Academic and Training Manager, Building Learning Foundations (BLF) Rwanda– Maternity cover

About us:

The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. We create friendly knowledge and understanding between the people of the UK and other countries. We do this by making a positive contribution to the UK and the countries we work with – changing lives by creating opportunities, building connections and engendering trust.   We work with over 100 countries across the world in the fields of arts and culture, English language, education and civil society. Each year we reach over 20 million people face-to-face and more than 500 million people online, via broadcasts and publications. Founded in 1934, we are a UK charity governed by Royal Charter and a UK public body.

Regional operating context –

To support this vision statement, the Government of Rwanda announced its decision to shift to English medium education in 2008 and joined the Commonwealth of Nations in 2009.

The British Council has operated in Rwanda since 2008 becoming a full country directorate in 2012 with the aim of building cultural and educational relations between Rwanda and the UK. British Council Rwanda offers a range of British Council services and programmes including Exams, Education, English in Education Systems and Arts.

Since 2008, British Council Rwanda has been supporting the Government of Rwanda achieve its ambitions and has delivered a number of successful programmes and initiatives (both donor and British Council grant funded) to support improved teaching and learning in the basic education sector. As a result, relationships have been fostered and continue to develop with MINEDUC, REB, donors and development partners and British Council’s expertise, notably in the teaching, learning and assessment of English in Rwanda, is recognised

Role purpose

Academic and Training Manager, Building Learning Foundations (BLF)

The role involves large-scale project and academic management, management of materials and training development for teachers, management of design and production of pupil resources, overseeing delivery of English language courses for teachers, and managing the English data collection of the nationwide midline assessment that will be led by the lead partner

Main accountabilities for the role include but not limited to;

 Reporting to the English Team Leader (British Council) and working in close collaboration with the BLF programme partners and other key stakeholders in primary education in Rwanda, the successful candidate will provide 8 months maternity cover for the BLF academic and training manager. This will include management of and technical assistance for:

• The ongoing design and delivery of self-study and training materials for primary teachers and learner resources for P4-P5 pupils
• The development and delivery of the core BLF national training programme (orientation training for the teacher toolkits, training in data collection and training in quality assurance, and ongoing training and support for school-subject leaders).
• Ongoing guidance and training for the field team (200+ district teaching advisors and sector learning facilitators) in the delivery of school-level mentoring activities and teachers’ orientations to the new materials.

Role Requirements:

• English at Proficiency level C2 or native speaker
• Cambridge DELTA or equivalent (essential)
• MA in ELT or Education or equivalent (essential)
• At least 3 years’ experience of middle management responsibilities in English for education systems.
• Experience of managing partner funded teacher development programmes in public education systems and working with a range of external and internal partners, e.g. Ministries of Education and development partners.
• Experience of working in Sub-Saharan Africa and/or other development contexts.
• Experience of developing teacher training programmes, and teacher development and pupil resources.

Please refer to the role profile for more information on the role responsibilities/accountabilities and person specification, by clicking on the links for relevant document to support your application:

•  RP Academic and Training Manager.pdf
• British Council Behaviours.pdf
• British Council Core Skills.pdf

Note that you should only fill out the application after thoroughly reading through the ROLE PROFILE & GUIDANCE NOTES.

Further details:

If you are interested in the post and feel that you are suitable for the role, then we would really like to hear from you. Please apply by 27 March 2020 (23:59 UK Time) 

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