Consultancy: Provincial-based Quality Assurance Inspection System Development and Capacity Building on Report Writing Skills, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

UNICEF, the world’s leading organization working for the rights of children, is looking to hire individual consultant for Provincial-based Quality Assurance Inspection System Development and Capacity Building on Report Writing Skills with Education Section/ UNICEF Cambodia Country Office. 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.

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, education.

UNICEF began providing assistance to Cambodia in 1952 and has been working since then to improve the wellbeing of Cambodian children. UNICEF established its first country office in 1973 in the capital of Phnom Penh. More information on what we do in Cambodia is available at https://www.unicef.org/cambodia/.

How can you make a difference?

The purpose of the consultancy is to support finalization of the PQAIS guidelines, and support finalisation of the pre/in-service training programme for school inspectors. It is anticipated that the consultant will work closely with relevant MoEYS officials from EQAD and NIE to review and finalise: (i) the Provincial-based Quality Assurance Inspection Implementation guideline, (ii) the inspector training programme; and (iii) to provide on-the-job training on report writing skills to master school inspectors. Through this work, the consultant will help build capacity of MoEYS to take forward its quality assurance inspection system, to help strengthen the provision of quality education.

Work Assignments

• Under the supervision of a UNICEF Education Specialist, the Consultant will:
• Review the provincial-based Quality Assurance Inspection Implementation Guideline.
• Review the ten-month pre-service inspector training programme.
• Review of the in-service inspector training programme.
• Review existing report writing materials and the course outline.
• Develop a proposal to strengthen the quality assurance inspection system.

Expected deliverables

• Deliverable #1: Develop an inception report, including a detailed work plan
• Deliverable #2: Review the provincial-based Quality Assurance Inspection Implementation Guideline.
• Deliverable #3: A ten-month pre-service inspector training programme developed and finalized.
• Deliverable #4: An in-service inspector training programme developed and finalized. Deliverable #5: A course outline and materials for training inspectors on report writing developed.
• Deliverable #6: Prepare a final report with recommendations on strengthening the quality assurance inspection system.

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

Qualifications and Experience

• Advanced university degree in education, social sciences, international development or related technical field; preferably monitoring and evaluation
• At least ten years of professional work experience at national or sub-national level on education programming, particularly in the areas of school inspection, quality assurance, assessment and/or student learning
• Experience working with Cambodian Government counterparts providing technical support or implementing programmes in educational planning and evaluation, inspection, analytical research, and report writing
• Experience working with the UN or other international or national development organizations

Knowledge and Skills

• Sound knowledge of the education sector in Cambodia and MoEYS policies and processes
• Strong technical expertise in school inspection, including in data collection, and data analysis
• Excellent report writing skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent management, planning and coordination skills 

Languages

• Fluency in written and spoken English and Khmer is essential for this consultancy. 

To view detail Terms of Reference for this assignment, please click here ToR _final.pdf

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

View our competency framework at

http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.