Education Specialist (Sector Coordination), P3, Ankara Turkiye, 364 days

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 104,061 USD and 136,259 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.

Defending children's rights throughout their lives requires a global presence, aiming to produce results and understand their effects. UNICEF believes all children have a right to survive, thrive and fulfil their potential to the benefit of a better world.

Turkey remains home to the largest registered refugee population in the world. Over 4 million refugees and asylum-seekers are registered in Turkey, of whom nearly 1.7 million are children. While the Government continues to lead the overall crisis response and remains the largest provider of humanitarian aid to Syrians as well as other groups, the overall goal of UNICEF is to reduce the equity gaps affecting the most vulnerable boys and girls.

How can you make a difference?

Under the guidance and general supervision of the Education Manager P4, the Sector Coordinator provides leadership and facilitates the process that will ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent and effective response by the different stakeholders of the education sector in Turkey under the overall umbrella of the 3RP. Additionally, the sector coordinator will support discussions on the overall 3RP coordination transition in line with discussions under 3RP related to the overall 3RP monitoring and reporting frameworks and its interaction with other relevant inter-agency programmatic frameworks, most notably the UNSDCF.Furthermore, the sector coordinator will oversee the education sector and intra-UNICEF sectoral coordination under the overall umbrella of the Ukraine crisis response in the country, the earthquake response, and other emergencies.

Coordination of Education Sector Working Group

• Ensure and facilitate appropriate coordination with national authorities. This will involve liaising and working with relevant counterparts to support coordination mechanisms including but not limited to the 3RP umbrella
• Strengthen sectoral coordination through increased predictability and accountability; Ensure effective links between Education Sector Working Group at national level and Education working groups at sub-national level (Hubs: Marmara Region, West Turkey and South East Turkey)
• Support Education working groups in Hubs in coordination of Education partners, including by building capacities/mentoring designated Hub working group coordinators
• Support Education Sector Working Group activities for other emergency responses, including the influx of Afghani and Ukrainian displaced populations and the recent earthquakes in Turkey
• Identify and establish contact with all other relevant education stakeholders, including national and international organizations, and representatives of affected populations. Invite these stakeholders to participate as partners in the work of the sector as appropriate
• Convene and facilitate meetings of the sector (and/or joint meetings with other sectors), increasing or reducing their frequency as needed
• Ensure that sector meetings are well-managed and action and results-oriented, with decisions, clearly communicated to relevant sector partners and stakeholders. Ensure that meetings are managed in line with the Principles of Partnership
• Establish and manage temporary technical working groups for the undertaking of specific tasks as identified by ESWG/sector members and in line with Inter-Agency priorities for all relevant emergencies
• Setting concrete annual objectives for the various education coordination structures and monitoring progress against them.
• Provide technical input and take the lead as appropriate in the review of the current 3RP monitoring and reporting system and coordination structures (including its overall efficiency, effectiveness, fit for purpose and resourcing concerning the changing context in Turkey and determining recommendations and roadmap for change.

Needs analysis, planning and strategy development

• Develop Education sector response and action plan that supports the realization of strategic priorities set under 3RP as well as other emergencies, and ensure that these are aligned with UNICEF country programme strategies and Humanitarian Response Plans, including HAC/Flash Appeal and others
• Provide strategic guidance in the planning and implementation of the education sector response and relevant technical components in line with the 3RP process and other relevant processes for different emergencies (e.g. – OCHA for earthquake response)
• Contribute to the development of the Education Sector Strategy under 3RP and other emergencies, ensuring that key findings from available needs assessments, gap identification and cross-cutting issues (such as protection, gender and social cohesion) are reflected.
• Ensure that education is included and prioritized in all multi-sector assessments and reports.

Advocacy and resource mobilization

• Identify key Education sector advocacy issues, including resource requirements, and develop advocacy messages accordingly in line with Inter-Agency advocacy strategy and related documents
• Contribute to key messages to broader UNICEF and inter-agency advocacy initiatives, most notably those within the frameworks of the UNICEF Country Programme Document, 3RP (Refugee Regional Resilience Plan)
• Advocate for donors to fund priority Education sector activities.
• Work closely with Education Sector Working Group (ESWG)/sector members and sub-ESWG coordinators to address issues reported. Issues can be tackled on the provincial level and central level.

Knowledge management and capacity building

• Apply and introduce innovative approaches and good practices to assess the technical capacity of ESWG/sector members and use the results to develop a capacity development plan to support the overall standardization and quality of the education sector response.
• In close collaboration with the Information Management (IM) officer, ensure quality and timely data is available to inform strategic decision-making relevant to the sector.
• Work closely with the IM officer to produce needs assessment and gap analysis (within the sector and in collaboration with other 3RP sectors) and analysis to identify and address (emerging) gaps, obstacles, duplication, and cross-cutting issues.
• Effectively use and transfer information to, from and between ESWG/sector members and other stakeholders; Maintain information on all current and potential education partners, their capacities and areas of work (including ActivityInfo and 4Ws: Who, What, Where and by When)
• Ensure that information is shared amongst ESWG/sector members and that information from other sectors is made available to ESWG members to improve planning, integration and implementation.
• Mentor and reinforce capacities of ESWG/sector coordinators in the hubs to enhance the quality of ESWG/sector coordination at the sub-country level.

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

• An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: education, economics, psychology, sociology, or another relevant technical field.

• Minimum of five years of professional experience in education programme planning and/or education coordination in emergencies.

  Strong analytical, organizational and writing skills required.

  Experience in education cluster/sector coordination required

  Experience working in complex and protracted contexts is desirable.

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

• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a 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.

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.