BACKGROUND
The Flemish Association for Development, Cooperation and Technical Assistance (VVOB or Vlaamse Vereniging voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking en Technische Bijstand) is a non-profit organization founded in 1982. Its core task is to provide technical assistance in projects and programmes to be implemented in 9 developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America in joint management with and funded by the federal and Flemish governments. In doing so, VVOB makes a major contribution to local capacity development and human development.
In Vietnam VVOB started working from 1992 in field of education and agriculture development. The objective of the VVOB Vietnam education programme for 2008-2013 is the improvement of the quality of Lower Secondary Education (LSE) in North and Central Vietnam (i.e. Thai Nguyen, Quang Ninh, Nghe An, Quang Nam and Quang Ngai) through an integrated support of the Active Teaching and Learning (ATL) change processes by means of Environmental Education (EE) and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
In order to implement educational innovations effectively within the framework of education service development, the main strategies of the VVOB Vietnam education programme 2008-2013, in line with 3 of MOET’s 7 proposed strategies, is capacity building of all education stakeholders through three interventions in support of the ATL change processes:
1.An intervention for the educational managers at provincial, district and school level to improve their educational competencies to guide the ATL change process.
2.An intervention for the lecturers of the Teacher Training Institutions (TTIs) to improve the pre-service and in-service teacher training at provincial level in order to organize the ATL change processes at district and school level.
3.An intervention to strengthen the relation between the school and the wider community (Women’s Unions) in support of the ATL change processes.
VVOB Vietnam program has 3 components conducting the 3 above-mentioned interventions:
- Education management (EM) working with Provincial Department of Education and Training (DoET)
- Teacher training (TT) working with Teacher Training College/University (TTI)
- Social participation in education (SP) working with Women’s Union (WU)
The VVOB Vietnam representative office in Hanoi has personnel of 2 expatriates and 11 national staff who are coordinating program activities.In VVOB Vietnam education program Gender equality is a cross cutting theme and seriously taken into consideration in the decision making and related actions of the programme.To strengthen gender mainstreaming skills for staff of VVOB Vietnam representative office in Hanoi to achieve gender equality in all existing programmes activities as well as preparation to formulate a new program starting in 2014, gender coaching is necessary and a coaching consultant is needed.
Interested applicants are requested to send an application letter and a detailed CV in Vietnamese and preferable in English, including 3 reference persons with contact details, to the email address: [email protected].
Deadline: before 12:00 a.m Monday 21 January 2013.
Please see the attachment for more details.