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World Education, a division of JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI/WE) is dedicated to improving people’s lives around the world through greater heath, education and socioeconomic equity for individuals and communities, and to providing an environment where people of passion can pursue this cause.
JSI/WE is seeking a Basic Education Technical Lead for the anticipated USAID’s Targeting the Learning Crisis Activity in Uganda, which aims to create sustained, measurable improvements in development outcomes in Basic Education through Targeted Instruction (TI) for foundational skills, a learner-centric pedagogy that reorganizes math and reading instruction based on children’s actual learning levels, rather than on the prescribed grade-level syllabus. The Activity seeks to implement cost-effective, sustainable, and impactful programming, centered around Targeted Instruction pedagogy for P3-P5, Targeted Instruction and other evidence-based approaches for P1-P2, and evidence-based early childhood education for pre-primary years, in order to significantly improve math and reading learning outcomes for Ugandan primary students.

Job Summary
The Basic Education Technical Lead’s primary responsibility is to provide oversight to all P1-P5 program interventions and collaborate with all relevant education departments and stakeholders nationally and locally. S/he will be responsible for coordinating all in-school and out-of-school primary education related interventions and providing technical oversight of the project’s basic education technical staff, while collaborating with the Early Childhood Education (ECE) Technical Lead to ensure smooth and effective transition from pre-primary into primary school. The Basic Education Technical Lead will assist the Chief of Party (COP) in overall project leadership and liaising with the Government of Uganda, USAID, and other key stakeholders. The Basic Education Technical Lead is a member of the Senior Management Team of the project and reports to the COP. Responsibilities include the overall coordination of program implementation activities in order to implement the Targeting the Learning Crisis (TLC) approaches to improve basic education outcomes at the pre-primary and primary level in Uganda.