Consultancy Title: Maths, English and Arabic, Science, Humanities and Arts Subject consultants (11.5 Months)

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, learning

The Jordan Country Office is supporting the Government of Jordan to recover children’s learning during and post COVID19. UNICEF is providing high quality technical assistance to the Ministry of Education to design continuous professional develop, and to develop learning materials that will enable teachers to support children’s learning during and after school closures. This includes the review of the first year of Learning Bridges, a national blended learning program for Grade 4 to Grade 9, to update the content and delivery for the 2021/2022 academic year. It also includes preparing various courses for teacher professional development; one of National Standards Awareness, and another to develop teacher skills in blended learning called ‘Teachers for the Futures’.

In addition, the JCO is redesigning the Learning Support Service delivered through 140 Makani community centres. Originally designed to support Syrian children that were out of school, the program now needs to adapt to provide learning support for in-school children. As part of that refresh the issue of low achievement in reading will be addressed through a competency based reading recovery programme and grade level based mathematics and Arabic literacy will be addressed by building on MOE identified critical concepts in these subjects and providing an engaging cross curricular approach through use of humanities and arts integrating life skills and values based education.

The above deliverables are being developed by an international consultancy firm, the Education Development Trust. For each deliverable there are multiple lessons plans to be developed, reviewed by MOE, feedback incorporated and then the final products quality assured and approve by UNICEF. It will not be possible for the Education Specialist in the Education Section to undertake this function, due to the volume and specialist nature of the products. To ensure that the international consultancy firm is delivering to a high standard and responding to the needs of the Ministry of Education, four national subject specialists will be hired by UNICEF. The Education Specialist will ensure that the four national subject consultants are performing this task, providing technical oversight and direction.

The consultant will have the technical expertise to provide support to the consultancy company to ensure that resources are appropriately contextualized and built on Jordan curriculum and the critical learning outcomes developed by the Ministry of Education. Additionally, they will have a good understanding of the teaching of the subject specialist, including understanding different pedagogical methods, so that they are able to provide feedback to the consultancy firm on lesson plans, and the content of teacher professional development courses.

When necessary ,the consultant will provide translation to allow smooth communication between international UNICEF staff and consultants with project stakeholders. The consultant will be accountable for their own work plan and track progress of the above activities producing timely and accurate reporting as required by UNICEF.

How can you make a difference?

Specific tasks and responsibilities include:

• Review and write the grade 6 and grade 8 projects - semester 1 with support from EDT.
• Develop new projects for Grade 10 with support from EDT With support from EDT prepare one of three parts of the LB training focused on the implementation of LB
• Review and strengthen the Learning Bridges online noticeboards (Padlet) for Grade 4 to 9 for Semester 1 with relevant subject content

• Follow the National Teacher Professional standards and course exemplification • Lead on development of subject specific exemplification of the standards course based on the lesson content provided by EDT.

  • This will involve contracting and technically supporting the media production team on producing classroom videos.

  • Provide technical feedback to Education Development Trust in the development of the National Standards Awareness course

  • Prepare the subject specific examples to be included in Standards Awareness Course (i.e. Arabic, maths, English, Science)

• Review and write the grade 6 and grade 8 projects - semester 2 with support from EDT.
• Develop new projects for Grade 10 with support from EDT
• Review and strengthen the Learning Bridges online noticeboards (Padlet) for Grade 4 to 9 for Semester 1 and 2 for relevant subject content
• Quality assure implementation of lesson plans developed for Learning Support Service
• Lead on the development of subject specific exemplification for the Teacher for the Future course based on the content provided by EDT. This will involve contracting and technically supporting the media production team on producing classroom videos

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Education: A University degree in either Science, Maths, English, or Arabic

Experience****:

Essential

• At least 10 years as a teacher and 3 years providing professional development for teachers.

• Proven evidence of developing teacher resources including lesson plans

• Experience of working within the Jordan education system

• Familiarity with how teacher standards work

Desirable

• Experience of working in an education setting other than Jordan

• Experience working with government in a developing or middle-income country context.

• Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.

Language: Fluency in Arabic and English

EVALUATION PROCESS:

Qualified candidates are requested to submit:

1. Cover letter/application.
2. Financial quote as lump sum for professional fees, and lump sum for travel/administrative/subsistence, if applicable.
3. CV.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

Child Safeguarding remarks

This position is not considered an elevated risk role. However, UNICEF reserves the right to conduct further vetting/ assessment within the scope of child safeguarding as appropriate.