Education Specialist

As Education Specialist, you will support the Regional Education Advisor (REA) in providing capacity building, technical assistance, quality assurance, and high-level policy and programme planning support related to education systems strengthening. Hence improving the quality of learning and skills in South Asia, in both development and humanitarian contexts.

You will also provide technical assistance to Country Offices in designing and implementing activities focused on assessing, monitoring, and improving learning outcomes in the region, particularly to accelerate foundational learning for the most disadvantaged children and adolescents. This will include supporting Country Offices in the large-scale implementation of the most cost-effective policies and practices, such as teacher capacity development in structured pedagogy and targeted instruction, mother tongue instruction, equitable digital learning solutions, community system strengthening, social accountability, and improved and better-utilized learning assessments.

In this important role, you will also contribute to resource mobilization and the development and preparation of the regional education programme and will be responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on programme progress. 

Key functions, accountabilities and related duties/tasks will include:

• Management and Advisory Support
• Technical Leadership, Strategic Guidance, and Support to Country Offices Programming
• Learning Assessment, Evidence Building and Knowledge Management
• Partnerships and Resource Mobilization

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

Minimum requirements:

Education:

An advanced university degree (Master’s or equivalent) in Education, Economics, Social Sciences or another field relevant to international development.

Work Experience:

• A minimum of eight years of progressively relevant professional work experience in programme planning, management, and/or research in education at the international level, some of which is preferably in a developing country, is required.
• Demonstrated experience with fundraising and resource mobilization. Knowledge and experience working with the Global Partnership for Education is an asset.
• Demonstrated experience in staff supervision and management.
• Knowledge of learning assessment and education quality indicators is desirable.
• Knowledge of digital learning solutions (including for teacher capacity development) is desirable
• Knowledge of Excel, Visual Basic for Applications and statistical package software, e.g. Stata, SPSS and specialized assessment / Rasch analysis software such as ConQuest is an asset.
• Experience working in the UN, other international development organization or a Ministry of Education is an asset.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of a South Asian language or of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.

Source: https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/577887