The TARGET Technical Expert (TTE) will be located at the Ethiopia Somali Regional Education Bureau (REB) to strengthen the delivery capacity of the regional bureau to proactively identify and prioritise, resolve key challenges of GEQIP-E/TARGET implementation.
The primary focus is to support the REB in strengthening school leadership through an outcomes-led delivery approach. The regional TTE will model and support a strong delivery approach in implementing the initial school leadership training pilot for school principals to put teaching and learning at the heart of school leadership. This will involve negotiating and building relationships between the selected university, Colleges of Teacher Education, woreda officials and cluster supervisors. As such the TTE will provide strategic capacity development through modelling good practice, coaching, mentoring and guiding GEQIP-E/TARGET implementers. The regional TTE will model and support a strong delivery approach in supporting the cascade of CPD for school leaders; strengthening strategic planning; enhancing effective data gathering and use for decision-making; aligning TARGET activities to the GEQIP-E annual plan; ensuring that information flow is useful and efficient. S/he will work closely with ministry and regional staff to support the delivery of a number of model interventions in the Ethiopia Somali region. The TTE will also act as a technical backstop to ensure the implementation of prioritised TARGET tasks and ensure that they develop this capacity in REB colleagues too. The TTE will collaborate with federal TTEs, the TARGET Task leads, MoE Delivery Team, and other internal and external stakeholders to ensure effective implementation of TARGET technical assistance in the region. S/he will also work closely within the REB to align the new education sector priority of digitalizing the education system with TARGET priorities in line with the Ministry’s Digital Transformation of Education Sector Technology agenda.