Education Adviser

Uganda - Humanities  Curriculum  Development - International Education Development

Cambridge Education is a consultancy firm currently managing the CURASSE Curriculum Development project in secondary schools inUganda, funded by the World Bank. It is major education development project inUgandawith a Team Leader and 6 curriculum development consultants to be employed.

We wish to hear from a Humanities and Social Science Curriculum Consultant who can GUARANTEE availability to input a total 16 months work from March / April this year spread across several visits across the 3 years of the project to early 2015. A monthly salary is provided as is a return air ticket for each input, a per diem for subsistence costs per night spent on project business and accommodation will be provided. 

Please send your CV, confirming availability, to

Closing date; Friday 17 Feb

Scope of work; 

a)   assist National Curriculum Development Centre NCDC and line agencies with the process of developing a new lower secondary curriculum framework in line with national and international needs and aspirations

b)    form a curriculum team for the Humanities Learning Area, develop its Terms of Reference and agree outcomes and deadlines, in line with the wider Lower Secondary Curriculum and Assessment reform process, as manifested in the overall CURASSE Workplan

c)    conduct a series of workshops, involving identified teachers and other Humanities professionals, to design curriculum statements within the learning area 

d)   develop the rationale and principles that govern the structure and design of the Humanities Learning Area  

e)    establish, in collaboration with national professionals within the Humanities area, the strands of study which would constitute the Humanities Learning Area for the Uganda Lower Secondary programme

f)     guide the development of the Humanities Learning Area statements and programmes of study for the four years of a reformed Lower Secondary School Curriculum, taking cognizance of relevant recommendations from the Special Needs group

g)    define the scope, sequence, and conceptual progression for the Humanities Learning

      Area 

h)    produce, in collaboration with the Humanities Learning Area Team, a completed curriculum statement for the Humanities Learning Area

i)     in collaboration with the Pre-Vocational Skills Consultant, identify opportunities for infusing appropriate functional and generic skills into the Humanities Learning Area

j)    identify opportunities within the Humanities Learning Area for cross-curricular links and the embedding of cross-cutting elements such as environmental issues, gender awareness, HIV/AIDS, health, financial literacy

k)   assist the Humanities Learning Area team to generate exemplar learning material extracts for piloting, evaluate the trial, and then compile a report to inform subsequent work

l)    Contribute to the development of new textbooks for the core Humanities Learning Area, by assisting the writing of curriculum  personnel and local writers,  by supervising contracted writers, or by liaising with publisher personnel  

m)  in collaboration with the Learning Materials consultant, the Ministry’s Instructional Materials Unit (IMU), and publisher personnel, contribute to the generation of the set of criteria for developing the specifications of the new secondary textbooks

n)    work in collaboration with the Teacher Support Consultant to design and contribute to a programme of teacher support for the dissemination of the new Humanities programme of work and the associated textbooks

o)   contribute to the design of training manuals for the projected Humanities teacher training workshops in 2014 to 2015

p)   work in collaboration with the Assessment Consultant and UNEB personnel to develop the assessment framework for the Humanities Learning Area

q)   contribute to the establishment of a question item bank for the assessment of the Humanities Learning Area

r)    work with the Low-cost Learning and Teaching Aids Consultant to list a range of improvised materials and equipment for the strands of the Humanities Learning Area, and to produce selected exemplars of such items 

s)    work in collaboration with the NCDC management and the Team Leader to design and facilitate capacity development workshops for NCDC Secondary Curriculum Specialists 

t)    produce progress reports for the Humanities Learning Area, as required and contribute to the regular CURASSE progress reports to be compiled by the project team