Education Specialist (Digital Learning), NOC, Temporary Appointment (364 days), ROSA, Kathmandu, Nepal (Open for Nepalese Nationals only) #00127853

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived kids. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each baby, in all places, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means quit.

For each baby, training

The basic mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each baby, in all places, in every little thing the group does — in programmes, advocacy, and operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing essentially the most deprived and excluded kids and households, interprets this dedication to kids’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness signifies that all kids have a chance to outlive, develop, and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias, or favoritism. To the diploma that any baby has an unequal probability in life — in its social, political, financial, civic, and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There’s rising proof that investing within the well being, training, and safety of a society’s most deprived residents — addressing inequity — not solely will give all kids the chance to satisfy their potential but in addition will result in sustained progress and stability of nations. Because of this the give attention to fairness is so important. It accelerates progress in the direction of realizing the human rights of all kids, which is the common mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Conference on the Rights of the Little one, whereas additionally supporting the equitable improvement of countries.

How are you going to make a distinction?

Below the steerage and common supervision of the Training Specialist (Stage 4) and the oversight of the worldwide Studying Passport workforce, the Training Specialist (Digital Studying) helps the digital studying portfolio within the South Asia area, with a give attention to the implementation of the Studying Passport and performs a key function in bringing innovation to the event, implementation, and monitoring of digital studying programmes.

As such, the Training Specialist gives high quality technical help and steerage to advance Nation Places of work within the area in creating digital studying programmes that enhance studying outcomes and help the continuation of studying, notably for essentially the most weak kids and in contexts of restricted ICT infrastructure and Web connectivity. This contains offering technical help in assessing nation workplace necessities, localizing the expertise, curating content material, and guaranteeing that it’s contextualized and could be successfully utilized in respective nation places of work.

The Training Specialist contributes to the achievement of outcomes based on plans, allocation, results-based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), in addition to UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, requirements of efficiency, and accountability framework.

Key features, accountabilities, and associated duties/duties

1. Assist to programme improvement and planning

• Present technical help and recommendation to colleagues within the part on all features of programming and implementation to allow them to attain efficiency goals, within the context of Studying Passport deployment and scale-up.
• Work carefully and collaboratively with inside and exterior colleagues and companions to debate methods and methodologies and to find out nationwide priorities/competencies to make sure the achievement of concrete and sustainable outcomes.
• Assist within the improvement of country-level programme implementation plans and actions, leveraging greatest practices and main technical approaches, in coordination with Nation Workplace groups, companions, and governments.
• Assist supervisor set priorities, methods, design, and implementation plans. Maintain abreast of improvement developments to boost programme administration, effectivity, and supply.
• Present technical and operational help all through all phases of programming processes and guarantee integration, coherence, and harmonization of programmes/tasks with different UNICEF sectors and achievement of outcomes as deliberate and allotted.

2. Programme administration, monitoring, and supply of outcomes

• Take part in monitoring and analysis workouts, program critiques, and annual critiques with authorities and different counterparts to evaluate progress and to find out required motion/interventions to attain outcomes. Present steerage on programmatic and technical information.
• Put together/assess monitoring and analysis stories to establish gaps, strengths/weaknesses in program and administration, establish classes discovered, and use information gained for improvement planning and well timed interventions.
• Plan and collaborate with inside colleagues and exterior companions to determine monitoring benchmarks, efficiency indicators, and different UNICEF/UN system indicators to evaluate/strengthen efficiency accountability, coherence, and supply of concrete and sustainable outcomes for the assigned sector of training programmes.

3. Technical and operational help to programme implementation

• Present technical steerage and operational help to nation workplace companions/donors on interpretation, software, and understanding of UNICEF insurance policies, methods, processes greatest practices, and approaches to training and associated points to help program administration, implementation, and supply of outcomes.
• Organize/coordinate availability of technical specialists with Regional Workplace/HQ to make sure well timed/applicable help all through the programming/tasks course of, notably within the context of Studying Passport deployment and scale-up.
• Take part in training program conferences together with program improvement and contingency planning to offer technical and operational data, recommendation, and help.
• Draft coverage papers, briefs, and different strategic program supplies for administration use, data, and/or consideration.
• Assist the continued rollout of Studying Passport platforms in SAR throughout the contexts of Training, Adolescents and Improvement, and Era Limitless (GenU) and take part in common calls with the worldwide Studying Passport workforce.
• Troubleshoot technical, platform-level {hardware}, and software program points with nation groups and in coordination with the worldwide Studying Passport workforce and engineering sources.

4. Networking and partnership-building 

• Construct and maintain efficient shut working partnerships with related counterparts and world companions/allies/donors/academia via energetic networking, advocacy, and efficient communication to construct capability, trade information/experience, and reinforce cooperation to attain sustainable and broad outcomes on teaching programs.
• Put together communication and data supplies for CO program advocacy to advertise consciousness, set up partnerships/alliances, and help fundraising for teaching programs.

5. Innovation, information administration, and capability constructing

• Apply and introduce progressive approaches and good practices to construct the capability of companions and stakeholders and to help the implementation and supply of concrete and sustainable programme outcomes.
• Maintain abreast, analysis, benchmark, and implement greatest practices in training administration. Assess, institutionalize, and share greatest practices and information discovered.
• Contribute to the event and implementation of insurance policies and procedures to make sure optimum effectivity and efficacy of sustainable programmes and tasks.
• Manage and implement capacity-building initiatives to boost the competencies of shoppers/stakeholders to advertise sustainable ends in training and associated programmes/tasks.

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you’ll have…

Training: 

• A sophisticated college diploma in one of many following fields is required: training, data expertise, engineering, social sciences, or one other related subject.

Expertise:

• A minimal of 5 years {of professional} expertise in Know-how for Improvement (T4D) and/or data system improvement, together with cell and web-based purposes, with the manifested capability to handle programmes involving many stakeholders.
• Expertise in digital studying design.
• Expertise managing user-driven design processes for UX/UI.
• Confirmed coaching and capacity-building abilities for a spread of stakeholders.
• Good technical understanding and familiarity with data administration methods.
• Glorious written and oral communication abilities
• Expertise in educating with expertise/blended studying is taken into account an asset.
• Expertise in digital content material creation is taken into account an asset.
• Expertise working in a creating nation is taken into account an asset.
• Related expertise in a UN system company or group is taken into account an asset.

Language Necessities:

• Fluency in English is required.
• Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian, or Spanish) or an area language is an asset.

For each Little one, you display…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every little thing we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…

• Demonstrates Self Consciousness and Moral Consciousness (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Drive to attain impactful outcomes (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

Throughout the recruitment course of, we check candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges: competency framework here.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our world workforce should replicate the variety of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or another private attribute.
We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages using versatile working preparations.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. 

Remarks:

UNICEF’s energetic dedication in the direction of range and inclusion is crucial to ship the perfect outcomes for kids. For this place, eligible and appropriate candidates are inspired to use.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station, which can be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Do you have to be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both have to be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. In any other case, the choice can be cancelled.

All chosen candidates will bear rigorous reference and background checks and can be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer extra data to conduct a background verify.

Authorities workers which are thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the proper to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is just not obtained, or essential inoculation necessities usually are not met, inside an affordable interval for any purpose.

Solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.