1. Organizational Background
Anera (American Near East Refugee Aid) is a non-political, non-religious international humanitarian and development organization that has worked for decades to address the development and relief needs of communities across the Middle East, including Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan. Anera delivers programs in education, health, economic development and emergency relief, working closely with local partners and communities.
2. Project Background
Anera is implementing the Gaza Patient Support Program in Jordan as a holistic intervention that seeks to accompany evacuated patients and their families through treatment, recovery, and displacement with dignity. The program addresses urgent and overlapping needs across medical care, psychosocial support, protection, living conditions, and education, recognizing that families arriving from Gaza are carrying not only serious health needs, but also trauma, disruption, and profound uncertainty about the future. Based on the profiling assessment Anera conducted in December 2025, education emerged as one of the highest-priority needs among evacuated children and their families.
The Anera Educational Program supports children from Gaza who have been evacuated to Jordan to receive medical treatment and are currently residing in temporary accommodation. These children have experienced prolonged disruption to their formal education, with schooling interrupted for over two years as a result of the war.
3. Objective of the Consultancy
The objective of this consultancy is to design and deliver structured mathematics learning program that helps Gaza children recover and strengthen mathematics skills — reading, comprehension, vocabulary and written expression — in a supportive, engaging and trauma-sensitive environment that rebuilds learning confidence the program will be delivered to a cohort of 22 children (ages 6–12) under the Gaza support program, using child-centered, interactive, and inclusive methodologies; contribute to assessment, lesson planning, monitoring, and teacher/parent engagement; support distribution and use of educational kits.
4. Scope of Work
The consultant will be responsible for the following,including:
- Conduct Pre assessment for 22 children aged (6-12).
- Designing simple, activity-based baseline and endline assessment tools to measure learner progress without creating test anxiety.
- Delivering 48 scheduled sessions to the two groups using interactive, game-based, group-work and visual interactive, in line with the learning
preferences identified in the pre assessment.
- Differentiating instruction within each group to accommodate mixed ability levels resulting from interrupted schooling.
- Maintaining attendance and learner progress records, and accommodating absences due to medical treatment through flexible recap and make
up support.
- Creating a safe, encouraging and trauma-sensitive classroom environment, and referring any child welfare or protection concerns to the
designated Anera focal point.
- Organizing a closing learner showcase and certificate event with families.
5. Target Groups & Class Schedule Session Schedule and Timing:
- The timing of the sessions will be determined based on the availability and accessibility of the targeted students and their school schedules.
- Sessions may be conducted through either of the following arrangements, depending on students’ availability and program needs:
- Saturdays, with the session schedule and duration to be agreed upon in advance; or Two days per week during the afternoon/evening
period Ex (between 3:00 Pm To 7:00 Pm), after students return from school.
The final schedule will be agreed upon in coordination with the Project Team and the Education Consultant, taking into consideration students’
school shifts, availability, and participation in other program activities.
6. Duration & Level of Effort
The consultant will work 8 days per month across the 6-month contract period (48 days total), operating from the Anera Jordan field office with regular field visits to hospitals, treatment facilities, and accommodation sites. Working days will be agreed with the Project Manager in advance on a monthly basis. The exact start date will be confirmed upon contracting.
7. Safeguarding & Code of Conduct
Given that the program serves vulnerable, war-affected children, the consultant must adhere at all times to Anera's Child Safeguarding Policy, Code of Conduct and Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) standards. The selected consultant will be required to sign these policies prior to commencing work and may be subject to reference and background checks. Any safeguarding or child protection concern must be reported immediately to the Project Manager.
Skills
Required Qualifications & Experience
- University degree in education, early-grade/primary education, mathematics or a related field.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in face-to-face teaching.
- General knowledge of Child Protection, Safeguarding principles, and relevant Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with children, with the ability to effectively manage and maintain a positive and safe
classroom environment.
- Ability to prepare and maintain working documents, including worksheets, attendance sheets, weekly work plans, and monthly reports
highlighting challenges, identified needs, required support, and success stories.
- Queen Rania Academy for Teacher Education (QRTA) Diploma is preferred but not mandatory.
- Demonstrated experience teaching mathematics to children and adolescents, ideally across the 6–12 age range.
- Experience working with refugee, displaced, or war-affected children is strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with active, learner-centered and play-based teaching methods, and the ability to differentiate instruction for mixed ability levels.
- Understanding of trauma-sensitive / psychosocial-aware approaches to working with vulnerable children.
- Strong classroom management, interpersonal and communication skills; fluency in Arabic.
- Familiarity with the Palestinian curriculum and/or digital learning platforms (e.g., Thaki) is an advantage.