ECD Service Quality Assurance Specialist at National Child Development Agency ( NCD) Deadline: 5 April, 2024

•Lead the development and dissemination of ECD standards •Organize joint quarterly and annual planning, monitoring, and evaluation with Districts, and ECD implementers with regard to quality standards; •Jointly analyze the ECD quality service delivery bottlenecks and set strategies to overcome them. •Ensure district planning, monitoring, and evaluation activities regarding Quality assurance are performed and reported on time. •Prepare and coordinate the execution of quality audit activities •Participate in the preparation of studies, reports, documentation, and guidelines on quality child development service delivery. •Prepare advocacy/briefing papers, and presentations, related to the area •Identify study and research needs in the area and share them with relevant officials •Develop concept notes and TORs for the planned studies •Follow up on survey study and district reports •Ensure validation and dissemination of study/ survey findings. •Organize in collaboration with both department specialists’ trainings, workshops, and seminars of local leaders and stakeholders •Ensure the coordination of the monitoring and supportive supervision of ECD quality assurance by the providers. .Through rigorous and frequent joint monitoring of ECD settings and child protection programs, develop tools and mechanisms to support continuous improvement of quality; •In partnership with M&E specialists, develop, review, and report on indicators and collect/analyze related information. •Develop and implement quality control procedures and guidelines to ensure consistency and adherence to regulatory requirements.