Overview
The Education Officer provides technical, operational, and administrative support to UNICEF Viet Nam's education programmes, with a focus on emergent critical areas for adolescents' skills and competencies, including climate/green skills, mental health and wellbeing, disaster risk reduction, and education in emergencies.
Key Responsibilities
- 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.
- Coordinating mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) related work across sections.
- Supporting planning and strategic thinking on transition from learning to livelihoods.
- Providing capacity support and coordination to the Country Office’s Education in Emergencies workstream.
Required Experience
- A minimum of two years of professional experience in education focused on learning and skills of children and adolescents.
- Professional experience in development, planning and management of young people’s participation or related areas is an advantage.
- Proficiency in computer skills (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, social media, and others) is required.
- Experience working with youth (led) organizations is considered as an asset.
- Good knowledge of the major development issues with regard education issues, especially related to MHPSS, DRR/CC, EiE and the application of such issues in Viet Nam.
- Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.
Qualifications
A university degree in social science, political science, health science, anthropology, psychology, sociology, education or another relevant technical field is required.
