Вакансія при Міносвіти: Team Lead in Quality Assurance for School Education

Agriteam is committed to provide equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants on the basis of merit.

About Agriteam Canada:
Agriteam Canada is one of Canada’s leading international development firms, providing management and technical expertise to developing and transitional country partners on projects that promote sustainable growth and meaningful opportunities for people to improve their lives. Over the past 30 years, we have implemented over 370 projects in more than 65 countries.

Agriteam has two offices in Canada and 11 offices around the world, including an office in Ukraine. Over the almost thirteen-year of Agriteam presence in Ukraine, the team successfully implemented five international technical assistance projects.

About the project:
In October 2019, Agriteam Canada launched a new five-year project in Ukraine: Support to Ukraine’s Reforms for Governance (SURGe).

SURGe’s Ultimate Outcome is to help the Government of Ukraine (GoU) to deliver governance and economic reforms that better respond to the needs of its citizens. To achieve this, the Project will strategically enhance and strengthen the GoU’s reform management functions, namely its capacity to undertake planning and analysis of reforms that consider citizen impact, and to implement these reforms.

Reform initiative and position summary:
The State Service of Education Quality of Ukraine (SSEQ) and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (MoES), supported by the international donor projects, implemented the system for quality assurance for school education.

The quality assurance for school education – is a powerful instrument for positive changes in education field, impacting each Ukrainian family. As the result – more comfortable environment for pupils (psychological and physical) at schools, qualitative HR policy and professional development of teachers of each school, focus on individual growth of each pupil, ecological management.

For this reform, SURGe Project is looking for а Team Lead in Quality Assurance to ensure the overall management of the reform initiative and communication with the SSEQ and MoES management.

The Team Lead will be based in Kyiv and will be reporting to the SURGe Sector Lead.

Level of effort: full time, Monday-Friday.

The duration of the contract is 6 months with a possibility of extension (subject of approval and implemented deliverables during a previous deployment).
For contracting (after the job offer is made), the selected candidate is expected to be registered as a Private Entrepreneur of the 3d group (consultancy services).

Indicative duties and responsibilities (scope of work):
1. Overall management of the reform initiative.
2. Ensure communication with the SSEQ and MoES management.
3. Setup of tasks and control over its implementation.
4. Development of a training module on assessing the educational environment (for educational experts).
5. Conduct trainings for regional offices (territorial authorities).
6. Participation in conducting trainings for educational experts.

Preferred qualifications and skills:
1. Master Degree in Education, Management or other related field.
2. No less than 5-year professional experience as the Project Lead/Manager in the education field.
3. Experience in cooperation with the government authorities.
4. Excellent analytical and presentation skills.
5. Project lobbying skills and experience.
6. Ability to work with arguments and objections is a must.
7. Set and meet realistic deadlines.
8. Fluent English.

To apply:
Submissions must be prepared in English and delivered electronically by 17:00 Kyiv time on June 12, 2020 to the following address: [email protected].

All submissions must include:
1) Applicant’s CV in English (max. 2 pages).
2) Applicant’s letter of interest in English (max. 500 words).

Please ensure to state Team Lead in Quality Assurance (MoES) in the e-mail subject line.

Applications received after the indicated deadline and/or without letter of interest will not be reviewed and considered.

Please note, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for follow-up. We do not welcome unsolicited phone calls.