Education Advisor - AMERICAN SYSTEMS - Alabama

American Systems is seeking Education Advisors for a critical Department of State program supporting the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

Education work typically aims at developing and implementing educational reform programs in collaboration with local and international players. It involves policy formulation, strategy development, planning and reporting in the target areas of education access and non-discrimination, educational financing and management, reform of education legislation and quality and modernization of pre-primary, primary, secondary and higher education including harmonization of curricula, teacher training and parent and student councils. Education is a major tool for promoting democratic institutions, human rights and tolerance, sustainable economic development, as well as capacities for the peaceful resolution of conflicts

About REACT and the OSCE:
In November 1999, the participating States (pS) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) endorsed Rapid Expert and Assistance Cooperation Teams (better known as REACT) as a tool to enable the OSCE to deploy civilian experts more rapidly to the field to undertake activities associated with conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation. The OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) sponsors election monitoring missions in OSCE pS and Partner countries. The OSCE’s Partner States include: Japan, Republic of (South) Korea, Mongolia, Thailand, Afghanistan, and Australia (as Asian Partners for Cooperation), and Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia (as Mediterranean Partners for Cooperation).

Work Locations : Caucasus, Balkans , Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia