TEAM/PROGRAMME: CDA Project Team
LOCATION: Ethiopia Country Office, Addis Ababa
GRADE: 2A
TYPE OF CONTRACT: National
Child Safeguarding:
Level 2: The role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
ROLE PURPOSE:
The ECCE Creative Adaptation Specialist is a member of the USAID/LEGO Foundation supported Childhood development Project team. The project is implemented by Save the Children Ethiopia Office and local partners targeting crisis-affected pre-primary school age children in five regions of Ethiopia.
The ECCE Creative Adaptation Specialist will produce child- centered and friendly ECCE audio lessons, dramas, dialogues, stories and songs through the use of technology. S/he will also map exiting audio and video productions on ECCE and adapt them into audio and print tailored ECCE lessons, messages, dramas, stories, and dialogues to promote playful learning in ECCE centers. The role holder will also produce or adapt context specific dialogues and dramas to promote parental discussion at a community level on different early childhood development themes (such as SEL, PSS, Emergent literacy, emergent numeracy, motor skills development) relevant to conflict and drought affected areas. The specialist is expected to involve in the production/adaptation of ECCE video lessons to be used in the regional Teacher Education Colleges ECCE resource centers, and produce/adapt play based print cartons to inspire children play in ECCE centers’. S/he is also expected to involve in the provision training to local implementing partners on the use of digitalized lessons, dramas, dialogues, stories, and songs to facilitate interactive engagement of young children at ECCE center and with parents at a community level, as well as the provision of coaching and mentoring support to ECCE/Pre-primary school teachers in the use of radio lessons to promote play in ECC centers, and in parental group sessions.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: ECCE Technology Advisor
Staff reporting to this post: None
Budget Responsibilities: None
Role Dimensions:
The ECCE Creative Adaptation Specialist will collaborate with the project’s teams as well as the country office’s ACCM team to integrate gender, conflict sensitivity disability and other applicable and desirable social norm issues into audio-taped ECCE lessons, dramas, dialogues, stories, songs, radio broadcast and print materials. She/he will monitor and provide in person supports to ECCE/pre-primary school teachers and parental group facilitators on the use of audiotaped lessons, songs, dialogues, dramas, stories to facilitate playful learning at ECCE center and community level. She/he works in close collaboration with radio broadcast officer in the preparation of radiobroadcast messages on different ECCE themes., collaborate with LIP staff to ensure the regular use of Solar Radio sessions to facilitate playful interaction among children, and active discussion among parents in parental group session. The role holder will also involve in the production of radio dialogues, role play, stories, songs and drama for ECCE facilitators’ Teacher Learning Circle session based on play.
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
A. Technical Leadership:
B. Ensuring Programme Quality (Design & Implementation):
Work closely with new business development colleagues to identify and pursue funding
C. Networking & External Engagement:
BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
Accountability:
Ambition:
Collaboration:
Creativity:
Integrity:
QUALIFICATIONS
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
KEY COMPETENCIES Technical competencies:
Generic Competencies
Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.
Equal Opportunities
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI’s global Diversity, Equity and
Inclusion and Gender Equality Policies, supported by relevant procedures.
Child Safeguarding:
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Safeguarding our Staff:
The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy
Health and Safety
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.