Education Specialist – Adolescent Empowerment & Life Skills, P3

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 118,393 USD and 155,027 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, empowerment

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How can you make a difference?

Overall Purpose of the Assignment

The Specialist will work to strengthen national systems for evidence-based planning, management and delivery of education services around adolescent empowerment, in particular life skills and ender based violence. They will contribute to achievement of results according to plans, allocation of funding, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM) and UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance and accountability framework. The Specialist will provide technical support in the establishment and roll out of education life skills and adolescent empowerment strategies through education, with the other education output leads and other stakeholders, to collectively track progress of the UNICEF Education Programme towards the Education Sector Plan (2022-2026), the SDGs and other international commitments for children. The Specialist will support the development of national capacities for education system’s strengthening for integrating adolescent and life skills focus in education.

The Specialist will also ensure that the UNICEF Country Office has useful, valid and reliable information on the situation of education focusing on quality, access, and equity and the performance of UNICEF and government-supported education programmes including their relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability, and in emergency contexts, their coverage, coordination and coherence.

Key Functions, Accountabilities and Related Duties/tasks

Summary of Key Functions/Accountabilities:

Strengthening systems for life skills education programme development and planning

Life skills education 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 detailed information. ToR - Education Specialist.pdf

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

• Advanced university degree in education, social sciences, statistics, economics, planning, development, or related fields.
• A minimum of five years of relevant professional work experience in the education sector including in education programming, development, implementation and monitoring and evaluation.
• Experience in Education in emergency programming, including disaster risk reduction and emergency preparedness planning.
• Experience working in a developing country considered is an asset
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language or local language is an asset.

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.

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.

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

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 are also 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.

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