Overall Objective:

To drive forward educational attainment and skill levels by providing access to all and combatting early school leaving/absenteeism.

Purpose:

To support efforts to increase attendance and enrolment rates in secondary education through development and implementation of a comprehensive prevention, intervention and compensation model.

Results to be achieved by the contractor:

• The capacity of relevant staff of the DGs of the MoNE, teachers and school managers are improved.
• Wide range of people is accessed through awareness-raising campaigns/events.
• Research (desk review, benchmarking study, current situation and needs analysis, the final evaluation of the piloting phase, study visits, training programmes etc.) are conducted.
• Workshops and seminars with the participation of relevant actors are organised. 

Key Expert 3 (Education Specialist):

Qualifications and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in educational sciences or in the absence of such a degree minimum of 10 years of working experience in educational sciences,
• Excellent command of written and spoken English,
• Master’s degree, preferably in the fields of educational or social sciences will be an asset.

General professional experience

• Preferably 8 but a minimum of 6 years of professional working experience in education or training design or implementation projects.

Specific professional experience

• Preferably 4 but a minimum of 2 years of professional experience in drafting and/or developing and/or contributing and/or implementing of policies or models or tools or programmes in the education sector,
• Minimum 2 years of experience in the field of design or development or implementation of tools of measurement and/or evaluation in education projects/programmes
• Experience on absenteeism or class repetition or early school leaving will be an asset.