Educational Coordinator At PLAY International

PLAY International is looking for an educational coordinator for its projects in Mayotte. The position is ideally scheduled to start in early March.

Location: Mamoudzou, Mayotte with travel throughout the island but also to the Comoros and potentially to Reunion.

PLAY International

PLAY International was born in 1999 from the idea that sport could be a catalyst for social change. Since then, the NGO has developed and managed education projects in more than 15 countries for the benefit of more than half a million children. This field action, often in precarious contexts, has allowed the NGO to develop an approach to sport that transforms its practice into a concrete response to an educational, social or health problem. PLAY International has thus invented new ways of learning, growing, or overcoming trauma. Today, the NGO is committed to developing the social impact of sport in France and around the world with a common thread: social innovation.

PLAY International in Comoros

In 2022, PLAY International opened a mission in the Comoros to support physical and sports education in the Comoros. Funded over three years by the Ministry of National Education of the Union of the Comoros as part of a France-Comoros Development Plan (PDFC) worth 150 million euros, the mission is developing several actions to promote the use of sports as a vehicle for active and inclusive education in primary and secondary schools. As part of the launch of a new project in Mayotte, Play International aims, from March 2025 and in a post-cyclone Chido context, to co-create or co-adapt educational content using sports games as a means of educating and raising awareness among young people to combat violence or address mental health issues, and then to train educators and facilitators in their deployment.

Missions and activities

The educational coordinator is responsible for implementing the educational strategy. He/she designs, disseminates and evaluates educational content in cooperation with PLAY International’s local institutional partners.

Within the mission, the educational coordinator brings his/her educational expertise to all of the mission’s projects and promotes the transversality of the educational tools created and used. To do this, the educational coordinator is expected to work in close coordination with the focal points of the Ministry of National Education, NGOs, associations, and other educational and sports institutions.

The educational coordinator is mainly responsible for setting up and developing the project aimed at creating or adapting educational content to the local context, setting up and leading training for teachers, facilitators and educators, and designing and developing actions to promote education through sport.

He/she works under the Country Director based in Moroni and in collaboration with the project manager in Mamoudzou and is technically supported by the Educational Advisor from the NGO headquarters.

The general missions are as follows.

M1. Co-creation of content and educational materials

Co-creation and adaptation of content (educational progressions, thematic modules, sessions, etc.) in line with the objectives of the project and the profiles of the beneficiaries

Guarantor of the implementation and compliance with the content co-creation methodology: mobilization of experts, partners and practitioners throughout the process, analysis and diagnosis on the topics covered, co-creation workshops, testing and validation phase

Guarantor of the creation and quality of curricula and training tools (training plan, training modules, etc.)

M2. Training of practitioners and dissemination of educational content and materials

Guarantor of the quality of the training provided: validation of tools and content

Animation of training courses and monitoring of trainees (trainers, educators, teachers, etc.)

Support for the recognition and deployment of initial and qualifying teacher training

M3. Reporting, Evaluation and Capitalization

Development of monitoring and evaluation tools (indicators, observation grid, questionnaires, etc.) on the educational aspects of the project (qualitative and quantitative)

Writing, support and validation of the writing of training and activity reports

Responsible for writing biannual programmatic reports

Continuous capitalization work (creation of a collection of best sessions and best practices)

M4. Support for mission development

Support for the definition and implementation of the mission strategy

Educational support for project design and support for writing reports to donors

Guarantor of the operational implementation of the Comoros educational strategy

M5. Educational referent and correspondent with local institutions and project partners

Participation and facilitation of work frameworks with institutional and sports managers or counterparts in Mayotte

Represent the NGO in meetings with sports federations and other local stakeholders involved in the field of sport

Contribute to the creation of a positive image and the overall credibility of the organization vis-à-vis institutional and associative actors relevant to the project.

Participate in various coordination and advocacy meetings with national education and sports institutions (eg Steering Committee, bilateral coordination meetings, etc.)

Required skills

Training in the fields of sport and socio-sporting activities (Master STAPS, etc.) and/or in educational sciences / A good knowledge of the practice of APS in a school or club environment may be useful.

Know-how / Experience

• Experience in a developing country
• Proven experience in strengthening teaching skills
• Project management experience
• Educational engineering and adult training
• Experience in developing educational content required
• Socio-sporting activities with children
• Writing skills, organizational skills
• Experience in a developing country required
• Excellent command of Excel/Word
• Experience in negotiation and advocacy with state institutions appreciated

Soft skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills and a keen sense of diplomacy
• Leadership
• Strong sense of initiative and autonomy
• Adaptability, particularly in a multicultural context
• Team spirit
• Stress and Priority Management
• Ability to live in an unstable and constrained environment
• Patience

Conditions

• 12-month French fixed-term contract
• Salary: according to experience and NGO salary scale
• Location: Mayotte, with possible travel to the Comoros and Reunion.
• Start date: May 2022 (depending on project launch)