Overview
The Education Specialist supports the development, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of education programmes to improve learning outcomes and equitable education, especially for marginalized children.
Key Responsibilities
- Supports the development and preparation of Education programmes.
- Manages, implements, monitors, evaluates and reports the progress of education programmes/projects.
- Provides technical guidance and management support throughout programming processes.
- Facilitates the administration and achievement of results on education programmes/projects.
- Applies differentiated strategies to education programming in an upstream context.
- Contributes to achievement of results according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), as well as UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance, and accountability framework.
Required Experience
- A minimum of five years of professional experience in education planning, management, and/or research using results-based management approaches in education is required.
- Experience in translating education analytical evidence into policy dialogue, policy advocacy, and knowledge products for governments and partners.
- Proven experience of drafting high quality education analytical papers, policy briefs, programme documents, reports and donor proposals.
- Experience of influencing and advocating effectively in education priorities with senior levels of government.
- Experience of working on convergent approaches (e.g. Social Policy, Child Protection, Nutrition, Health, WASH) is required.
- Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts. EiE experience is an asset.
- Experience of 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.
Qualifications
An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: education, economics, psychology, or another relevant technical field.
