The following message is posted on behalf of Barb Garner. Please see below ~ 
Jackie
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Job Description
Literacy Training Specialist
(International Technical Advisor I)

EDC seeks a seasoned training professional to work as part of our dynamic, 
community-focused literacy activities in Afghanistan. The Training Specialist 
will be responsible for providing training and support to a cadre of Afghan 
national and local-level literacy trainers under the Literacy and Community 
Empowerment Project (LCEP). LCEP is an integrated community development 
initiative that includes components in literacy, economic empowerment and 
local governance in Afghanistan. This is a non-dependent posting, based in 
Kabul, which is funded through July 2006.

Program Summary

In August 2004, EDC and its implementing partner, UN Habitat, launched the 
USAID-funded Literacy and Community Empowerment Program. The goals of this 
two-year program are to:

1) Enhance the role of women and young people as change agents in society 
through increased literacy and skills for income-generation; and
2) Strengthen democratically elected institutions of civil society that give a 
greater voice to women and young adults, and that deepen grassroots 
participatory governance.

Within the Literacy component of LCEP, EDC is responsible for two 
inter-related sub-components: the establishment and ongoing development of a 
Women?s Teacher Training Institute in Kabul and the implementation of the 
Afghan Literacy Initiative, which currently represents the field-based 
literacy operations of the Institute. Both Literacy sub-components are 
implemented in collaboration with Afghanistan?s Ministry of Education.

The Afghan Literacy Initiative targets 65% young females, and is also open to 
young men and older boys. It provides learners in remote areas of the country 
with access to functional literacy skills in the areas of governance and 
economic empowerment. These skills are then reinforced when learners 
participate in ongoing LCEP work in governance and economic empowerment within 
targeted communities. A critical element of the LCEP literacy approach is that 
both teachers and learners build their teaching and literacy skills through 
lessons that encourage learners to create their own materials and learning 
strategies, and monitor their own progress.

The literacy component is designed to complement other LCEP components 
focusing on local governance, savings and credit development, and micro 
enterprise. Governance and economic empowerment components of LCEP are being 
implemented by UN Habitat.

Specific duties of the Literacy Training Specialist:

1. Develop and implement a dynamic TOT training strategy, approach and 
materials: Recognizing the limitations of the cascade model, the Training 
Specialist will work with the Literacy Team Leader and other LCEP senior staff 
to develop a training system that can offer maximum support and professional 
development for trainers while at the same time allowing for significant 
trainer autonomy.

2. Train and support trainers: Using a successful track record of training 
adult learners in a rural development context, the Training Specialist will 
model excellent and dynamic training techniques for all levels of the LCEP 
training ladder, and will spend a significant portion of his/her time in the 
field.

3. Provide team leadership: The Training Specialist will be responsible for 
managing the training aspects of our literacy work. S/he will provide 
day-to-day guidance and inspiration to/for Lead Trainers to assure the highest 
caliber of professionalism, teamwork, communication and planning.

3. Assure training excellence, cohesion and responsiveness. The Training 
Specialist will use her/his successful track record in training of adults to 
lead TOT activities that:

 recognize the potential and the current realities of LCEP trainers
 emerge from and are appropriate for daily life in rural Afghan 
communities;
 are learner-centered and participatory;  use innovative 
teaching and learning strategies;
 build trainer and learner autonomy by encouraging self-monitoring and 
localized production of materials and teaching/learning strategies;
 reinforce, and are reinforced by, training practices in place in the 
LCEP governance and economic empowerment components.

Qualifications and Desired Skills:

? Advanced degree in a related field. ? Significant and practical technical 
experience rooted in state-of-the-art adult training methodologies. ? Field 
experience in Afghanistan or central Asia preferred. ? Excellent management, 
organizational, and communication skills. ? Demonstrated ability to 
collaborate in complex situations across cultures.
? Experience in participatory community development programs.
? Excellent writing skills
? Excellent organizational skills
? Ability to work independently and as a team member.
? Language requirements: Dari and/or Pashtu language skills highly desirable.

Please submit a resume and cover letter to Barbara Garner 
(b.garner4 at verizon.net). No phone calls please. Only short-listed candidates 
will be contacted.