UN Children's Fund Education Cluster Coordinator Consultant Jobs in Ethiopia
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Purpose
Oversee the national Education Emergency Cluster Structure.
How can you make a difference?
Specific Tasks
Under the oversight of the Chief Education (P5), the post holder will support education cluster structures at the national level for the efficient management and delivery of humanitarian responses. This will involve the following:
Effectively use and transfer information to, from and between cluster participants and other stakeholders;
Represent the Education Cluster within bi-monthly inter-cluster coordination meetings chaired by UNOCHA;
Lead the Ministry of Education, Planning and Resource Mobiisation Director and cluster partners in drafting/revising an annual Education Cluster Response plan;
Maintain ‘5W’ mapping of education sector humanitarian interventions;
Support drafting of resource mobilisation documents, drawing on analysis of humanitarian situation to ensure proposals are focussed and relevant;
Identification of areas requiring inter-cluster partnerships and designing of interventions as required (WASH, Child Protection, Health, Nutrition, etc)
Promote across education cluster partners community level consultative and feedback mechanisms;
Monitor performance of the core cluster functions and report to UNICEF, Save the Children, Ministry of Education and Cluster Partners on progress as against targets;
Incorporate gender and disability into all preparedness and response activities for the education cluster, and pro-actively support the cluster’s implementation of the IASC Disability Guidelines and the Guidelines for Integrating Gender Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Action.
Ensure effective communication, reporting, engagement and coordination between the national and the regional levels.
Methodology
The above activities will be undertaken in strong collaboration with the Ministry of Education, where the consultant will be based within the Planing and Resource Mobilisation Directorate. Further, the Cluster Coordinator will be accountable to the education cluster partners, ensuring that they are provided with the required information and support to enable them to deliver humanitarian responses in the education sector.
Lastly, the Cluster coordinator will work closely with the two co-lead cluster agencies (Save the Children and UNICEF Ethiopia) so as to ensure consistent messaging and advocacy on education cluster issues.
Expected Deliverables
To support service delivery by
Providing a platform that ensures service delivery is driven by the Strategic Response Plan and strategic priorities (demonstrated by at least monthly, minuted cluster coordination meetings)
Developing mechanisms to eliminate duplication of service delivery (demonstrated by maintained ‘5W’ cluster database)
Supporting the Cluster coordination at the MOE and specifically, to undertake necessary prepratory and follow-up actions for cluster coordination meetings including timely issuance of meeting invitations and minutes of meetings.
Strengthen inter-cluster coordination at national and sub national level, particularly with WASH, Health, Child Protection, and Nutrition Clusters to facilitate a comprehensive approach to addressing the issue of providing quality education in Ethiopia (demonstrated through adherence to integrated programming principles within the annual education cluster response plan)
To inform the Inter-cluster Coodination and HC/HCT’s strategic decision-making by
Preparing needs assessments and analysis of gaps (across and within sectors, using information management tools as needed), which explicitly considers gender disaggregated data (as demonstrated by production of education analysis paper from
Belg Assessments)
Identifying and finding solutions for (emerging) gaps, obstacles, duplication and cross-cutting issues. (demonstrated as documented within cluster corodination meetings and monthly reports)
Formulating priorities on the basis of analysis (as demonstrated through annual cluster response plan)
To plan and develop strategy by
Developing sectoral plans, objectives and indicators that directly support realization of the response’s strategic priorities
Applying and adhering to common standards and guidelines (as demonstrated by availability of cluster response plan by January 30th 2018)
Clarifying funding requirements, helping to set priorities, and agreeing cluster contributions to the HC’s overall humanitarian funding proposals (as demonstrated by number of resource mobilization documents/proposals drafted by consultant)
To monitor and evaluate performance by
Ensure regular monitoring of cluster response activities and coordination against cluster indicators, including activity at operational level (quality, coverage, continuity and cost of service delivery interventions); and sub national and national level cluster coordination activities.
Conduct analysis of best available information in order to benchmark progress of the response over time.
Monitoring and reporting on activities and needs
Measuring performance against the cluster strategy and agreed results (as demonstrated by progress reporting against planned results in each cluster meeting)
Recommending corrective action where necessary.
To build national capacity in preparedness, contingency and risk informed planning- including in relation to gender responsive humanitarian programming (as demonstrated by number of training conducted on Education in Emergencies and/or cluster engagement)
Advocacy
Identifying concerns that contribute to HC and HCT messaging and action
Undertaking advocacy on behalf of the cluster, cluster members, and affected people (as demonstrated by drafting of advocacy briefs on importance of education in emergency provision & costs)
Accountability to affected populations
Introducing a mechanism by which to obtain feedback from communities, ensuring this includes represents the full spectrum of stakeholders (including women, children and people with disabilities) on the effectiveness and efficiency of the education sector humanitarian response.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Masters degree in a subject area relevant to the education cluster coordination’s needs; education, primary education, teacher training or social sciences
Extensive work experience relevant to this post may be considered as a replacement for formal qualifications.
Minimum of 10 years progressively responsible humanitarian work experience with UN and/or NGO, including programme management and/or coordination in the first phase of a major emergency response relevant to the cluster
Included in the above: minimum of 5 years specific substantive and technical experience in inter-agency coordination, needs assessment, policy development, strategy formulation, programme planning and monitoring & evaluation in crisis and post-crisis settings.
Extensive work experience outside the humanitarian sector which is relevant to this post may be considered as a replacement for humanitarian experience.
Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
Fluency in written and spoken English and Amharic is required for this post. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.
How to apply
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organization.By 6th September, 2018
For more information and job application details, see; UN Children's Fund Education Cluster Coordinator Consultant Jobs in Ethiopia
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