The TVET Education Expert will be based within the project team in Kigali, under the direct supervision of the Project Manager. He/she will be responsible for the full implementation of a package of activities, and will provide TVET technical expertise to the project team, RTB and stakeholders, and contribute to the strategy, methodology and policy frameworks for TVET in agriculture, and any other pedagogical and technical processes that will enable the transition of TVET schools into TVET Centres of Excellence in Agriculture. The TVET Education Expert will work closely with the project team, partners and donors, for the successful implementation of the project.

Key Responsibilities       

1. To provide strategic and technical advice in TVET

·       Provide strategic and technical advice to the Project Manager and team on TVET programming.

·       Advise RTB and project partners on enhancing TVET curricula, pedagogy, and assessment methods to meet excellence standards in agriculture.

·       Assess the current state of agricultural TVET in Rwanda, identify gaps, and contribute to defining and implementing excellence standards.

·       Engage stakeholders in Rwanda’s TVET sector to ensure complementarity and synergies.

·       Support the development of employment and skills surveys, capturing evolving roles of women in agriculture and emphasising climate action strategies.

·       Lead the engagement with TVET institutions and facilitate linkages with agricultural market actors, in collaboration with the Agricultural Labour Market Expert.

·       Organise workshops and capacity-building sessions for partners and TVET trainers.

·       Contribute to defining the project’s digital and blended learning strategy for agricultural TVET, in support of trainers and adult learners.

2. To lead the project’s TVET activities

·       Support the Project Manager in the planning, budgeting, and alignment of TVET activities with project goals.

·       Coordinate the review and development of competency-based curricula and training materials for TVET in agriculture, animal health and food processing with the support of the project’s sector experts.

·       Coordinate curricula revisions with the project team to align with market needs and excellence standards, integrating climate-smart, gender-sensitive, and inclusive approaches.

·       Ensure that practice-based, hands-on learning is embedded throughout TVET delivery, including on-farm and workshop-based instruction, applied demonstrations and supervised field practice, so that trainees acquire employable agricultural competencies.

·       Lead the contracting and coordination of external experts, ensuring high-quality deliverables.

·       Contribute to procurement and administrative processes related to TVET activities (e.g., drafting terms of reference, evaluating technical proposals), in line with Expertise France’s internal procurement procedures and applicable donor rules.

·       Conduct training needs assessments for adult farmers and develop modular, mobile training programmes tailored to their constraints, especially for women.

·       Lead the digitalisation of training programmes and the deployment of digital and blended learning for students and adult learners (farmers and members of agricultural organisations), including the delivery of a trainer digital-skills gap assessment, a digital learning roadmap and a blended-learning scale-up plan.

·       Provide regular progress reports on TVET activities highlighting achievements, challenges, and recommendations.

·       Support the monitoring and evaluation efforts, to ensure the effectiveness of the project’s TVET activities.

3. To support targeted TVET schools’ transition to TVET Centres of Excellence in Agriculture

·       Assess and plan the technical, pedagogical, and infrastructure needs of the targeted TVET schools to achieve TVET Centre of Excellence in Agriculture status.

·       Support infrastructure feasibility assessments through TVET technical expertise.

·       Evaluate and address learning capacity gaps, including teacher training needs, learning materials, and training methods.

·       Offer capacity-building for management and pedagogical staff on new curricula, teaching methods (including digital for blended learning), and TVET CoE in Agriculture standards.

·       Develop governance models, accreditation frameworks, and assessment guidelines for TVET Centres of Excellence in Agriculture.

·       Support the schools in delivering revised curricula and teaching materials.

·       Contribute to developing trainers’ guides, Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) frameworks, and short courses for students and communities.

·       Facilitate learning exchanges among TVET schools.