Delivery Lead – School Leadership and District Strengthening

About the Position

Job Title: Delivery Lead – School Leadership and District Strengthening

Location: Freetown, Sierra Leone, with travel to districts, schools, and relevant national institutions as required

Date Posted: July 9, 2026

Application Deadline: July 17, 2026

Responsibilities

• Coordination and Delivery of the LEAD Pillar:

  • Assist TSC, MBSSE, MTHE, WAEC, TEC, and NCTVE to plan, coordinate, and deliver school leadership, governance, school support, and performance management activities in line with national education priorities.
  • Coordinate implementation across national agencies, district education structures, principals, school boards, SQAO teams, implementing partners, and technical advisers to ensure that LEAD activities are coherent, sequenced, and mutually reinforcing.
  • Support the development of annual and termly delivery plans, workplans, budgets, schedules, risk registers, and action trackers for LEAD activities, ensuring timely implementation and clear accountability among actors.
  • Facilitate regular coordination meetings, technical working sessions, and follow-up actions with government counterparts, district actors, school leaders, and partners, documenting decisions and tracking progress against agreed actions.

• School Leadership Development and Continuous School Improvement:

  • Support the design, delivery, and quality assurance of accredited school leadership development for principals and other school leaders, with emphasis on inclusive leadership, instructional leadership, safe schools, and continuous improvement.
  • Coordinate support to principals to develop, implement, review, and update learning-focused School Improvement Plans (SIPs) that address teaching quality, learner progression, safeguarding, inclusion, and school performance priorities.
  • Work with MBSSE, TSC, district structures, and partners to strengthen follow-up support, coaching, and peer learning for school leaders after leadership training.
  • Promote practical leadership approaches that help principals use evidence, classroom observation, teacher support, and school-level data to improve teaching, learning, and school culture.

• Governance Strengthening and Safe, Inclusive Schools:

  • Support activities that strengthen the role of school governance bodies, including School Management Committees and Boards, so they provide effective support, oversight, and constructive challenge to school leadership teams.
  • Ensure LEAD activities promote safe, inclusive, and accessible schools, including attention to safeguarding, gender equity, disability inclusion, learner wellbeing, and functioning reporting and escalation mechanisms.
  • Coordinate with relevant actors to ensure school leadership and governance reforms are aligned with national standards, policies, and school safety priorities.

• District Strengthening, Data Systems, School Support Visits, and Performance Management:

  • Support the strengthening of the SQAO cadre to provide structured, supportive, and improvement-focused school support visits.
  • Coordinate the use of agreed tools, templates, schedules, and follow-up processes for school support visits, ensuring that findings are linked to school improvement planning and district-level support.
  • Support the continuous professional development of SQAOs through coaching, mentoring, training, and peer-learning opportunities that enhance their skills in instructional leadership, school improvement, quality assurance, and data use.
  • Strengthen education data systems and processes that connect school-, classroom-, and district-level data, enabling timely collection, analysis, and use of evidence to monitor performance and identify priority areas for support.
  • Assist government counterparts and partners to implement performance management framework and related processes that connect schools, districts, and national agencies around clear expectations, evidence, and accountability.
  • Track implementation of school support and performance-management actions, identifying bottlenecks and escalating issues for resolution where required.

• Coordinated Data, Evidence Use, and Reporting:

  • Support coordinated data sharing and use among MBSSE, MTHE, TSC, WAEC, TEC, and NCTVE to inform school improvement, leadership support, performance management, and policy decision-making.
  • Work with monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL), data, and technical teams to ensure that school, district, and national data are used to identify priorities, monitor progress, allocate support, and strengthen accountability.
  • Prepare concise delivery updates, implementation notes, meeting records, action trackers, and reports for the Technical Director, programme leadership, government counterparts, and partners.
  • Identify delivery risks, coordination gaps, and data-use challenges, and proactively propose practical solutions to management and government counterparts.

• Safeguarding, Inclusion, and Cross-Cutting Priorities:

  • Ensure all leadership, governance, SQAO, and performance-management activities reflect commitments to safeguarding, gender equity, disability inclusion, and safe learning environments.
  • Undertake any other duties related to the LEAD pillar and wider programme delivery that may reasonably be required by the Technical Director or programme leadership.

Requirements

• Advanced Degree: Advanced degree or equivalent professional qualification in education, public administration, social sciences, development studies, management, governance, organizational development, or another relevant field.
• Experience: At least 10 years’ experience supporting government-led education reform, school leadership, governance, quality assurance, performance management, or large-scale education improvement programmes.
• Knowledge: Strong understanding of Sierra Leone’s education system, including MBSSE, MTHE, TSC, WAEC, TEC, NCTVE, district education structures, and secondary school delivery contexts.
• Coordination Skills: Demonstrated experience coordinating multiple actors to deliver complex education reform activities, ideally involving government ministries, agencies, districts, schools, implementing partners, and technical advisers.
• Technical Skills: Strong knowledge of school leadership development, School Improvement Planning, governance strengthening, school quality assurance, school support visits, and data-informed performance management.
• Practical Experience: Practical experience supporting safe, inclusive, and learning-focused schools, including safeguarding, gender equity, disability inclusion, and learner wellbeing considerations.
• Skills: Strong planning, facilitation, stakeholder management, and coordination skills, with the ability to convene actors, track actions, and maintain delivery momentum across institutions and levels of the system.
• Proficiency: Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and confidence using digital collaboration, action-tracking, and data management tools.
• Communication: Excellent written and oral communication skills in English, including the ability to prepare clear reports, meeting notes, action trackers, technical updates, and briefing materials.
• Attention to Detail: Excellent attention to detail; reliable, proactive, and able to complete complex tasks with minimal supervision and to agreed deadlines.
• Commitment: Commitment to Lɛ Wi Lan’s safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults, including its mandatory code of conduct, vetting and background checks, and survivor-centred response approach; and to its values of gender equity and disability inclusion.
• Travel: Willingness to be based in Freetown and to undertake regular travel to districts and schools as required by the role.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work with a leading organization committed to advancing education transformation in Sierra Leone
• Professional development opportunities
• Commitment to safeguarding and inclusion

About the Company

Lε Wi Lan is a Sierra Leonean-led organization committed to advancing education transformation nationally. Its vision is transformed education for development in Sierra Leone, and its mission is to provide educational technical assistance in close partnership with the government to promote quality education and inclusive growth.

How to Apply

Applicants should submit a copy of their CV and a cover letter explaining why they are suitable for the role to [email protected] stating the job role applied for in the subject line of the email. The deadline for all applications is 5 pm on Friday, July 17, 2026. Lε Wi Lan is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, and all appointments are subject to satisfactory background checks. We are an equal opportunities employer and particularly welcome applications from women and persons with disabilities.

Lε Wi Lan

Transformed education for development in Sierra Leone