Senior Manager, GEDSI (AFEP)

Senior Manager, GEDSI (AFEP)

Abt Global

Suva, Fiji

Position Summary:

The Senior Manager, GEDSI (the ‘Manager’) will lead AFEP’s work to integrate GEDSI into all activities and guide the design and delivery of GEDSI-specific activities including the Special and Inclusive Education (SIE) support to MoE and the Women in School Leadership initiative.

Key Responsibilities:

The Senior Manager, GEDSI will:

GEDSI Mainstreaming

• Lead or oversee the development of an AFEP GEDSI Strategy and Action Plan, building on the achievements and lessons from previous phases of Australian support. The Strategy will draw on a Platform-wide GEDSI stocktake, GEDSI analysis of the education sector, MoE strategies and plans and consultations with Fiji government and civil society partners, and other sector stakeholders.
• The Senior Manager GEDSI will work collaboratively with the Team Leader, AFEP technical leads and MoE counterparts to ensure that GEDSI is carefully considered
• and meaningfully integrated into all AFEP workstreams: curriculum reform, teacher and school leader professional development, student wellbeing, and evidence-driven policy, planning and practice.

Curriculum reform

• Continue to promote through AFEP technical support to MoE diversity, equity and inclusion in curriculum materials, through review and revision of teaching and learning materials. Support curriculum specialists and coaches to mentor teachers to deliver these new materials effectively, and to strengthen inclusive teaching practice.

Teacher Professional Development and Women in School Leadership

• Oversee and guide the Senior Specialist, Teacher Professional Development, to support LDU, CAS and other relevant MoE units to analyse and address the barriers to women teachers’ career advancement, including through the Women in School Leadership program. Support the development of policies to promote equitable and inclusive recruitment and career pathways for teachers and school leaders, and promotion of equitable and inclusive classroom practice.

Equitable access and participation and student wellbeing

• Support MoE, in collaboration with the AFEP Senior Manager, Education System Strengthening, and Senior Specialist, Education Evaluation and Research, to undertake or commission targeted research and analysis, including of disaggregated FEMIS data on priority GEDSI issues. These may include boys’ early drop-out, barriers to participation for children (especially girls) with disabilities, including gender-based violence, and weaker learning outcomes among students in maritime and remote areas. The Senior Manager GEDSI will draw on this analysis to support MoE to develop strategies to support equitable education access and inclusive practice.
• In its support to MoE on FEMIS, AFEP will continue to support collection, analysis and use of gender- and disability-disaggregated data. This will include continued training for MoE officials at all levels on the use of the disability disaggregation tool.
• The Senior Manager, GEDSI, will also lead AFEP work on safe and inclusive schools and student wellbeing, including support to MoE to establish counselling hubs to support schools across the country, and possible AFEP support to address school-related gender based violence.

Special and Inclusive Education

The Senior Manager GEDSI, in collaboration with STA disability inclusion specialists will oversee and support the AFEP SIE team, with a focus on supporting:

• MoE to implement its Special and Inclusive Education policy.
• teachers and district education officers to identify students with disabilities and mobilise appropriate support, such as facilitating access to SIE grants, referrals to specialist services, and development of Individual Education Plans.
• CAS, school leaders and teachers to adapt and deliver the revised literacy and numeracy curricula to students with disabilities in both special and mainstream (inclusive) schools.
• awareness raising in school communities with OPDs on the right of children with disabilities to access quality education; building referral links with medical services in collaboration with the health program.

Key Working Relationships:

• Ministry of Education (MoE) counterparts including SIE and CAS officials, district education officers, Heads of School and teachers
• Civil Society Organisations, including Organisations of People with Disabilities and women’s and girls’ rights organisations.
• AFEP Team Leader, Senior Manager, Education Systems Strengthening, SIE team, Teacher Professional Development Specialist, other AFEP technical leads.

Selection Criteria:

Qualifications

• Degree qualification related to Education, Development Studies, Gender Studies, or other relevant field.

Knowledge and Experience

• Demonstrated experience in GEDSI analysis, strategy development, activity design and delivery, preferably in the education sector.
• Demonstrated experience supporting GEDSI mainstreaming, preferably in education programs.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with government and civil society partners, including Organisations of People with Disabilities (OPDs) and women’s and girls’ rights organisations.
• Demonstrated experience in technical leadership and team management, preferably in the Fiji education sector.

Personal Attributes

• Ability to think analytically and systematically in preparing implementation plans, budgets and reports according to the activity outputs.
• Ability to work independently in a flexible and diverse team environment.
• Ability to work collaboratively and respond flexibly to changed circumstances and priorities.

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