise on ECE, with responsibility to ensure the quality of programme outputs reflect international best-practice in ECE tailored for the local context and will work with partners to deliver programme outcomes. This includes overseeing the quality of the end-to-end design and creation of the training, teaching and instructional resources for the Inspired programme, and the content and metrics of national-level policies.

Education Development Trust, we improve school systems at scale; we partner with governments around the world to help turn ambitious, visionary education policy into reality. We invest annually in our programme of education research and this evidence underpins our work and informs policy and practice around the world. We have a long-established presence in Africa – running programmes since 1992 – and have worked with a range of governments, donor agencies and partners to improve education across the continent, providing short-term, expert consultancy and delivering long-term, national education programmes. We have specialist expertise in sustainable school system reform at scale – from improving literacy and numeracy outcomes, to large-scale teacher training and strengthening the capacity of national ministries. We are experienced in leading complex programmes in challenging environments, and we also work with like-minded organisations to ensure we maximise our impact.