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 104,509 USD and 136,846 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, Learning!

The Libya country office has a new Country Programme Document for 2023-2025. The Education priorities are two-fold: Firstly, supporting the MoE in education system strengthening, specifically in key departments including curriculum, teacher education, and EMIS, including policy and strategy. The second priority is to strengthen UNICEF’s downstream activities particularly with data collection (for EMIS), teacher education, and access and quality of learning for children in formal education as well as Out of School Children (OOSC). UNICEF will work in close collaboration with the MoE to develop policies and programmes for teacher professional learning, embedding life skills into the curriculum and promoting positive learning environments in classrooms. UNICEF will also train teachers in areas including pedagogy and inclusive education. UNICEF has an education programme for Out of School Children, particularly for migrants and refugees in community centers, called Baity centers. The programme provides basic literacy and numeracy programmes, life-skills programmes, supports families to enroll children in school, and provides child protection services.

How can you make a difference?

Under the direct supervision of the Chief of Education, the Education Specialist will contribute to both upstream system strengthening activities and downstream implementation activities of the education programme in UNICEF Libya Country Office. In particular, the education specialist will lead all the downstream education activities, particularly for OOSC. This includes leading the strategy and implementation of the education programmes in the Baity centres, including a review and update of the education programme in the Baity centres as well as overall coordination of the Baity centres and all partners. The education specialist will also lead the coordination of the education sector, especially the iNGOs and NGOs working in education in Libya. The education specialist will also oversee the UNICEF’s education programmes on inclusivity, youth and gender. It is vital that the education specialist has deep education knowledge and experience, particularly in leading work with OOSC. The education specialist will bring this deep knowledge and provide specialist technical expertise to support and guide the MoE and other stakeholders and partners in progressing the access and quality of learning for all children in Libya.

Key functions, accountabilities, and related duties/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

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, economics, psychology, sociology, or another relevant technical field.

Experience:

• A minimum of five years of professional experience in programme planning, management, and/or research in education is required.
• Experience of working in a developing country , particularly in conflict or post conflict environment is considered as an asset.
• Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.
• Experience in working with OOSC programmes, development of accelerated learning programmes and monitoring OOSC programmes is highly preferred.
• Experience in working in sector coordination roles is an asset.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of Arabic is highly desirable.

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: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2)
• Works Collaboratively with others (2)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
• Drive to achieve impactful results (2)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (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 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.