🇸🇱 Job Vacancies @ UNICEF – 2 Positions

UNICEF is recruiting to fill the following issues:

1.) Programme Specialist (Gender and Social Norms) NOC
2.) Education Specialist (Monitoring and Evaluation)

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1.) Programme Specialist (Gender and Social Norms) NOC

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2.) Education Specialist (Monitoring and Evaluation)

Education Specialist (Monitoring and Evaluation), (P3), Freetown, Sierra Leone, #00124269 [Temporary Appointment] - non-Sierra Leone nationals only

Job no: 560888

Position type: Temporary Appointment

Location: Sierra Leone Division/Equivalent: Dakar (WCAR), Senegal

School/Unit: Sierra Leone

Department/Office: Freetown, Sierra Leone

Categories: Education

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, education

Please access UNICEF Sierra Leone information here and here

How can you make a difference?

Purpose of the Job

Since the initiation of the Free School Quality Education programme in 2018, which focuses on improving access to education, UNICEF’s education and learning programme component primarily focuses on providing technical and strategic support to improve poor learning outcomes which are demonstrated across all grades. Greater attention is paid to system strengthening in generating and use of strategic information and evidence, including budgetary analyses and monitoring of results.

More recently, the Government has identified Delivering the Foundations of Learning for All as the priority reform that will be achieved through education system transformation in the country. The transformation will be done by addressing bottlenecks and working collaboratively with all stakeholders, partners, the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and other donors. This will be supported by the approved GPE financing for three grants System Capacity Grant (SCG), System Transformation Grant (STG), and GPE Multiplier Grant amounting to USD 50 million. UNICEF is the grant agent for all the three grants. One critical focus of the grant is on building on strengthened data systems and governance mechanisms, including the commitment to at least 20% of the government’s discretionary budget spent on education. More specifically, data and data-innovation, data dashboards will be used to generate actionable data for use by relevant stakeholders and enable evidence-based policy and system strengthening towards the priority reform of foundational learning.

Summary of Key Functions/Accountabilities:

The Specialist will work to strengthen national systems for evidence-based planning, management and delivery of education services and will contribute to achievement of results according to plans, allocation of funding, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM) and UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance and accountability framework. The Specialist will provide technical support in the establishment and roll out of education monitoring tools, inclusive of data, in collaboration with the other education output leads and other stakeholders, to collectively track progress of the UNICEF Education Programme towards the Education Sector Plan (2022-2026), the SDGs and other international commitments for children. The Specialist will support the development of national capacities for education system’s strengthening, for data strengthening, monitoring and evaluation.

The Specialist will also ensure that the UNICEF Country Office has useful, valid and reliable information on the situation of education focusing on quality, access, and equity and the performance of UNICEF and government-supported education programmes including their relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability, and in emergency contexts, their coverage, coordination and coherence.

Key Functions, Accountabilities and Related Duties/Tasks

•  Systems Strengthening for data at all levels
•  Integrated Monitoring & Learning
•  Learning Assessment
•  Innovation, Knowledge Management and Capacity Building
•  Coordination, Advocacy and Networking

Please access the full JD here VA TOR - Education Specialist, P3, TA .pdf

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

Education

•  Advanced university degree in education, social sciences, statistics, economics, planning, development, or related fields.

Experience

•  A minimum of five years of relevant professional work experience in the education sector including in education programming, development, implementation and monitoring and evaluation.
•  Experience in Education in Emergencies programming, including disaster risk reduction and emergency preparedness planning.
•  Experience working in a developing country considered is an asset
•  Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language or local language is an asset.

Technical Competencies:

•  Excellent communication skills, including writing and oral presentation.
•  Professional/technical knowledge/expertise in Team Management, Coaching & Training.
•  Experience in education sector monitoring & evaluation design, data analysis, and reporting.
•  Expertise in education sector monitoring & evaluation, evaluation design, data analysis, and reporting.
•  Demonstrated experience in education sector planning including the range of modalities for delivering education, linkages between different sub-sectors (e.g. ECD, Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Inclusive Education), cost-effectiveness and efficiency issues, key institutional structures, components and processes, as well as governance issues.
•  Education and education policy sector analysis capacity, including an understanding of the core education data sets, indicators, tools for analysis of equity, determinants of student access and learning, budget, cost and financing, education system management, political economy and application to education policy and strategic planning.
•  Knowledge of global developments in education and international engagement strategies, including the application of the equity lens and human rights perspectives to programming.
•  Ability to support policy dialogue: translation of analytical findings and evidence into development programmes and policy discussions around equity and learning with partners, including government, development partners, CSOs and academia in relevant areas.
•  Good understanding of gender and inequity issues in relation to education and development and the application of gender/equity analysis to policy and planning in education.

Behavioural Skills:

•  Excellent interpersonal skills
•  Strong leadership and management skills and experiences
•  Excellent collaboration with colleagues and partners
•  Attentive and open to feedback and new ideas

Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language or local language of the duty station is considered as an asset. Fair understanding of gender equality and diversity awareness

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3) Drive to achieve results for impact (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others (7) Nurtures, leads and manages people.

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable Sierra Leoneans are encouraged to apply.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Appointments are also subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (COVID). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Advertised: Apr 06 2023 Greenwich Standard Time

Application close: Apr 20 2023 Greenwich Standard Time

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