Education Specialist - Jerusalem, Israel - United Nations Children's Fund

Description

Job Description

Description

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Under the overall direction and guidance of the Emergency Specialist and the Chief of Education, you will provide leadership and representation of the Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group. You will facilitate the processes that will ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, and effective response by participants in the Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group that is accountable to those who are affected by the emergency. In your effort to provide an efficient and effective response to the humanitarian crisis, you are responsible for building relationships with stakeholders, for securing the overall coordination of sectoral responses and for ensuring inter-sectoral collaboration at the national level and for ensuring adequate coordination with the national level.

You will also be responsible for supporting UNICEF as a cluster lead agency to perform and strengthen its role as the last resort provider for the cluster to ensure an adequate and appropriate response.

As a result of the protracted nature of the situation in the State of Palestine, this position will combine the core cluster coordination functions with efforts to support UNICEF's work on strengthening national systems, engaging communities, and planning and preparing for future emergencies in line with realization of the HDP nexus.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

Coordination, representation and leadership

Needs assessment and analysis

Strategic response planning

Resource mobilization and advocacy

Implementation and monitoring

Operational peer review and evaluation

Accountability to affected populations

Strengthen national and local capacity

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have the below requirement:

Education:

An advanced university degree in one of the areas that are relevant to the work of the organization, preferred areas including but not limited to: education, psychology, sociology, English literature, English language, or any other area that is considered relevant to the responsibilities described in the vacancy announcement.

Work Experience:

A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in education programme planning, coordination and management, and/or research is required. Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization, or in cluster coordination, is considered an asset.

Experience of working in the humanitarian coordination system and education cluster is required.

Experience of working in a senior management role or in cluster coordination within a complex country programme in an emergency response or protracted crisis, including experience in first phase emergency response, is desirable.

Experience in effective management of human resources/teams in high stress/risk environments is an advantage.

Experience in humanitarian contexts is required with experience in development contexts an added advantage.

Language Proficiency:

Fluency in English and Arabic are required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

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