Education Specialist (Emergencies)

Supports Education Cannot Wait country investments by overseeing portfolio quality, programme design, implementation, governance and monitoring for education in emergencies and protracted crises.

Department: Programme Delivery and Quality Team

• Oversee ECW country investment portfolios and strategic alignment
• Guide programme design, coherence and quality assurance processes
• Monitor country engagement programming for quality learning
• Coordinate governance and programme-level stakeholder processes
• Represent ECW in external education-sector partnerships and coordination platforms
• Support technical review, grant lifecycle management and donor compliance
• Contribute to effective running of the Programme Delivery and Quality Team

• Advanced university degree in education, international development or another related field
• Minimum eight years of progressive professional experience in education in emergencies and protracted crises
• Experience designing, implementing, managing or evaluating education programmes in humanitarian, conflict-affected, displacement, fragile-state or post-crisis settings
• Field-level responsibility for education programme implementation and management
• Experience managing country portfolios, implementing partners and governments in complex operational environments
• Fluency in English

• Temporary appointment for 364 days
• Role collaborates with colleagues across multiple locations and may require flexible working hours
• International professional appointment subject to UNICEF mobility conditions