PURPOSE OF THE JOB
The incumbent will be accountable for planning, implementing, monitoring and quality assurance of the inclusive education component within the Education Programme with a focus on ensuring equitable learning opportunities and outcomes for most vulnerable children, including children out of school, poor or socially disadvantaged children, children with developmental delays and disabilities, children living with HIV-AIDS, children in emergencies and adolescents (girls in particular).
The incumbent will collaborate across the programme sections to ensure gender mainstreaming as well as promote inter-sectoral partnerships in order to ensure that progress benefits mutually education and other programmes, including programmes targeting poor and socially challenged children, children with disabilities, children in emergencies, adolescent girls and HIV prevention, treatment and care for adolescents.
KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
- Provide timely sectoral analysis, input, collaboration and support to strategic planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Inclusive Education focusing on equitable learning opportunities and outcomes for the most vulnerable children, especially within a gender-specific framework. Facilitate development of new approaches and innovations especially those related to Inclusive Quality Education including capacity of schools and teacher training institutions.
- Ensure programme, sectoral or inter-sectoral efficiency and delivery, evaluation and reporting through a rigorous and transparent approach to evaluation of education for most vulnerable children. Promote the quality of rights-based education programming for adolescent girls, children with disabilities, HIV and AIDS in adolescents, children in emergencies and children from poorer or socially challenged backgrounds through participation in the formulation of programme goals and approaches.
- Prepare documents for the development of specific strategies for addressing barriers to participation and learning for most vulnerable children including adolescent girls, children with disabilities, children living with HIV, children in emergencies and children from poorer or socially challenged backgrounds.
- Promote partnership with the stakeholders, including knowledge institutions, to further understanding of barriers to and opportunities for advancing the 3 priorities themes (the “3Es”) – Equal access and universal primary completion, Empowerment through girls’ education and gender mainstreaming, Emergencies, education for children with disabilities, HIV and AIDS and post-crisis education cluster interventions.
- Collaborate with Government and core partners in Education, NGOs, UN and bilateral agencies in the different stages of Education programme/project implementation to follow up on agreements and recommendations. Provide technical support and guidance on appropriate technical, financial and institutional capacity building measures to achieve Education programme goals.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
• 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. • Five years of progressively professional work experience at national and international levels in field programmes relevant to Inclusive Education programmes. • Experience in national level development assistance is an asset. • Background/familiarity with Emergency is an asset.
How to apply:
Applications, CVs and P-11 to be sent to rwajobs@unicef.org or at UNICEF reception, Kacyiru, Ebenezer house
The closing date is December 18, 2012
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