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For each child, schooling
The UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) is dedicated to advancing the rights of all youngsters in South Asia, significantly essentially the most deprived. It offers assist to eight nations: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Through its advisory and management roles, UNICEF ROSA holds a strategic place to affect insurance policies, methods, and programming at each nationwide and sub-national ranges throughout South Asia.
Even earlier than COVID-19, South Asia had the very best variety of out-of-school youngsters (OOSC) and adolescents, with 93 million women and boys affected. Additionally, the area accounted for 31% of the worldwide whole of kids residing in studying poverty. Six out of 10 youngsters in South Asia have been unable to learn and perceive a easy textual content by the age of 10 or grasp foundational numeracy abilities—not to mention the digital and socio-emotional abilities wanted for significant employment, private well-being, and energetic participation in society.
In alignment with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, UNICEF’s imaginative and prescient for schooling is that “every child learns,” as articulated in its Strategic Plan 2022–2025 (Goal Area 2: “Every child, including adolescents, learns and acquires skills for the future”) and the 2019–2030 Global Education Strategy (“Every Child Learns”). This imaginative and prescient is constructed round three interrelated targets: (i) equitable entry to studying alternatives; (ii) improved studying and abilities for all; and (iii) enhanced studying and safety for youngsters in emergencies and transitions.
UNICEF ROSA works to make sure that women and boys, particularly essentially the most deprived, purchase the abilities they want in inclusive, equitable, secure, related, and high-quality studying environments. This contains supporting South Asia Country Offices in foundational studying, one among 4 precedence areas for UNICEF’s acceleration efforts within the area.
How are you able to make a difference?
As Education Specialist, you’ll assist the Regional Education Advisor (REA) in offering capability constructing, technical help, high quality assurance, and high-level coverage and programme planning assist associated to schooling techniques strengthening. Hence enhancing the standard of studying and abilities in South Asia, in each improvement and humanitarian contexts.
You may also present technical help to Country Offices in designing and implementing actions centered on assessing, monitoring, and enhancing studying outcomes within the area, significantly to speed up foundational studying for essentially the most deprived youngsters and adolescents. This will embody supporting Country Offices within the large-scale implementation of essentially the most cost-effective insurance policies and practices, corresponding to trainer capability improvement in structured pedagogy and focused instruction, mom tongue instruction, equitable digital studying options, group system strengthening, social accountability, and improved and better-utilized studying assessments.
In this vital function, additionally, you will contribute to useful resource mobilization and the event and preparation of the regional schooling programme and will probably be accountable for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on programme progress.
Key features, accountabilities and associated duties/duties will embody:
1. Management and Advisory Support
2. Technical Leadership, Strategic Guidance, and Support to Country Offices Programming
3. Learning Assessment, Evidence Building and Knowledge Management
4. Partnerships and Resource Mobilization
If you want to know extra about this place, please assessment the entire Job Description right here: 
To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have…
Minimum necessities:
Education:
- An superior college diploma (Master’s or equal) in Education, Economics, Social Sciences or one other discipline related to worldwide improvement.
Work Experience:
- A minimal of eight years of progressively related skilled work expertise in programme planning, administration, and/or analysis in schooling on the worldwide stage, a few of which is ideally in a creating nation, is required.
- Demonstrated expertise with fundraising and useful resource mobilization. Knowledge and expertise working with the Global Partnership for Education is an asset.
- Demonstrated expertise in workers supervision and administration.
- Knowledge of studying evaluation and schooling high quality indicators is fascinating.
- Knowledge of digital studying options (together with for trainer capability improvement) is fascinating
- Knowledge of Excel, Visual Basic for Applications and statistical bundle software program, e.g. Stata, SPSS and specialised evaluation / Rasch evaluation software program corresponding to ConQuest is an asset.
- Experience working within the UN, different worldwide improvement group or a Ministry of Education is an asset.
Language Requirements:
- Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of a South Asian language or of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.
Desirables:
- Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency.
For each Child, you reveal…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every little thing we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
The UNICEF competencies required for this put up are…
- Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (2)
- Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2)
- Works Collaboratively with others (2)
- Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
- Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
- Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
- Drive to realize impactful outcomes (2)
- Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)
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UNICEF is dedicated to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, no matter gender, nationality, non secular or ethnic background, and individuals with disabilities, to apply to develop into a part of the group. To create a extra inclusive office, UNICEF affords paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks, and affordable lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages using versatile working preparations. Click here to study extra about versatile work preparations, well-being, and advantages.
According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), individuals with disabilities embody those that have long-term bodily, psychological, mental, or sensory impairments which, in interplay with numerous obstacles, might hinder their full and efficient participation in society on an equal foundation with others. In its Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy 2022-2030, UNICEF has dedicated to extend the variety of staff with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we offer reasonable accommodation for work-related assist necessities of candidates and staff with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen bodily and digital accessibility. If you might be an applicant with a incapacity who wants digital accessibility assist in finishing the web application, please submit your request by way of the accessibility e mail button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.
UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to youngsters (individuals below 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based mostly on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, non secular or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to offer further info to conduct a background check, and chosen candidates with disabilities could also be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their incapacity confidentially.
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Remarks:
As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration within the employment of the workers is the need of securing the very best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.
UNICEF’s energetic dedication to range and inclusion is essential to ship the most effective outcomes for youngsters. For this place, eligible and appropriate feminine candidates and individuals with disabilities are inspired to apply.
Government staff who’re thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking on an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the suitable to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance isn’t obtained, or obligatory inoculation necessities will not be met, inside an affordable interval for any purpose.
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All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. An inside candidate performing on the stage of the put up within the related practical space, or an inside/exterior candidate within the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the put up, with out evaluation of different candidates.
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Education Specialist, P4, Fixed Term, Kathmandu, Nepal #43690
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