Education Cluster Coordinator, P-3, Fixed-Term, Kinshasa, DRC (Open for non-DRC applicants only)

Contract

This is a P-3 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 5 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 120,483 USD and 157,764 USD.

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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, a champion

UNICEF has been achieving important progress on education, child rights, nutrition, and WASH in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Challenges remain, though, and in spite of its vast physical size and limitless natural resources, the DRC poses a complex operational environment in terms of infrastructure challenges. Child poverty is widespread, and according to a recent UNICEF study, 80 percent of children aged zero to 15 years old face at least two major deprivations. Join our team and help tackle these issues, making sure every child has a champion.

The cluster approach ensures clear leadership, predictability and accountability in international responses to humanitarian emergencies by clarifying the division of labour among organizations and better defining their roles and responsibilities within the different sectors of the response. It aims to make the international humanitarian community better organised and more accountable and professional, so that it can be a better partner for the affected people, host governments, local authorities, local civil society and resourcing partners.

How can you make a difference?

On behalf of UNICEF, the Country Lead Agency for the Education Cluster, and in support of the Government, the purpose of this post is to provide leadership and facilitate the processes that will ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, and effective response by participants in the DRC Education Cluster.

Under the guidance and general supervision of the Emergency section chief (Level 5) and zwith technical linkages with the Education section, the Education Cluster Coordinator ensures the management of the DRC national education cluster.

• Ensure appropriate coordination between all Education humanitarian partners (national and international NGOs, the ICRC/International Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement, etc ...), through establishment/maintenance of appropriate coordination mechanisms at the national and local level; Ensure that education coordination mechanisms are adapted over time
• Strengthen pre-existing sectoral coordination through increased predictability and accountability; Ensure effective links between Education cluster at national level and eduation cluster in the hubs; Support Education clusters in Hubs in coordination of Education partners, including by building capacities/mentoring designated hub cluster coordinators
• Effectively use and transfer information to, from and between cluster participants and other stakeholders; Maintain information on all current and potential education partners, their capacities and areas of work (including Who, What, Where and by When).
• Ensure predictable Education in Emergency action by developing agreed Education needs and gaps analysis involving all relevant partners and ensuring that these are adequately reflected in the overall country strategies including the Humanitarian Needs Overview and Hubs Operational Plans.
• Ensure that Education responses are in line with existing policy guidance, technical standards, and relevant Government policies;
• Ensure adequate monitoring mechanisms are in place (with OCHA support) to review impact of Education interventions and progress against response plans. This specifically needs to include an analytical interpretation of best available information in order to benchmark progress of the emergency response over time.
• Identify key Education in Emergency advocacy issues, including resource requirements, and develop advocacy note/presentation.
• Advocate for donors to fund priority Education activities (including Education cluster coordination) while at the same time encouraging Eduation actors to mobilize resources for their activities through their usual channels.
• Participate in inter-agency discussions on education, representing the interest of the Education Cluster in discussions with the Humanitarian Coordinator as well as donors on prioritization, resource mobilization and advocacy.
• Interact with other clusters humanitarian actors, government counterparts, and relevant authorities for operational planning, engagement, and active contribution of operational partners.
• Organize and implement capacity building initiatives for partners at national and sub-national level to enhance the competencies of partners to deliver education in emergencies response.Participate in strategic programme discussions on education program. Formulate, design and prepare programme proposals for education, including in emergencies preparedness and response ensuring alignment with the DRC country program document, Humanitarian Action for Children and Humanitarian Response Plan.

Qualification of Successful Candidate

Education:

An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: education, economics, or Social Sciences fields relevant to international development.

Experience:

A minimum of five years of professional experience in education programme planning and/or education coordination emergency contexts.

Strong analytical, organizational and writing skills required. Experience in cluster coordination required

Experience working in complex crises and fragile states desirable.

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

Language Requirements:

Fluency in French and English is required. Knowledge of local language of the duty station is considered as an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies of Nurtures, Leads and Manages People, Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness, Works Collaboratively with others, Builds and Maintains Partnerships, Innovates and Embraces Change, Thinks and Acts Strategically, Drives to achieve impactful results, and Manages ambiguity and complexity.

View our competency framework at

http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

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.

Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

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.

* Employment is conditional upon receipt of medical clearance, any clearance required, the grant of a visa, and completion of any other pre-employment criteria that UNICEF may establish. Candidates may not be further considered or offers of employment may be withdrawn if these conditions are unlikely to be met before the date for commencement of service.