Education Officer

Expertise France is the public agency of French international technical cooperation. The agency operates around four priorities:

- democratic, economic and financial governance;
- security and stability of countries in crisis/post-crisis situations;
- sustainable development;
- strengthening health systems, social protection and employment.

In these areas, Expertise France carries out engineering and implementation missions for capacity building projects, mobilizes technical expertise and acts as an aggregator of projects involving public expertise and private know-how.

With an activity volume of 233 million euros, more than 400 projects in portfolio in 80 countries, and 63,000 days of expertise, **Expertise France** focuses its action towards France’s solidarity policy, influence and economic diplomacy.

Based in Expertise France coordination office in Paris, with possible travel to MS coordination offices in Europe and Africa, the Education Officer will primarily provide support to the development and implementation of activities related to the Technical assistance window (“Window 1”). This demand-driven mechanism is activated upon request from eligible Sub-Saharan countries with the purpose of supporting system reforms and policies in the technical areas under the Specific Objectives 1 and 2 (“Teacher governance” and “Teacher education and professional development”). The technical assistance window consists in the mobilization of expertise to support countries in the design and implementation of national teacher policy reforms, capacity building and systems strengthening for more effective teaching, including improving social dialogue with teachers’ representatives.

Under the direct supervision of the Programme Coordinator responsible for overseeing EF-managed activities, the Education Officer will primarily focus on the implementation of the country action plans which will be agreed between the Facility and the partner countries. Within the CAP, she/he will handle assistance requests from eligible countries throughout each stage of the process (reception and processing of the CAP request, implementation of the CAP, TORs drafting of the technical assistance, expertise contracting and supervision, M&E, reporting and closure), as per RFTA Standard Operating Procedures. Although the primary focus will be on the CAP implementation, he/she may provide technical input to the fine-tuning of Country Action Plans (CAP) in collaboration with the Senior Education Advisors and Education Officers based in Addis Ababa, and to the development of activity and budget plannings aiming to roll out these CAP. He/she will also play a key role in monitoring interventions, supervising technical assistance contracts, monitoring the quality of the technical assistance, and identifying key lessons learnt from technical assistance activities.

Reporting to the Programme Coordinator at the RFTA coordination office in Paris, the Education Officer is assigned the following primary responsibilities:
Responsibility 1: Implementing the Country Action Plans
- Facilitate communication with requesting and partner institutions in eligible countries to guide them through the Facility processes.
- Screen the CAP country request for eligibility and completeness, as per the Standard Operating Procedures requirements.
- Contribute to a first level of analysis of the CAP, in close collaboration with the Senior Education Advisor
- Support the consolidation of Country Action Plans (CAP) under EF management, in close collaboration with the Senior Education Advisor
- Contribute to crafting detailed operational plans for implementing CAPs, including activity schedules and budget allocations, to facilitate their effective rollout.
- Based on the Partners’ and the Education Advisors’ inputs, finalize the drafting of the TORs of each activity of the CAPs
- Follow-up on the publication of the TORs and recruitment process of the expertise identified in the CAP (whether institutional or individual expertise)
- Support the Education Advisors in the identification and prospection of expertise to deliver on the CAP, and in particular in leveraging expertise from European and African public institutions to promote sustained institutional partnerships.
- Contribute to the development of the Facility database of expertise, including the development of the online platform to respond to the operational needs of the Facility.
- Coordinate TA activities and expert missions, whilst maintaining contact with relevant individuals and stakeholders in Partner countries.

Responsibility 2 : Oversight and Reporting
- Supervise the comprehensive execution of activities outlined in Country Action
- Ensure the effective implementation of workflows, key processes, and required forms (templates, TORs, activity reports, etc.) to roll out technical assistance activities.
- Review and validate deliverables of mobilized experts, in close coordination with the