Overview
Provide strategic and operational leadership to the South Sudan Education Cluster during a critical period of emergency scale-up and underfunding. Strengthen inter-agency coordination and support evidence-based education response.
Key Responsibilities
- Strengthen UNICEF’s capacity to deliver effective humanitarian education coordination.
- Ensure implementation of the seven core cluster coordination functions.
- Support a timely, coordinated, principled, and evidence-based education response.
- Support emergency preparedness and response scale-up.
- Support strategic planning and advocacy.
- Support humanitarian prioritization processes.
- Ensure sustained visibility of education within the broader humanitarian response architecture.
- Support key strategic processes including finalization of the Education Cluster Strategy.
- Support ECW-MYRP development.
- Support HNRP 2027 preparation.
- Provide technical oversight of work related to reviewing future coordination options and sustainability considerations for education coordination in South Sudan.
Required Experience
At least 5 years of relevant work experience in education, emergency, development, cluster coordination, humanitarian coordination, education in emergencies, emergency preparedness, emergency response, strategic planning, interagency coordination, donor engagement, monitoring and reporting, advocacy.
Qualifications
Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in Education, International Development, Social Science, Public Administration, International Studies, Humanitarian Studies, Public Policy, International Relations or a related field.
