Education Officer – West Region

Job : 100056

Job Title
:
World Wise Global Schools (WWGS) Education Officer – West Region

Company
:
Self Help Africa

Department
: WWGS

Location
:
Ireland, West Region Remote and/or hybrid working arrangements available.

Contract type
:
Fixed Term Full Time
-12 months

Salary: €51,468

Reports to
:
Programme Director, World Wise Global Schools

Please Note:

We aim to form a panel for 6 months from this recruitment campaign fromwhich future Full Time, Part Time, Permanent or Temporary vacancies across WWGS may be filled.

World Wise Global Schools (WWGS) is the national programme for Global Citizenship Education (GCE) at post-primary level. WWGS is an Irish Aid funded programme implemented through a consortium comprising Self Help Africa, Concern Worldwide, the City of Dublin Education and Training Board (CDETB), the Ubuntu Network, the National Association of Principals & Deputy Principals (NAPD), the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI) and the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI).

GCE is an approach to teaching and learning that links global and local justice issues. GCE explores the root causes of these issues and equips learners and educators to think critically, build empathy, challenge unjust global systems and take meaningful action towards a kinder, fairer and more sustainable world. WWGS offers a Global Passport framework for post-primary GCE, teacher training, grant funding, curriculum resources and guidance to support and encourage post-primary settings to engage in Global Citizenship Education.

The WWGS Education Officer (EO) will have responsibility for supporting WWGS post-primary school/settings in the West Region to engage in and deepen their understanding of Global Citizenship Education. They will be responsible for guiding schools to engage with the programme through the WWGS Global Passport, which is a framework for educators to understand, assess and develop their practice in Global Citizenship Education across the post-primary curriculum and wider school life.

The EO will assist in monitoring the progress of the WWGS programme towards meeting its overall strategic aim and objectives and contribute towards annual reporting requirements to Irish Aid. The capturing and sharing of data to track the level of GCE engagement at post-primary level is of central importance for this role.

The role requires using own initiative and requires excellent facilitation, communication, organisational and interpersonal skills to work with a wide range of school personnel and stakeholders, and to collaborate effectively with other members of the WWGS team.

• Provide support directly to approx. 70 post-primary education settings to build their capacity to adopt a whole school approach to GCE through the framework of the WWGS Global Passport and the WWGS guiding principles of GCE.
• Prepare, implement and follow-up on online and/or in-person support meetings with schools.
• Provision of support directly to approx. 3 WWGS School Clusters, which are schools collaborating on joint GCE projects.
• Contribute to preparing for and delivering on Annual Teacher Conference and CPD events, including design and delivery.
• Design and delivery of in-school Global Citizenship Education (GCE) Continuous Professional Development (CPD) for teachers.
• Maintain database of all engagements with and support to schools.

• Recruit new post-primary settings to engage with WWGS and GCE through Global Passport Applications in line with annual programme targets.
• Retain a high level of participation by existing post-primary settings with the WWGS programme as part of a deeper and whole school approach to GCE.
• Support the design of webinars and…