Based in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, the Technical Hub Coordinator will lead the Africa Hub of the RTIA-Facility, which supports policy dialogue on teacher-related issues, provides technical backstopping to Facility teams, and builds strategic partnerships across the continent. He/she will play a key role in positioning the Facility as a credible and responsive actor in the field of teacher policy and professional development in Africa.

He/she will coordinate the Addis-based technical team, including four Technical Leads in Education (TLEs) and a pool of thematic Key experts (digital, gender, green education, etc.), and ensure the quality, timeliness, and relevance of technical support to partner countries and the Facility programme teams. He/She will also oversee the Knowledge Management teams and foster synergies across technical, learning and brokering activities, particularly to support the Facility’s advocacy role.

Representing the Facility as the Deputy Team Leader, he/she will work closely with the Team Leader and the Member State agency teams based in Europe to strategically promote the Facility on the African continent. In addition to leading high-level engagement with key stakeholders such as the African Union, IICBA-UNESCO, AFTRA, ADEA, Education International (Ei), and national Ministries of Education, he/she will contribute to internal coordination and ensure cross-window coherence and strategic alignment with continental education priorities.

He/she will also serve as acting Team Leader in the latter’s absence, ensuring continuity of operations, decision-making, and team management in line with established protocols and strategic objectives.

He/she will be assigned the following primary responsibilities:

Responsibility 1 : Strategic Representation & Policy Dialogue

• Monitor continental education frameworks (e.g., AU CESA, SDG 4) and recommend strategic adjustments to keep Facility activities fully aligned.
• Represent the Facility in Addis Ababa and across Africa, maintaining regular and close engagement with the other implementing partners of the Initiative (UNESCO, AUC), the Initiative’s partners (ADEA, ATRA, Ei), national Ministries of Education, and any other relevant stakeholders.
• Lead or co-lead policy-dialogue missions and consultations, translating continental priorities into actionable Facility support.
• Position the Facility as a trusted partner in regional teacher initiatives by brokering memoranda of understanding, joint workplans and high-level events.
• Participate in the ISC (Initiative Steering Committee), the TCC (Technical coordination Committee), Partnership and the PMU (Project Management Unit) meetings.
• Provide the Team Leader with briefings, talking points and technical inputs for Steering Committee, Technical Coordination Committee and Partnership meetings.
• Assume the role of the acting Team Leader in the absence of the Facility Team Leader to ensure the uninterrupted execution of tasks, decision-making, and team management in line with established protocols and objectives.

Responsibility 2 : Coordination of the Addis Ababa Technical Hub

• Line-manage the four Addis Ababa-based Technical Leads in Education (TLEs): set objectives, approve workplans and conduct performance reviews.
• Ensure that the Facility’s key cross-cutting priorities (digital, gender-transformative pedagogies, green education, foundational learning, etc.) are effectively integrated across all activities through the mobilisation of the thematic Key Expert pool.
• Allocate and oversee timely technical assistance and backstopping for Country Action Plans requested through the Facility’s three windows.
• Maintain a daily interface with the Europe-based Programme Coordinator to ensure seamless collaboration between Hub technical inputs and programme operations.
• Guide the development and quality assurance of technical tools, concept notes and country briefs produced by the Hub.
• Ensure Hub staff comply with Expertise France and EU standards on security, safeguarding, gender and environmental sustainability.
• Track Hub budgets, staffing levels and risk registers, proposing course corrections as needed.

Responsibility 3: Knowledge Management & Brokering, and Learning Agenda

• Supervise the Knowledge Management and Brokering (KMB) team, steering annual KMB workplans, budgets and editorial calendars.
• Capture lessons learned from policy dialogue and technical support, turning them into policy briefs, case studies and peer-learning events.
• Act as a bridge between evidence producers and decision-makers, ensuring that research and technical insights are translated into actionable policy recommendations.
• Link KMB outputs with MEAL data to feed evidence into programme design and policy advocacy.
• Measure uptake and impact of KMB products, adjusting strategies to maximise reach and relevance.
• Cultivate communities of practice among Facility staff, partner governments and regional bodies to share innovations in teacher policy and professional development.
• Facilitate matchmaking between countries, experts, and initiatives to foster South–South and triangular cooperation on teacher policy innovation.
• Support the positioning of the Facility as a regional knowledge broker by contributing to strategic partnerships with continental knowledge platforms and think tanks.
• Lead the Learning Agenda developed by the Initiative (Facility, UNESCO, AUC) to ensure that all partners identify and address priority and relevant issues aligned with the Initiative’s objectives.

Responsibility 4: Internal Coordination, Quality Assurance & Reporting

• Drive coherence between technical operations, KMB activities and programme implementation across all three windows.
• Consolidate Hub contributions to donor and internal reports, ensuring accuracy, completeness and compliance with EU requirements.
• Oversee progress-tracking against log-frame indicators for policy dialogue and technical assistance; flag deviations and recommend corrective actions.
• Lead internal quality reviews of technical outputs, with support from the pool of thematic Key Experts, applying Facility check-lists for gender, digital, climate and inclusion standards.
• Ensure timely entry of data and deliverables into the Facility Information Management System (Sharepoint, PMT, etc.).
• Support external evaluations and learning reviews, coordinating Hub inputs and follow-up.

Responsibility 5: Communication & Visibility

• Provide technical content for Facility communication materials (factsheets, social posts, press releases) related to Hub activities.
• Co-design and deliver visibility events, webinars and regional forums that highlight Facility achievements and lessons.
• Ensure all Hub outputs respect EU visibility guidelines and Facility branding.
• Mentor Hub staff in producing concise, audience-appropriate summaries of complex technical work.
• Track communication metrics (reach, engagement, downloads) and use insights to refine strategies and widen the Facility’s influence across Africa.

The described tasks involve the necessity to network and interact with a multiplicity of institutions from EU and Sub-Saharan countries and require readiness and ability to travel abroad when necessary.