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VACANCY NOTICE
UNICEF

Education Specialist, P4, Fixed Term, Kathmandu, Nepal #43690
- Job no: 577887
- Position type: Fixed Term Appointment
- Location: Nepal
- Division/Equivalent: Kathmandu(ROSA)
- School/Unit: Regional Services Div (SAR), Kathmandu
- Department/Office: Reg Serv – Prog Section, Kathmandu
- Categories: Education

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For every child, education
The UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) is committed to advancing the rights of all children in South Asia, particularly the most disadvantaged. It provides support to eight countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Through its advisory and leadership roles, UNICEF ROSA holds a strategic position to influence policies, strategies, and programming at both national and sub-national levels across South Asia.

Even before COVID-19, South Asia had the highest number of out-of-school children (OOSC) and adolescents, with 93 million girls and boys affected. Additionally, the region accounted for 31% of the global total of children living in learning poverty. Six out of 10 children in South Asia were unable to read and understand a simple text by the age of 10 or master foundational numeracy skills—let alone the digital and socio-emotional skills needed for meaningful employment, personal well-being, and active participation in society.

In alignment with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, UNICEF’s vision for education 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 vision is built around three interrelated goals: (i) equitable access to learning opportunities; (ii) improved learning and skills for all; and (iii) enhanced learning and protection for children in emergencies and transitions.
UNICEF ROSA works to ensure that girls and boys, especially the most disadvantaged, acquire the skills they need in inclusive, equitable, safe, relevant, and high-quality learning environments. This includes supporting South Asia Country Offices in foundational learning, one of four priority areas for UNICEF’s acceleration efforts in the region.

How can you make a difference?
As Education Specialist, you will support the Regional Education Advisor (REA) in providing capacity building, technical assistance, quality assurance, and high-level policy and programme planning support related to education systems strengthening. Hence improving the quality of learning and skills in South Asia, in both development and humanitarian contexts.

You will also provide technical assistance to Country Offices in designing and implementing activities focused on assessing, monitoring, and improving learning outcomes in the region, particularly to accelerate foundational learning for the most disadvantaged children and adolescents. This will include supporting Country Offices in the large-scale implementation of the most cost-effective policies and practices, such as teacher capacity development in structured pedagogy and targeted instruction, mother tongue instruction, equitable digital learning solutions, community system strengthening, social accountability, and improved and better-utilized learning assessments.

In this important role, you will also contribute to resource mobilization and the development and preparation of the regional education programme and will be responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on programme progress.

Key functions, accountabilities and related duties/tasks will include:
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

Application Deadline: Jan 05 2025 Nepal Standard Time

HOW TO APPLY
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