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Job Title:  Education & Training Specialist (System Integration Lead) Reporting to: Country Programme Director Contract Type: Full time (Hours) Principal Location: Bangui, Central Africa Republic (with frequent travels in other prefectures) Annual Salary: USD 35,000 to 40,000 Updated: 15th April 2026 (Until a suitable candidate is appointed (CV review is done as applications arrive) Desired start date: ASAP About Street Child Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic, and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 1.6 million children to go to school and learn.   Part 1:  Role Purpose: Role Purpose: The Education & Training Specialist will lead both the institutionalisation and instructional quality for SC Education programs, ensuring that program methodologies are deeply embedded within the national framework. This role involves working closely with Ministry directorates, inspectors, and teacher training colleges to integrate specialized approaches into existing education policies, supervision structures, and teacher preparation systems so they become part of routine education delivery rather than a standalone project. Simultaneously, the Specialist will ensure pedagogical fidelity by designing training content, preparing trainers, and guiding classroom implementation. By providing ongoing technical support, they ensure that teaching practices are applied correctly and consistently across schools, sustaining high-quality educational outcomes through formal systems. Part 2:  Key Responsibilities: 1. System Integration & Policy Alignment Map existing supervision and inspection frameworks to identify systemic barriers to foundational literacy and numeracy. Design and propose scalable, system-level models for Ministry adoption to enhance learning quality with emphasis on fully aligning TaRL and EAGLE methodologies with National Education standards and statutory frameworks. Support Ministry Directorates in pivoting from administrative compliance toward a data-driven focus on learning outcomes. 2. Strengthening Ministry Structures Partner with Directors of Pedagogical Services (Academic inspections) to institutionalize learning monitoring within the core Ministry workflow. Transition Inspectors, Circumscriptions’ and sector leaders from compliance monitors to Instructional Coaches providing direct classroom-based support. Empower Chefs of Sectors and head of schools to utilize structured observation tools for real-time pedagogical feedback. Support the streamlining of administrative reporting with outcome-oriented reporting formats. Facilitate joint planning cycles to ensure a unified approach across all Ministry departments. 3. Teacher Training College (TTC) Integration Conduct a comprehensive review of pre-service curricula to identify high-impact entry points for TaRL + EAGLE. Negotiate and secure formal agreements with TTC leadership for long-term module integration. Align the teaching calendar to include foundational methodologies in both theory and practice. Institutionalize the approach within official TTC assessment protocols and student-teacher practicums. 4. Programme Quality Oversight Curate and approve all training agendas to ensure absolute alignment with natio