TREE Technical Lead Ethiopia

Job Description

About the Project

Transforming Education in Ethiopia (TREE) is a new 21 million GBP project funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office that aims to improve teaching quality and learning outcomes and to increase access to education for girls and marginalised children. To achieve this TREE will work in schools in developing regions of Ethiopia and will aim to a) improve the general quality of teaching and learning, b) improve the teaching and learning in English Language as a subject, and the use of English across the curriculum in these, and c) increase the number of marginalised children, particularly girls, accessing and staying in schools.

About the Role
The Technical Lead role will be responsible for the quality delivery of TREE’s abovementioned outcomes, along with leading the project’s technical team; client and internal reporting; and managing senior level stakeholder relations.

This role will be full-time and based in Addis Ababa. It will involve travel across Ethiopia and some evening and weekend work.

We currently expect the role to start in April or May 2025 and to be for a fixed term of three years.

Qualifications and skills

Essential

• Postgraduate qualification in English language reaching, education, or international
  development (or equivalent subject area)
• Successful track record in designing and leading large-scale transformative education
  and/or English language teaching projects in challenging geographies
• Experience of leading and/or working with diverse multi-disciplinary teams, including
  teams spread across multiple locations
• Experience of overseeing monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL) within
  projects and incorporating lessons learned from MERL into programme
  strategy and delivery
• Experience of managing senior-level relationships with diverse stakeholders including
  multilateral agencies, donors, government officials, academics, and external consultants
• Recent experience of working and living in Ethiopia

Desirable

• Experience of working on transformative ELT, education, and/or international development projects
  in Ethiopia
• Experience of developing solutions for remote/blended programme delivery across low- tech and low
  resource contexts
• Experience of working alongside and/or building the capacity of local non-governmental organisations (or
  equivalent) in developing contexts
• Recent experience of working in fragile and/or hostile environments

How to apply

The British Council is committed to diversity and inclusion in our workforce. We do not discriminate against employees based on race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, or gender expression. We recognize the importance of a diverse and inclusive workplace and intentionally strive for diversity and inclusion at all organizational levels.

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Please note the following:

• This appointment is subject to the British Council being awarded the contract via a competitive tendering exercise
• The final applicant’s selection is subject to FCDO approval

About the Organization

The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. We create friendly knowledge and understanding between the people of the UK and other countries. We do this by making a positive contribution to the UK and the countries we work with – changing lives by creating opportunities, building connections and engendering trust.