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For every child,

Education Specialist is required to support the Oromia Field Office (FO) in Education in Emergency (EiE) coordination and management across six emergency-affected zones of Oromia Region. The deployment of an EiE Specialist will assist the FO and government partners to ensure a well-coordinated and designed EiE response for IDP children and adolescents.

How can you make a difference?

Under the guidance of Chief of Oromia Field Office, the Education Specialist will contribute to the acceleration of the Education in Emergency response, supporting effective EiE communication and coordination, implementation and management and resource mobilization as required. The Education Specialist will be responsible for the following:

Education Cluster (coordination and IM) support

• Provide information and communication at all levels (region, zones and selected woredas).

• • Review existing data/information management systems in terms of content, format, reliability, processing, analysis, reporting capacities and use for informed decision making.
  • Work with relevant authorities/stakeholders/cluster to streamline data collection and utilize one information system (e.g. 4W).

• • Assist implementing partners at regional and/or zona/woreda level to provide timely education data and information.
  • Regularly compile and provide quality and comprehensive education input (e.g. FO biweekly SitRep; cluster 4W).

• Support the overall coordination of Oromia region education cluster.
  • Support the organization and running of cluster meetings, ensuring that action points are recorded, shared and properly followed up in a timely fashion.
• Work with the education sector to advocate and communicate the role of EiE as life-saving and life-sustaining.
• Support linkages and coordination with Education Cluster among other sectors and clusters; work to ensure strong linkages and coordination with different sectors, specifically with WASH, Child Protection and DRMC (regarding potential school feeding support).

EiE program support

• Ensure the EiE response at the region/zone/district/woreda level is in-line with the regional and national cluster plan, and regional DRM IDP response plan.
  • Provide input/feedback on the overall EiE strategy to the Technical Lead.
• Support the development of a 1-year action plan, with specific tasks and responsibilities.
• Provide technical support on establishment of CPiE and GBV (particularly drawing attention to school-related gender-based violence – SRGBV) coordination task force to strengthen EiE and CPiE coordination & response.
• Provide EiE technical support and quality oversight to the EiE response.
  • Oversee and monitor the existing EiE response, identifying opportunities to scale-up and improve the quality response.
  • Identify opportunities to promote safe and relevant learning opportunities through strong partnerships and inter-sectoral linkages to enhance physical, cognitive and socio-emotional well-being of children.
  • Create/strengthen linkage between IDP school/temporary learning spaces/sites and host-community schools to promote technical and resource sharing.
  • Ensure that the minimum standards for EiE and humanitarian response are maintained in accordance with the INEE Minimum Standards, CCCs and Sphere, etc.

• Provide technical inputs in a timely and efficient manner on emergency supply related items. Follow up closely on their utilization and report to UNICEF Oromia team.
• Provide input/feedback on concept notes and proposals to the Technical Lead to support EiE fundraising.

Accountability to affected-communities

• Ensure emergency-affected community members (including children and adolescents) actively participate in assessing, planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating the education programme.
• Support and ensure local community resources are identified, mobilized and used to implement education programmes and other learning activities.

• Conduct affected-population/children consultations and produce reports and case stories in relation to the emergency, coordinated with relevant technical colleagues.

Capacity building

• [In all activities] Work closely with the regional education bureau and its lower level structures, while building the capacity of government partners at all levels.
• Identify EiE learning and training opportunities.
  • Provide technical oversight and assist the facilitation of EiE training and emergency related capacity building initiatives for regional, zonal and woreda level experts/EiE focal persons.
  • Utilize and update (if needed) Ethiopian contextualized INEE Minimum Standards (2013) at Regional-level.

As required

• Any other EiE-related activities, in discussion with the Chief of Field Office

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) preferably in education or related field, such as a subject area of educational planning and management, educational leadership, sociology or any other relevant social science. *A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
• At least 5 years progressively responsible humanitarian and development work; showcasing experience with UN Agencies and/or INGOs and with different levels of the education sector/system.
• Experience of and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability.
• Good knowledge of (and ideally experience in) using established inter-agency standards and guidelines in EiE, such as the INEE Minimum Standards.
• Experience assisting or facilitating trainings is desirable.
• Experience and understanding of the cluster system is desirable.
• Formal training in cluster information management and emergency response is desirable.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of local language (Affan Oromo) is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

The technical competencies required for this post are….

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.