External Outreach: Education in Emergency Coordinator P3/NOC, Ebola Response Rosters, Eastern and Southern Africa Region

Mid Senior Teaching & Training Crisis & Emergency Response Programme & Policy

Overview

Lead education initiatives for UNICEF's emergency response to Ebola outbreaks.

You have:

• Advanced University degree in Education, Social Sciences, Sociology, Psychology or related fields.
• At least 5 years of progressively responsible professional experience in education in emergency programs.
• Field level experience in emergency response preferred, knowledge of INEE Minimum Standards highly desirable.
• Fluency in verbal and written English or French, knowledge of another UN language or local language is an asset.

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. More about P-3 contracts and their salaries.

Seeking external candidates only

Contract Type: Temporary Appointment (TA) or Consultancy

Duration: 3 months to 364 days

Location: Countries based in Eastern and Southern Africa

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, hope

Since two years, countries in the ESA region have experienced an alarming increase in the number of new, or re-emerging humanitarian emergencies, including public health (including Ebola, Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever, yellow fever, wild poliovirus, and Cholera), armed conflicts and natural disasters emergencies.

An outbreak of Sudan Ebola Virus (SDV) started in September 2022 and spread to 9 districts in Uganda, elevating the risk for cross border spread to neighboring countries (Tanzania, Rwanda, South-Sudan, Burundi, Kenya and DR Congo).

UNICEF ESAR has prioritized the critical need to support countries to rapidly scale up capacity to prevent, mitigate, and manage ongoing and anticipated emergencies as well as to enhance capacity for preparedness and response to these emergencies.

Purpose

The purpose of this external announcement is to attract suitable Education in Emergency Coordinator candidates interested in working in any of the countries within UNICEF's East and Southern Africa region to respond to Ebola outbreaks for the next 36 months.

The countries within each region are listed on the following website: Where we work | UNICEF

How can you make a difference?

Key activities & duties

Under the overall guidance of the Chief Basic Education and Adolescent Development and in close collaboration with the Field Coordinators and UNICEF Education in Emergency Focal Point:

Coordination

• Operationalizes its support to MOH, Ministry of Education and Sports, District Education Offices and other sector Ministries supporting Ebola preparedness and response
• Support government ministries and implementing partners in streamlining planning, implementation and coordination of EVD response interventions

Technical Support

• Providing technical support to District Education Offices and partners in engaged in EVD education in schools and communities
• Support development/revision or development of guidelines, tools and resources for EVD response based on national policies and standard
• Participate in development and piloting of innovative technologies to improve preparedness and response efforts.

Monitoring Reporting

• Monitor the situation of children in schools with the aim of identifying gaps and provide reports on the overall achievement of UNICEF EVD response, challenges and lessons
• Contribute to research, studies and evidence generation to inform preparedness and response efforts.
• Support development of necessary tools for data collection and analysis to guide response interventions

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

Education-

• Advanced University degree in one of the following fields: Education, Social Sciences, Sociology, Psychology or other related disciplines.

Work Experience-

• At least 5 years of progressively responsible professional work experience at the national and international levels in development, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation of education in emergency programmes.
• Field level experience in emergency response and experience in responding to disease outbreaks is preferred. Knowledge of Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) Minimum Standards highly desirable.

Language Requirement:-

• Fluency in verbal and written English or French (depending on the country office's official language). Knowledge of another UN language 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: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

• 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)
• Drive to achieve impactful results (1)

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.

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:

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.

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Added 3 years ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: unicef.org