Overview
The Associate Project Officer (Education for Health and Wellbeing) will be responsible for the implementation, monitoring, and reporting of programs and projects related to UNESCO’s work on Education for Health and Wellbeing in Malawi.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the Government of Malawi in developing, reviewing and/or implementing policies and guidelines on the provision of CSE and ASRH services to young people.
- Support UNESCO’s efforts to facilitate delivery of high-quality comprehensive sexuality education that is gender transformative, evidence–based, culturally and age appropriate including teacher education and curriculum support.
- Support the scale-up of efforts to address Early and Unintended Pregnancy, Gender-based Violence, Child Marriage and other emerging issues around sexual reproductive health.
- Build capacity of Teacher Educators, Primary Education Advisors and CSO Partners responsible for teacher training in the College-Hub Model towards the delivery of high quality CSE in classroom settings.
- Support the government of Malawi in the development and implementation of programs and policies that prevent and respond to violence in and through education.
- Support development of activities to improve community and youth engagement in young people's access to comprehensive sexuality education & services.
- Support the development of research, monitoring & evaluation around CSE/SRH for young people aged 10 – 24
- Support the monitoring, evaluation and reporting on UNESCO’s work on Education for Health and Wellbeing
Required Experience
- Minimum 2 years of relevant professional experience in the field of education, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, including CSE, HIV and AIDS programming of which preferably one year should have been acquired at the international level;
- Experience in working with Government, international/national Non-Governmental Organizations and UN Agencies.
- Experience in training, coordination and/or institutional and human capacity building.
- Experience in monitoring and evaluation
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master's or equivalent) in education, social sciences, public health, or related field.
