Education Officer, NOB, Fixed Term (5 positions), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 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, knowledge.

How can you make a difference?

The Education Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for education programmes/projects within the Country Programme from development planning to delivery of results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting.

Position 1 – Dhaka, Education Officer

This Education Officer (NOB) will support the Bangladesh Learning Assessment in the ongoing reforms, revision of Education Policy and adoption of the new Education Act. Additionally, the post will support the Primary Education Board and Secondary Boards to conduct exams, and the process of Bangladesh's participation in PISA and other international standards.

Position 2 – Dhaka, Education Officer

This Education Officer (NOB) post is in line with the strategic shifts to increase upstream support to the national government agencies to strengthen institutional capacity for delivering quality education services with a minimal service delivery work. This post will support the implementation of the overall direction of national level support for early learning and school readiness through the PEDP4 and relevant PPE institutions.

Position 3 – Dhaka, Education Officer

This Education Officer (NOB) will contribute to the co-leading of the Education cluster and is responsible for coordination and operationalizing the activities of the education cluster at the national level. It also contributes to the implementation of a resilience programme to withstand economic and climate-related shocks and stressors.

Position 4 – Dhaka, Education Officer

This Education Officer (NOB) will provide support for the education and skills for ‘in and out of school’ adolescents that have emerged as an important and critical component to advance these national plans, goals and priorities. As this is a comparatively new area of work, extensive support and work is needed with the Directorates and government agencies to position UNICEF to achieve its mandate, strategies, and work process, and therefore this position is critical to advance these national plans, goals and priorities.

Position 5 – Dhaka, Education Officer

This Education Officer (NOB) will provide support in innovating, demonstrating, scaling-up and institutionalizing OOSC and adolescent intervention through relevant ministries and directorates along with catch up, remedial programs considering the COVID-19 context, are some of the critical areas that the post will directly support. The incumbent will work in collaboration with the government and other implementation agencies such as the BNFE and DSHE.

Major Duties and Tasks:

1. Support to programme development and planning
2. Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results
3. Technical and operational support to programme implementation
4. Networking and partnership building
5. Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

For detailed job responsibilities, please access the job description below:

JD - NOB Education Officer FT Dhaka.pdf

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

• A university degree in one of the following fields is required: education, psychology, sociology or another relevant technical field.
• A minimum of two years of professional experience in programme planning, management, and/or research in education is required.
• Experience working in a developing country is considered as an asset.
• Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language or 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).

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

Core Competencies

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (1)
• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Drives to achieve impactful results (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

Click here to learn more about UNICEF’s values and competencies.

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:

UNICEF does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.

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.