Overview
Provide high-level technical assistance and strategic support to advance UNICEF’s global strategy on learning and skills measurement. The role will guide UNICEF’s work on strengthening national assessment systems and their use in improving the performance of education and skills programmes.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide high-level technical assistance and strategic guidance to UNICEF Offices, Centres of Excellence (CoEs), governments, and partners.
- Advance learning and skills assessment as a core driver of education system strengthening, equitable resource allocation, and improved learning outcomes for all children.
Required Experience
- At least 8 years of relevant work experience in learning and skills assessment, education and labor market monitoring, or related is required.
- Proven experience in supporting the design and implementation of national and large-scale learning and skills assessments or tracer studies.
- Experience in developing tools for assessing transferable skills, digital skills, green skills, or secondary education learning outcomes.
- Working knowledge in psychometrics, test development, and sampling.
- Working knowledge of global reporting frameworks such as SDG 4.1.1a/b and 4.7 indicators.
- Strong technical expertise in data analysis and visualization using statistical software (e.g., SPSS, Stata, R) and Visual Basic for Applications.
- Solid understanding of the broader education policy landscape, including sector planning and financing, monitoring frameworks, and the use of learning, skills and employment data for system reform.
- Demonstrated ability to contribute to and engage in policy dialogue with governments and partners on skills assessment, linkages between education outcomes and labor market demands and education system strengthening.
- Experience working in a developing country.
Qualifications
- Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in Education, Statistics, Economics, Social Science, Psychometrics, Learning Measurement, Skills Measurement and any other related fields.
- A Bachelor or equivalent (First Level University Degree) in a relevant area combined with 2 additional years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree. This is applicable to internal (FT, Continuing and Permanent) staff only.
