Learning Outcomes Lead - Can’t Wait to Learn

Overview

Can’t Wait to Learn (CWTL) introduces new cost-effective solutions to the serious challenges children face accessing quality education in emergencies, through the development of innovative personalised learning solutions with a focus on serious gaming.

To date, CWTL has been implemented in Sudan, Lebanon, South Sudan, Jordan, Uganda and Ukraine. CWTL has been proven in all contexts in which it has been used (Ukraine pending) to significantly improve and accelerate children’s learning of foundational literacy and numeracy skills.

Can’t Wait to Learn is a digital, curriculum-based, context-specific learning application for education in emergency offering numeracy and reading curricula for primary grades 1, 2 and 3. Accessed on dedicated, preloaded, low-cost tablets and by application on personal iOS and Android devices played both on and offline. CWTL offers children a digital, self-guided education game adapted to context to support motivation and active self-paced learning.

Children can access it at home, in the community or in school settings. It has been providing children in conflict-affected areas a high standard of education since 2012. Maths and reading curricula are in line with national standards and endorsed by the Ministries of Education. The programme also offers training and support tools for teachers and facilitators in all implementation settings, and diagnostics for every learner to track learning progress.

The role

We are seeking an experienced education professional to be our Learning Outcomes Lead. The senior technical lead in this role will support partner organisations and ministry of education staff working to deploy CWTL with the development of cost-effective, evidence informed and practical models of implementation that support learning outcome improvement.

The Learning Outcomes Lead will play a critical role in driving the assessment, monitoring, and evaluation of learning outcomes within the Can't Wait to Learn program.

The Learning Outcome Lead will utilise evidence of impact to adapt models of implementation that support cost-effective use of CWTL games that support learning outcome improvement. Other key areas of focus include supporting efforts to increase community accountability, buy-in, and promote the iterative use of data for decision making.

This role will involve supporting teams across a wide range of contexts and require a positive and dynamic approach to problem solving.

The role can be based in any location where War Child Alliance has an office.

Your Challenge

• Working with partner organizations across the international education sector and within existing contexts to support the development of cost-effective outcome focused models of implementation of CWTL.
• Developing quality assurance models across the different implementation contexts in keeping with country-based curricula and with CHS.
• Supporting human-centered co-design processes with partner organizations to understand the needs and goals of partners, children, teachers/facilitators, and community stakeholders that may benefit from utilizing CWTL.
• Working with partner organizations and research leads to test CWTL’s use/dosage and impact on children’s learning outcomes with a focus on foundational literacy and numeracy, and SEL.
• Developing/co-designing and implementing of clear, realistic and detailed plans for programmes
• Setting learning goals and outcomes across implementation contexts.
• Consistently updating wider teams awareness of trends and changes in the education technology (digital personalized learning) sector to support uptake of CWTL at scale across multiple contexts, and inform CWTL’s technical development.
• Developing and supporting strategies for data collection, analysis, and reporting on learning outcomes, including both quantitative and qualitative methods.
• Contributing to the dissemination of research findings, best practices, and lessons learned to inform programmatic decision-making and advocacy efforts.
• Learning from and with national and regional education technology ecosystem actors, partners and coordination bodies in the contexts that War Child works, including the global education cluster, national and regional coordination bodies such as the INEE.
• Developing and updating implementation packages to support partners across a wide range of contexts, that are driven by an understanding of the learning sciences, cost-effective programming and child-safeguarding experience.
• Developing document evaluative processes and how input has been used to improve quality and value-for-money regarding the use of CWTL.
• Supporting new business development opportunities to drive the uptake and scale of access to CWTL for children affected by conflict.
• Developing documents to support CWTL utilisation, with a particular focus on improvements and efficiency gains and cost-effectiveness.

Your Profile

• Relevant post-graduate academic degree or studies (education; serious gaming social sciences; International development, conflict, cultural ,or social studies, etc.);
• Extensive knowledge of education in emergencies programming (psychological support is an asset) primary school education and curricula;
• Track record in supporting stakeholders with education and education technology programming, at scale;
• Demonstrable experience collaborating with people from various backgrounds;
• Experience communicating technical education information to non-technical audiences;
• Experience in developing tools, programs/interventions and delivering training;
• Knowledge and experience in M&E and research;
• Previous engagement with discourse and practical activities around decolonization and digital colonialism.
• Strong planning and organizing skills;
• Capacity to manage multiple stakeholders and keep them engaged;
• Fluency in English required, French, Spanish or Arabic a significant asset.

Our Offer

• The following offer is based on a Dutch employment contract, actually conditions depend on the local office
• Salary range from € 4,180 – € 5,197 gross per month, based on 40 hours per week (the exact step determined by the years of relevant working experience).
• An employment contact with War Child for 40 hours per week
• 28 vacation days on full time basis (consisting of 26 vacation days plus 2 additional fixed free days, based on 40 hours work week).
• A pension scheme fully paid by War Child.
• Compensation for travel and work from home costs.
• Laptop to work from any location and monthly mobile phone contribution of € 25.
• Possibility to follow training and/or courses where relevant.
• Pleasant working conditions, good atmosphere, great colleagues and of course the meaningful purpose of our work!

Our Organisation

War Child is a young and dynamic organisation. We try to keep an informal ambiance within our office, with a lot of room for creativity, inspiration and self-initiative from employees. We practice what we preach: dynamic, innovative, integrity focused and a drive to reach the highest possible results against the lowest possible costs. War Child offers a challenging job in an inspiring workplace in Amsterdam.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates are invited to apply by uploading their CV and a short cover letter, in English, before 12th of July 2024, here:

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Safeguarding

War Child is committed to humanitarian values, standards and norms and we expect the same from job applicants. War Child is especially committed to safeguarding the children and youth we support and doesn’t tolerate any form of abuse. Because we want to prevent and deter any actions that place children and youth at risk, conduct references are an important part of our recruitment procedure. As part of the selection process, War Child will request standardized references in accordance with the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and a recent Criminal Records statement.

Equal opportunity

War Child has a dream that every child lives in peace - no matter who or where they are. That’s why we pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer. We promote diversity and belonging in everything we do and select our potential new colleagues without regard to gender, race, colour, religion, nationality, disability, age or sexual orientation.

Application process

To ensure that we spend as much of our resources on the support of children and youth, War Child needs to operate as efficiently as possible. This means we can only process job applications received through our websites.

If we appoint a suitable candidate before the given closing date, the vacancy will be removed from our websites. In this case, any responses received after removal will not be processed. Sometimes the closing date of a vacancy is extended. If so, and you have not yet heard from us, your application will remain active.