Education Specialist, P3, Temporary Appointment (364 Days), Kenya Country Office, Nairobi, Post # 127648 (Open to Non-Kenyans Only)

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived kids. To avoid wasting 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, each day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means surrender.

For each baby, Training!

The Authorities of Kenya has allotted a major finances to schooling, to implement reforms such because the Competency-Based mostly Curriculum and a 100 per cent transition from major to secondary college. Nonetheless, points equivalent to poor-quality educating and enormous class sizes nonetheless have an effect on the standard of youngsters’s studying. The pupil-to-teacher ratio stays very excessive in some counties, equivalent to 77 to 1 in Turkana.

Earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic, nationwide enrollment in major schooling stood at 93 per cent, however on the secondary degree was solely 53 per cent. Kenya has made positive factors in reaching distant areas and deprived communities on the major and pre-primary ranges. In pastoral communities, excessive dropout charges mirror a perceived lack of worth in education, lengthy distances to varsities and excessive charges of kid marriage. In 2020, college closures interrupted studying for over 17 million kids, who missed greater than six months of formal schooling. In addition they confronted elevated dangers of violence, baby labour and their psychological well-being.

https://www.unicef.org/kenya/education

How are you going to make a distinction?

Background

The basic mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each baby, in all places, in all the pieces the group does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing probably 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 likelihood 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, schooling, 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 development and stability of nations. Due to this fact, the give attention to fairness is so important. It accelerates progress in 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 Baby, whereas additionally supporting the equitable improvement of countries.

The Authorities of Kenya has allotted a major finances to schooling, to remodel schooling to reinforce entry to high quality, inclusive and equitable schooling alternatives to reinforce the acquisition of 21^st Century abilities by learners by way of implementing reforms such because the Competency-Based mostly Curriculum, ICT in Training in addition to inclusion of refugees within the nationwide techniques.

The Kenyan authorities goals to spice up financial development by way of digitalization, highlighting initiatives just like the Competency Based mostly Curriculum (CBC) that emphasizes on digital studying, the Kenya Digital Economic system Blueprint and Kenya Digital Masterplan 2022 that outlines plans on enhancing ICT infrastructure, fostering innovation, and enhancing digital abilities.

The federal government of Kenya dedicated to the inclusion of refugees into the nationwide system, and the present conducive coverage setting opens alternative to ramp up progress on inclusion of refugee learners and schooling Establishments within the nationwide schooling system. As well as, the supply of schooling providers to refugee kids and youth have to be sustained and strengthened, investing in important abilities for self-reliance is essential for the refugee neighborhood. 

Goal of the function

Underneath the steerage and normal supervision of the Chief of Training (P4), the Training Specialist, (P3) helps the event and preparation of the Training programmes and is accountable for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating and reporting the progress of schooling programmes/tasks throughout the nation programme. The Specialist gives technical steerage and administration assist all through the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of outcomes on schooling programmes/tasks to enhance studying outcomes and equitable and inclusive schooling, particularly for kids who’re marginalized, refugee, deprived and excluded in society. This will likely be executed in shut collaboration with different UNICEF programme sections in UNICEF Kenya Nation Workplace (together with Innovation, Baby Safety, WASH and Social Coverage), respective subject workplaces and concerned companions.

The TA Training Specialist can even guarantee the standard coordination of UNICEF’s multi-sectoral/ built-in interventions associated to schooling in collaboration with the Training technical leads and Innovation Supervisor, specializing in refugee schooling, digital studying, abilities improvement and the general agenda of “studying to incomes”.

The incumbent will coordinate the well timed implementation of the actions consistent with the authorised proposals along with programme sections and subject workplaces and adhering to a Outcomes Based mostly Administration (RBM) method and methodology (RBM), in addition to UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, requirements of efficiency and accountability framework.

Primary Obligations and Duties

1. Help to programme improvement and planning

• Help the preparation, design and updating of the scenario evaluation for the schooling programmes to make sure that present and complete information on schooling points is obtainable to information UNICEF’s strategic coverage, advocacy, intervention and improvement efforts on schooling programmes.
• Assist supervisor set priorities, methods, design and implementation plans. Maintain abreast of improvement developments to reinforce programme administration, effectivity and supply.
• Take part in strategic programme dialogue on the planning of schooling programmes. Formulate, design and put together programme proposals for the sector, guaranteeing alignment with UNICEF’s Strategic Plans and Nation Programme and coherence/integration with the UN Sustainable Growth Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF), regional methods and nationwide priorities, plans and competencies.
• Set up particular objectives, aims, methods and implementation plans for the sector utilizing results-based planning terminology and methodology (RBM). Put together required documentations for programme evaluation and approval.
• Work intently and collaboratively with inside colleagues and companions to debate methods and methodologies, and to find out nationwide priorities to make sure the achievement of concrete and sustainable outcomes.
• Present technical and operational assist all through all levels of programming processes and to make sure 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

• Plan and collaborate with inside colleagues and exterior companions to ascertain 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 on schooling programmes.
• Take part in monitoring and analysis workouts, programme critiques and annual critiques with the federal government and different counterparts to evaluate progress and to find out required motion/interventions to realize outcomes.
• Put together and assess monitoring and analysis studies to establish gaps, strengths and weaknesses in programme administration.
• Determine classes realized and use data gained for improvement planning and well timed intervention to realize objectives.
• Actively monitor programmes/tasks by way of subject visits and surveys, and alternate info with stakeholders to evaluate progress, establish bottlenecks and potential issues, and take well timed selections to resolve points and/or check with related officers for well timed decision.
• Monitor and confirm the optimum and applicable use of sectoral programme sources (monetary, administrative and different belongings) confirming compliance with organizational guidelines, laws/procedures and donor commitments, requirements of accountability and integrity, guaranteeing well timed reporting and liquidation of sources.

• Put together common and mandated programme studies for administration, donors and companions to maintain them knowledgeable of programme progress.

3. Technical and operational assist to programme implementation

• Present technical steerage and operational assist to authorities counterparts, NGO companions, UN system companions and nation workplace companions and donors on interpretation, utility and understanding of UNICEF insurance policies, methods, processes and finest practices and approaches on schooling and associated points to assist programme administration, implementation and supply of outcomes.
• Organize/coordinate availability of technical consultants with Regional Workplace/HQ to make sure well timed and applicable assist all through the programming course of.
• Take part in schooling programme conferences together with programme improvement and contingency planning to offer technical and operational info, recommendation and assist.
• Draft coverage papers, briefs and different strategic programme supplies for administration use.

4. Networking and partnership constructing

• Construct and maintain efficient shut working partnerships with related authorities counterparts, nationwide stakeholders, international companions, donors, and academia by way of energetic networking, advocacy and efficient communication to construct capability, alternate data/experience and to strengthen cooperation to realize sustainable and broad outcomes on schooling programmes.
• Put together communication and data supplies for CO programme advocacy to advertise consciousness, set up partnerships and assist fund elevating for schooling programmes.

• Take part and/or characterize UNICEF in applicable inter-agency (UNCT) discussions on schooling and associated points to collaborate with inter-agency companions/colleagues on UNSDCF planning and preparation of programmes/tasks guaranteeing organizational place, pursuits and priorities are absolutely thought of and built-in within the UNSDCF course of in improvement planning and agenda.

5. Innovation, data administration and capability constructing

• Apply and introduce revolutionary approaches and good practices to construct the capability of companions and stakeholders and to assist the implementation and supply of concrete and sustainable programme outcomes.

• Maintain abreast, analysis, benchmark, and implement finest practices in schooling administration. Assess, institutionalize and share finest practices and data realized.

• 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 capability constructing initiatives to reinforce the competencies of shoppers/stakeholders to advertise sustainable outcomes on schooling and associated programmes/tasks.

 

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you should have…

• Superior College Diploma (Grasp’s required) diploma in Enterprise Administration, Social Science, Public Administration/Coverage, Worldwide Growth, or different associated or related subject. Further 2 years of related expertise and an undergraduate diploma may be accepted in lieu of the superior diploma.
• A minimal of 5 years of related expertise, ideally working for a UN Group, INGO or related inside, built-in/multi-sectoral programming, monitoring of tasks, coordination/administration, donor/accomplice relations.
• Expertise working in schooling programme notably specializing in abilities constructing and/ or refugee schooling portfolios is a bonus.
• Expertise working in UNICEF is a should.
• Earlier expertise in managing EU or PROSPECTS tasks is a bonus.
• Fluency in English is required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.

Technical Competencies

• Understanding of the general international improvement context, together with points equivalent to: poverty, migration and the impression of those components on schooling and vice-versa; and built-in, multi-sectoral approaches to deal with such points in collaboration with different sectors (together with Innovation, Social Coverage, Baby Safety, WASH, and Social Behavioral Change inside UNICEF).
• Data of worldwide developments in skilling of youngsters and Adolescents and worldwide engagement methods, together with the applying of the fairness and integration lenses and human rights views to programming.
• Some understanding of the humanitarian improvement nexus notably within the refugee internet hosting areas.
• Expertise in programme administration in schooling, together with programme design, costing/budgeting, monitoring and analysis and reporting.
• Demonstrated data in x-sectoral points (gender and incapacity inclusion and setting)
• Possess glorious planning, coordination, reporting and teamwork abilities.
• Glorious administration and organizational abilities.

For each Baby, you display…

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

UNICEF competencies required for this publish are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (3) Drive to realize outcomes for impression (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.

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

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