Africa’s education ambitions cannot be realized without building effective partnerships and fostering harmonized approaches to integrating SDG 4 – ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all – into national education policies and strategies.

Crucially, this ambition requires innovation due to the scale, diversity and rapid changes in education needs amidst high rates of population growth and unemployment in most SSA countries. In addition, there is little available context-specific evidence about what makes or does not make education interventions work – whether innovative or not – or about the costs of implementing them, particularly in SSA. When evidence is available, dissemination and the capacity to use that evidence are often weak, especially among key education stakeholders in the region.

Evidence about how to scale up innovations that improve learning outcomes is key to unlocking rapid and sustainable change toward meeting SDG 4. The KIX 19 Hub– managed by a consortium of partners – surfacing and facilitating the sharing of that evidence and insight to 19 countries, through a KIX national delegation committed to evidence-based, innovation-driven, and context-relevant policymaking and practice, to close the educational and learning gaps between rich and poor children, and boys and girls on the continent.

Required Qualifications:

Education:

Advanced university degree (Masters, PhD preferred) in education, in research methods and/or evaluations, development, educational research, M&E, or any related social sciences.

Experience:

At least 5 years of relevant professional experience, acquired at national and international level in formative evaluation, midterm evaluation, endline evaluation, baseline studies, or related areas.

Language:

Fluency (oral and written) in English. Knowledge of French is a plus.