**INOVASI 3 - Educational Leadership Specialist****Project Overview and Role**:Indonesia's Vision 2045 sets the goal for Indonesia to transition from a resource-based economy towards an advanced service, technology, and knowledge-based economy by the centenary of its independence (2045). The 2025-2045 National Long Term Development Plan emphasises the urgency of Indonesia's human resource development to fully realise 2045 goals.Faced however with persistent low student performance that is emblematic of a learning crisis, significant improvement in student learning will be required to reach Indonesia's 2045 goals. Government of Indonesia (GoI) has started an ambitious program of education reforms. Successive education ministers have set out to modernise the education system through reforming the national curriculum and teaching and assessment approaches, to produce citizens with strong foundational skills, open minds, and inclusive values.Australia is a long-term supporter of the Indonesian basic education sector, with continuous investments supporting education quality improvements for the past two decades, including through the INOVASI program (Phase 1 2016-2020; Phase 2 2020-2023) that focused on supporting acquisition of literacy and numeracy foundational skills in early grades classrooms; exploring local problems and solutions; and generating evidence to inform government policy development and practices.This third phase of INOVASI (2024-2027) builds upon the existing program's approach and lessons learned and takes the focus on the development of foundational skills through to the end of the primary grades. Phase 3 will engage with priority issues of Australia's development policy: gender equality, effective inclusion of children with a disability, responses to the climate change challenge in education. It will focus on the challenge of policy implementation and the gaps that exist between national policies and practices at district and school levels, and use the well attested-success of INOVASI's local problem-based approach to continuously support policy development for effective fit between policy and implementation context.The Program is managed by Palladium on behalf of DFAT.**Primary Duties and Responsibilities**:**Purpose of the Position**:The **Educational Leadership Specialist** has responsibility for supporting subnational and national teams to achieve INOVASI's intended outcomes through providing technical advice and support to the design, development, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of INOVASI approaches to educational leadership. The Specialist will work primarily to support subnational teams but will also provide relevant input and advice into national policy and programming. The Specialist will work collaboratively across program teams and in ways that build understanding and capacity in INOVASI in relation to educational leadership.**Working with children**Is this position likely to come into contact with children? Yes No**Duties**: Under the direction of Deputy Director - Education Ecosystems and Subnational Management (hereafter Deputy Director Subnational), the Educational Leadership Specialist will:- Facilitate the development of an educational leadership strategy for INOVASI Phase 3, in collaboration with other deputy directors, provincial managers and external advisors and consultants.- Support INOVASI sub-national and national teams to develop and implement strategies and tools to help partners in the ecosystems develop their educational leadership strategies to accelerate the improvement of foundational skills attainment, by using the Minimum Service Standards and/or Rapor Pendidikan.- Coordinate INOVASI technical assistance in the design of interventions, pilots, and GOI and/or partner led approaches to developing principal, supervisor, and other educational leaders to support schools and madrasahs improve school culture conducive to inclusive foundational skills attainment.- Provide advice and support to provincial teams in relation to collaboration within the ecosystem, particularly the BGPs, MoRA's BDKs and universities (LPTK) to develop capabilities and improve the leadership practices of principals, supervisors, and other educational leaders.- Facilitate relationships and coordination between districts actors and with MoECRT/MoRA on educational leadership issues, solutions and/or programs such as Kepala Sekolah Penggerak and/or other principal capacity building programs under MoRA.- Coordinate and/or provide technical and advisory support to key GoI national counterparts in relation to educational leadership, in the key related areas of the five program IOs.- Build and maintain strong relationships with key GoI national counterparts to ensure INOVASI's support is aligned to their needs while also contributing to achievement of the five program IOs and the EOPOs.- Ensure GEDSI priorities are pursued in activities,
