Re-Advertisement: Education Specialist (Digital Learning and Learning Recovery) P4 – Fixed Term - ECARO O/P Istanbul, Turkey

Contract

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.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 136,000 USD and 175,344 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

Education technology has the power to accelerate learning, reduce learning poverty, and support skills development. It is critical for providing learning during emergencies and for system resilience. The post will support regional country offices in the design and implementation of digital learning across diverse contexts – in classrooms and at home - as well as guiding on digital transformation of education systems in the region. The post will support the Ukraine crisis response through the management of Learning Passport, Akelius, and other learning platforms, to deliver education to refugee children. The post will also strengthen partnerships within UNICEF (HQ and the Office of Innovation) and outside of the organisation, in particular with the EU and other organisations, and the private sector.

How can you make a difference?

• Advise the Regional Advisor Education on the development and implementation of strategic interventions to set up and scale up digital learning initiatives within the Regional Office and country offices.
• Advise on different initiatives and strategies to ensure they are designed for the needs of end users within different Country Offices within ECARO.
• Provide education sector advice to different projects on digital learning regarding product development, implementation roadmaps, and scale up strategies for different contexts and users. Brokering connection between learning innovation portfolio projects and UNICEF’s education programs in the field, including interaction with country offices, key government officials, NGO’s, and other UN agencies, in order to support the testing, acceleration and scale up.
• Design and implement capacity building programs on EdTech for ECARO COs and particularly in the context of the Ukraine education response, supporting education colleagues in the field of cutting edge new tools, technologies, and approaches to innovation in learning.
• Provide expertise on best pedagogies, learning approaches, education policies, and cutting-edge practices on education systems within ECARO.
• Other duties may be required.

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

• An advanced university degree (Master’s) in Education, Education Technology, Human Development, Psychology, Sociology, and/or another relevant technical field. *A first level university degree (Bachelor's) in a relevant technical field (as identified above), in conjunction with ten (10) years of relevant work experience, in lieu of an advanced university (Master’s) degree.
• A minimum of eight (8) years of relevant professional experience is required, at national and international levels, in developing, implementing and supporting education programming.
• Demonstrated experience working in the field implementing education programmes within a range of different countries and contexts in the global south is required.
• Experience of UNICEF and building collaboration and partnership across the UN system and excellent understanding of the global education system, main stakeholders and initiatives.
• Excellent understanding and expertise in best pedagogies, learning approaches, education policies, cutting-edge practices on education systems strengthening.
• Experience working within a startup environment and using design thinking and agile methodologies would be an asset.
• Experience in building communities of practice or capacity building would be an asset.
• Very good understanding, expertise and experience in digital learning. Ability to lead innovative approaches in digital learning in a variety of contexts with a strong understanding of equity principles and delivering innovation and digital learning for the most disadvantaged.
• Good knowledge of global developments in education and international engagement strategies, including the application of the equity lens and human rights perspectives to programming in both sustainable development and humanitarian programming.
• Good education sector planning and policy knowledge/ability, as it relates to digital learning, including the range of modalities for delivering digital education, cost-effectiveness and efficiency issues, equity and access, key institutional structures, components and processes, as well as governance issues.
• Good understanding of gender and inequity issues in relation to education and development and the application of gender / equity analysis to policy and planning in education.
• Experience working in an emergency setting is an asset.
• Fluency in English (written & verbal) is required. Knowledge of an additional UN Language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Spanish) 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: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues

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 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.

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 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:

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 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 may also be 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.