KREASI Teacher Professional Development Specialist
Role Purpose:
The Teacher Professional Development (TPD) Specialist provides technical leadership and strategic oversight of KREASI’s Teacher Professional Development package. Based at the national level, the role ensures the technical quality, coherence, and effectiveness of KREASI’s teacher professional development approach across partners, leading on numeracy instruction with support from KREASI colleagues on technical approaches for literacy instruction.
The Specialist leads the design, adaptation, and quality assurance of TPD systems, including module development, training delivery, coaching and mentoring, communities of practice, monitoring of teacher learning, and follow-up mechanisms to support sustained changes in classroom practice. Under the guidance of the Education Manager, the role leads development TPD content on numeracy, including the identification and selection of learning resources and serving as a Master Trainers. The Specialist provides support across related packages—such as Principal Professional Development and Catch-up Club—to ensure coherence and alignment of pedagogical approaches.
The TPD Specialist provides technical oversight of the Provincial Teacher Professional Development (TPD) Coordinator, who leads partner support and implementation of KREASI’s TPD approach at the provincial level. This includes ensuring high-quality rollout of training, coaching and mentoring, and peer learning structures for teachers and school leaders.
Under the direction of the Education Manager, the role works closely with global technical advisors, implementing partners and internal teams to ensure alignment with national education priorities, donor requirements, and Save the Children’s global standards. The TPD Specialist contributes to external engagement with government counterparts, donors, partner agencies, and civil society to strengthen teacher development systems and promote sustainability.
What you will do:
Technical Leadership and Oversight
- Provide overall technical leadership for the Teacher Professional Development package, ensuring alignment with Save the Children’s vision, GPE objectives, and national education priorities.
- Lead on the development of clear technical guidance, standards, and tools for design and delivery of numeracy instruction via TPD activities across projects and partners.
- Ensure coherence and quality of numeracy approaches across related program components, including Principal Professional Development, Pre-school TPD and Catch-up Club.
- Lead the development, adaptation, and rollout of TPD activities, including training frameworks, coaching and mentoring models, and professional development.
- Provide technical oversight of the Provincial TPD Coordinator, ensuring effective partner support, implementation quality, and alignment with national-level guidance.
- Promote a collaborative and learning-oriented culture across TPD teams and implementing partners.
Support to Local Implementing Partners
- Provide technical assistance to implementing partners on delivery of TPD training, coaching and mentoring, and peer learning.
- Mentor KREASI provincial teams to be able to support partners’ TPD officers, to ensure the TPD cycle is implemented in a quality standard
- Support partners to assess their capacity and develop targeted capacity-strengthening plans, to be implemented in partnership with the Provincial TPD Specialist.
- Ensure partner capacity to support improvements in classroom practice and learner outcomes in numeracy.
- Ensure partner compliance with donor, program, and quality requirements for TPD implementation.
Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement
- Establish and oversee quality assurance mechanisms to ensure adherence to agreed TPD standards across all activities.
- Monitor progress against TPD deliverables, and support corrective action where implementation risks or gaps are identified.
- Support mid-term reviews, annual reviews, and other assessments related to TPD effectiveness and impact.
- Ensure timely development and review of high-quality TPD workplans, progress reports, and technical documentation.
Coordination and Collaboration
- Coordinate closely with other KREASI technical and provincial teams to ensure quality implementation of TPD activities.
- Act as a technical liaison between KREASI and government stakeholders on Teacher Professional Development.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with government counterparts, education authorities, and ecosystem partners to promote sustainability and system uptake.
Monitoring, Learning, and Adaptation
- Support partners to establish simple, effective systems to track PPD training delivery, coaching activities, participation in learning communities, and leadership practice change.
- Collaborate with KREASI MEAL team to ensure effective monitoring and evaluation tools are incorporated through TPD and CuC delivery, and results disseminated to partners
- Promote the use of evidence on school leadership and literacy improvement to inform adaptive management of PPD strategies.
- Ensure high-quality documentation of implementation processes, lessons learned, and effective leadership practices.
- Collaborate with KREASI MEAL team to encapsulate best practices and evidence of TPD and CuC
Reporting and Documentation
- Oversee timely submission of TPD-related reports from partners and provincial teams, providing technical feedback as needed.
- Contribute to consolidated donor and stakeholder reports, ensuring strong evidence and clear articulation of TPD outcomes and learning.
- Provide regular technical updates to senior management and program leadership.
Compliance, Safeguarding, and Representation
- Ensure all TPD activities comply with Save the Children and KREASI policies, including safeguarding, risk management, and inclusion standards.
- Support responsible representation of Save the Children in technical forums and engagements related to teacher professional development.
- Contribute to protecting and strengthening Save the Children’s brand and reputation through high-quality technical leadership.
General
- Carry out other tasks assigned by the Education Director or Chief of Party.
- Ensure adherence to Save the Children policies on child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities, and other relevant standards.
- In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder may be required to work outside normal duties and adjust working hours as needed, including temporary deployment to affected areas.
What we need from you:
- Bachelor’s degree in education, pedagogy, social sciences, or a related field with at least 5 years of relevant professional experience; or Master’s degree with at least 3 years of relevant experience.
- Minimum 3–5 years of practical experience supporting Teacher Professional Development, including delivery of training and facilitation of adult learning processes.
- Demonstrated experience implementing coaching and mentoring approaches, including support to trainers, facilitators, or teacher working groups.
- Familiarity with Indonesia’s education system and local implementation contexts, including coordination with district education offices and schools.
- Strong skills in facilitation, communication, and relationship-building with government and partner stakeholders.
- Experience supporting monitoring and reporting of training/coaching activities, including accurate documentation and use of basic data tools.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in Bahasa Indonesia and English, including report writing and presentations.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and online collaboration tools (e.g., Teams).
- Strong organizational skills, ability to meet deadlines, and commitment to quality delivery.
Location: Jakarta
Save the Children encourages qualified candidates to apply regardless of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.
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