EdTech Assessment and Operations Consultant, UNICEF Global Learning Innovation Hub, Helsinki, Finland, office-based

EdTech Assessment and Operations Consultant

Global Programme Division - Global Education Practice, Helsinki, Finland

Job no: 595516

Contract type: Consultant

Duty Station: Helsinki

Level: Consultancy

Location: Finland

Categories: Innovation

UNICEF Global Learning Innovation Hub, Helsinki, Finland

Office-based, no planned travel

12 months

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

UNICEF works to ensure that digital technologies contribute to equitable, inclusive and effective learning outcomes for children. Within UNICEF’s Office of Innovation, the Global Learning Innovation Hub supports UNICEF country offices, governments and partners in identifying, developing and scaling solutions that strengthen the quality and impact of digital education.

As part of this work, the Hub has developed the EdTech for Good Framework, which provides a structured approach for assessing the quality of EdTech solutions across key areas such as Safety, Impact, Pedagogy, Scalability and Accessibility. The Learning Cabinet applies this framework to support UNICEF and its partners in identifying and understanding high-quality EdTech solutions based on a rigorous assessment across these areas.

As the Learning Cabinet transitions from a cohort-based application system to a continuous and platform-enabled assessment model, there is a need for dedicated operational management of the pipeline of tools.

The purpose of this 12-month consultancy is to manage and further strengthen the application, assessment, curation and product-listing processes of UNICEF’s Learning Cabinet.

The consultant will support with the coordination of applications through the Quick Assessment and Full Assessment stages, coordinate the integration of expert evaluators in the assessment process, support the Learning Cabinet Committee in assessment‑related decision‑making, and communicate with applicants and internal stakeholders.

The consultancy will also support the continuous improvement of the Learning Cabinet’s evaluation and curation processes, the pipeline management platform workflows and the EdTech for Good Framework, by systematically capturing and communicating feedback from applicants, evaluators and UNICEF stakeholders.

The assignment is temporary and output-based. It will be implemented through clearly defined assessment management, reporting, process improvement and stakeholder coordination deliverables over the 12-month contract period.

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To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have...

• Education:
  
  Masters in Education, educational technology, digital education, business administration, innovation management, project management, international development, social sciences, information systems, technology management, or another relevant field.
• A first university degree in a relevant field combined with two additional years of qualifying professional experience may be…