Curriculum Design Consultant, Abuja, Nigeria, 40 Days (WFH)

Consultant Communications & PR

Overview

Design and adapt curriculum for polytechnics on child rights.

You have:

• Minimum of eight years of experience in teaching at the university level, development and knowledge management work.
• Experience in designing curriculum for tertiary institutions required.
• A solid knowledge and understanding of child/human rights and international development environment.
• Knowledge of the Convention on the rights of the child and Child Rights Act desirable.
• Facilitation skills required.
• Good knowledge and experience with social and development issues.
• Ability to deliver timely and high-quality products under tight deadlines.
• Good interpersonal skills, including initiative, flexibility, and patience.
• Organizational and coordination skills.
• The ability to work independently and meet tight deadlines to deliver products on time.
• Experience with UNICEF is desirable.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.

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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, Hope

How can you make a difference?

The CAP Section in UNICEF Nigeria Country Office is seeking to hire a qualified consultant to design a general studies curriculum and repurpose the current Child Rights Reporting curriculum for use in polytechnics in Nigeria. The general studies curriculum will apply to all students in the polytechnic while the repurposed Child Rights Reporting curriculum will apply to students of mass communication.

Key Deliverables

• Design a new curriculum on child rights to improve the understanding of polytechnic students of child rights issues.
• Review, revise, and adapt the current curriculum on child rights reporting for mass communication students in the universities in Nigeria to suit the needs of polytechnic students.
• Train teachers of participating polytechnics on how to use the curricula.

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

• Minimum of eight years of experience in teaching at the university level, development and knowledge management work.
• Experience in designing curriculum for tertiary institutions required
• A solid knowledge and understanding of the child/human rights and international development environment.
• Knowledge of the Convention on the rights of the child and Child Rights Act desirable.
• Facilitation skills required
• Good knowledge and experience with social and development issues
• Ability to deliver timely and high-quality products under tight deadlines.
• Good interpersonal skills, including initiative, flexibility, and patience.
• Organizational and coordination skills.
• The ability to work independently and meet tight deadlines to deliver products on time;
• Experience with UNICEF is desirable
• Fluency in written and spoken English

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.

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