Education Specialist Cluster Coordinator, P-3, Temporary Position, 4 months, Juba, South Sudan, #00137405

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South Sudan remains one of the world’s most severe and protracted humanitarian crises, with more than 10 million people requiring humanitarian assistance in 2026, including millions of children affected by conflict, displacement, flooding, disease outbreaks, food insecurity, and economic collapse. The education sector continues to face acute pressures, with over 2.8 million children out of school and 1.6 million children requiring life-saving education support. Recurrent emergencies, attacks on education, climate-related shocks, and population movements continue to disrupt learning and place children at heightened risk of exploitation, child marriage, recruitment, and other protection concerns.

South Sudan is currently under an L2 emergency scale-up, requiring strengthened humanitarian coordination and operational leadership capacity. At the same time, the education sector is entering a critical strategic period marked by the ongoing humanitarian response prioritization processes, and discussions linked to the global Humanitarian Reset agenda, the development of a new ECW Multi-Year Resilience Programme (MYRP) and evolving humanitarian coordination architecture.

Education in Emergencies (EiE) remains critically underfu...