Education Specialist; Emergencies), P-, TA Education Cannot Wait; ECW), UNICEF Hosted Fund

Position: Education Specialist (Emergencies), P-4, TA, 364 days, #00137696, Education Cannot Wait (ECW), UNICEF Hosted Fund
Education Specialist (Emergencies), P-4, TA, 364 days, #, Education Cannot Wait (ECW), UNICEF Hosted Fund, Geneva, Switzerland

Job no: 596072
Contract type: Temporary Appointment
Duty Station: Geneva
Location: Switzerland
Categories: Education

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.

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For every child, the right to a Hero

How can you make a difference?

The Education Specialist (Emergencies) is a critical role within the Programme Delivery and Quality Team supporting the Chief of Education to oversee ECW’s portfolio of country investments and alignment with ECW’s strategic approach, programme priorities and standardised programme delivery, and quality assurance approaches. The postholder will ensure the effective design, implementation, and strategic oversight of ECW’s country-level investments. This role ensures coherence across ECW’s country portfolios, governance processes, and technical operations, while driving excellence in programme design, implementation, and monitoring.

The Education Specialist serves as a key member of the Programme Delivery and Quality Team, working closely with the chief of education to ensure effective running of the team, and contributes to ECW’s mission to deliver quality education in emergencies and protracted crises.

Key functions, accountabilities and related duties/tasks:

• Portfolio management, Programme Design & Coherence
• Lead on Quality Assurance framework and process
• Country Engagement Programming monitoring for quality learning
• Governance and Coordination at Programme Level
• External Representation, Sector leadership and partnerships

To qualify as a champion for every child you will have…

• Education
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  Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in Education, International Development, or other related fields.
• Work Experience
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  Minimum eight (8) years of EiE/protracted crisis experience with significant field-based programme management and monitoring
  -evaluation experience.
  Experience managing donor-funded multi-country EiE portfolio and grant management cycles.
  Experience across several ECW-supported contexts, specifically East Africa and/or Middle East contexts.
  
  Experience with global Education coordination platforms and policy engagement.
  Knowledge of ECW funding modalities, partnership architecture, and governance processes.
• Skills
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  Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
  Leadership and Change Management.
  Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL/MEL).
  External Representation and Advocacy.
  Cross-Sectoral Collaboration.
  Experience working in complex humanitarian and crisis-affected contexts.
• Language Requirements
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  Fluency in English is required.
• Language:
  Professional working proficiency in Arabic and/or French strongly preferred. Knowledge of another official UN language (Chinese, Russian, or Spanish) or a local language is considered an asset.
• Experience in MEAL systems and programme quality assurance.
• Experience leading or supporting change management and organizational adaptation initiatives.
• Experi…