Programme Officer

The Programme Officer leads the effective delivery of TichaCraft, focusing on programme execution and technical leadership in teacher professional development, monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning. This role involves implementing and supervising programme teams, working with teachers to enhance educational practices, and ensuring high-quality, timely programme delivery aligned with the foundation's mission and partner commitments. Strong leadership, creativity, and a results-oriented approach are essential for solving implementation challenges and improving teaching and learning outcomes.

• Develop detailed implementation plans, activity schedules, and milestone trackers from approved programme workplans.
• Ensure programme activities are delivered on time, to a high standard, and in line with approved design and budget parameters.
• Track progress against workplan milestones, identify risks or delays early, and recommend practical corrective actions.
• Coordinate with internal team members, facilitators, and consultants to ensure effective field implementation.
• Lead the design and delivery of teacher professional learning, including training sessions, facilitation guides, coaching approaches, and teacher-support tools.
• Ensure training and support materials are practical, inclusive, classroom-based, and responsive to teachers' realities.
• Support Professional Learning Communities to function effectively as spaces for reflection, peer learning, testing, adaptation, and improvement of classroom practice.
• Provide technical guidance to teachers to strengthen promising classroom practices, test practical approaches, reflect on implementation, and continuously improve their teaching practice.
• Quality-assure teacher-facing tools, activity guides, and learning products before wider use or dissemination.
• Develop, adapt, and maintain programme monitoring, reflection, and learning tools aligned with approved results frameworks.
• Oversee data collection, data quality, analysis, and secure management of programme evidence.
• Translate monitoring data, teacher reflections, and implementation insights into practical recommendations for programme improvement.
• Contribute to narrative reports, learning briefs, case studies, evidence summaries, and other learning outputs for internal and external audiences.
• Ensure that evidence is used continuously to strengthen programme design, delivery quality, and decision-making.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with teachers, school leaders, education actors, partners, and relevant stakeholders.
• Represent TichaCraft professionally in routine programme engagements, school-level meetings, and partner discussions as delegated.
• Ensure teachers and schools are actively engaged, well informed, and supported to take ownership of programme activities.
• Capture stakeholder feedback and use it to improve programme delivery and responsiveness.
• Supervise and support programme team members, facilitators, and consultants assigned to their oversight to ensure clear roles, timely delivery, and accountability.
• Review routine communication and visibility materials to ensure accuracy, safeguarding, quality, and alignment with PTF's messaging.
• Ensure that meeting minutes, action trackers, implementation records, and follow-up decisions are accurately maintained and acted upon.
• Prepare clear, timely, and high-quality reports for management, partners, and donors as required.
• Contribute to a collaborative, ethical, inclusive, and accountable team culture.

• Must hold a Bachelor's degree in Education or a closely related field.
• TSC registration and direct classroom teaching experience in Kenya will be highly desirable.
• At least three years of relevant professional experience, with demonstrated experience delivering education or teacher-development programmes in the Kenyan context.
• Strong understanding of classroom practice and teacher professional learning, and proven experience designing and facilitating training for teachers.
• Ability to translate theory and evidence into practical approaches that improve teaching and learning.
• Strong experience in monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning is essential, including the ability to design tools, manage data, analyse findings, and translate evidence into actionable programme improvements.
• Demonstrate strong planning, coordination, supervision, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and support a small team effectively.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, as well as the ability to work effectively with teachers, school leaders, partners, and diverse stakeholders.
• Confident using digital tools to support programme delivery, learning, reporting, and collaboration.
• Experience working with Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), supporting the development of practical and locally relevant classroom practices, and engaging with the Kenyan education system is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled tools and digital innovation in education will be an added advantage.