Country: Uganda
Closing date: 15 Jan 2018
About Link Community Development International
Link Community Development is a family of not for profit organisations working together to transform education for children and communities across impoverished rural areas of Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda and Uganda. Since our foundation in 1995 we have worked in 3,000 schools and improved the lives of over two million children through unique and effective school improvement models. We guide governments and educators to adopt low-cost solutions to improve learning and support for children, with a focus on literacy, numeracy and inclusion for the most marginalised children. Through a partnership delivery model which embeds piloting and learning within local systems, we influence changes to policy, practice and accountability on a national scale, and our interventions are regularly adapted and replicated by governments and NGOs in new countries and contexts. Link Community Development International (Link), based in Edinburgh, Scotland supports all project, M&E, fundraising, finance and governance activities in our five sub-Saharan partner countries.
Main Task
We will engage an experienced consultant or small team of consultants, to conduct a detailed and evidence-based scoping study to establish the current position and pipeline plans of MoES in relation to the critically important areas of school improvement in Uganda. These include: School improvement systems and processes; community mobilisation; school report cards; digitised inspection; national education standards; national roll-out of effective data collection systems.
The consultant will explore and record the detail and experience of a number of stakeholders who have been strategically involved in the Ugandan education improvement sector, which will include but not be limited to:
- The Directorate of Education Standards’ (DES) work on Monitoring Learning Achievement, National Assessment of Performance in Education, and other relevant processes;
- Global Partnership for Education’s funding for results-based programming;
- DFID’s Strengthening Education Systems for Improved Learning (SESIL) project;
- World Bank’s Uganda Teacher and School Effectiveness Project (UTSEP);
- STiR Education’s and UWEZO’s national roll outs;
- EduKan's STAR school self-evaluation model;
- Opportunity International’s Pathways to Excellence for private schools; and
- EDUCATE’s work on community accountability.
The study will document case studies, evidence of successes, recurring challenges and best practice, and will also assess Link’s own SPR model for its current value and continued relevance in Uganda (SPR has been adopted fully in Malawi and partially in Link target schools in Uganda, Ethiopia and Ghana). We will also establish a new Steering Committee, chaired by the DES and Link Uganda which will involve the consultant and other stakeholders. The Committee will lead this project, collate and disseminate all findings and guide the strategic direction of future implementation work.
The main deliverables of the assignment are:
- A comprehensive scoping study on School Improvement in Uganda. To include historical and current processes and future plans. An executive summary and an annex of all people contacted with contact details must be included.
- An MS presentation (powerpoint) of the main points of the report to be used for dissemination purposes.
Essential Experience and Qualifications
- Experience working with the Ministry of Education and Sport in Uganda
- Experience working with Donor Partners, INGOs and NGOs
- Master’s degree in international development, education and/or any other related area
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience working in international development and education
- Excellent oral and written English
A proven track record of professionalism and ethical conduct
Additional information about the role can be found athttp://www.lcdinternational.org/jobs-volunteering
How to apply:
Please send a cover letter, CV and equal opportunities monitoring form to Samantha Ross at samantha@lcd.org.uk with the subject line “Scoping Study Consultant Application”
- Your cover letter should detail how you meet the required criteria
- It should also include your available start date
- The Equal Opportunities form is available here: http://www.lcdinternational.org/jobs-volunteering
- The closing date for applications is 5pm on the 15th of January 2018
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted