Reading Coordinator at Education Development Center (EDC)

Position: Sokoto LGEA Reading Coordinator – USAID/Nigeria's Northern Education Initiative Plus

Regular – Full-Time – Sokoto, Nigeria

Project Summary: The Northern Education Initiative Plus project works to improve the quality of and access to education in Northern Nigeria, equitably and sustainably.

Position Summary: The LGEA Reading Coordinator will provide technical assistance and guidance to the project’s support to improved reading instruction at the LGEA level.

Reporting & Supervision:

This position is housed in each Coordinator’s assigned LGEA in Sokoto, Nigeria, reporting to the Reading Officer.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Supervise the implementation of all Northern Education Initiative Plus supported reading
• material, all Northern Education Initiative Plus supported trainings in reading, all teacher and
• classroom supervision and monitoring and all student testing efforts.
• Ensure complementarity of activity approaches in reading across the LGEA,
• Liaise with LGEA government representatives and technicians on technical matters, and bears ultimate responsibility for ensuring that children in Northern Education Initiative Plus public,
• IQTE, and NFLC schools achieve improved outcomes in reading.
• It is expected that the LGEA Reading Coordinator will work directly with a Hausa language expert (particularly if the reading specialist is not conversant and fluent in written and spoken Hausa).

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Masters degree with at least one year (or Bachelors with at least 3 to 5 years) of relevant experience in education development, with familiarity working in local governmental systems in Nigeria
• Prior experience providing training and capacity building to staff and counterparts in areas of participatory planning
• Undergraduate degree in Education, Public Administration or related field;
• Fluency in English and Hausa required.