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For every child, the right to Education

How can you make a difference?

UNICEF Syria Country Office is implementing a comprehensive programme that supports children’s access to quality, equitable, and inclusive education, while contributing to education system recovery, resilience, and long-term development. In partnership with the Ministry of Education (MoE) and education sector partners, the Education Programme focuses on improving learning outcomes, expanding access to formal and non-formal education opportunities, strengthening teacher capacity, promoting inclusive education, supporting curriculum and learning material development, and advancing digital transformation across the education sector.

UNICEF Syria Country Office's Education Section implements a large and technically diverse digital learning portfolio spanning Non-Formal Education (NFE), Formal Education, the digitalization of Electronic Learning Curriculum (ELC), Learning Passport (LP), inclusive education, teacher capacity development and child-level monitoring and donor reporting. Digital learning is not a standalone activity, but a cross-cutting component embedded across most Education Project Documents (PDs) and grants.

This position is therefore established to provide dedicated technical coordination, advisory support and quality assurance across the full digital learning portfolio, ensuring continuity of ongoing initiatives, sound MoE engagement, and a consistent pathway from pilot to scale-up.

Find out how UNICEF programmes drive change for children and young people every day, in Syria by visiting this: www.unicef.org/syria

Under the supervision of the Education Manager, the Education Officer – Digital Learning will provide technical leadership, coordination and quality assurance for UNICEF Syria's digital learning interventions across Formal Education, NFE, ELC digitalization and inclusive/teacher-training initiatives, ensuring alignment with the Learning Passport approach, sound MoE engagement, effective device/utilization management, and robust monitoring and evidence generation to support evidence-based scale-up decisions.

The Education Officer – Digital Learning will be accountable for providing technical leadership, coordination, and quality assurance across UNICEF Syria’s digital learning portfolio, ensuring effective implementation, monitoring, and scale-up of digital learning initiatives in Formal Education, NFE, ELC digitalization, and teacher capacity development. The designated education officer will also be responsible for strengthening partnerships with the Ministry of Education and implementing partners, support in the development of the Ministry’s Digital Learning strategy, improving the utilization of digital learning resources and devices, generating evidence for informed decision-making, ensuring timely donor reporting, and supporting the institutionalization of sustainable, government-owned digital learning solutions.

MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

Support to digital learning programme development and planning
Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results
Technical and operational support to implementation
Networking and partnership building
Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: Download File TOR Edu NOA TA Digital Learning Final for VA.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Minimum requirements:

Education: A university degree in one of the following fields is required: Education, IT, Engineering, Psychology, Sociology, or another relevant technical field.
Work Experience: A minimum of 1 year of professional experience in Programme Planning, Management, and/or research in Education is required.
Skills: Required skills include Digital Learning Solutions, Monitoring Data Analysis, LMS Administration Management, Stakeholder Partnership Engagement, Donor Reporting Writing and Training Capacity Building.
Language Requirements: Fluency in English and Arabic is required.

Desirables:

Language: Knowledge of another official UN language (Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language.
Experience supporting education programmes in contexts undergoing a transition from humanitarian response to early recovery and development is considered an asset.
Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

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

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

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UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, discrimination, fraud, corruption and other forms of serious misconduct.UNICEF is committed to promoting the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference, safeguarding and background verification checks. These checks may include verification of academic credentials and employment history, screening against relevant United Nations misconduct databases, and requests for misconduct disclosures from current and former employers, professional associations, other relevant organizations and participating organizations under inter-agency safeguarding initiatives, including the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS), where applicable.Appointment, selection and continued engagement are subject to the satisfactory completion of all required checks. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information and consent to enable UNICEF to undertake these checks.Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station is required for IP positions and will be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments are conditional on the selected candidates willingness to comply with current or future vaccination requirements, should UNICEF mandate it for personnel. Failure to comply with such requirements, where applicable and without a duly approved medical exemption from the relevant UN authority, will result in the cancellation of the selection or may lead to other administrative measures, including separation from service.

Remarks:

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.

UNICEF is committed to fostering an inclusive, representative, and welcoming workforce. For this position, eligible and suitable female candidates are encouraged to apply.

Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants' bank account information.

Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF's Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.

Visa residence requirements: i.e. UNICEF shall not facilitate the issuance of a visa and working authorization for candidates under consideration for positions at the national officer and general service category.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.

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Education Officer (Digital Learning) (NO-1), TA, 364 days, #138678, Damascus - Syria, MENA