National Education Expert (Jordanian)
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Role Summary
Join SRD Center as a National Evaluation Expert in Jordan, contributing your expertise in the education sector to evaluate a multi-year system-strengthening program.
Key Responsibilities
The National Evaluation Expert will be responsible for:
- Providing contextual and technical expertise on Jordan’s education sector, institutions, policies, strategies, and reform environment.
- Supporting refinement of the evaluation methodology to reflect the Jordanian institutional and education sector context.
- Contributing to preparation of the inception report, evaluation matrix, stakeholder mapping, consultation plan, sampling approach, data collection tools, and workplan.
- Supporting identification and mapping of relevant national and local stakeholders.
- Reviewing national education strategies, policies, plans, monitoring frameworks, institutional documents, and other relevant sources.
- Supporting the assessment of education sector reforms and institutional strengthening initiatives.
- Conducting key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and stakeholder consultations in Arabic and/or English.
- Facilitating engagement with government institutions, education authorities, field directorates, schools, development partners, and other education sector stakeholders.
- Supporting field-level data collection and consultations within Jordan.
- Supporting qualitative and quantitative data analysis and interpretation.
- Contributing to assessment of programme relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability.
- Assessing institutional ownership, capacity development, sustainability, and the extent to which programme-supported systems, tools, and approaches have been institutionalized.
- Providing contextual interpretation of evaluation evidence and findings.
- Supporting triangulation of evidence from national documents, programme information, interviews, focus groups, and other sources.
- Contributing to identification of achievements, implementation challenges, lessons learned, good practices, and unintended results.
- Contributing to development of realistic and context-sensitive recommendations.
- Drafting and reviewing relevant sections of the evaluation reports.
- Supporting preliminary findings presentations, validation discussions, and final presentations.
- Ensuring appropriate consideration of local cultural and institutional factors during stakeholder consultations.
- Supporting integration of gender equality, inclusion, human rights, confidentiality, informed consent, and “do no harm” principles throughout data collection and analysis.
Requirements
- fluent in Arabic
- good command of English
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible candidates should have expertise in the Jordanian education sector and strong evaluation skills.
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