Education Officer, NOB, Dhaka, Bangladesh #564491 (For Bangladeshi Nationals Only)

Contract

This is a NO-2 contract. This kind of contract is known as National Professional Officers. It is normally only for nationals. It's a staff contract. More about NO-2 contracts.

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, commitment.

How can you make a difference?

Under the supervision of the Education Manager, the Education Officer based in Dhaka provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance for the management of the secondary education, accelerated non-formal education and skilling programmes/projects. The Education officer undertakes a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, planning, executing, managing, implementing, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting to delivery of results.

The TA Education Officer is required to join the education section team to minimize the gap in carrying out the key interventions during August 2023 to July 2024 on secondary education, accelerated non-formal education and skill development programmes due to maternity leave of the key Education Officers and addition of new projects, such as, the one with Bureau of Non-Formal Education (BNFE) on skill-focused literacy programme for out of school adolescents.

Major duties and responsibilities:

- Support to programme development and planning

- Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results.

- Technical and operational support to programme implementation

- Networking and partnership building

- Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

Please see attached TOR for details:TOR - Education Officer DHK.pdf

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

- A university degree in one of the fields is required: education, psychology, sociology, development studies or any other relevant technical field.

• A minimum of two years of professional experience in programme planning, management in education and research in education is required.

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

• Experience in the areas of secondary education, accelerated non-formal education and skill development programmes for out of school children / adolescents is an advantage.

• Fluency in Bangla and English is required.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3) Drive to achieve results for impact (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others. [the 8th competency (Nurtures, leads and manages people) for supervisory role]

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 does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. The complete vacancy announcements can be reviewed via UNICEF Careers website at https://jobs.unicef.org/en-us/listing/

Internal candidates may be given preference over external candidates. The term "Internal" refers to all staff members with fixed term, continuing or permanent appointments.

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