Education Specialist

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United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Inter-governmental
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: International contract
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 04/02/2024
  • Location: Thailand 
Child protection/ Children’s rights Education
1. Management of the Southeast Asia regional gender transformative education programme. The programme aims at: (i) system-level impact by advancing gender transformative education policies, curricula and pedagogy with focus countries of Cambodia and Viet Nam; (ii) school and community level impact through empowering the most marginalized girls with 21st-century learning and skills; and (iii) regional exchange, focusing on policy mapping, capacity building, advocacy and evidence generation through cross-border collaboration on gender transformative education
  • Support programme management/oversight and coordination for the Empowered and Equal Futures for Girls in Southeast Asia programme to support timely delivery of activities and outputs, in close collaboration with the EAPRO Regional Gender Adviser and Country Offices (COs).
  • Provide technical assistance to COs on programme related matters, and follow-ups.
  • Coordinate implementation for the activities within the regional component of the programme (Output 3) mentioned above to ensure timely completion of results and deliverables, including organizing regional meetings, coordinating research outputs and provide and contributing technical expertise.

2. Technical support to UNICEF Country Offices in East Asia and the Pacific, and the Regional Office to strengthen gender transformative education work.
  • Provide technical support to UNICEF Country Offices (COs) in the East Asia and Pacific region on gender transformative education in their education programmes.
  • Support the EAPRO Education and Gender team on gender transformative education programming and its related tasks.

3. Support to regional coordination concerning gender transformative education work pertaining to the mandates of both UNGEI and UNICEF EAPRO.
  • Share UNICEF and UNGEI’s work and experience on gender transformative education in the region with UNESCO, UNWomen, UNFPA, and other partners to improve coordination and complementarity.
  • Represent UNICEF in the relevant coordination groups at the regional level, including through not limited to, School Health and Well-being working group under the Learning and Education (LE) 2030+.

4. Support to UNGEI global work on SRGBV
  • Contribute to global advocacy and coalition building in the field of SRGBV by supporting UNGEI’s co-chairing functions of the Global Working Group to End SRGBV as per agreed priorities and workplans.
  • Support the continuous development and improvement of UNGEI’s SRGBV knowledge hub by leveraging the knowledge and expertise of the Global WG to End SRGBV, as well as by initiating and providing technical inputs to global public goods.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
  • An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in a relevant area, e.g. education, gender, programme management, and/or child protection or area related to social services, development studies, political or social sciences, public policies;
  • Academic credentials in gender are a strong asset.
  • A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience at the international or regional level in managing gender focused education programme.
  • 3 years of experience in designing, implementing, managing, and delivering results-based programmes/projects on gender-transformative education, gender-based violence against children or similar is an asset.
  • Fluency in English is required. 

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