Programme Manager, Education Cannot Wait (ECW), P4, FT, East Jerusalem, State of Palestine

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This is a P-4 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 7 years of experience, depending on education.

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The salary for this job should be between 150,010 USD and 193,406 USD.

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For every child, an Education

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

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How can you make a difference?

The Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Programme Manager for the Multi-Year Resilience Programme for Palestine is based in the UNICEF Palestine Office, in East Jerusalem. The Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Programme Manager reports to the Deputy Representative, and is responsible for the Programme Management Unit which administers the ECW investment for Palestine (US$4 million for 2022) which involves the participation of UNDP, UNRWA, UNESCO and Save the Children. The selected staff will be offered a 1 year FT contract.

1. Managerial leadership

• Position the MYRP effectively within the Education Sector infrastructure, ensuring alignment between different frameworks and actors working in Education notably, Education Sector Working Group, Education in Emergencies Working Group, Education Cluster, ECW governance structure and the UNICEF Education Programme.
• Maintain effective relations with sub-grantees/recipients of ECW investments to ensure smooth implementation and management of activities.
• Establish clear individual performance objectives, goals and timelines; and provide timely guidance to enable the ECW/MYRP Programme Management Unit to perform its duties responsibly and efficiently. Plan and ensure timely performance management and assessment of the team.
• Supervise team members by providing them with clear objectives, goals, direction, and guidance to enable them to perform their duties responsibly, effectively and efficiently.
• Communicate progress, bottlenecks and issues arising with the implementation of the ECW in a timely manner to UNICEF senior management.

2. Programme development and planning

• Establish the ECW annual work plans with the recipients of ECW funding, and set priorities and targets in line with the overall MYRP, ensuring consistency with the Education Sector Strategy and the Humanitarian Response Plan;
• Provide technical guidance and operational support to ensure that current comprehensive and evidence-based data are available to guide MYRP’s strategic policy advocacy, strategies and interventions whilst establishing programme priorities, strategies, and implementation plans.
• Ensure synergy, integration, coherence, and harmonization of annual plans and projects with sector strategies and priorities, donors’ development strategies and policies, national priorities, and UN System development interventions and initiatives.
• Keep abreast of national, regional and international development priorities on education to leverage the MYRP with donors, the national government, civil society partners and communities to advocate and promote MYRP initiatives.

3. Programme and grant management, monitoring and quality control of results

• Plan and collaborate on monitoring and evaluation initiatives to establish benchmarks, performance indicators and other UN system indicators, to assess and strengthen performance accountability, coherence and delivery of concrete and sustainable results on the MYRP.
• Ensures timely preparation and submission of deliverables to donor, including progress and financial reports.
• Maintains complete grant documentation and provides information as required. Designs and produces a summary of all open commitments and actionable items with timelines.
• Plan, approve, monitor, certify and control the use of program resources (financial, human, administrative and other assets) certifying/verifying compliance with organizational rules, regulations and procedures, including the Harmonised Approach to Cash Transfers (HACT), donor commitments and standards of accountability and integrity. Ensure timely reporting and liquidation of resources.
• Participate in major monitoring and evaluation exercises, programme reviews and annual reviews with government and other counterparts to assess progress and to engage stakeholders to take required action and interventions to achieve results.
• Prepare and assess monitoring and evaluation reports to identify gaps, strengths, and/or weaknesses in programme and management; identify lessons learned and use knowledge gained for development planning and timely intervention to achieve goals.
• Prepare and submit programme and project reports to donors and other partners to keep them informed on programme progress and critical issues.

4. Technical and coordination support

• Coordinates with all Technical Focal Points to ensure day-to-day management and coordination of the MYRP across the five recipient organizations.
• Supports the capacity building activities for sub-grantees and implementing partners.
• Pursues additional funding opportunities to further expand the ECW programming.
• Coordinates the ECW /MYR dialogue meetings and discussions with the Steering Committee, Grantees Group and Technical Team
• Coordinate and ensure the availability of technical experts with the ECW Secretariat to ensure timely support throughout all stages of programming and project implementation.
• Participate in strategic discussions to influence policy and agenda setting for combating all forms of discrimination against children by advising on and advocating strategies and approaches to promote universal access to equitable and inclusive education for children in the country.

5. Advocacy, networking and partnership building

• Prepare communication strategies, implementation plans and activities for maximum communication impact and outreach to promote awareness, establish partnerships for sustainable results.
• Participate in inter-agency discussions and planning on education and EiE related issues to ensure programme plans, positions, interests and priorities are fully considered and integrated in the UNDAF and HRP development and humanitarian planning and agenda setting processes.
• Collaborate with inter-agency partners and colleagues on the UNDAF and HRP planning and preparation of programmes/projects including emergency preparedness.

6. Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

• Promote critical thinking, innovative approaches and good practices for sustainable education programming initiatives through advocacy and technical advisory services.
• Keep abreast, research, benchmark, introduce and implement best and cutting-edge practices on education management and information systems. Institutionalize and disseminate best practices and knowledge learned.
• Contribute to the development of policies and procedures and introduce innovation and best practices to ensure optimum efficiency and efficacy of sustainable programmes and projects.
• Organize, plan and implement capacity building initiatives to enhance the competencies of stakeholders to promote sustainable results on education and related programmes/projects.

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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 eight years of professional experience in programme planning, management, and/or research in education at the international level is required.
• A minimum of 4 years in grant management and donor reporting is required
• Experience working in a developing country is considered as an asset.
• Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.
• Familiarity/background with emergency is considered as an asset.

Language requirements

Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language or local language of the duty station is considered as an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA).

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

Core Competencies

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (2)
• 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)

Functional Competencies

• Leading and supervising (II)
• Formulating strategies/concepts (II)
• Analyzing (III)
• Relating and networking (II)
• Deciding and initiating action (II)
• Applying Technical Expertise (III)

Technical competencies must be demonstrated in the following areas:

• Good technical skills in grant management and donor reporting
• Good understanding of the overall global development context
• Good knowledge of global developments in education and international engagement strategies
• Good ability to support policy dialogue
• Good education sector planning knowledge/ability
• Good education and policy sector analysis capacity
• Good ability to support engagement with partners
• Good understanding of gender and inequity issues
• Good understanding of policies and strategies

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

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 also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. 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:

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.