Deadline: 25 May, 2021
Location: Bangui, Central African Republic
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is seeking to fill the role of Education Cluster Coordinator.
Across 190 countries and territories, UNICEF works for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
Responsibilities
- Provide a platform to ensure that service delivery is driven by the agreed strategic priorities
- Develop mechanisms to eliminate duplication of service delivery
- Conduct needs assessment and gap analysis (across other sectors and within the education sector)
- Carry out analysis to identify and address (emerging) gaps, obstacles, duplication, and cross-cutting issues
- Ensure prioritisation grounded in response analysis
- Contribute to the review of the 2020–2029 education sectoral plan, monitor the implementation objectives and indicators and directly support realisation of the HC/HCT strategic priorities
- Strongly ensure application and adherence to existing standards and guidelines
- Clarify funding requirements, prioritisation, and cluster contributions to HC’s overall humanitarian funding considerations
- Identify advocacy concerns to contribute to HC and HCT messaging and action
- Undertake advocacy activities on behalf of cluster participants and the affected population
- Coordinate advocacy for resource mobilisation to support the implementation of cluster’s EiE strategy and the operationalisation of the action plans
Requirements
- University degree, preferably at an advanced level, in Cluster Work Education, Social Sciences, Development, Psychology, Political Science, or International Relations
- Formal training in cluster coordination will be a plus
- Five years, minimum, of progressively responsible humanitarian work experience with UN and/or NGO, including programme management and/or coordination in the first phase of a major emergency response relevant to the cluster
- Extensive work experience outside the humanitarian sector that is relevant to this post may be considered as a replacement for humanitarian experience
- Fluency in French and English
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