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For each child, Quality Education 

Tanzania is a youthful nation, with youngsters and adolescents making up half of its inhabitants and has made vital progress in entry to well being care, lowering child mortality, enrolment in training, and social safety for households in poverty. However, the tempo of poverty discount has slowed down and the nation nonetheless faces socio-economic challenges, comparable to poverty, restricted academic and employment alternatives particularly for women and girls, and the necessity to reply to exterior shocks such because the local weather crises and unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. Tanzania has an bold growth agenda to deal with these points and acknowledges that job creation and strengthening human capital have gotten extra pressing to capitalize on the potential for financial progress in the course of the transition in direction of a demographic dividend. To reap the total advantages of the demographic dividend, UNICEF’s Country Programme for 2022-2027 is supporting the Government of Tanzania’s growth agenda in inserting larger emphasis on inclusive and sustainable socioeconomic growth that allows all youngsters and adolescents, together with these with disabilities, to achieve their full potential, lead a wholesome life, devour nutritious diets, entry high quality studying and safety, and meaningfully take part in society, leaving nobody behind.

How are you able to make a difference?  

Under the steerage and normal supervision of the Chief, Education, the Specialist helps the event and preparation of the Education (or a sector of) programmes and is accountable for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating and reporting the progress of training programmes/tasks throughout the nation programme. The Specialist supplies technical steerage and administration help all through the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of outcomes on training programmes/tasks to enhance studying outcomes and equitable and inclusive training, particularly for youngsters who’re marginalized, deprived, and excluded in society. 

The Specialist contributes to achievement of outcomes in keeping with plans, allocation, outcomes based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), in addition to UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, requirements of efficiency, and accountability framework. 

Key capabilities, accountabilities and associated duties/duties  

Summary of key capabilities/accountabilities:  

1. Support to programme growth and planning. 

2. Programme administration, monitoring and supply of outcomes. 

3. Technical and operational help to programme implementation 

4. Networking and partnership constructing 

5. Innovation, information administration and capability constructing 

1. Support to programme growth and planning. 

• Support the preparation, design and updating of the scenario evaluation for the training programmes to make sure that present and complete knowledge on training points is out there to information UNICEF’s strategic coverage, advocacy, intervention and growth efforts on training programmes. 

• Help supervisor set priorities, methods, design and implementation plans. Keep abreast of growth traits to boost programme administration, effectivity and supply. 

• Participate in strategic programme dialogue on the planning of training programmes. Formulate, design and put together programme proposals for the sector, guaranteeing alignment with UNICEF’s Strategic Plans and Country Programme and coherence/integration with the UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF), regional methods and nationwide priorities, plans and competencies. 

• Establish particular objectives, goals, methods and implementation plans for the sector utilizing results-based planning terminology and methodology (RBM). Prepare required documentations for programme overview and approval. 

• Work intently and collaboratively with inside colleagues and companions to debate methods and methodologies, and to find out nationwide priorities to make sure the achievement of concrete and sustainable outcomes.  

• Provide technical and operational help all through all phases of programming processes and to make sure integration, coherence and harmonization of programmes/tasks with different UNICEF sectors and achievement of outcomes as deliberate and allotted. 

2. Programme administration, monitoring and supply of outcomes. 

• Plan and collaborate with inside colleagues and exterior companions to ascertain monitoring benchmarks, efficiency indicators and different UNICEF/UN system indicators to evaluate/strengthen efficiency accountability, coherence and supply of concrete and sustainable outcomes for the assigned sector on training programmes. 

• Participate in monitoring and analysis workout routines, programme evaluations and annual evaluations with the federal government and different counterparts to evaluate progress and to find out required motion/interventions to realize outcomes. 

• Prepare and assess monitoring and analysis reviews to determine gaps, strengths and weaknesses in programme administration. 

• Identify classes realized and use information gained for growth planning and well timed intervention to realize objectives. 

• Actively monitor programmes/tasks by subject visits and surveys, and trade info with stakeholders to evaluate progress, determine bottlenecks and potential issues, and take well timed choices to resolve points and/or consult with related officers for well timed decision. 

• Monitor and confirm the optimum and applicable use of sectoral programme assets (monetary, administrative and different property) confirming compliance with organizational guidelines, rules/procedures and donor commitments, requirements of accountability and integrity, guaranteeing well timed reporting and liquidation of assets. 

• Prepare common and mandated programme reviews for administration, donors and companions to maintain them knowledgeable of programme progress. 

3. Technical and operational help to programme implementation. 

• Provide technical steerage and operational help to authorities counterparts, NGO companions, UN system companions and nation workplace companions and donors on interpretation, application and understanding of UNICEF insurance policies, methods, processes and greatest practices and approaches on training and associated points to help programme administration, implementation and supply of outcomes. 

• Arrange/coordinate availability of technical specialists with Regional Office/HQ to make sure well timed and applicable help all through the programming course of. 

• Participate in training programme conferences together with programme growth and contingency planning to offer technical and operational info, recommendation and help. 

• Draft coverage papers, briefs and different strategic programme supplies for administration use. 

4. Networking and partnership constructing. 

• Build and maintain efficient shut working partnerships with related authorities counterparts, nationwide stakeholders, world companions, donors, and academia by energetic networking, advocacy and efficient communication to construct capability, trade information/experience and to bolster cooperation to realize sustainable and broad outcomes on training programmes. 

• Prepare communication and knowledge supplies for CO programme advocacy to advertise consciousness, set up partnerships and help fund elevating for training programmes. 

• Participate and/or symbolize UNICEF in applicable inter-agency (UNCT) discussions on training and associated points to collaborate with inter-agency companions/colleagues on UNDAF planning and preparation of programmes/tasks guaranteeing organizational place, pursuits and priorities are absolutely thought of and built-in within the UNDAF course of in growth planning and agenda setting.  

5. Innovation, information administration and capability constructing. 

• Apply and introduce modern approaches and good practices to construct the capability of companions and stakeholders and to help the implementation and supply of concrete and sustainable programme outcomes. 

• Keep abreast, analysis, benchmark, and implement greatest practices in training administration. Assess, institutionalize and share greatest practices and information realized. 

• Contribute to the event and implementation of insurance policies and procedures to make sure optimum effectivity and efficacy of sustainable programmes and tasks. 

• Organize and implement capability constructing initiatives to boost the competencies of shoppers/stakeholders to advertise sustainable outcomes on training and associated programmes/tasks. 

To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have… 

Minimum necessities: 

• Education: An superior college diploma in one of many following fields is required: training, economics, psychology, sociology, or one other related technical subject. 

• Work Experience: At least 5 years of related work expertise in expertise in programme planning, administration, and/or analysis in training is required. 

Technical Competencies: 

• Some understanding of the general world growth context, together with points comparable to: poverty, battle and the affect of those elements on training and vice-versa; and inter-sectoral approaches to handle such points in collaboration with different sectors (together with Social Policy, Child Protection, Nutrition, WASH, Health, and Communications inside UNICEF). 

• Some information of worldwide developments in training and worldwide engagement methods, together with the application of the fairness lens and human rights views to programming. 

• Some skill to help coverage dialogue: translation of analytical findings and proof into growth programme and coverage discussions round fairness and studying with companions, together with authorities, growth companions, CSOs and academia in related areas. 

• Some training sector planning information/skill, together with the vary of modalities for delivering training, linkages between completely different sub-sectors (e.g. ECD, Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Inclusive Education), cost-effectiveness and effectivity points, key institutional buildings, parts and processes, in addition to governance points. 

• Some training and coverage sector evaluation capability, together with understanding of the core training knowledge units and indicators; instruments for evaluation of fairness; determinants of scholar entry and studying; funds, costing, and monetary administration in training methods; political economic system; and training coverage and strategic planning. 

• Some programme administration in training, together with programme design, costing, monitoring and analysis and reporting. 

• Some skill to help engagement with companions e.g. Sector Wide Approaches, Global Partnership for Education, Education in Emergency Clusters, Education Provider Forums, Delivering as One, Inter-sectoral partnerships comparable to in ECD, in addition to networking with different key companions. 

• Some understanding of gender and inequity points in relation to training and growth and the application of gender / fairness evaluation to coverage and planning in training. 

Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset. 

For each Child, you display… 

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The UNICEF competencies required for this submit are… 

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships 

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness 

(3) Drive to realize outcomes for affect 

(4) Innovates and embraces change 

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity 

(6) Thinks and acts strategically 

(7) Works collaboratively with others  

During the recruitment course of, we check candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges: competency framework here.

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