Overall Mandate:
To protect and promote the right of every Somaliland to quality, equitable, culture-based, and complete basic education where: Students learn in a child-friendly, gender-sensitive, safe, and motivating environment. Teachers facilitate learning and constantly nurture every learner.
Key Functions of Department and Sections
  • Report to the DG of the MoES/ where appropriate to the Minister/Vice-Minister
  • Assume the overall responsibility of the management of the department
  • Prepare the departmental priorities and activities with the collaboration of education partners and other stakeholders.
  • Develop yearly work plan and budgeting
  • Develop Quarterly Work Plan in line with ESSP
  • Develop and formulate departmental strategy in line with ESSP
  • Supervise the section heads and provide support to them where appropriate
  • Carry out Quarterly Performance Assessment on section heads and produce PA report of each section head with recommendations of areas of performance improvement.
  • Keep records of details of section heads (personal information, education levels, pay, performance reports, and attendance/sickness/leave records)
  • Approve leave/sick notes of section heads/ Approve requisitions for procurements/ Approve requisitions for payments/timesheets
  • Hold weekly meetings with section head and participate in the bi-weekly meetings of the Directors
  • Preparation of Quarterly Report on the activities of the department
  • Follow up ongoing activities and oversight reporting to the Quality Assurance department, Planning Department, and as well as Director-General.
  • Do other duties assigned to him/her by the MOES higher Officials
  • The Director of the Department will assign a departmental regional office

Early Child Education Section
 

  • Conduct an initial evaluation of facilities (ECE Centres) to ensure centers are purposely built, safe and secure, equipped with all required educational materials and playing equipment
  • Provide support and advice to ECE teachers in relation to practices that would have a very positive impact on children is learning achievements.
  • Determine the education program and expected knowledge results
  • Take off all lead on early childhood education
  • Provide sustained in-center guidance and support to enhance children performance
  • Assess/evaluate ECE teachers overall work performance
  • Advise and contribute towards ECE curriculum delivery under the direction and guidance of the ECE consultant
  • Ensure adequate resources and educational aids required for effective teaching are available in all centers
  • Hold scheduled meetings with the ECE teachers to discuss and advise on teaching strategies
  • Carry out pre-arranged classroom observations; three in the first term and two in the remaining two terms
  • Review teacher’s assessment of children learning progress
  • Monitor ECE project progress, and report to the project ECE consultant
  • Ensure children records are regularly updated
  • Advice and assist ECE Centre teachers/staff establish effective partnerships with parents
  • Writing annual program report
  • Should involve any activities related to the Early Childhood Education
  • Oversee and ensure the alignment of plans to national goals for Early Childhood Education
  • Distribution of Early Childhood Education textbooks and teaching-learning materials
  • Provide regular updates and monthly progress reports to the Department Director
  • Implement overall regulations; Education Act and ECE endorsed policy and minimum standards
  • Do other duties delegated to him/her by the Director
Primary Education Section
 
  • Determine the education program and expected knowledge results
  • Conduct knowledge and talent debates
  • Data entry of examination results & reviews
  • Overall responsibility of SL Primary schools (Public and Private schools)
  • Verification of the student’s eligibility on entry exams
  • To ensure all SL Primary schools adopt MOES- developed curriculum
  • Monitor student’s transfers
  • Teachers transfers from one region to another region with the consultation of the Director Department
  • Students transfers from one region to another region
  • Receive and deal with complaints from teachers, education committees
  • in crucial areas
  • Oversee the execution of free primary education
  • Support the decentralization process of the public primary education
  • Coordinate and support the mobilization of resources for quality free primary education
  • Primary education textbooks distributions and teaching-learning materials
  • Oversee and ensure the alignment of plans to national goals for primary education
  • Do other duties delegated to him/her by the Director

Secondary Education Section

  • Determine the education program and expected knowledge results
  • Overall responsibility of SL Secondary schools (Public and Private schools)
  • Verification of the student’s eligibility on entry exams
  • To ensure all SL Secondary schools adopt MOES- developed curriculum
  • Secondary education textbooks distributions and teaching-learning materials
  • Problem-solving in the schools
  • Receive and deal with complaints from teachers, education committees in crucial areas
  • Students transfers from one region to another region
  • Teachers transfers from one region to another region with the consultation of the Director Department
  • Oversee and ensure the alignment of plans to national goals for secondary education
  • Management of teachers learning resources
  • Selection of in-service and pre-service teacher trainees
  • Visit for stock checking learning resources and materials
  • Nominate school headteachers in consultation with the regional education officers (REOs should nominate)
  • Do other duties delegated to him/her by the Director

Student Affairs Section

  • Student transfer with the collaboration of Primary Section and Secondary Section
  • Student help regarding household needs
  • Student data documentation and recording
  • Awareness campaign on school enrolment with the collaboration of Primary and Secondary Sections
  • Identify Student’s welfare and assign them to the appropriate section
  • Student’s scholarship for local and external with the collaboration of REO
  • Identify special needs students and inform the relevant department (Inclusive Department)
  • Students’ progress, drawbacks, and learning performances were appropriate
  • Provide Guiding and counseling
  • Provide student mentoring – individual or groups
  • Reduce school dropouts
  • Identify school health issues and inform the relevant department (Human Wellbeing)
  • Do other duties delegate to him/her by the Director?