Job description

JOb Purpose

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Conduct secondary research on ECD delivery in South Africa, types of nutritional support, design of Home Kits, resourcing and materials for ECD centre’s and non-centre based programmes, and others as needed.
• Develop checklists, observational guides, rubrics, and standard operating procedures pertaining to ECD services set up and delivery based on the Department of Basic Education's requirements.
• Participate in on-ground field visits and research with the program team and partners where feasible.
• Develop protocols and manage tools for ECD workforce for programmatic review and process monitoring.
• Consolidate findings and learnings from collected data tools, conduct data analysis of ECD programmatic data, and present, with support of ECD Lead, at various forums to inform improvements and iterations.
• Serve as coordination point person between IRD and ECD workforce (through the ECD Centre as well as Community Play Facilitators).
• Work with relevant teams to ensure ECD workforce is meeting standards of delivery and upholding project requirements.
• Support ECD Lead with development of awareness raising materials for CE Lead to deploy through field teams.
• Support ECD Lead with review of training materials, technical documents, and others.
• Support ECD Lead with integration of ECD services with other programmatic services, such as mental health, community engagement, monitoring and evaluation, etc.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES (KSA)