Education Specialist

Under the overall guidance and direction of the Regional Education Adviser, you will be primarily responsible for work in the area of Learning , including learning assessment. You will provide guidance and high-level technical support to UNICEF country offices in the region to strengthen their education programme to address learning crisis, strengthen strategies and initiatives aimed at improving foundational learning as well as undertaking equity-focused learning assessment.
You will be the lead person for UNICEF regional initiatives and partnerships that aim at improving quality and learning, in collaboration with other organizations, such as Southeast Asia Ministers of Education Organisation (SEAMEO), ASEAN, as well as UNESCO, and other UN agencies, multilateral and bilateral partners at the regional level. This includes teacher preparation and development, curriculum and pedagogy, assessment, as well as addressing language, inclusive education, gender transformative education, safety in and around schools.
You will be the UNICEF lead for ‘Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics, a regional initiative on Grade 5 student learning assessment in 7 countries in Southeast Asia, co-led with SEAMEO, ensuring technical and financial management, as well as partnership management and resource mobilization. Your responsibility also includes guidance and support to COs and governments to use the data to inform their education policies and plans in order to expedite the learning recovery and accelerate children’s acquisition of foundational literary and numeracy, with a strong focus in equity and gender equality.
You will also work with other programmes and sections in the Regional Office (RO) to ensure the RO’s well-coordinated and effective support to COs with the view to improve learning of children especially different groups of disadvantaged children.
You will be expected to provide quality education support to COs on their Country Programme development and review, RO’s review processes, and reporting.
You will also support the Education section to operationalize its Resource Mobilization strategy, and work on donor proposal development, and report preparation,
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