Education Manager - Cluster Coordinator

Provides strategic leadership and representation for coordinated education responses in complex humanitarian settings. The manager convenes partners around evidence-based goals, oversees assessment and response-planning mechanisms, mobilises resources and strengthens national and local capacity so education interventions remain timely, coherent, accountable and responsive to affected populations.

• Provide strategic leadership and representation for the Education Cluster
• Coordinate diverse stakeholders around shared evidence-based education-response goals
• Oversee coordination mechanisms, needs assessments and response planning
• Mobilise resources and build partnerships for collective education action
• Monitor response performance and support an inclusive, accountable humanitarian response
• Strengthen national and local capacity for coordinated education interventions

• Advanced university degree in education, economics, pedagogy, psychology, sociology, international development, management, social sciences or another relevant technical field
• At least 8 years of professional experience in education programme planning, coordination, management or research
• Fluency in English

• Programme-management experience in education within a UN system agency or organisation
• At least two years of Education Cluster, Sector or Working Group coordination experience
• Experience with humanitarian coordination, response planning and inter-agency collaboration
• Experience engaging donors and senior stakeholders through strategic updates, briefing materials and advocacy products
• Experience developing HNOs, HRPs, sector or cluster response plans and preparedness plans
• Knowledge of IASC cluster coordination, Sphere standards, the Core Humanitarian Standard and INEE Minimum Standards

• Education Cluster Coordination
• Humanitarian Response
• Needs Assessment
• Strategic Response Planning
• Resource Mobilisation
• Advocacy
• Performance Monitoring
• Capacity Building

• Re-advertisement to expand the candidate pool and correct the vacancy announcement; previous applicants remain under consideration.