Co-facilitate Student Literacy Sessions and Strengthen Staff Capacity - Jamaica

About the role

Villa Road Primary School seeks two Virtual Service Participant (VSPP) facilitators to co-facilitate small group sessions with students to improve their literacy and performance in both internal and external examinations.

Responsibilities

• Co-assess students ages 6–12 and develop a learning plan to determine small group session activities based upon reading level
• Conduct two to four weekly one-hour small group sessions with up to six students
• Support capacity strengthening of teachers through a total of six professional development activities, split between the school terms
• Engage in online collaboration with host country counterparts using Google Meet, WhatsApp, Zoom, and email for regular communication and collaboration

Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Must be a U.S. citizen

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in any field
• 2 years teaching primary school

Skills

• Strong intercultural skills and motivation
• Flexible, strong cross-cultural agility, high tolerance for ambiguity, able to work independently, resourceful, creative, and genuinely motivated

Benefits

• Opportunity to build teachers' capacity to independently support students with diverse literacy needs
• Opportunity to guide teachers through reflective feedback conversations after lessons
• Opportunity to help create simple and reusable literacy resources tailored to the school context
• Opportunity to strengthen teachers' confidence and skills so they can continue implementing small-group literacy interventions sustainably after the VSPP engagement concludes

Pay

The pay for this engagement is not specified.

Schedule

The engagement is estimated to be eight hours per week, with online collaboration occurring between 8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. Jamaica time. Specific times will be determined during orientation.