Introduction:

Pakistan Reading Project (PRP) is implementing Sindhi Student assessment baseline survey based on EGRA in Sindh Province. During this activity, students of grade I and grade II will be assessed using EGRA based tools developed by PRP technical team. During this agreement a MT will be engaged with organization for almost 12 no of days to provide following responsibilities during month of August 2015.

Program Background Summary: Pakistan Reading Project (PRP) is five year USAID funded project starting in June 2013 to support the provincial and regional Departments of Education (DoE) throughout Pakistan to improve reading skills of at least 1.3 million children in grade one and two. The project will achieve this goal through three major but interrelated initiatives that are working together to affect the quality of primary education, teacher education, policy reforms, and community engagement to re-establish a national culture of reading in Pakistan. The result will be improved reading and assessment of 23,800 teachers in 23,800 public schools with improved skills in teaching reading; 3,649 scholarships for ADE and B.Ed (Hons) students; and mobile bus libraries reaching out to 300 communities. PRP anticipates that 2.5 million children will be able to read at a level commensurate with standards at their grade level.

Responsibilities:

1. Travel from her/his home town to Karachi to attend 04 days training workshop to capacitate herself/himself on Standardized Administration of Student Assessment Tools developed on Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) approach as well as Student Questionnaire, Teacher Questionnaire.

2. Perform a day visit to school for practicing above mentioned tools and questionnaires by assessing grade I and grade II students teachers during training workshop.

3. Work in close coordination with other MTs to design standardized material and schedule for enumerators training as well as trainer detailed schedule

4. Travel to allocated district locations to train enumerators on these tools during training workshop (05 days).

Education: Master degree

Experience:

Experience imparting trainings on survey an assessment instrument required

Experience with training and administration of EGRA tools preferred working with PRP

Managerial experience with data collecting and monitoring/evaluation activities preferred

Experience with public and/or private education preferred

Experience with development project preferred