Learning and Scaling Lead

Job Highlight

The successful candidate will contribute to innovative outcomes funds, transforming how education and skills are financed and delivered. EOF offers its team the opportunity to drive systems change at scale, while working in a mission-driven, high-performing team.

From Geneva, UNOPS facilitates the achievement of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), working with governments, other United Nations (UN) agencies and partners by providing quality servces, integrated solutions and management support through strategic, cost-effective and results-oriented approches. This includes supporting platforms and hosting high-profile, flagship initiatives and funds focusing on health, nutrition, water and sanitation, sustainable cities, environment, energy, climate and trade.

UNOPS is a recognized resource for the UN system in Geneva – from fund management and oversight and advisory services, to providing hosting solutions to a range of global initiatives, as well as operational support to partner organizations.

The Learning and Scaling Lead will support the Country Lead to develop and implement a learning, scaling, and evidence synthesis agenda that translates programme evidence into operational insights and actionable policy recommendations.

• Support the Country Lead to design the Learning, Scaling and Evidence Synthesis Agenda by defining learning priorities, research questions, decision cycles and validation mechanisms.
• Contribute to the development of tools, dashboards and systems to track progress against learning and scaling milestones.
• Recommend and help set-up tools to standardize reporting and data collection, to enable real‑time evidence sharing across program partners.

• Coordinate with government counterparts, the independent evaluator, implementing partners and technical partners to collect data and generate evidence on what works throughout program delivery and surface lessons learned.
• Contribute to synthesising monitoring, evaluation, research and operational data into clear, policy‑relevant insights to support program adaptation and decision-making.
• Support the collection and analysis of data on how outcomes‑based contracts influence organizational practices and system collaboration.
• Assist the Country Lead in facilitating cross-partner knowledge exchange, such as by convening peer‑learning workshops and documenting emerging insights, challenges and adaptive practices shared by implementing partners and pre‑financers.
• Contribute to drafting reports that consolidate cross‑partner evidence into actionable recommendations for EOF strategic decision‑making and for government planning, funding strategies and policies, both during and after implementation.
• Support the dissemination of key evidence and learnings through sector‑wide dialogues and help identify opportunities for coordination across related initiatives.
• Participate in evaluation meetings and make links for learnings
• Review baseline and endline reports and make links for learnings

• Assist the Country Lead in working with government and program partners to identify learning and sustainability priorities, ensuring data collection and research outputs align with these priorities.
• Assist the Country Lead to identify opportunities for scale and analyse system readiness for program expansion by conducting desk research and market assessments
• Produce reports outlining risks, mitigation strategies and recommended actions for scale‑up.
• Support the coordination of multi‑stakeholder learning, design and policy sessions related to program scale‑up and future program conceptualization.
• Support the Country Lead to develop frameworks and strategies for scaling successful interventions and models.
• Under the supervision of the Country Lead, identify key drivers of program success and assess scalability across different geographic and operational contexts.
• Support internal and external program teams in adapting evidence‑based approaches for…