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LAC Reads Capacity Program (LRCP) Haiti Background:

The USAID/LAC Reads Capacity Program (LRCP) seeks to increase the impact, scale, and sustainability of early grade reading interventions in Haiti. The 5-year regional LRCP, implemented by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) under the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Cooperative Agreement No. AID-OAA-A-14-00058, seeks to intensify, deepen, and expand its work in Haiti. The LRCP team has been providing technical support which lead to sustained, systematic improvements in early grade literacy (EGL) capacity in Haiti. The LRCP team provides technical support by building capacity in curriculum and materials development in the Ministère de l’Éducation Nationale et de la Formation Professionnelle (MENFP), whose work focuses on teacher training, higher education institutions, and other education sector stakeholders including national instructional materials creators and printers, thus leading to sustained, systematic improvements in EGL capacity in Haiti.

Position Overview

American Institutes for Research (AIR) is seeking an EGL Curriculum Development Consultant to lead the development of the scope and sequence and the corpus of vocabulary for the Grade 4 Creole and French curriculum. The position will focus on overseeing the development of the scope and sequence in Creole and French based on the latest evidence on how children learn to read and curriculum development principles for early literacy. In addition, they will be responsible for leading the development of the corpus of vocabulary in Creole and French. The Consultant will work in collaboration with a small team to conduct this work over a period of 5 months for a total of 84 working days. The consultant will also assure the quality of the developed products as well as address and incorporate the MOE’s and partners’ comments into the final products. The consultant will provide biweekly reports on the work progress. Part of the scope will also be to facilitate workshops with the Ministry of Education (MOE) and other stakeholders to engage them in the development process and to get their validation of the materials.

The position will report directly to the Haiti field project director and work in collaboration with the project manager, and the various early grade literacy specialists and local partners.

Oversee the entire process of scope and sequence development for literacy in Creole and French for grade 4.

2. Participate and lead regular team meetings to ensure communication amongst the development team.

3. Oversee the grade 4 corpus of vocabulary development process in Creole and French.

4. Assure the quality of the products.

5. Facilitate workshops with the USAID mission, the Ministry of Education (MOE) and other stakeholders.

6. Address and incorporate USAID’s, the MOE’s and other partners’ comments in the products.

7. Provide biweekly reports on the work progress.

8. Perform any other tasks related to the position as required by the project.

Master’s degree or PhD in education studies, bilingual education, early grade reading or relevant fields

· Extensive experience leading bilingual education and/or early grade reading programming

· Minimum of 10 years’ experience working in curriculum development in French and Creole

· Minimum of 10 years’ experience with textbook development for primary education

· Extensive experience with literary content development

· Experience with previous USAID projects

· Strong knowledge of the Haitian educational context

· Mastery of French and Creole is required

· Experience with book publishing is a plus

· Familiarity with the Grades 1-3 reading curriculum developed and revised by the LRCP Haiti team is highly preferred

· Teaching experience, particularly in the Haitian context, is a plus

· Teacher training experience is strongly preferred

In English or French, email your CV including contact information and your daily consultancy rate in gourdes to Elmire Petit-De Brice at epetitdebrice@air.org and Rachelle Mathurin at rmathurin@air.org with the subject "EGL Curriculum Development Specialist”. This posting is open until August 9, 2020

84 days