SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- USPSC, Senior Education Advisor, GS-14 - Madagascar
- Notice Date
- 1/3/2022 3:50:04 AM
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- USAID/MADAGASCAR ANTANANARIVO MDG
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- 72068722R00003
- Response Due
- 1/23/2022 12:59:00 PM
- Archive Date
- 02/07/2022
- Point of Contact
- Dany Randrianatoavina, Phone: 261334432000
- E-Mail Address
-
antananarivoUSAIDHR@usaid.gov
(antananarivoUSAIDHR@usaid.gov)
- Description
- Dear Prospective Offerors: The United States Government, represented by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is seeking offers from qualified persons to provide personal services in Madagascar under contract as described in this solicitation. Offers must be in accordance with the Attachment of this solicitation. The Senior Education Advisor will lead USAID Madagascar Mission re-engagement in the education sector in line with the vision for Basic Education as laid out in the USAID Madagascar CDCS. In anticipation of the Mission receiving $5 million annually in Basic Education earmarked funding, the Senior Education Advisor will draw upon his/her technical expertise and experience in early grade reading programs in Francophone Africa and consultations with the Government of Madagascar and other relevant stakeholders to define the scope of the Mission�s Basic Education programming under the CDCS, to include designing and/or conducting data collection and analysis to inform the design of a Basic Education Project Design Document (PDD). On the basis of this PDD, the Senior Education Advisor will lead the design and procurement of one or more Basic Education activities to achieve the CDCS and PDD objectives. As the Mission�s in-house expert in education, the Senior Education Advisor will provide technical and strategic recommendations to the IDEA Office Chief, Mission Director and others as appropriate throughout this process, and will envision and carry out a strategic approach to relationship building and maintenance to re-establish Madagascar as a major strategic partner in the sector of education. The incumbent is responsible for establishing all foundational elements of successful re-engagement in the sector, to include systems for information sharing and management as well as office processes. �The Senior Education Advisor will ensure the sustainability of this success by making recommendations to senior management regarding hiring of long-term mission Malagasy staff to manage the education portfolio, and to operationalize any senior management decisions related to education program staffing, to include position description design, overseeing hiring processes, ensuring onboarding of new education staff, and providing thorough coaching and technical skill development as required to ensure the new program can be managed with quality in the years to come. The minimum qualifications required are a Master�s degree in education, early childhood development, secondary education, linguistics, international development theory, or other education policy or theory; a minimum of 7 years of experience in leading successful development programs in developing countries to improve early reading and literacy skills in multilingual environments, with the ability to prove that those programs improved students� reading abilities; a minimum of 3 years prior experience designing, implementing and/or managing education interventions in Francophone countries; a minimum of 3 years demonstrated experience in supervising, leading and managing a staff of professionals to carry out education programs; English language at level IV (fluent - Full professional proficiency); and French language at level III (Professional working proficiency). Thank you.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: MDG
- Country: MDG
- Country: MDG
- Record
- SN06207653-F 20220105/220104201321 (samdaily.us)
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