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Consultancy
CfBT works with ministries, donors, education institutes and
NGOs to promote the development of education policy and education
systems around the world. CfBT is continually looking for highly
qualified, experienced and dedicated professionals with a varied
mix of operational and technical skills. We welcome CVs from
potential consultants with practical work experience in development
co-operation in the following fields:
- Education Policy Development (Policy Analysis and Advice)
- Education Strategy Development (at national, local and
institutional levels)
- Development of Education Systems
- Education Management
- Teacher Training
- Curriculum Development
- Development of Teaching and Training Programmes and
Materials
- Monitoring and Evaluation
We work in all fields of education from Basic Literacy to highly
specialised Vocational Training:
- Literacy and Post-Literacy
- Non-Formal Education
- Primary Education
- Secondary Education
- Tertiary Education
- Higher Education
- Distance-Learning
- Vocational Education and Training
- Management Training
Consultancy Registration
Opportunities exist for junior and senior consultants to work
with us on both long-term and short-term assignments. Should you be
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opportunities, please click here
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When we have a consultancy opportunity that matches your skills
and experience we will contact you to ask if you are interested,
and send you terms of reference and any other information we have
on the work. If your name is put forward for selection, we will let
you know the outcome as soon as possible. If the client selects
you, we will tell you which of our Project Officers will be
responsible for organising your contract and logistics. At the end
of the assignment we are always interested in feedback on the
process and/or the job itself. This helps to make sure that, in
future, we send you information on the most suitable or interesting
assignments for you.
Our Consultancy Unit
Focus Area 1: Local Authority and School Support Services
We have seven full-time consultants (two principal consultants
and five senior consultants) who work both in the UK and
internationally providing local authority and school support
services. They are:
John Stannard
Schools Minister, Andrew Adonis, announced
that John Stannard is the new National Champion for the Young
Gifted and Talented (YG&T) programme on 1 November
2007.
The new YG&T National Champion is an
important ambassador and figurehead for the Young Gifted and
Talented (YG&T) programme in both political and educational
circles. Starting November 2007, the YG&T Champion aims
to build and enhance the position of YG&T as a world leading
programme in gifted and talented provision in the UK and
internationally, engaging with learners aged 4-19 years.
This is a very significant role in gifted and
talented education. With a far-reaching remit, the YG&T
Champion works strategically with key networks for schools,
colleges and the government, strongly supported by a group of YGT
advocates to be drawn from YGT Academy members and young,
successful people at large.
Starting 6 November 2007, the tenure of the
YG&T National Champion will run for one year in the first
instance, subject to review, on a part-time basis. John’s
first priority will be to target the 300 secondary schools which
still do not identify any gifted and talented pupils, so that every
school has in place extra provision to meet their needs.
Background:
John Stannard began his career as a teacher
in primary and middle years education, then moved into teacher
education. Further to the posts of primary adviser specialising in
the Early Years of education for Lancashire Education Authority and
district inspector for primary and nursery schools in the Inner
London Education Authority, John was appointed Her Majesty’s
Inspector of Schools in 1987. He then went on to become the
specialist English Adviser for the Office for Standards in
Education.
The success of John’s work on the pilot
National Literacy Project gave rise to his appointment as Director
of the National Literacy Strategy in 1997. The Strategy had a
significant impact on standards of literacy in primary schools in
England and saw John awarded with the CBE for services to education
in 2000.
Currently, John provides consultancy
services to clients in the field of education. He continues to work
as a Principal Consultant for CfBT, advising nationally and
internationally on school improvement and standards, with
particular reference to the development of literacy in the Gulf,
S.E. Asia and Canada.
John has written numerous articles,
reviews, publications and papers on various aspects of education.
Most recently is the book that he co-wrote, The Literacy Game:
the story of the National Literacy Strategy, which was
published this year.
Expertise:
> Management of strategic
change in education at national and LEA (school district)
levels
> School improvement and
leadership
> Standards and pedagogy in
Language and Literacy nationally and internationally
> Early years and
primary education
Robin Attfield is a CfBT principal consultant with over thirty years
of successful experience in education, working as a teacher and
headteacher in two different settings, as a local authority
adviser/school improvement officer, including work as a senior
adviser in a large shire county. Prior to working with CfBT he was
Assistant Director at the National College for School Leadership
where his responsibilities included the leadership and management
of NPQH, the professional mandatory requirement for aspirant
headteachers, which thrived under his direction. He is a governor
of a large high school in a challenging environment.
Robin has also worked as a visiting lecturer in two universities
and as an Ofsted inspector in all phases of education taking part
in over 20 Ofsted inspections as well as local authority
inspections and acted as a Performance Management Consultant and
External Adviser. He led on aspects of Local Authority Review as a
member of the senior management team in the advisory division.
His particular interests in education have always been improving
the quality of teaching and learning, meeting individual needs,
international development, staff development, leadership and value
for money. Robin holds a doctorate in education.
Robin’s involvement internationally includes a six week study
trip to the USA as part of his Masters’ degree, leading a study
trip of teachers to Pakistan, hosting international visits to NCSL,
international speaking and consultancy work with a number of
countries. Over the last two years Robin has personally led the
development of leadership development and training in Thailand,
involving training, framework development, consultancy, coaching
and the development and hosting of an eight-day programme for
senior Thai ministry education officials. He has just returned from
training and coaching a team of central mentors. He worked in a
similar way with Chile and is currently working on the development
of a leadership approach to improve standards in a large Canadian
state. Robin has also led some work on the development of a
European network to develop school leadership and led workshop
sessions at the inaugural meeting last year.
Robin is accustomed to working with a range of stakeholders in
consultancy and LA work and through work with NCSL, has been
working with local authorities, HE, DfES and professional
associations on a regular basis.
Robin sets high value on client-centred consultancy, working in
partnership, stakeholder involvement and ownership, delivering to
agreed timescales and quality and integrity.
Carole McBride is a CfBT principle consultant who has spent all her
working career in primary education. She has taught in both key
stages and has served as a deputy head, acting headteacher and
headteacher for three primary schools in Liverpool. She was
employed for six years as a primary schools inspector for an LA
prior to becoming a Director of Primary Associates (a former
subsidiary of CfBT). She has had extensive experience in the areas
of management training, the provision of training under the
Headlamp initiative, induction of newly qualified teachers,
governor training and as a registered or team inspector on many
OFSTED inspections.
Carole has a great deal of experience in writing and presenting
training materials to senior managers and teachers. She is also an
accredited External Adviser, Threshold Assessor and Performance
Management Consultant. Carole is an Ofsted Registered Inspector and
a consultant for Investors in People.
Jack Hagan is a CfBT senior consultant who has
worked in primary education for 28 years as a teacher, deputy head
and headteacher of two schools. He also spent one year seconded to
an LA as an adviser for primary schools prior to taking up the post
of senior primary schools inspector in another LA. He led this
service for seven years prior to starting Primary Associates.
He has had extensive experience in the areas of management
training, the provision of training under the Headlamp initiative,
induction of newly qualified teachers, governor training and as a
registered and team inspector on numerous OFSTED inspections. Jack
has a wide range of experience in dealing with personnel issues and
is also an accredited External Adviser, Threshold Assessor and
Performance Management Consultant. Jack is an Ofsted Registered
Inspector and a consultant for Investors in People.
Dr Jeff Jones is a principal consultant with CfBT. Jeff’s
career at CfBT began in 1998 as School Development Adviser,
providing training and consultancy services to government agencies
and to schools, both in the UK and overseas. For the last three
years, he has also been Head of CfBT’s Training and Consultancy
Unit. Jeff came to CfBT from the post of Principal Lecturer in
Higher Education, where he was responsible for the coordination of
research and for continuing professional development. Before this
he was a Senior Inspector in an LA, responsible for pupil
assessment, teacher appraisal and professional development, as well
as for Governor Services.
Formerly a Director of a Professional Development Centre, Jeff
has also held the post of LA Advisory Teacher. He is an accredited
Threshold Assessor, Performance Management Consultant, External
Adviser and NPQH trainer. He is an active researcher and writes
extensively in the areas of professional development, school
management and governance. Jeff is an Associate Tutor for a number
of Higher Education Institutions, a Visiting Professor in Education
Management at the University of Wolverhampton and is currently
Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Surrey’s Roehampton
Institute. He is a governor of two schools, an international
boarding school and a large high school.
Jeff can provide specific support to LAs in areas such as:
- Leadership and management
- Pastoral care
- Research and evaluation
- Continuing professional development
Chris Taylor is a CfBT professional adviser specialising in School
Improvement and Continuing Professional Development programmes.
Chris comes to CfBT from a background of LA advisory work. He has
spent four years as a County Adviser for Staff Development as well
as nine years with responsibility for Humanities.
At CfBT Chris wrote the core documentation for structuring the
relationship between schools and the School Improvement Service in
Lincolnshire (Moderated School Self-Review). He also re-designed
the LA’s provision of CPD of school-based staff in East Sussex and
wrote a handbook for the school-based mentors of Fast Track
Teachers.
As County Adviser for Staff Development for Devon LA, Chris
produced an annual programme of training for serving teachers and
school support staff. In addition, he also managed the LA
components of induction for newly qualified teachers and delivered
a programme of training for school-based induction tutors.
Chris is an OfSTED Registered Inspector and was a member of a
national advisory group that produced the 'slimmed-down' National
Curriculum in history. He has been involved in the teaching
profession for 30 years, beginning his career teaching history in
secondary schools.
Chris can provide specific support to LAs in areas such as:
- CPD for school based staff
- School self-evaluation
- Advanced Skills Teachers: training and management
To discuss the availability of these consultants, please contact
Fiona Hayward (+44 (0)118 902 1606 or fhayward@cfbt.com).
Focus Area 2: Government and Aid Agencies Support Services
We have three in-house consultants who provide consultancy,
training and advisory services within the UK and internationally in
the three following areas of expertise:
1. Education Sector Reform and Management, Policy and Strategic
Planning (Including Sector Wide Approaches) (curriculum reform,
textbooks, examinations, teacher training and management, school
improvement, gender, HIV/AIDS, distance education, and capacity
building and institutional strengthening);
2. Non-State Provision and Public-Private Partnerships in
Education Service Delivery (the role of non-state providers –
community and religious groups, parents associations and the
private sector; and the management of EdInvest (Click here to link
to Edinvest website www.ifc.org/edinvest, the
education investment information facility in the World Bank,
providing information for making private investment possible on a
global scale); and
3. Education Economics, Aid Modalities and Education Sector
Financing and Planning (developing sector wide approaches, 5-10
year costed education strategic plans, detailed education budgets
and medium-term expenditure frameworks, long-term financial and
policy models for the education sector to reach the Millennium
Development Goals, and effective financing and aid delivery
mechanisms for achieving Education For All; cost-benefit analysis,
economic policy training).
Dr Harvey Smith is the Principal Adviser,
International and Consultancy Group, CfBT. As well as providing
advice and support within the Group, he undertakes consultancies in
the areas of sector-wide approaches (SWAps), capacity development,
monitoring and evaluation, impact studies, project and programme
design and appraisal, education policy development, strategic
planning and management, and education quality improvement
planning. Since 1975 Dr Smith has worked on a variety of
programmes, projects and consultancies in Africa, Asia and the
Caribbean.
He is an expert in the management of complex education sector
programmes and projects and has specific experience of
post-conflict contexts: from 2001-05 he headed the £13 million
Rwandan Education Sector Support Programme for the Rwandan Ministry
of Education and DFID, and from 1992-97 he headed the DFID-funded
education support projects in Cambodia. He has also worked on many
other projects and consultancies funded by the Asian Development
Bank, Danida, DFID and the EU.
His recent consultancies have included leading on the Review of
the Education Sector Support Programme in Malawi (DFID), appraising
the baseline research on the situation of teachers being undertaken
by Education Action International in Angola, providing sector-wide
approach expertise to the Targeted Budget Support to Basic
Education Reforms Programme in Cambodia (EU), supporting the Kenyan
Ministry of Education on the development of a Secondary Education
Strategic Plan (DFID), and leading the Evaluation of the
Alternative Approaches to Basic Education Projects in Somaliland
(Danida). Dr Smith has a strong interest in research and
development and has presented and published a number of papers
relating to education sector reform.
Michael Latham is the CfBT Principal
International Consultant and he has worked with CfBT since 1982.
Over the past two and a half decades he has worked in Asia, Africa
and the USA/Caribbean in an operational and business development
capacity. He has served on numerous consultancies for bilateral and
multilateral agencies in many countries. While President of the
CfBT USA (1998-2004) he was seconded to the World Bank Group’s
Economics of Education Thematic Work Group, while in Malaysia
(1993-1998) he had responsibility for overseeing the Henley
Management College’s business programs, including its MBA
programme.
His main area of focus is conducting research, providing
consultancy and overseeing operations that involve the development
and delivery of complementary models of education. From a research
angle, he is leading on a number of research projects that involve
delivery of basic education to underserved populations and regions
in India. From the consultancy angle, he has been advising a number
of governments on strategies for meeting the challenges of
Education For All, most particularly through garnering support from
Non State Actors and using existing resources in a more efficient
manner. From the operations angle, he is managing the CfBT
operations in India and the USA. In India this involves overseeing
the two offices in Chennai and Hyderabad through which CfBT
delivers its Whole School Improvement Programme of education
services. HSBC Bank is using these technical support services to
enable its loan scheme for schools that cater to low-income
families. In the USA, CfBT has an association arrangement with
EdInvest, an education research entity that is located in the
International Finance Corporation’s Private Education and Health
Group. [click here to link to EdInvest website www.ifc.org/edinvest]
He regularly presents papers and conducts training in the field
of Public Private Partnership. This training has been delivered on
behalf of such agencies as the United Nations Institute for
Training and Research, the Institute for Development Studies, the
World Bank Institute and Harvard University. As a member of the
World Bank’s Economics of Education Thematic Group he worked with
the EdInvest team in the development of a Handbook and Toolkit on
Non Government Participation in Education. He started his working
career as a teacher first in Canada and then for over a decade
taught in Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam.
Susy Ndaruhutse is CfBT’s Education Finance
Specialist. She is a Development Economist by training with a
strong quantitative background, but most of her professional work
has been undertaken in relation to the education sector. The focus
of much of her work is how both aid and national systems of public
finance can be used most efficiently and effectively to deliver
education services to the poor in the context of achieving the
education Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 and the
Education for All (EFA) agenda. In recent years, she has worked in
Rwanda, Guyana, Ghana as well as undertaking advisory work for aid
agencies and NGOs.
She spent nearly four years working with the Ministry of
Education in Rwanda where her responsibilities included advising
the Ministry on strategic financial planning, budgeting and
developing Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks (MTEFs), performance
monitoring and evaluation systems, and cost-sharing alongside
public-private partnerships. She led the work on producing an
overall financial framework for the Education Sector Strategic Plan
(ESSP) including detailed costing of sub-sector policies. She has
been involved in similar work in Guyana, assisting the Guyanese
Ministry of Education to put together a fully costed plan for
achieving Universal Secondary Education (USE) ensuring regional
equity.
More recent work has included providing technical advice to DFID
UK on the economics and financial aspects of EFA and participation
in the Finance Working Group for the Fast Track Initiative (FTI);
preparing and delivering training materials for a 4-day “Economic
Learning Programme” for Save the Children country offices and staff
at headquarters covering all aspects of development and economic
policy and their likely impacts on children; desk-based analytical
research looking at aid predictability in developing countries in
the context of those countries needing greater volumes of more
predictable aid to achieve the MDGs; support to the Save the
Children Bulgarian office and in-country team of consultants in
designing a methodology for a comparative study on the costs and
benefits of inclusive versus exclusive education for children with
special needs in Bulgaria; and specific research work on
appropriate aid modalities for the provision of education services
in fragile states.
To discuss the availability of these consultants, please contact
Fiona Hayward (+44 (0)118 902 1606 or fhayward@cfbt.com).
Recent Research
Recent research undertaken by our consultants can be downloaded
here:
EdInvest – Suzanne Roddis
In addition to our in-house consultants, we have a staff member
based in Washington DC, Suzanne Roddis, who heads up EdInvest and
is also available to provide consultancy services in relation to
private education.
Suzanne Roddis is Manager of EdInvest, a joint venture between
CfBT and the International Finance Corporation (www.ifc.org). Ms. Roddis undertakes
research and analysis on a number of private education issues.
Specifically, she profiles emerging markets and provides current
information and data in the following areas: regulatory
environment, the presence of the exiting private sector, quality
and access, administration and demographic trends. Other topics
researched include public-private partnerships and student
financing.
Prior to joining CfBT, Ms. Roddis worked in the World Bank for
10 years, most recently on rural development issues in Africa. She
also worked on education and social issues, including the
coordination of gender and education components of rural energy
projects. She has field experience in Senegal, The Gambia, Burkina
Faso, Guinea and Ethiopia. In Canada, Ms. Roddis assisted
Aboriginal communities in assessing their educational needs and
obtaining corresponding government funding. She also held the
position of International Schools Liaison Officer at the University
of Sussex, England. Ms. Roddis is a graduate of Carleton University
and is fluent in French.
Other Consultants, Networks and Partnerships
In addition to our three in-house consultants, we have a
database of international and regional consultants, as well as
several experts on long-term contracts with us who retain their
independence but also undertake other work for us, all of whom can
be called upon at short notice to provide advice, capacity building
or support services across all of the additional following areas of
expertise:
· Education Policy, Planning and Strategy Development
(Particular Expertise in Fragile States and Post-Conflict
Situations)
· Teacher Training, Management, Development and Recruitment
(Including Distance Learning, E-learning and Continuous
Professional Development)
· Curriculum and Standards Development
· Textbook, Materials and Software Development
· Developing Educational Responses to HIV/AIDS and Providing
HIV/AIDS Education
· Developing Relevant Education Programmes to Increase Access to
Education by Girls and Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVCs)
· Designing Monitoring and Evaluation Systems and Education
Management Information Systems (EMIS)
· Capacity Building, Change Management, Human Resource and
Institutional Development
· Assessment, Inspection, Costed School Development Planning and
Whole-School Improvement
Our range of consultants have expertise covering all levels of
the education system from pre-primary to higher education, and can
provide advice nationally, locally and at institutional or school
level.
On average, we send out around 100 consultants to Africa, Asia,
Eastern Europe and the Middle East each year for assignments
lasting from 1 week to several years. In addition we have close
links with several other companies that we regularly partner with
giving us even wider access to additional experts. Please contact
David Knott (+44 (0)118 902 1613 or dknott@cfbt.com), or Amanda Clark (+44
(0)118 902 1614 or aclark@cfbt.com) for further
details.