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Position: Technical Sector Officer (TSO) - Education

Job Location: Nyanza & Huye Districts, Rwanda

About the AIM Program:

The Mastercard Foundation Accelerating Impact for Young Women (AIM) in Partnership with BRAC is equipping 2 million adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) with age-appropriate entrepreneurship, employability, and life-skills training, as well as the tools to start and scale their own businesses. The nine-year program (2021-2030) applies BRAC’s proven model using microfinance, youth empowerment, agriculture, education and skills development to improve lives and livelihoods. It currently operates in seven African countries: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and Kenya. Based on the AGYW age, needs, and circumstances, AGYW are placed on one of two pathways in the AIM program: an education pathway or a livelihood pathway.

About the AIM Education Pathway:

The AIM Education pathway is designed to increase access to and completion of quality secondary education for adolescent girls, aged 12-17, across the AIM countries: Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Uganda. The program seeks to achieve three core objectives: (1) to empower 400,000 adolescent girls by increasing their agency, voice, and life skills; (2) to support adolescent girls to complete at least lower secondary school; and (3) to improve gender-responsive education in at least 2,000 secondary schools, positively impacting an estimated 2.4 million students.

This AIM education pathway is closely aligned with the Mastercard Foundation’s strategic priorities under its Young Africa Works initiative, particularly the emphasis on improving the quality and accessibility of secondary education to better prepare young people for meaningful work. Through a set of integrated interventions, AIM Education targets structural and social challenges that often hinder girls’ education—including financial barriers, inadequate infrastructure, undertrained teachers, harmful gender norms, lack of community support, and weak school governance systems.

About the Role:

The Technical Sector Officer (TSO) - Education will support the AIM Regional Manager in planning, implementing, and ensuring the quality delivery of the AIM education pathway.

They will be responsible for technical & implementation-related tasks under AIM education pathway, i,e. facilitating training, reviewing content and curriculum and adapting it to their context, and supporting teachers' professional development as well as school leadership's school improvement planning processes. They will also contribute to staff capacity development through targeted training and supervision.

The TSO-Education will collaborate with the region & country level program team, other sectral TSOs for any technical need/query, to improve program quality, contextualize training modules, and train staff on new materials and tools. They will ensure effective delivery of gender responsive training for the teachers and school management and support creating an enabling learning environment in the AIM supported secondary schools. Also ensure effective delivery of parental engagement to support in increasing access to and completion of quality secondary education for very young adolescents (VYAs) and adolescent girls (AGs) aged 12-17 years.

An ideal candidate for this role is one with strong technical skills and experience in developing and reviewing quality education curriculum content, teachers’ guides, teacher training manuals, including a strong background in training teachers and educators. S/he should have strong training skills, coordination and negotiation skills, be proactive, passionate, resourceful, and enjoy being a team player.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Support:

• Support AIM team in the inception phase activities (in delivering education messages during community mobilization and inception meetings, family meetings, YDC meetings, etc.).
• Work closely with the AIM Education Specialist in preparing the MoU templates for the schools. 
• Support in obtaining Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with relevant ministries at the regional and/or district/county level, and schools.
• Meet with relevant regional and district officials and share the MoU that outlines the key objectives of AIM education pathways and how MoE and the district will support and allow access to local education departments and schools, and school records.
• Support developing/reviewing/updating/adapting, existing teachers’ guide and contents for the teachers and school leadership in the country context in coordination with the AIM education specialist and BRAC International (BI) technical anchors.
• Support developing /reviewing/updating/adapting the training guide on school management and school improvement plans in close coordination with the AIM education specialist and BI technical anchors. 
• Support developing a training guide for the peer mentors, support groups, and tutoring in close coordination with the AIM education specialist and BI technical anchors.
• Support AIM program assistants (PAs) to identify Teacher Champions in the schools 
• Support the AIM education specialist to ensure the establishment of a robust system for the smooth transfer of school-related support costs to ensure AGs' financial support to continue their education. 

Direct Operational Support: 

• Facilitate training for AIM PAs, teachers, and school leadership on gender responsive pedagogy, mentorship, and tutoring. 
• Facilitate training for school leadership, school management/and parent-teacher associations (PTAs) on school improvement planning. 
• Work closely with the school administrations, head teachers, teachers and school management committees (SMCs)/PTAs for the inception and introduce the AIM education pathway activities.
• Support AIM PAs to do monthly follow-ups of the AIM education pathway interventions for quality program outputs.
• Conduct/attend different levels of staff meetings. 
• Identify the knowledge gap of programme staff and take necessary steps for their improvement.

Coordination, Planning and Partnership and M&E: 

• Support coordination with a range of stakeholders, including teachers, school leadership, school management, parents' teachers association, Government education officials, to support school-related interventions 
• Work with the identified Alternative Education providers in the region and coordinate to enrol eligible AIM participants
• Contribute to the design and implementation of a monitoring framework to track progress, assess impact, and inform adjustments of the training plans and delivery
• Report back to the Government education officials/MoE as outlined in the MoU on activities done by BRAC.

Reporting, Documentation and Communication: 

• Contribute to program reports and deliverables as required.
• Identify and document best practices, most significant change stories, and share this knowledge with colleagues. 
• Ensure quality reporting on enabling learning environments at school, and document good practices.
• Support regional managers, branch managers, and programme assistants regularly to ensure timely and high-quality programmatic data entry and reporting in the relevant manual and digital MIS (BInsight).
• Support the AIM Education Specialist in the documentation of program wins and success stories / case studies 
• Ensure timely preparation and submission of programmatic management information system (MIS), training reports and share project progress reports regularly with the AIM Regional Manager and Education Specialist.

Team management and overall stewardship: 

• Support and coordinate the AIM education team, ensuring competent and motivated staff, as well as manage the performance of the AIM education staff, and encourage on-the-job coaching, identify and address learning and training needs and opportunities.
• Support the development of capacity-building plans for the AIM Education team
• Manage external technical consultants and partners involved in the AIM education pathway in the country. 
• Support the AIM communication team with up-to-date content to create presentations and marketing materials to showcase program and project successes.
• Act as a mentor and role model for less experienced staff.

Safeguarding responsibilities:

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation.
• Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Major Challenges:

• Access of hard to reach locations in the communities AIM serves
• Coordination with different schools 
• Coordination with the BI team in different time zones 
• Managing coordination among several team members within the BRAC family.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):

• Timely achievement of project activities.
• Quality of the training guides and content prepared
• Efficient and quality delivery of the different AIM education pathway training.
• Effective staff, teachers, and school leadership capacity building on gender responsiveness 
• Effective use of resources and tools.
• Strong partnerships established with schools and the Government education officials 
• Individual/specific KPIs as agreed with the supervisor.

Academic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or Postgraduate in Education/ International, Development/ Gender/ Sociology/ Anthropology/ Social Sciences and/or other relevant fields

Required Skills, Competencies & Knowledge:

• Training materials development, staff capacity building, and facilitation skills
• Computer literacy and presentation skills
• Report writing and documentation of Most Significant Change Stories
• Proactive, self-starter and independent worker with the ability to support large teams
• Demonstrate commitment to community mobilization work around education, GESI, SRHR, and advocacy work, applying rights-based, human-centered, and survivor-centered approaches.
• Exhibit empathy and positive interpersonal skills, including cultural competence.

Experience Requirements:

• 3-5 years of relevant experience in education training, development of education guide, contents and curriculum, gender equality, social inclusion, community engagement, and school engagement.
• Previous experience in providing technical assistance, especially related to teachers’ training module development and execution, and training facilitation
• Experience working in integrated programs targeted for adolescent girls and young women is a plus.
• Previous experience in the development of SBCC messages, tools, and materials for community-based dialogues and other activities.
• Experience in conducting advocacy, community mobilization and engagement activities is also an added advantage.

Employment type: Regular/Fixed-Term

Salary: Negotiable

About BRAC International:

BRAC International (BI), a leading non-profit organization, is on a mission to empower people and communities facing poverty, illiteracy, disease, and social injustice. Our vision is to create a world free from exploitation and discrimination, where everyone has the opportunity to realize their potential. We design proven, scalable solutions that equip people with the support and confidence they need to achieve their potential.

BRAC was founded in Bangladesh in 1972 and over the last five decades has grown to become one of the world’s largest non-governmental organisations (NGOs), reaching over 100 million people. We started our first international operation by venturing into Afghanistan in 2002, building on lessons from our work in Bangladesh to support a nation devastated by war. Currently operating in 16 countries across Asia and Africa. Born, proven and led in the Global South, BRAC International brings a unique Southern perspective and commitment to continuous learning, providing a depth of insight, experience and evidence to meet the needs of diverse communities with humility and courage across Asia and Africa. To learn more about BRAC International, please visit (www.bracinternational.org)

Our Core Values:

Integrity: We approach our work with honesty and integrity.

Innovation: We innovate and iterate to improve our impact.

Inclusiveness: We foster inclusion to reach those who need it most.

Effectiveness: We strive for effectiveness to better serve people in poverty.

If you feel you are the right match for the above-mentioned position, please follow the application process to grab your dream opportunity! 

Qualified and interested candidates are recommended to email their Resume with a signed cover letter and any supporting documents in a single PDF format to sbirwanda.recruitment@brac.net; mentioning a brief academic background, career summary, core competence, notarized copies of academic qualifications and professional certifications (if any) etc. within 250 words.

Please mention the name of the position in the subject bar

Application deadline: 25th September 2025

Please note that the shortlisting will be done one on a rolling basis, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

BRAC is committed to safeguarding children, young people and adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share the same commitment. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation - regardless of age, race, religion, and gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedure include extensive background checks and disclosure of criminal records in order to ensure safeguarding to the fullest extent.

“BRAC International is an equal opportunities employer”