Education Specialist (Gender)

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Mission and objectives

Working in 190 countries and territories to protect the rights of every child, UNICEF has spent 70 years improving the lives of children and their families. UNICEF promotes the rights and wellbeing of every child, in everything we do. Together with our partners, we work in 190 countries and territories to translate that commitment into practical action, focusing special effort on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded children, to the benefit of all children, everywhere. In all of its work, UNICEF takes a life-cycle based approach, recognizing the particular importance of early childhood development and adolescence. UNICEF programmes focus on the most disadvantaged children, including those living in fragile contexts, those with disabilities, those who are affected by rapid urbanization and those affected by environmental degradation. UNICEF was created with a distinct purpose in mind: to work with others to overcome the obstacles that poverty, violence, disease and discrimination place in a child's path. We advocate for measures to give children the best start in life because proper care at the youngest age forms the most robust foundation for a person's future. We promote girls’ education – ensuring that they complete primary education as a minimum – because it benefits all children, both girls and boys. Girls who are educated grow up to become better thinkers, better citizens, and better parents to their own children. We act so that all children are immunized against common childhood diseases, and are well nourished: no child should suffer or die from a preventable illness. We work to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS among young people because it is right to keep them from harm and enable them to protect others. We help children and families affected by HIV/AIDS to live their lives with dignity. We are UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund.

Context

This UNV assignment is part of UNICEF’s flagship programming initiative on equity and inclusion in education. The Education programme in Lebanon aims to support the most marginalized children to access quality education and integrated services which address multiple needs, including a focus on children with disabilities, refugees, out of school children, gender (marginalized girls and boys) and the poorest. Within its programme of cooperation with the Government of Lebanon, UNICEF is working closely with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, development and implementing partners to ensure that crisis-affected girls and boys have access to inclusive, gender responsive, and relevant quality learning and protective learning environments both in formal and non-formal education sectors. Also, UNICEF, UNESCO and Save the Children started a joint implementation of the Education Cannot Wait Multi-Year-Resilience Programme (MYRP) 2022-2024 to secure the right to education for crisis-affected girls and boys in Lebanon. MYRP is focused on the following four programme outcomes: • Crisis-affected girls and boys have access to inclusive, gender-responsive, and relevant quality learning. • Crisis-affected girls and boys learn in inclusive, gender-responsive and protective learning environments, where their specific needs are met. • Crisis-affected Girls, boys and adolescents achieve better learning outcomes in education. • Sufficient resources are mobilised to scale implementation of the programme and to monitor programme quality based on robust evidence base. UNICEF is designated as a gender lead organization (GLO) during the MYRP development process by the MYRP development team at the country level. The objective of such a role is to ensure that during the MYRP implementation phase, sufficient resources will be allocated to strengthen gender capacity at the country level within the MYRP country team and provide dedicated gender technical support, monitoring, training, and knowledge management/ production is available to all grantees and sub-grantees. To increase dedicated gender capacity and expertise and ensure that gender is adequately mainstreamed throughout the MYRP programming and implementation in Lebanon, UNICEF is looking for an Education Specialist (Gender) with international knowledge and experience.

Task description

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of Education Specialist, Equity, and Inclusion or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the UN Volunteer Education Specialist (Gender) will: • Ensure the implementation of all the gender deliverables in the MYRP (gender mainstreaming and gender targeted strategies). • Lead on capacity building and knowledge building and management on gender equality and empowerment of women and girls in EiEPC (EiE-GenKit | UNGEI). • Provide strategic advice to MYRP steering committee for integration of gender. • Serve as quality assuror in MYRP implementation ensuring gender issues properly addressed. • Support in creation of strategic partnerships and implementation of resource mobilization strategies.