Education Manager

Under the overall guidance and direction of the Chief, Education, the Education Manager supports the Chief in managing the section, playing a key role in bringing innovation to the development and preparation of education programmes. The Education Manager provides authoritative technical guidance and operational support throughout all stages of programming to facilitate the management and delivery of results on strengthening national education systems to improve learning outcomes and to promote universal access to quality, equitable and inclusive primary/early childhood education, especially for children who are marginalized, disadvantaged and excluded in society.

The Education Manager contributes to the achievement of concrete and sustainable 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. The Education Manager supports specific educational partnership programmes to ensure designs of appropriate programme frameworks based on essential situational analysis, assessments and other knowledge generated, establishment and implementation of comprehensive results and monitoring, evaluation, learning and reporting frameworks and coordination among various stakeholders and partners.

Summary of key functions and accountabilities:

• Management and advisory support to the Chief
• Programme development and planning
• Programme management, monitoring and quality control of results
• Advisory services and technical support
• Advocacy, networking and partnership building
• Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Minimum requirements:

Education:

• An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: education, economics, psychology, sociology or another relevant technical field.
• A minimum of eight years of professional experience in programme planning, management, and/or research in education is required. Experience working in a developing country is considered as an asset.Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.
• Background with emergency is desired.
• Fluency in English is required

Source: https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/578240