Contract type: Temporary Appointment, Consultant
Level: P-3
Location: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Comoros, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Seychelles
Categories: Education, Emergency
Seeking external candidates only
Contract Type: Temporary Appointment (TA) or Consultancy
Duration: 3 months to 364 days
Location: Countries based in Eastern and Southern Africa
Job Description
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, hope
Since two years, countries in the ESA region have experienced an alarming increase in the number of new, or re-emerging humanitarian emergencies, including public health (including Ebola, Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever, yellow fever, wild poliovirus, and Cholera), armed conflicts and natural disasters emergencies.
UNICEF ESAR has prioritized the critical need to support countries to rapidly scale up capacity to prevent, mitigate, and manage ongoing and anticipated emergencies as well as to enhance capacity for preparedness and response to these emergencies.
Purpose
The purpose of this external announcement is to attract suitable Education in Emergencies Coordinator candidates interested in working in any of the countries within UNICEF’s East and Southern Africa region to respond to emergencies for the next 36 months. The countries within each region are listed on the following website: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html.
How can you make a difference?
Key activities & duties
1. Supporting regional monitoring, evidence generation and learning efforts:
- Support outreach to Country Offices and the systematic monitoring and documenting of EiE responses, policies and strategies
- Support regional evidence generation, analysis, the development of trends and lesson learned, good practice and guidance
This includes work on all EiE domains as relevant to the region, and will focus on the following areas:
- EiE and cross-sectoral preparedness and response measures for COVID-19, children and schools, for complex emergencies, in fragile, conflict/disaster-affected contexts
- Advancing key programme approaches in the region (triple nexus, risk informed-, integrated and cross-sectoral programming, resilience, systems building, inclusion…)
- EiE for refugees, IDPs, children on the move
- Girls’ education in emergencies; mental health and psychosocial support in education
Partnerships and funding for EiE
Early Childhood Education in Emergencies Education
Climate change
2. Support the implementation of EiE activities under the ESARO workplan, including, but not limited to
- Monitoring and measuring EiE learning outcomes
- Capacity building on EiE
- Developing good practice on cross sectoral and integrated programming in humanitarian contexts
- Integrating MHPSS in EiE
- Supporting the integration of peacebuilding in education programming
3. Support in providing technical and capacity building support to Country Offices
- Support the review and quality assurance of CO preparedness and response plans, strategies and proposals (COVID-19 and other)
- Support Country TA requests
- Capacity building initiatives (trainings, webinars, resource-sharing, etc.), including on the new CCCs
4. Assist in Partnerships & resource mobilization
- Ensure regular participation and contributions to the EiE Regional Working Group
- Support EiE partnership engagement as needed (including with UNHCR, WFP, WHO, ECW, ECHO, GPE, INEE and others)
- Support resource mobilization efforts
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Education-
- Advanced University degree in education, development, social science or communications or comparable academic preparation.
Work Experience-
- At least five years of relevant work experience in Education in Emergencies including supporting the design, implementation and monitoring of emergency responses, in programming for resilience and risk reduction
Language Requirement:-
- Fluency in verbal and written English or French (depending on the country office’s official language). Knowledge of another UN language or a local language is an asset
Specialized skills/technical knowledge/experience
- Policy and Programming for EiE, including preparedness, response, risk reduction, resilience, Data, monitoring and reporting,
- Capacity building, multi-country trainings, and technical support in EiE,
- Knowledge management on EiE, including the documentation of good practice and lessons learned,
- Advanced analytical, communication and writing skills in English, including drafting concise documents based on the review of multiple information sources,
- Developing high quality resources and presentations for various audiences,
- Ability to work remotely and independently
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: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues
UNICEF competencies required for this post are…
- Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
- Works Collaboratively with others (1)
- Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
- Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
- Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
- Drive to achieve impactful results (1)
- Manages ambiguity and complexity(1)
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.
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:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. 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.
Deadline: E. Africa Standard Time