Deadline: 24 May, 2021
Location: Maiduguri, Nigeria
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is seeking to fill the position of Education Specialist.
Across 190 countries and territories, UNICEF works for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone
Responsibilities
- Support the preparation, design and updating of the situation analysis for the education programmes with a focus on non-formal education to ensure that current and comprehensive data on access to alternative learning and on education issues is available to guide UNICEF’s strategic policy, advocacy, intervention and development efforts on education programmes
- Plan and collaborate with internal colleagues and external partners to establish monitoring benchmarks, performance indicators and other UNICEF/UN system indicators to assess/strengthen performance accountability, coherence and delivery of concrete and sustainable results for the assigned sector on education programmes
- Provide technical guidance and operational support to government counterparts, NGO partners, UN system partners and country office partners and donors on interpretation, application and understanding of UNICEF policies, strategies, processes and best practices and approaches on education and related issues to support programme management, implementation and delivery of results
- Build and sustain effective close working partnerships with relevant government counterparts, national stakeholders, global partners, donors, and academia through active networking, advocacy and effective communication to build capacity, exchange knowledge/expertise and to reinforce cooperation to achieve sustainable and broad results on education programmes
- Apply and introduce innovative approaches and good practices to build the capacity of partners and stakeholders and to support the implementation and delivery of concrete and sustainable programme results
Requirements
- Advanced university degree in Education, Economics, Psychology, Sociology, or a related technical field
- Five years, minimum, of professional and progressive experience in education programme planning, management, and/or research is essential
- Relevant experience in an NGO/INGO, UN system agency (desirable)
- Experience working in developing countries and challenging environment (desirable)
- Fluency in English
- Knowledge of local language of the duty station (desirable)
- Nationality of Nigeria
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