RTI Tusome Kenya Primary Education Sector Capacity Assessment Support Consultancy
Tusome Kenya Consultancy Opportunity
Background: Tusome is a national level activity with goal of improving the Class 1 and 2 quality of instruction and student outcomes in Kiswahili and English.
Tusome provides pupils with literacy books and teachers with the training, ongoing support, and lesson plans that enable them to improve their daily instructional practice.
The Tusome activity, funded by USAID, also uses ICT interventions including tablets as tools for TAC Tutors and coaches.
This activity has allowed Tusome to design materials that have been implemented on tablets to help instructional supervisors, called TAC tutors and coaches, support learning gains efficiently and at scale.
The Tusome Activity has as one of its main goals to support and build capacity of the relevant GOK entities to be able to sustain the work after the activity has concluded.
The following is a scope of work for a consultant to support an assessment of existing capacity of the primary education sector.
This assessment will allow RTI to work closely with the GOK to further build capacity and make policy recommendations.
Objectives:
1. Lead a team of 7 people from the MoEST and Tusome in the preparation and implementation of a capacity building assessment
a. Support capacity area specification
b. Support tool development
c. Support tool piloting
d. Support assessment implementation
2. Provide technical oversight and input on all aspects of the capacity assessment exercise
3. Oversee the analysis of the information gathered
4. With input from the capacity assessment team, author the capacity assessment report
a. Include in the assessment report specific capacity building areas recommended with action plans
5. Implement capacity building activities
The consultant will be engaged to lead, manage and actively participate in the work of the capacity assessment team.
The priority areas for capacity assessment will have already been discussed and agreed to with MoEST, USAID and the Tusome Project.
The consultant, in consultation with RTI and Tusome Project, will therefore lead the capacity assessment team in devising the methods and means of gathering information related to institutional capacity in those priority/target areas.
The assessment would probe both the human and institutional factors impacting the relevant offices capacity, including:
Human Factors:
Adequacy of staff (in terms of numbers and organization)
Knowledge and skills of staff (do they have people with the right skill sets playing the right roles)
Motivation and incentives – how are the motivational levels of the officers align (or not) to the objectives of the Programme (or Institution) in an effort to raise productivity levels?
Institutional Factors:
Whether roles and responsibilities are appropriately defined all the required areas of expertise of the programme.
Whether guidelines for work processes exist and whether the expectations for each office are clearly articulated and communicated (made tangible)
Adequacy of materials, tools, time and support (including best practices in Africa & international) for accomplishing the job.
Incentives/positive work environment that offers people an opportunity to succeed and recognition for doing so
Specific Tasks:
1. Work with Tusome project staff and the capacity assessment team to identify all relevant background documents and other information related to the technical areas deemed priority targets for the assessment work during the programme life.
2. Work with RTI and Tusome Project staff to develop an initial draft of the following:
a. Capacity assessment instruments, including interview protocols and frameworks for summarizing the organizational structure, staffing, and roles and responsibilities of the relevant offices.
The tools should be able to gather information related to the human and institutional factors mentioned above, as well as address practical questions such as:
i. What office(s) is (are) responsible for the priority technical area (all relevant directorates, SAGAs, ESQAC & TSC)?
ii. What is the structure and staffing of that (those) office(s)?
iii. What activities did they carry out this past year?
iv. How did those activities get accomplished – how were activities identified, planned and resourced, which staff were involved, what other offices may have been involved, how were decisions / implementation managed, what TA or other assistance was involved, how long did it take, etc.?
v. How effective was the implementation of those activities? What was done well, what was done poorly, what wasn’t done?
b. Capacity assessment information gathering framework and strategy, including, for example, the approach to reviewing pertinent documents related to the roles and responsibilities of the offices to be surveyed, any recent evaluation or other study findings relevant to the targeted offices, and documenting examples of recent work products/accomplishments of PRIMR to the targeted offices.
Also, including a methodology for selecting a sample of county and sub-county offices to be included in the survey, consideration of team assignments for gathering information at the county and sub-county levels and methods for summarizing and compiling all the data that will be collected. Mainstream the system in the structures that are by backing it on the policy and legal documents that exist in education.
3. Review with the capacity assessment team the draft instruments and draft information gathering framework and strategy mentioned above.
4. Work with capacity assessment team, and in consultation with RTI and the Tusome Project, to finalize the capacity assessment instruments and information gathering framework and strategy, including the detailed work plan, work assignments and calendar for completing the survey.
5. Support the logistical arrangements for field data collection and participate as a member of one of the teams assigned to complete the interviews and data compilation.
6. Supervise the capacity assessment team as it summarizes all the gathered information and provide overall quality assurance as the team applies the designed frameworks and methods for compiling and summarizing the relevant information.
7. Develop a draft outline for the capacity assessment report and review and finalize that draft outline with RTI, Tusome Project staff, the capacity assessment team and the MoEST. The outline should include space for recommending a capacity building strategy.
8. Work in conjunction with RTI and Tusome Project staff to analyze and interpret the summarized and compiled information.
9. Produce and submit to RTI and the Tusome Project an initial draft report.
10. Incorporate feedback from RTI and the Tusome Project on that initial draft and prepare a second draft to be shared with the capacity assessment team.
11. Facilitate a work session among the capacity assessment team members to process the team’s feedback and agree on what should be incorporated into a subsequent third draft of the capacity assessment report. During this session also facilitate discussion among the team of their recommendations for a capacity building strategy that would respond to the findings of the assessment.
12. Create the third draft report based on the results of the above consultation/work session and submit that report to RTI, the Tusome Project and MoEST for review and comment.
13. Incorporate feedback received into the final report.
Deliverables:
- Capacity assessment instruments
- Draft assessment report outline
- Report of works session to disseminate findings
- Finalized assessment report
- Level of Effort
- 30 working days
- Field work as necessary
- Start date: ~ June 18
To apply, please email cover letter and CV to hrapplications@nb.rti.org by 8th June, 2015 at 2.00pm.
Applicants must include the, POSITION in the subject line of the email.
Please do not attach copies of certificates.
We regret that only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
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