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The Education System in Guinea-Bissau is guided by legal guidelines and coverage paperwork, corresponding to Basic Education Law of 2011 and the Education Sector Plan 20217-2025. These emphasize schooling as human proper, obligatory and free on the major stage. Despite progress in enrollment, 27% of youngsters stay out of college (MIC 2018-2019), and first college completion charges are among the many lowest globally at 27%. Contributing elements embrace a scarcity of certified lecturers, inadequate studying supplies, and non-conducive studying environments. The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) is a partnership and mobilizes and delivers funding to nations most in want of schooling help to rework their schooling system. GPE’s aim is to speed up entry, studying outcomes and gender equality via equitable, inclusive, and resilient schooling programs match for the twenty first century. Guinea-Bissau’s Partnership Compact has been accredited by the GPE in November 2024. Based on the findings of the Enabling Factors Analysis, the partnership compact has articulated the final schooling sector precedence reform as guaranteeing that each one youngsters have entry to high quality fundamental schooling, with an emphasis on all youngsters finishing fundamental schooling with the required fundamental abilities, strengthening the preparation of lecturers and the administration of the schooling system. The transformative thrust of this precedence reform is on bettering entry and retention of college students and reducing grade repetition so that each one youngsters efficiently full grade 6. The consequence areas recognized within the Compact and endorsed by Local Education Group (LEG) are:
The STG is meant to help the implementation of these precedence reforms that the Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Scientific Research (MENESIC) and its development companions have agreed upon, as set out within the Partnership Compact. Under the GPE 2025 strategic plan, Guinea-Bissau is eligible for the STG of $5.71 million. The major objective of this grant is to help the nation in reworking its schooling system by making centered, evidence-based investments in packages that unblock system bottlenecks. MENESIC, with help from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) performing as a Grant Agent (GA) for the STG, is presently growing the grant application and associated paperwork to entry Guinea-Bissau’s accredited indicative allocation for common GPE system transformation grant in accordance with the strategic parameters for GPE help. |
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UNICEF is in search of a person short-term advisor to facilitate nationwide and sub-national stakeholder consultations with the technical process workforce comprised of MENESIC, development companions, Civil Society Organizations, and different key stakeholders. The consultations will guarantee stakeholders’ engagement and the well timed preparation, development, and finalization of the required high-quality Grant Application Package (Programme Outline, Programme Documents, Budget, and related annexes) to entry Guinea-Bissau’s accredited indicative system transformation grant (STG) allocation of $5.71 million in accordance with the strategic parameters for GPE help. The Grant Application Package development course of would require intensive engagement, with a variety of stakeholders, together with companions, related schooling stakeholders and personal sector in Guinea-Bissau, via the LEG, for inputs to make sure the required shared consensus and joint programme possession. The advisor is predicted to work with a global advisor commissioned to guide the development of Global Partnership for Education’s System Transformation (STG) application package deal for Guinea-Bissau in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Scientific Investigation (MENESIC) and in session with the Education companions.
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To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have…
- An superior college diploma (Master’s or increased) in Education, Economics, Social Sciences, or one other related area.
*A primary University Degree in a related area mixed with 2 further years of skilled expertise could also be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree. - A minimal of 5 years of related skilled expertise in schooling programming, planning, and policymaking processes within the public sector or authorities.
- Ability to interact and work with a spread of stakeholders (Government, development companions, civil society, oblique and direct program/undertaking beneficiaries).
- Analytical, with good laptop and information evaluation abilities.
- Experience of work in a UN group is fascinating.
- Fluency in Portuguese, plus English or French is required.
Criteria for Selection
Interested candidates ought to submit the followings:
- A canopy letter.
- A CV/resume (together with the quantity of profitable GPE grant purposes/programme paperwork developed)
- A technical proposal
- A monetary proposal together with a breakdown of their all-inclusive charges (together with skilled charges, journey associated prices).
The last choice will probably be based mostly on the precept of “best value for money” i.e. attaining desired consequence at lowest potential payment.
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According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), individuals with disabilities embrace those that have long-term bodily, psychological, mental, or sensory impairments which, in interplay with numerous limitations, could 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 quantity of staff with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we offer reasonable accommodation for work-related help 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 help in finishing the net application, please submit your request via the accessibility e-mail button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.
UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to youngsters (individuals beneath 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets 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, spiritual or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of tutorial credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to offer further data to conduct a background check, and chosen candidates with disabilities could also be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their incapacity confidentially.
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.
Individuals engaged beneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought of “staff members” beneath the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (corresponding to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service will probably be ruled by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are accountable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the fee of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines.
The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for the complete interval of the contract. Selected candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met previous to taking over the task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and should not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply areas or straight work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF for the length of their consultancy contracts.
National advisor, development of Guinea-Bissau’s System Transformation Grant proposal, 44 working days (Remote/Work from Home)
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