Research and Knowledge Management Officer

UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, is a specialized agency dedicated to strengthening international cooperation in the fields of education, science, culture, and information. UNESCO set standards, produce tools and develop knowledge to create solutions to some of the greatest challenges of our time, and foster a world of greater equality and peace.

Protecting biodiversity, responding to artificial intelligence, advancing quality education, safeguarding heritage, and ensuring access to reliable information are some examples of the work that UNESCO does with its 194 Member States across the globe. UNESCO aims to strengthen peace and security by encouraging collaboration among nations in education, science, culture, and communication. Its mission emphasizes the development of universal respect for justice, human rights, and fundamental freedoms for all people, without distinction of race, sex, language, or religion. The organization achieves this by promoting mutual knowledge and understanding, supporting educational development, protecting cultural heritage, and facilitating the free flow of ideas and information across borders.

Myanmar's education landscape is characterized by diverse education providers, delivery modalities and operational contexts. Strengthened coordination, evidence generation, knowledge exchange and collaboration among education stakeholders are important to support informed education planning and responses. UNESCO supports education sector coordination and system capacity strengthening in Myanmar, including through the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) System Capacity Grant (SCG). This includes stakeholder engagement, sector research and analysis, technical consultations, evidence generation, knowledge management and learning activities. During the assignment period, particular support will be required for the preparation and implementation of a major multi-stakeholder education learning and coordination initiative bringing together education providers, development partners, local and international organizations, researchers and other education stakeholders. This will require substantial coordination, stakeholder engagement, review and synthesis of evidence and programme experience, preparation of technical and learning materials, documentation and operational support. The UN Volunteer will work as part of UNESCO's Education team to provide coordination, research, evidence and knowledge-management support to these activities, while contributing to ongoing SCG-supported research, assessment and sector coordination work.

Under the overall authority of the Regional Director of the UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok and Office for UN Coordination in Asia and the Pacific, the direct supervision of the Head of UNESCO Project Antenna Office in Yangon, and in close collaboration with the Education Coordination team, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

1. Support the planning and implementation of education sector coordination, learning and knowledge-sharing activities, including workplans, timelines, action trackers and related documentation.

2. Conduct desk reviews, synthesize, and analyze relevant education research, assessments, programme evaluations, data and other available evidence, case studies, programme experiences, presentations and other technical and knowledge products.

3. Liaise with education partners, researchers, technical experts, speakers, facilitators and re-source persons and coordinate required inputs and contributions.

4. Support the organization of seminars/conferences, by developing agendas, thematic discussions, technical sessions, and coordinating related invitations and documentations.

5. Generate and maintain well-organized records, evidence repositories, stakeholder information/mapping, expressions of interest, and activity documentation, applying appropriate confidentiality, data protection, conflict-sensitivity and do-no-harm considerations when handling stakeholder information, education data and research findings.

6. Provide rapporteuring and documentation support during consultations, technical meetings and workshops, including meeting summaries and follow-up actions, learning briefs, technical notes, reports, evidence, lessons, and recommendations.

7. Undertake other related education coordination, research, monitoring, evidence-generation and knowledge-management tasks under the GPE SCG, as required.