Overview
The Project Analyst will support the formulation of Teacher Professional Development (TPD) policies and lead the project's monitoring and evaluation functions, assisting in planning, tracking, and visualizing data across education, youth action, and green skills components.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct diagnostic gap analysis of teacher training frameworks.
- Support the Ministry of Preschool and School Education in drafting and institutionalizing decrees for Climate Change Education (CCE).
- Collaborate to define and validate national competency requirements for climate education.
- Coordinate the operational design and nationwide rollout of a "Training of Trainers" (ToT) model.
- Manage the localization and contextualization of the "Climate Box" toolkit.
- Develop and maintain the project’s Results-Based Management (RBM) system.
- Design the M&E Plan, Performance Indicator Reference and Project Monitoring Plan Sheets (PIRS and PMP), and data collection tools.
- Monitor the effectiveness of teacher training through pre- and post-training competency assessments.
- Conduct classroom observations to verify the application of Climate Change Education methodologies.
- Establish a tracking mechanism for "Young Green Ambassadors."
- Monitor the implementation of community-based climate projects.
- Track enrollment, retention, and certification rates of youth in renewable energy and sustainable agriculture courses.
- Design and implement tracer studies for post-training employment.
- Conduct regular monitoring missions to project sites.
- Utilize advanced tools (Microsoft Power BI or Tableau) to create dynamic, interactive dashboards.
- Perform rigorous statistical analysis of project data.
- Maintain a centralized, sex-disaggregated, residence-disaggregated, age-disaggregated database.
- Lead the drafting of Quarterly, Semi-Annual and Annual Progress Reports, donor-specific reports, and ad-hoc briefing notes.
- Serve as the primary rapporteur for Project Board meetings, Technical Working Groups, and high-level government consultations.
- Contribute to knowledge management by documenting lessons learned, best practices, and innovative approaches.
- Engage with local CSOs, government agencies, youth organizations, and educational institutions.
- Facilitate regular communication with project stakeholders.
- Engage in relevant meetings, workshops, and conferences.
- Ensure Gender mainstreaming in the project.
Required Experience
- Applicants with a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) are required to have a minimum of two (2) years of relevant professional experience in educational project management, with a focus on monitoring and evaluation.
Desired Skills:
- Experience in the education system of Uzbekistan.
- Demonstrated experience in organizing capacity building, training programs, monitoring and evaluation, data analysis and visualization tools including M&E related applications (Ms Excel, DHIS2, Airtable, SurveyCTO, Qualtrics Power BI, Tableau, SPSS).
- Prior experience working with national or local government agencies, educational institutions, or international organizations.
- Proven experience in working effectively with diverse stakeholders, including youth, educators, government officials, and community groups.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in Education Policy, Public Policy, Statistics, Social Sciences, or related field is required, OR;
- A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
