Basic Education Intern_Juba Lab.pdf (758.1 KB)
Education Development Center (EDC) is a global nonprofit Organization that advances lasting solutions to improve education, promote health, and expand economic opportunity, with a focus on vulnerable and under-served populations. Since 1958, we have been a leader in designing, implementing, and evaluating powerful and innovative programs in more than 80 countries around the world.
EDC promotes equity and access to high quality education and health services and products that contribute to thriving communities where people from diverse backgrounds learn, live, and work together. We support an inclusive workplace culture that embraces many perspectives and broadens our understanding of the communities we serve, enhancing and enriching our work.
EDC is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace.
We are looking for candidates who share EDC’s commitment and understand the importance of cultural responsiveness in today’s context.
About the Juba Learning Lab:
The Juba Learning Lab is a youth-friendly space with an office setup, a training area for practical lesson demonstration, and documentation of the best methodology and practices for the USAID Youth Empowerment Activity. EDC is enrolling youth from the surrounding areas of Afex and partnering with hotels and business owners who are interested in enrolling their staff to receive training in Work Readiness and “Be Your Own Boss” skills, including functional literacy and numeracy skills.
The Juba Office and Learning lab will serve the following purposes:
Curriculum improvement
To Monitor and assess in real time what is working in P2 (and potentially P1 class) and what needs adjusting in the South Sudan context.
Improved teaching methodology and practices with Volunteer Trainers in the field.
This would primarily be achieved by capturing on video good trainers/ good lessons/ best practices with trainers teaching actual classes that could then be incorporated in refresher trainings and made available to AOs and volunteer trainers in the fiend on USB drives.
Elevate the profile of the program
USAID and potential donors and partners may not always be able to see the program in action in the field due to security considerations and the remoteness of field sites. Providing USAID and partners with a secure, easily accessible venue to visit a training in (and to note EDC’s innovation in running the lab seeking real-time feedback) will bring this worthwhile program to donors.