Strategic and Administrative Advisor

The Center for Educational Research and Development (CERD) is looking for a Strategic and Administrative Advisor.
Below are the main tasks and responsibilities:
1. Support in conducting situational analysis, literature review and organizational reviews to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and risks.
2. Support in planning and executing strategies to improve efficiency in the operational and administration management.
3. Support in developing annual work plans, policies and procedures, or in suggesting improvements to existing ones.
4. Support in identifying and assessing strategic issues, introducing solutions, facilitating strategic discussions, and managing strategic initiatives.
5. Support in reworking on the internal organization structure.
6. Support in revising and establishing new processes and workflows that go alongside the implementation roadmap of the strategic plan,
7. Provide advice on the optimal ways to map the existing, including donor funded projects.
8. Support in establishing the needed structure within CERD and in building the capacity of identified CERD entities and positions to ensure sustainability of QAU, IE and Strategic Planning functions within CERD.
9. Support the Quality Assurance Unit to establish CERD’s Institutional Effectiveness (IE) process and plan.
10. Advise and support in designing IE needed tools and programs.
11. Promote critical thinking and innovative approaches and good practices through advocacy and technical advisory services.
12. Restructuring and rebuilding capacity for CERD’s staff.
13. Promote technical advisory practices in the education and curriculum reform.
14. Perform a major role as a Member of the Board of Experts.