Re-advertisement: TEMPORARY APPOINTMENT: Education Specialist (Data, Monitoring & Reporting), (NO-3), Lilongwe, Malawi #124767, 364 days, REQ#567638 (Open to Nationals of Malawi Only)

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived youngsters. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each little one, in all places, every single day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means hand over.

For each little one,  schooling…

UNICEF Malawi Nation Programmes (2019-2023 and 2024-2028) are aligned with the Authorities of Malawi’s Development and Growth Technique (MDGS III) and the United Nations Growth Help Framework (UNDAF). The programme helps the Authorities of Malawi to fulfill its dedication to respect, shield and fulfil youngsters’s rights according to worldwide conventions and requirements. The nation programme is guided by the ideas of kids’s rights, fairness, gender equality, inclusion, and resilience and helps evidence-based, integrative, and modern programming. The imaginative and prescient is that ‘all women and boys in Malawi, particularly essentially the most deprived and disadvantaged, notice their rights’.  The programme focuses on early childhood (parenting, high-impact social companies, early stimulation and studying), center childhood and adolescence (studying, multi-sectoral companies, lively citizenship), communities (decentralized companies and programs, group possession, social norms), programme effectiveness (monitoring, analysis, HACT, Innovation, Social Safety and Social Coverage and Exterior Communication.  The programme relies on ‘leaving no little one behind,’ realizing ‘rights for all youngsters in Malawi’.

The Schooling & Adolescents Growth and Participation (EADP) Programme in Malawi goals to make sure each little one accesses schooling and learns to succeed in their full potential. Because the Schooling Specialist (Information, Monitoring, and Reporting), you may be on the forefront of supporting the  Ministry of Schooling (MoE) in strengthening the Schooling Administration Data System (EMIS). You’ll work collaboratively with the EMIS staff to help the annual faculty census, information cleansing, capability constructing of district schooling administration data officers, and coordination of improvement companions supporting the EMIS, particularly the transition from paper-based to web-based EMIS.

How will you make a distinction?

The Malawi Nation Workplace provides an thrilling and rewarding profession alternative so that you can be part of our dynamic Schooling & Adolescents Growth and Participation Programme (EADP) staff, the place you’ll present technical management to help the MoE to additional strengthening the Schooling Administration Data System (EMIS). Your position contains supporting the  MoE in transitioning from paper-based to web-based EMIS, in addition to assembly the information wants of the EADP staff, together with monitoring the Joint Programme on Women Schooling. Moreover, you’ll help the EADP staff within the high quality assurance of donor and UNICEF experiences.

Working underneath steering and supervision of the Chief Schooling, Adolescents, and Participation Programme, youwill collaborate with the Programme Planning and Monitoring and Analysis Analysis and Data Administration groups.

This place provides  a novel alternative for a professional,  motivated and dedicated particular person to make a big impression on youngsters’s academic outcomes. By excelling professionally, you’ll contribute to the general achievement of transformative outcomes by delivering on the next key accountability areas, however not restricted to:

     1. Assist the performance of the web-based EMIS and wider EMIS operations

• Monitor and consider the efficiency of the web-based system with stakeholders and coordinate and advocate refinements.
• Assist the dissemination of EMIS experiences on the nationwide and sub-national ranges.
• Guarantee full implementation of the  web-based EMIS system in at the very least  50% of schooling districts.
• Present technical management to the MoE EMIS staff in harmonizing and integrating information programs.
• Contribute to information assortment and evaluation for schooling emergency responses.

     2. Assist EADP inside and exterior planning, monitoring, and reporting duties in addition to Funding Proposals  

• Set up a sturdy system for enhancing EADP information assortment, evaluation, monitoring, and reporting.
• Analyse information from a number of sources to establish little one deprivations associated to schooling indicators.
• Present information necessities to the EADP programme and assessment donor experiences for high quality assurance.
• Help the UNICEF Analysis and Data administration staff within the mid-term analysis of the Joint Programme on Women Schooling III.
• Take the lead and convene the JPGE III monitoring process staff.

You’re inspired to obtain the detailed job description JD_TA_NOC Education Specialist (Data Monitoring Reporting).pdf so as to view the total position and its necessities.

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

Schooling:

• Superior college diploma in Schooling, Statistics, Inhabitants Research, Monitoring and Analysis, Social Sciences, or a associated technical discipline is required.
• *A primary-level college diploma in a related discipline mixed with at the very least seven further years {of professional} expertise could also be accepted in lieu of a sophisticated college diploma.
• Coaching and/or familiarity with data programs and communication applied sciences is extremely fascinating.

Expertise:

• Minimal of 5 years of expertise in designing, managing, implementing, and monitoring schooling programmes in creating nations, with experience in  programs design and analysis utilizing  Statistical Bundle for the Social Sciences or Microsoft Entry is required.
• Expertise in schooling programme planning, monitoring, and reporting is required. 

Technical information and expertise:

• Wonderful information of pc purposes,together with programming, Microsoft Excel, and Entry is required.
• Familiarity with digital information gathering platforms and software program; with an understanding geospatial information is required.
• Capability for schooling and coverage sector evaluation, together with the understanding of core schooling information units, indicators, instruments for fairness evaluation, determinants of pupil entry and studying, budgeting, price and financing, schooling system administration, political economic system, and software to schooling coverage and strategic planning is required.
• Data/capacity in schooling  sector planning , together with  modalities for delivering schooling, linkages between totally different sub-sectors (e.g., Early Childhood Growth, Main, Secondary, Inclusive Schooling), cost-effectiveness and effectivity, key institutional constructions, elements and processes, in addition to governance points is extremely fascinating.
• Wonderful expertise in gathering and analysing disaggregated information and managing information programs, similar to EMIS, and report writing expertise is required.
• Capability to help coverage dialogue,  translating analytical findings and proof into improvement programme and coverage discussions on  fairness and studying with companions, together with authorities, improvement companions, Civil Society Organisations and academia in related areas is extremely fascinating.
• Understanding of gender, inclusion and fairness points in schooling, with the appliance of gender / fairness evaluation to coverage and planning in schooling is extremely fascinating.
• Confirmed capacity to handle relationships with companions, together with authorities ministries, youth coalitions, universities, mental leaders, UN organizations, NGOs and the personal sector is required.
• Proficiency in efficient communication throughout numerous audiences and contexts is important.

Language:

•  Fluency in English and Chichewa, each sturdy verbal and written expertise, are important.

For each Little one, you exhibit…

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

UNICEF competencies required for this submit 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.

In the course of 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.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our international workforce should mirror the variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other 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 the usage of 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 youngsters. 

Remarks:

The place just isn’t thought of an elevated danger position. Nonetheless, UNICEF reserves the precise to conduct additional vetting/evaluation inside the scope of kid safeguarding as applicable.

UNICEF’s lively dedication in direction of range and inclusion is essential to ship the perfect outcomes for kids. For this place, eligible and appropriate feminine candidates in addition to appropriate individuals dwelling with disabilities are inspired to use.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Appointments might also be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (COVID).

Authorities staff which might be thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an project with UNICEF.

UNICEF reserves the precise to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or crucial inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an affordable interval for any motive.

UNICEF solely considers greater academic {qualifications} obtained from an establishment accredited/acknowledged within the World Larger Schooling Database (WHED), an inventory up to date by the Worldwide Affiliation of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Academic, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO). The listing might be accessed at http://www.whed.net/.

The emptiness announcement is a re-advertisement and is open to all candidates – each inside UNICEF employees holding everlasting, persevering with and glued time period appointments and exterior candidates. Earlier candidates want to not reapply. 

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

To successfully contribute to the supply of outcomes for the kids of Malawi, the UNICEF Malawi Nation Workplace operates inside a dynamic and results-oriented setting. We foster an atmosphere characterised by creativity, innovation, collaboration, teamwork, a dedication to skilled development, and a secure workspace. Consequently, we’re actively looking for people who’re pushed to enact tangible change and devoted to serving Malawi’s youngsters with resourcefulness, resilience, agility, and a dedication to skilled excellence.