Overview
Provide technical leadership and project management for UNICEF’s Foundational Learning (FL) portfolio, leading co-design, quality assurance, and implementation of evidence-based interventions to ensure foundational mastery for all learners.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design, planning, and implementation packages for FL programmes ready for scale-up in partnership with MoETE.
- Ensure effective and quality implementation of FL initiatives through structured coordination and oversight of various implementation activities.
- Establish a coherent performance, quality assurance, and documentation system to guide effective implementation and scale-up of FL initiatives.
- Accelerate the progress of foundational learning interventions by integrating Ed-Tech solutions and blended learning approaches.
Required Experience
- Minimum 10–15 years of progressively responsible experience in foundational learning, early grade education, and adolescent remediation programmes.
- Proven experience co-designing large-scale education programmes with Ministries of Education.
- Strong expertise in programme design across the learning continuum, including literacy, numeracy, school readiness, and remediation.
- Solid project management experience, including multistakeholder coordination, planning, timeline management, and risk mitigation.
- Demonstrated experience designing and delivering Training of Trainers (ToT), teacher professional development models, and instructional support systems.
- Experience integrating evidence, monitoring data, and research into programme design and implementation refinement.
- Understanding of early childhood education systems, school readiness programming, and teacher education pathways.
- Experience in international development sector is a strong asset.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Education, Social Sciences, International Development, or Humanitarian Studies.
- A Master's degree in Education is considered a strong asset.
