Consultant - Technology Enhanced Pedagogy
Organizational Context
The UN Secretariat, specifically UNRWA's Programme Education Headquarters in Amman, is seeking a consultant to enhance teaching and learning through technology. This role supports the UNRWA Strategy for Information and Communication Technologies for Education (ICT4E), focusing on capacity building for school-level stakeholders to scale up digital education initiatives.
Job Purpose
The purpose of this consultancy is to lay the foundational work for scaling up capacity building in digital education. The consultant will develop a comprehensive Technology Enhanced Pedagogy Framework, integrating existing UNRWA initiatives like MS Teams, the Manara digital resource repository, and the Tamkeen community of practice. This framework will guide the professional development of educators, leveraging existing resources and interventions to improve teaching and learning for over 550,000 Palestine refugee students. The role aims to enhance the capacity pillar of the ICT4E strategy, ensuring effective technology integration in classrooms.
Responsibilities
The consultant will lead the development of a cross-field capacity-building package. Key responsibilities include conducting an inception and stocktaking phase involving mapping and analyzing existing teacher capacity-building activities and resources across five fields, identifying gaps and opportunities. This involves reviewing current training materials, workshop outlines, and field-specific packages. The consultant will also perform a rapid systemic review of educational technology literacy among teaching personnel, designing methodologies and compiling a report with recommendations. Furthermore, the role entails designing and developing a modular, hybrid training program on technology-enhanced pedagogy, including facilitator notes, participant materials, and a micro-Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) framework. Piloting the training package and MEL framework, orienting a UNRWA team, and providing periodic progress reports are also key duties.
Work Experience
A minimum of 10 years of experience in training design and facilitation in education technology and ICT for education is required, specifically for school-based stakeholders like teachers and principals. Experience in designing teacher professional development programs in low-resource or crisis-affected contexts, integrating EdTech frameworks, working across multiple countries, and facilitating participatory co-design processes is essential. School teaching experience is desirable.
Skills
Training design and facilitation, Education technology, ICT for education, Digital pedagogy, Capacity building, Cross-field mapping and analysis, Systemic review, Training program development, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) framework design, Microsoft Teams, Digital resource repositories, Online communities of practice, Excellent oral and written communication in Arabic and English.