Education Officer (Governance), NO-2/FT, Bujumbura, Burundi # 109328 at UNICEF

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For every child, the right to education

In Burundi, UNICEF has a very diverse portfolio of responsibilities but all with the same objective which is to assist the Government and other stakeholders to fulfill children’s economic, social, cultural, political, and civil rights. The UNICEF country program in Burundi aims to improve the lives of children and women in the following key areas: Child and maternal health, Nutrition, Education, Child Protection, Water, sanitation and hygiene, Social Policy and Advocacy, Adolescent empowerment and community resilience, and Humanitarian response. https://youtu.be/ZS713LNR9TU

How can you make a difference? 

Under the supervision of Education Specialist, the Education Officer provides 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.

More specifically, the incumbent will play a key role in coordinating interventions supporting the “Gouvernance” component/output of the Education and Skills programme, including in humanitarian setting. Additionally, the Education Officer will provide technical support to the MoE and partners in implementing and scaling innovative educational initiatives, such as structured pedagogy; strengthening of teacher support and guidance; and improving the learning environment.

• Support to programme development and planning
• Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results 
• Technical and operational support to programme implementation
• Networking and partnership building
• Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

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