Project Coordination Consultancy United Nations Children's Fund Experience: 5 to 10 Years London, United Kingdom Apply By: 11-04-2025

If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children’s survival, protection and development. The world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 staff in more than 145 countries.

Purpose of Activity Assignment:

We are seeking to recruit a consultant to provide technical advice on the delivery of EOF’s Basic Education and Early Childhood Education programmes in Sierra Leone.   

The Sierra Leone Education Innovation Challenge (SLEIC) programme is a partnership between the Government of Sierra Leone, outcome funders, education delivery partners and social investors. Five different delivery partners have been selected to support 325 schools across five implementation lots to improve learning outcomes for 136,000 children in partnership with school leadership and teachers in accordance with the Basic Education curriculum. The program will run for nine school terms, starting September 2022 and ending in August 2025. The aim is to generate evidence to inform which interventions are the most effective in Sierra Leone context, which can then be scaled up by Government and donors. Using a result-based financing approach, service providers are expected to build sustainable capacity in schools, targeting interventions that improve learning beyond the life of the programme.

In addition to the SLEIC programme, the Education Outcomes Fund is working with the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE) to set up an outcomes fund that will support the rapid expansion of early childhood education (ECE) provision through community early childhood development (ECD) centres while ensuring that the ECE services provided are high quality and support holistic child development.  The implementation of this program is expected to run from Spring 2025 to the end of 2028.

Scope of Work:

The consultant will provide technical advice and guidance on the implementation of both the SLEIC and ECE programmes in Sierra Leone. The consultant will report directly to EOF’s Programme Manager and collaborate with all members of EOF’s team.

Qualifications:

Education:

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in business, economics, political science, finance, education, international development, or a related field is required.
• A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience in programme delivery work, in growing responsibility.
• Prior experience with Safeguarding in Sierra Leone is highly desirable.
• Experience in directly leading people, projects and teams.
• Experience working in a start-up/ scale-up environment; comfort and ability to thrive amidst ambiguity and to quickly (re-)adjust to new circumstances.
• Experience or an interest in international development, the global education sector, and international aid.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Fluency in Krio is required

Source: https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/580666