Training officer - Contingent to Donor Funding (Afghan Nationals Only)
Support education training interventions and ensure quality implementation.
Overview
Support education training interventions and ensure quality implementation.
You have:
- Bachelor's degree in education or a master's degree considered an advantage.
- 2 to 3 years experience with community-based education and formal education system support.
- Strong experience in training planning, delivery, assessment, and reporting.
- Extensive experience in monitoring and supervision.
- Strong experience in maintaining coordination with stakeholders.
- Knowledge of the local community structure, dynamics, and development.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in local languages.
Job Description
Main Purpose of the Job:
The Training Officer is responsible for supporting the education training interventions in close coordination with IP and project stakeholders to ensure quality implementation of the training efforts on the ground. He/she will work closely with the Master Teacher Trainers, Community Mobilizers, IM staff, IP, and MoE focal points to ensure quality implementation of the training intervention at the field level.
Responsibilities:
- Prepare overarching Training of Trainers (ToTs) and Teacher Training Plans for all technical area deliverables under the education program-related projects. - Support Master Teacher Trainers with capacity building on training techniques and delivery, including mentoring, coaching, and direct training delivery support where required. - Developing training material and supplementary training material - Train trainers and teachers in the ‘Core Package” of IRC to build capacity and improve teaching and training quality for the IRC and MoE staff. - Monitor and evaluate training and classroom performance of individuals, documenting progress and continued needs through observation forms and planning extra training when necessary. - Create new or revised training modules when feedback from trainees indicates changes or additions are required to ensure greater comprehension and knowledge transfer. - Work with the education specialist to integrate psychosocial knowledge into training modules in the Core Package. - Visit classrooms weekly to assist with ongoing research, support teachers, and model observation techniques for trainers in training to build capacity experientially. - Coordinate multi-sectoral approaches with other IRC Afghanistan programs and operation units. - Collaborate with partner organizations through meetings, fora, and conferences. - Oversee quality control for training plans and delivery across result areas and ensure technical vetting of all training plans to be delivered to Implementing Partners - Ensure proper cascade support in person and remotely for provincial-level ToTs and Teacher Training to increase implementation fidelity. - play a quality control standardization and coaching role to the trainers. - Conduct continuous assessment and evaluation of teacher training and development programs, document, summarize, and report training data to assess the training manager at the central level. - Regular supervision ensures that statutory training requirements are met at the field level. - Closely coordinate with the education support team to manage the logistics of training programs. - Coordinate with the other education team for teacher training matters. - Prepare and submit training completion reports and regular activity reports from the field-level teacher training. - Perform any other job related duties assigned by the line supervisor.
Other Responsibilities:
- Organize and actively participate in regional and provincial meetings, workshops, and trainings, as well as draft minutes and share them with the central office. - Abide by IRC personnel policies and regulations; follow any new procedures and guidelines introduced in circulars from the Country Office - Report any violations of the IRC Mandatory Reporting Policy. Reporting violations is an obligation on the part of all staff members.
Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree in education or a master’s degree will be considered an advantage. - 2 to 3 years, experience with community-based education and formal education system support. - Strong experiences in training planning, delivery, assessment, and reporting - Extensive experience in monitoring and supervision - Strong experience in maintaining coordination with stakeholders. - Knowledge of the local community structure, dynamics, and development. - Excellent oral and written communication skills in local languages - Ability to frequently travel to the program sites to oversee and ensure quality delivery of the training efforts.
Potential interview questions
| Describe a training session you have planned and delivered successfully. | This evaluates your planning and delivery skills in training contexts. | Provide a clear example with details of your planning process, execution and outcomes. |
| How do you assess the effectiveness of a training program? | The interviewer needs to understand your methods of evaluation and improvement. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| Can you share an experience where you had to coordinate with multiple stakeholders? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| What strategies do you employ for ongoing teacher support after training sessions? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| How do you tailor training materials to meet diverse learner needs? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |