Education Specialist (Quality), Kinshasa, Closing date: Monday, 22 June 2015

• Organization: UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund
• Country: Democratic Republic of Congo
• City: Kinshasa
• Office: UNICEF Kinshasa
• Grade: P-3

Education Specialist (Quality), P-3, Kinshasa DRC
Vacancy No: E-VN-2015-001343
Duty Station: Kinshasa
Country: Congo, Dem. Rep.
Region: WCARO
Job Level: P-3
Position#: 00084124
Application Close: 22-Jun-15
Contract Type: Long-term Staff (FT)
Purpose of the Position
Accountable for planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluation of Education programme(s) to ensure overall efficiency and effectiveness of the programme management, delivery and accomplishment of programme goals and objectives. Across the Education programme(s), accountable for identifying gender inequalities in education, and for developing innovative approaches and programmes to eliminating these inequalities. Collaborates across the programme(s) to ensure gender mainstreaming. Ensures that monitoring mechanisms are in place to track progress towards disparity reduction goals and targets in Education. Promotes intersectoral partnerships in order to ensure that progress benefits mutually education and other programmes, in particular Health, Nutrition, Water and Environmental Sanitation.
Contributes to synergize the work of United Nations agencies in Education including in humanitarian actions, working closely with the Education cluster within the inter-agency standing committee (IASC).
Key Expected Results

1. Timely sectoral analysis, input, support and collaboration to the Situation Analysis and its periodic update made for effective programme planning, development and management, in a gender-specific framework. Partnership with the stakeholders, including knowledge institutions strengthened to further understanding of barriers to and opportunities for advancing the 3 priorities themes (the '3Es') – Equal access and universal primary completion, Education Quality, Equity and Empowerment through girls' education and gender mainstreaming, Emergencies and post-crisis education cluster interventions.
2. Knowledge management effectively promoted through drafting/finalizing key Education sectoral programme documents and reports, sharing good practice, lessons learned, and knowledge/information exchange, with partnerships and collaborative relationships with all stakeholders, capitalizing on the know-how and network of knowledge institutions.
3. 3Rights-based Quality Education programming effectively promoted, and coherence, synergy and value added to programme management process through results-based management with a focus on learning outcomes. Pon specific issues and themes or regional concern, such as innovative methodologies for reading literacy, lifeskills education, equity in education, policies for the abolition of school fees exploited efficiently in order to formulate common advocacy position, develop policy guidance and influence policies and strategies to ensure equity in the distribution of resources.
4. Sectoral work plan and activities formulated, implemented and monitored, ensuring alignment with the defined strategies and approaches for quality education, and gender mainstreaming across programmes.
5. Programme delivery, evaluation and reporting carried out efficiently and transparently in compliance with the established guidelines and procedures.
6. UNICEF's global goals effectively promoted through advocacy and policy dialogue in the Education sector.
7. Proper and timely UNICEF and Government accountability ensured regarding supply and non-supply assistance as well as disbursement of programme funds for the Education sector. The Global Partnership for Education, The United Nations Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI ), the UNSG Initiative on Education and Inter Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Education Cluster for Education in Emergencies - catalyzed to accelerate progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals 2 and 3.
8. Effective communication and networking achieved through partnership and collaboration, focussing on the the 3 priorities of access, quality and efficiency and governanceusing existing coordination mechanisms to advance national and global education priorities.

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Qualifications of Successful Candidate
Education

• Advanced university degree in one or more of the disciplines relevant to the following areas: Education; Primary Education, or a Social Sciences fields relevant to international development assistance.
• A first university degree with a relevant combination of academic qualifications and experience may be accepted in lieu of advanced university degree.

Work Experience

• Five years of progressively professional work experience at national and international levels in field programmes relevant to Education programmes.
• Experience working in the UN or other international development organization an asset.(IP)
• Experience in national level development assistance is an asset.
• Experience with addressing gender disparities and asset.
• Background/familiarity with Emergency.

Language Proficiency

• Fluency in French and a second UN language (IP)

Competencies of Successful Candidate
i) Core Values

• Commitment
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Integrity

ii) Core Competencies

• Communication
• Working with People
• Drive for Results

iii) Functional Competencies

• Leading and Supervising
• Formulating Strategies and Concepts
• Analyzing
• Relating and Networking
• Persuading and Influencing
• Creating and Innovating

Remarks
The successful candidate for this emergency recruitment MUST be available to commence work within 31 days of receiving an offer.
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organisation.