Vacancy title:
Short Term Professional Illustrators

Jobs at:
Chemonics Soma Umenye LLC

Deadline of this Job:
June 29, 2018

Duty Station:
Kigali, Rwanda

JOB DETAILS:
Short Term Consultancy to develop Illustrations for Kinyarwanda Early Grade Teaching and Learning Materials.

Chemonics Soma Umenye LLC is seeking experienced short-term consultants to support USAID Soma Umenye in the development of illustrations for Kinyarwanda early grade teaching and learning materials. Soma Umenye is a five-year USAID-funded activity that aims to improve reading outcomes in Kinyarwanda for at least 1 million children in public and government-aided schools in Rwanda. Covering all 30 districts of Rwanda and working in close collaboration with the Rwanda Education Boad (REB) and the Rwandan Ministry of Education (MINEDUC), Soma Umenye will contribute to Rwanda’s Education Sector Strategic Plan (ESSP) and the Government of Rwanda’s national development priority of ensuring that Rwandan primary-grade students acquire the fundamental competency of literacy so that they can succeed in future schooling and, later, in the modern workplace.

Project Goals
Soma Umenye aims to achieve following two goals.

• To improve reading outcomes in Kinyarwanda for at least 1 million children (unique direct beneficiaries) in public and government-aided schools in Rwanda by the end of P3; and
  
• To ensure that at least 70 percent of P1-P3 students can read grade-level text with fluency and comprehension.
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  Position: Short Term Professional Illustrators (2)
  

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Professional Illustrators will support Soma Umenye to develop illustrations for Kinyarwanda early grade teaching and learning materials based on Competence Based Curriculum and following guidelines provided by USAID Soma Umenye.

Job qualification

• Experience in children’s book illustrations.
  
• Strong background in illustrating instructional materials.
  
• Experience in developing book illustrations, appropriate illustrations, and layout.
  
• Experience in drawing user-friendly illustrations for lower primary pupils.

Required:

• An updated Curriculum Vitae and application letter
  
• 2 samples of illustrations produced by the applicant him/herself
  
• A price quotation in the following template:
  No Description Unit Price (RWF) 15% withholding tax inclusive
  From 1-50 From 51-200 From 201-500 From 501-above
  1 Illustrations

Job application procedure
Applicants are requested to submit required items to rwandasomaumenyeoperations@gmail.com by close of business June 29, 2018. Please include the name of the position in the subject line. Only finalists will be contacted.