Consultant for Access to Education Programs, Beirut Lebanon (125 working days)

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, fair access to Education programs

The Consultant will provide technical and operational support for the implementation of four programs that help children access quality formal and non-formal education:

– The Reaching School Program provides cash assistance to cover the cost of transportation for selected eligible children across second shift public schools. This program addresses a key barrier to accessing education for vulnerable families.

– The Accelerated Learning Programme, a certified non-formal education program that targets children aged 7.6-17 years who have missed two or more years of formal schooling to help them re-integrate into the formal education (FE) system.

– The Internet Support Program (ISP) that will provide support for internet connectivity to vulnerable Lebanese and non-Lebanese children in selected middle grades across both first and second shifts public schools, addressing the financial challenge of vulnerable Lebanese and non-Lebanese families to ensure the sustained participation of their children in remote learning.

– Outreach and retention support activities that aim to identify children from vulnerable communities, enrolling or referring them to appropriate education programmes according to their profile (age, learning background) and following up on their retention in those programmes for completion and transition to other education pathways.

 

How can you make a difference?

More specifically this role involves:

• Supporting the review of program eligibility criteria in coordination with colleagues and program partners

• Following-up with NGO partners on program implementation

• Documenting and addressing complaints from schools and from beneficiaries

• Gathering and analyzing program data for follow-up, documentation and reporting

• Supporting coordination with the MEHE as needed during all program phases.

Support outreach, referral and education retention activities:

– Review NGO partners’ community outreach and referral strategy. Help identify support needed to strengthen NGO capacity.

– Gather and analyze outreach and referral data from UNICEF education partners.

– Monitor and document NGO partners’ follow-up on absenteeism and drop-out in ALP, RSP, internet connectivity and FE.

– Monitor NGO partners’ activities and targets linked to RCCE.

 

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

• A bachelors university degree in the area of Education
• Minimum of 2 years relevant experience in Education with UN and/ or NGOs. Field and emergency experience is an advantage
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
• Experience in organising and conducting training activities and information campaign on education
• Strong knowledge of MS office suite and advanced knowledge in excel and database
• Ability to present information in understandable tables, charts and graphs
• Communicates effectively in both graphic and narrative form
• A high level of organizational skills.
• Fluency in English and Arabic is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

View our competency framework at

http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

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.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

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

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The application will be reviewed under the best value for money principle, thus only applications with financial proposal will be considered (including the total fees in USD)