Education Officer

at  UNICEF

Job no: 574785
Contract type: Temporary Appointment
Duty Station: Pretoria
Level: NO-2
Location: South Africa
Categories: Education
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
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UNICEF South Africa, there for every child.
We believe that ensuring a child is happy and healthy begins before birth: from ensuring their mother has access to good health care to reaching adulthood as a healthy, empowered and informed young person of the next generation. This journey relies on every child having access to quality health care, good nutrition, education, and growing up in a safe environment free from violence.
Our Education Section is committed to ensuring quality learning for every child. From birth to the final year of high school, children born into poverty face a range of obstacles that their wealthy peers do not. Since 1994, South Africa has made great strides in realising the right to education, rapidly building an efficient, accessible and quality education system for children and adolescents. This notable progress has been recorded across the three components of basic education in early childhood development, primary and secondary education… read more
For every child, education.
How can you make a difference?
The Education Officer will be based at the Country Office (CO) where the Education Programme is a component of the Country Programme. The Education Officer will report to the Education Manager and provide professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for education programmes/projects within the Country Programme - from development planning to delivery of results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting.

5. INNOVATION, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND CAPACITY BUILDING

• Contribute to identifying, capturing, synthesizing, and sharing lessons learned for knowledge development and capacity development of stakeholders.
• Apply innovative approaches and promote good practice to support the implementation and delivery of concrete and sustainable programme results.
• Research and report on best and cutting edge practices for development planning of knowledge products and systems.
• Participate as a resource person in capacity building initiatives to enhance the competencies of clients/stakeholders.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Education: A university degree in education, psychology, sociology or another relevant technical field.
• Work Experience:
• A minimum of two years of professional experience in programme planning, management, and/or research in education is required.
• Experience working in a developing country is considered as an asset.
• Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.
• Language Requirements:
• Fluency in English is required.
• Knowledge of another local language is an asset.
• Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.

Please refer the Job description for details