Education Sub Cluster Coordinator, P3, TA, 364 days, Gaza, State of Palestine

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 74,649 USD and 97,747 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

UNICEF in the State of Palestine works to uphold the rights of children to access services and protection, from early childhood through adolescence. Our objective is to ensure that every child in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, irrespective of background or circumstance, has an equal chance to fulfil their potential. We are working for every child and young person in the State of Palestine.

How can you make a difference?

Under the guidance and general supervision of the Senior Emergency Coordinator (P-5) and in consultation with the national Education cluster coordinator, the Education sub cluster co-coordinator for Gaza works in close collaboration with the Education cluster team and partners to support the effective and efficient education in emergencies response in Gaza.

They will facilitate the processes that will ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, and effective response by participants in the sub-national Cluster that is accountable to those who are affected by the emergency. In their effort to provide an efficient and effective response to the humanitarian crisis, the Education Specialist Cluster is responsible for building relationships with stakeholders, for securing the overall coordination of education cluster responses and for ensuring inter-sectoral collaboration at the sub-national level and for ensuring adequate coordination with the national level.

The post holder has joint responsibility with the Cluster Lead Agency, resourcing partners and all cluster participants at the national and sub-national level for the efficient management and functioning of the Education Cluster including but not limited to:

• Support the Gaza sub-cluster coordinator in maintaining an appropriate humanitarian coordination mechanism;
• Identify and contact relevant stakeholders including national/sub-national authorities, national and international organizations and representatives of affected populations in Gaza.
• Strengthen pre-existing sectoral coordination through increased predictability and accountability;
• Ensure appropriate distribution of responsibilities amongst the cluster partners, with designated focal points and working groups for specific issues as necessary.
• Ensure complementarity of partner actions, avoiding duplication and gaps;
• Ensure adequate resources are mobilized and are equitably allocated for the effective functioning of the cluster and its response;
• Effective and comprehensive integration of relevant cross-cutting issues, including age, gender, disability inclusion;
• Effectively use and transfer information to, from and between cluster participants and other stakeholders and contribute towards cluster’s analysis and management of information, identification of gaps and response strategies.
• Maintain appropriate inter and intra-cluster coordination mechanisms, humanitarian actors, government counterparts, and relevant authorities for operational planning, engagement and active contribution of operational partners, in line with the SoP cluster coordination strategies
• Provide leadership and direction to sub-cluster partners in developing and submitting proposals for inclusion in the HPC, Flash Appeals, CERF, HF and such other funding processes, in line with the agreed national level SoP strategic objectives and priorities for the Education response.
• Ensure that the sub-cluster partners use common and agreed standards and tools for information and data management including needs assessment and monitoring.
• Facilitate joint, intra-cluster and/or education needs assessments and analyses with a focus on Gaza.
• Identify core advocacy concerns for the cluster/sector and contribute the key messages to the broader advocacy initiatives of the HC and other actors in scope with UNICEF policies.
• Be accountable to the affected population through effective and inclusive consultative and feedback mechanisms;
• Monitor performance of the core cluster functions;
• Ensure that there is effective communication, reporting, engagement and coordination with the national Education cluster coordination team, as well as coherence between operational plans, strategies and approaches

to view the full job description JDs sub-cluster coordinator.pdf

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, pedagogy, psychology, sociology, international development, management social sciences or another relevant technical field.
• A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in education programme planning, coordination and management, and/or research is required. Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization, or in cluster coordination, is considered an asset.
• Experience of working in the humanitarian coordination system is desirable.
• Experience of working in a senior management role or in cluster coordination within a complex country programme in an emergency response or protracted crisis, including experience in first phase emergency response, is desirable.
• Experience in effective management of human resources/teams in high stress/risk environments is an advantage.
• Experience in humanitarian contexts is required with experience in development contexts an added advantage.
• Fluency in English and the official UN language of the duty station are required. Knowledge of Arabic is considered an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, 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. (8) Nurtures, leads and manages people

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.

Remarks:

This position is not considered an elevated risk role. However, UNICEF reserves the right to conduct further vetting/assessment within the scope of child safeguarding as appropriate.

UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable candidates are encouraged to apply.

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). Should you be selected for a position with UNICEF, you either must be inoculated as required or receive a medical exemption from the relevant department of the UN. Otherwise, the selection will be cancelled.

Special Remarks: In the current evolving emergency context, this position will be based in Gaza where medical facilities have been negatively affected and individual chronic and/or serious medical conditions cannot be adequately addressed.

All selected candidates will 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.

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.

Eligible UNICEF International Professional (IP) Staff Members on fixed-term, continuing or permanent contracts applying to a Temporary Appointment, which is dedicated to L3 (or L2) Response, may be able to retain a lien and their fixed-term entitlements. The conditions of the temporary assignment will vary depending on the status of their post and their current tour of duty, and relocation entitlements may be limited as per the relevant policies.