Overview
The Education Officer supports the development, management, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of education programmes/projects to improve learning outcomes and equitable and inclusive education, especially for socio-economically disadvantaged children.
Key Responsibilities
- Support to programme development and planning
- Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results
- Technical and operational support to programme implementation
- Networking and partnership building
- Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
Required Experience
- A minimum of two years of professional experience in education programme planning, management, and/or research in education is required.
- Experience in supporting the translation of education analytical evidence into policy dialogue, policy advocacy, and knowledge products for governments and partners is required.
- Proven experience of support to drafting high quality education analytical papers, policy briefs, programme documents, reports and donor proposals is required.
- Experience of influencing and advocating effectively in education priorities with government is required.
- Experience of working on convergent approaches (e.g. Social Policy, Child Protection, Nutrition, Health, WASH) is required.
- Experience of support for leveraging partnerships and financing in support of scaling programmes is desirable.
- Experience in related programme/project development in a UN system agency or organization is an asset.
- Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts. Education in emergencies experience is an asset.
Qualifications
A university degree in one of the following fields is required: education, psychology, economics or another relevant technical field.
