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For every child, a champion
In the Bangladesh context, this tagline underscores the unwavering commitment to improving the lives of every child in the nation. It reflects the organization's determination to ensure that every child, regardless of their circumstances, receives the support, opportunities, and care they need to thrive. It conveys a sense of purpose, highlighting the essential role of dedication in addressing the unique challenges faced by children in Bangladesh
How can you make a difference?
The purpose of the Education Manager (Sector Coordinator) position is to guarantee leadership and coordination of the Education sector partners in order to ensure a strategic, coherent, effective and efficient Education response. In support to, and collaboration with national authorities and sector partners, the Education Sector Coordinator will support the development and implementation of a sound strategy that responds to the education needs of Rohingya refugees and host communities in Cox’s Bazar for the short and medium term.
Major duties and responsibilities:
1. Coordination mechanisms:
• Establishment and maintenance of appropriate humanitarian coordination mechanisms, including with local authorities, in particular with the office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) and Camps in Charge (CIC); the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education (MoPME), Department of Primary Education (DPE) office, District Primary Education Office Education sector partners, and Inter Sector Coordination Group (ISCG) in Cox’s Bazar.
• Strengthen pre-existing sectoral coordination for increased predictability and accountability
• Ensure complementarity of partner actions, optimizing coverage and avoiding duplication and gaps.
2. Needs assessment, analysis and strategy development:
• Ensure effective and coherent Education assessment, analysis and feedback involving all relevant partners, including the identification of gaps and priority areas.
• With the involvement of all education sector partners, develop coherent strategies and action plans to ensure education sectoral needs can be met through collective and complementary service delivery (if possible, involve the MoPME and Directorate of Primary Education at national level and the Department of Primary Education Office at local level).
• Oversee partners’ reporting, analysis of partners’ data, use of data for decision-making, and sharing of important information with key stakeholders.
• Ensure that education partners adhere to agreed sector standards in service delivery and infrastructure design.
• Ensure that education partners are aware of, and comply with, relevant policies, guidelines, technical standards and relevant commitments that the ISCG/concerned authorities have undertaken.
• Develop an exit/transition strategy based on rationalization for the Education sector and key sector partners.
• Facilitate integration of agreed priority cross-cutting issues in education assessments, analysis, planning, monitoring and response. This includes on child protection, age, disability, environment, gender, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), Socio-Emotional Learning (SEL) and human rights.
• Ensure utilization of participatory and community-based approaches in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Education response (by being accountable to affected populations).
• Proactively enhance local capacity within the Education response.
3. Data, Monitoring and reporting:
• Ensure adequate monitoring mechanisms are in place to review progress and outcomes of Education interventions against strategy and action plans; provide an analytical interpretation of best available information to benchmark progress over time (monitoring indicators: quantity, quality, coverage, continuity, and cost; with target population data disaggregated by sex, age, etc.). This includes reporting on the progress towards the Joint Response Plan (JRP) for the Rohingya response.
• Undertake regular monitoring of education response activities and coordinate the measurement of the impact of education programmes on the lives of children and young people, report progress towards indicators.
• Ensure adequate and effective information sharing and reporting (with donors, ISCG, RRRC and other stakeholders) to demonstrate that gaps in service coverage and quality have been closed.
• Overall coordination of the Education Cannot Wait (ECW) funding platform for the Rohingya response representing all sector partners.
• Ensure overall education response is accountable to affected populations and education sector is localised and integrated with other sectors, most importantly Child Protection, WASH, Nutrition, Health, and Skills Development & Livelihoods.
• Accountability for monthly ONA reporting, ensuring sector partners data are collected timely, analysed, and results are shared.
• Validate monthly data for uploading on the Humanitarian Dashboard.
4. Intersectoral coordination and advocacy:
• Ensure effective links with other sectoral coordination platforms within the response and represent the interests of the Education sector in discussions with the Government of Bangladesh, Inter Sector Coordination Group (ISCG), UNICEF Representative and UN Resident/Humanitarian Coordinator and other stakeholders on prioritization, resource mobilization and advocacy.
• Identify core Education advocacy concerns, including resource requirements, and contribute key messages to broader advocacy initiatives of the RC/HC, ISCG, UNICEF and other actors.
• Advocate to donors to fund education actors to carry out priority activities, while encouraging education actors to mobilize resources for their activities through usual channels.
• Where critical gaps in addressing education priorities are identified, lobby implementing humanitarian partners (including UNICEF) to address the gaps, and advocate for the adequate provision of resources and safe access.
• Use data to inform the prioritisation of needs and available resources for response, identify gaps, map capacity, report and for advocacy purposes.
If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: 
ToR_Education Manager (Sector Coordinator) P4 TA.pdf
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Minimum requirements:
- Education: An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: education, economics, psychology, sociology or another relevant technical field.
- Work Experience: A minimum of eight years of professional experience in programme planning, management, and/or research in education is required.
Experience working in a developing country is considered as an asset.
Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.
Familiarity/ background with emergency is considered as an asset.
- Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
For every Child, you demonstrate...
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
(3) Drive to achieve results for impact
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others
(8) Nurtures, leads and manages people
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This position has been assessed as an elevated risk role for Child Safeguarding purposes as it is either a role with direct contact with children, a role that works directly with identifiable children’s data, a safeguarding response role, or an assessed risk role. Additional vetting and assessment for elevated risk roles in child safeguarding (potentially including additional criminal background checks) apply.
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Remarks:
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