Job Description
Training Assistant/Coordinator
STS seeks an Training Assistant/Coordinator for a USAID-funded early grade reading program in Pakistan. The Assistant/Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating the logistics and procurements for STS’ trainings as well as overall personnel support for STS’ staff. S/he will work with the Training Lead to support the execution of the trainings. This position will provide administrative and logistical support to the project activities.
Responsibilities include:
- Ensure logistics arrangement (travel, accommodation, conference room rental, tools etc.) for enumerators, supervisors, and Quality Control Officers (QCOs) are secured prior to visiting schools during data collection.
- Arrange logistics for training activities, including venue booking, catering and transportation
- Coordinate with the MSI Technical Team and submit progress report, as requested, to the MSI/STS Assessment Lead.
- Maintain regular communication with the client, project field staff, and STS home office staff.
- Distribute and collect tablets, forms, and data collection stimuli from enumerators and supervisors prior to and following data collection.
- Ensure Tangerine and assessment tools are downloaded onto tablets for use in the EGRA trainings and data collection
- Prepare timely, accurate management information as requested by STS home office or MSI.
- When required, submit brief reports to STS home office staff.
- Procure all necessary materials and supplies for training programs and events, in collaboration with the Office Manager.
- Coordinate with the Project Manager to provide administrative and logistical support for personnel, procurement, and/or other administrative tasks that arise.
- Address inquiries from trainees via telephone and e-mail.
- Maintain an up-to-date file of contacts for all individuals involved in the program.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- At least three or more years of logistical and administrative management experience preferred.
- Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity.
- Exceptional organizational and time-management skills
- Pakistani citizen.
- English fluency required. Urdu and/or Sindh fluency required.
Interested applicants should submit a CV and cover letter to [email protected] using the subject line: “Training Assistant/Coordinator – Pakistan.”
About: School-to-School International (STS) is a non-profit organization based in Pacifica, California that seeks to transform education and school health in developing countries so that every child can succeed in school. For over a decade, we have partnered with individuals, government ministries, non-governmental organizations, private foundations, and research institutions to improve the quality of children’s learning through educational research and integrated support solutions for children in primary school. We currently have projects in over 20 countries across the globe. We provide assistance in the areas of: research and evaluation, curriculum and training, and policy and planning.
In cooperation with the Office of the Inspector General, USAID/Pakistan established the “Anti- Fraud Hotline” to provide an avenue for the reporting of fraud, waste, and abuse potentially associated with USAID-funded projects in Pakistan. The Anti-Fraud Hotline handles complaints with complete confidentiality and individuals are encouraged to report when corruption, fraud, waste or abuse may exist in the USAID/Pakistan activities. Reports can be filed anonymously via the easy-to-use Hotline (toll free number 0800 84700); e-mail at complaints@anti- fraudhotline.com; fax at 021-35390410; postal address at 5-C, 2nd Floor Khayban-e-Ittehad, Phase VII, DHA, Karachi, Pakistan; and on the website www.anti-fraudhotline.com.