SHAPING A BRIGHTER TOMORROW
Founded by Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah in 2013, the Queen Rania Foundation for Education and Development (QRF) was established with the belief that every child in Jordan and the Arab world deserves a quality education. QRF’s mission is to identify educational gaps, design solutions, and provide data and evidence for decision-making in and beyond the classroom.
At QRF, we value our employees, and we understand that an empowering work environment is important in accomplishing our business objectives and plans. We care about the health and well-being of our staff, and we understand the significance of having free time for working parents, which is why we encourage a healthy work-life balance. We are aware that QRF employees are the primary determinant of our success, so their comfort is one of our main priorities, and the benefits we offer are tailored to achieve that.
Our Values
Our values are more than just ideals; they are actionable guidelines that shape our behavior. They set clear expectations for the conduct we anticipate from every member of the QRF team. Through these values, we create a culture where each individual plays an integral role in realizing our vision for quality education.
CAREER opportunities
Education-Literacy Arabic Language Specialist
Description
About the Job
The Education Literacy/Arabic Language Function contributes to all the programs within the Foundation as needed by developing, reviewing and contextualizing content based on the latest evidence‐based practices and resources for schools and educators. and appropriate pedagogical content for various programs. In addition to designing and implementing Training of Trainers where needed.
Main duties and responsibilities:
Advise on the most up‐to‐date practices in Arabic literacy instruction, and the most promising new approaches for Arabic language teaching and learning with focus on school curriculum, instructional practices, learning tasks and assessment.
Research and iteratively design, build and test programs/products to improve student learning outcomes in Jordan, in line with QRF’s Arabic literacy focused strategy, and initially focused on the in‐service teacher of the strategy.
Arrange for the development of products related to Education Literacy / Arabic Language in liaison with the related functions across QRF
Identify, recruit and appropriately manage key program partnerships and relationships
Quality control key program deliverables
Represent the Learning at school program to external audiences – for example, through blogs, conference attendance or forums.
Develop and run professional development activities and ToTs depending on program
Develop, review and contextualize efforts of content as relevant to new and or expansions of programs
Develop and manage the development of Arabic literacy pedagogies and Education related content
Collaborate and support in managing content experts to develop high quality Arabic content and products for education system and schools
Perform other research and program development related duties as assigned
Requirements
Educational Level
At least Masters in a relevant field e.g. Early Grades Instruction, Arabic Language, Instructional Leadership, etc.
Years of experience
Min of 5 years of experience in a relevant field, preferably teaching in public schools (early grades or Arabic language)
Prior NGO experience is preferable.
Languages:
Fluent in spoken and written Arabic
Strong skills in spoken and written English
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