United States of America: ABE ACCESS - Seeking Specialists in Education for Children and Youth in Crisis and Conflict Settings

COMPANY PROFILE

International Business & Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI), a U.S. based international development consulting company established in 1987, has worked in over one hundred countries and has implemented over two hundred projects. IBTCI has served governments, private sector companies and several donor agencies in the practice area of Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) across many sectors including education, health, economic growth and democracy & governance.

Recently USAID has awarded IBTCI a five-year global contract, ABE ACCESS, to help USAID bureaus and missions to establish and improve equitable access to education for children and youth in crisis and conflict settings. Developed to help operationalize Goal Three of USAID’s Education Strategy, ABE ACCESS is intended to address the very wide range of factors, inside and outside of a school or other setting for learning, which can keep children and youth from benefitting from learning

Please visit our website, http://www.ibtci.com/ , for more information about us and the work we’ve been doing in countries around the world.

POSITION SUMMARY

IBTCI is looking for mid-level and senior-level educators with at least a master’s degree and at least five years’ experience working in education in emergencies and/or with particularly disadvantaged children and youth for possible long-term and short-term assignments.

Among the fields of expertise for which we are seeking talent are:

· Conflict-sensitive programming, peacebuilding, and conflict resolution

· Non-formal education, alternative education, distance learning

· Teacher training, administrator/supervisor training, training of volunteers

· Literacy, numeracy, materials development, curriculum development

· Youth development, livelihoods, workforce development, vocational training

· Community- and school-based conflict prevention, mitigation, reduction, resolution

· Education and support for particularly disadvantaged children and youth, e.g., child soldiers, victims of trafficking, orphans and vulnerable children (regardless of cause), children with disabilities, displaced or refugee children, separated children

· Organizational development and human and institutional capacity development

· Educational planning, educational administration, and policy dialogue

· PEPFAR-like “wrap-around” services, e.g., food support, psychosocial support, health support

· Safe schools (including safety for children and teachers in getting to and from schools), child-friendly schools

· Development and consolidation of community support for formal and non-formal education and for out-of-school children and youth

· Physical infrastructure, including WASH

· Effective records management, including EMIS for various applications (student and educator records, educational administration and management, etc.)

· Communications, knowledge management

· Violence prevention, bullying, harassment, substance abuse

· Crisis preparedness and planning

· Educational measurements, quantitative and qualitative measurements of activity effectiveness

For these early stages of ABE ACCESS, we are particularly looking for people with expertise in assessments, evaluations, planning, and conducting baseline studies.

Please submit all application materials at https://ibtci.devhire.devex.com/.

No phone calls please. Applications will be acknowledged, but only final candidates for particular activities will be contacted. IBTCI is an equal opportunity employer.

If you encounter any technical issues please notify mjoran [AT] ibtci [DOT] com