Education Manager Cluster (Sector Crd), P4, Beirut, Lebanon, PN, Fixed-term Appointment

Contract

This is a P-4 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 7 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 125,812 USD and 162,208 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, education

UNICEF started to work in Lebanon in 1948 and established its office in 1950. For more than 70 years we’ve been working closely with the Government of Lebanon, other UN agencies, international and local NGOs, universities, and more than 100 partners to meet the needs of disadvantaged children in Lebanon. Responding to life-saving needs and ensuring equal access to quality public services, the impact of our work is felt in every aspect and every sphere of society. To learn more about our work, please refer to: https://www.unicef.org/lebanon/what-we-do

How can you make a difference?

The position forms part of the UNICEF Lebanon’s scale up plan to respond to the ongoing situation In Lebanon, where there has been a significant increase in poverty and vulnerability as a consequence of the deepening economic crisis, exacerbated by COVID-19 situation. UNICEF Lebanon is scaling up its respond to emerging needs of children and women in this context, through immediate emergency response, expansion of cooperation program while strengthening the national capacity in the areas of Education, Social Protection, Nutrition, Health, WASH and Protection, and strong leadership in sector coordination.

In such a fluid environment, a coherent, coordinated, and complementary education response is needed. Within the national framework there has to be the immediate emergency response, which has to lead into a longer-term learning framework for all children. With increasing number of children not able to afford private education and private schools significantly affected by economic crisis, provision of services has fallen to both the national state institutions and the international community who are working through a large number of non- governmental organizations. The legal and regulatory frameworks for managing the response have had to be developed and are in many cases still being adjusted.

In order to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of the response it is essential that there are mechanisms in place to ensure horizontal and vertical information flows between regional, national, state and non state actors; to direct and support the management of shifts from humanitarian to resilience and development; to ensure coherence and to build the evidence base to better inform the policy and strategic planning processes.

Under the overall direction and guidance of the Chief of Field Operations, P5, the Education Manager Cluster/ Sector Coordinator will provide leadership and representation of the Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group. They will facilitate the processes that will ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, and effective response by participants in the Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group that is accountable to those who are affected by the emergency. In their effort to provide an efficient and effective response to the humanitarian crisis, the Education Manager Cluster/ Sector Coordinator is responsible for building relationships with stakeholders, for securing the overall coordination of sectoral responses and for ensuring inter-sectoral collaboration.

The post holder is responsible for providing predictable, timely and strategic leadership and representation for the Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group to ensure a timely and effective Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group response. The post holder is responsible for leading multiple stakeholders, beyond their immediate team of direct reports, to work collectively towards the realization of a shared goal based on evidence in a complex humanitarian environment.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

1. Coordination, representation and leadership
2. Needs assessment and analysis
3. Strategic response planning
4. Resource mobilization and advocacy
5. Implementation and monitoring
6. Operational peer review and evaluation
7. Accountability to affected populations
8. Strengthen national and local capacity

For further information on the JD please click here P4, Education Manager Cluster (Sec Cord), FT, PN# 125459, JD.docx

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

Education: An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: education, pedagogy, psychology, sociology, international development, management, social sciences or another relevant technical field.

Experience:

• A minimum of 8 years of professional experience in humanitarian coordination including education programme planning, coordination and management and/ or research is required with experience at international level. Experience (minimum of two years) in Emergency Education and/or Education Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group coordination is required.
• Relevant experience in programme management in humanitarian coordination in a UN system agency or organization is considered an asset.
• Experience of working in a senior management role or in cluster coordination within a complex country programme in an emergency response or protracted crisis, including experience in first phase emergency response, is strongly desirable.
• Experience in effective leadership and management of teams to deliver results in high stress/risk environments is desirable.
• Experience in humanitarian contexts is required with experience in developing contexts an added advantage.

Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of Arabic is highly desirable. Knowledge of other UN languages is considered an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability (CRITA) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

Core Competencies

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (3)
• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (3)
• Works Collaboratively with Others (3)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (3)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (3)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (3)
• Drives to Achieve Impactful Results (3)
• Manages Ambiguity and Complexity (3)

Coordination Competencies

• Applies Humanitarian Principles, Standards and Guidelines (2)
• Applies Key EiE Concepts and Tools (2)
• Manages Education Programmes (2)
• Operates Safely and Securely (2)
• Demonstrates Commitment to a Coordinated Response (2)
• Promotes Cooperation and Collaboration (2)
• Demonstrates Accountability (2)
• Promotes Inclusion (2)
• Provides Influential and Strategic Leadership (2)
• Analyses and Communicates Information (2)
• Supports Resource Mobilization (2)
• Advocates for Improved Educational Outcomes (2)
• Monitors the Response (2)
• Strengthens National Capacity to Respond and Lead (2)

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

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 is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. 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

UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable female candidates from industrial countries are encouraged to apply.

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.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2

(Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.