Subnational Education Cluster Coordinator - Kabul, Afghanistan - United Nations Children's Fund

    United Nations Children's Fund
    United Nations Children's Fund Kabul, Afghanistan

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    Under the supervision of the Education Cluster Coordinator, the purpose of this post is to provide leadership and facilitate the processes that will ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent and effective response by partners in the sub national education cluster.

    The post holder has joint responsibility with the UNICEF, resourcing partners and all cluster participants at the national and sub-national level for the efficient management and functioning of the sub-national education cluster encompassing the following:

  • Build and sustain effective close working partnerships with education stakeholders through active sharing of information and knowledge
  • Revitalize and maintain an appropriate humanitarian education coordination mechanism
  • Build complementarity of partner actions, avoiding duplication and gaps
  • Provide support to adequate resource mobilization and equitable allocation for the effective functioning of the sub cluster and its response.
  • Promote effective and comprehensive integration of relevant cross-cutting issues, including age, gender, and disabilities.
  • Maintain flexibility within the sub cluster to respond to changes in the operating environment, evolving requirements, capacities and participation.
  • Effectively use and transfer information to, from and between cluster participants and other stakeholders.
  • Interact with other clusters (including through inter-cluster coordination), humanitarian actors, government counterparts, and relevant authorities for operational planning, engagement and active contribution of operational partners.
  • Be accountable to the affected population through effective and inclusive consultative and feedback mechanisms.
  • Enhance and monitor performance of the core cluster functions, i.e.:
  • Supporting service delivery:

  • Provide a platform to ensure that service delivery is driven by the agreed strategic priorities
  • Develop and/or contextualize mechanisms to eliminate duplication of service delivery
  • Informing strategic decision-making for the humanitarian response:

  • Needs assessment and gap analysis (across other sectors and within the sector)
  • Analysis to identify and address (emerging) gaps, obstacles, duplication, and cross-cutting issues.
  • Prioritization, grounded in response analysis
  • Planning and strategy development:

  • Develop context-specific sectoral plans, objectives and indicators that directly support the realization of the education cluster strategic priorities
  • Application and adherence to existing standards and guidelines
  • Clarify funding requirements and prioritization and provide input into the fundraising processes (Flash Appeal, AHF, CERF, etc.)
  • Advocacy:

  • Identify advocacy concerns to contribute to education cluster messaging and action
  • Undertaking advocacy activities on behalf of cluster participants and the affected population
  • Monitoring and reporting the implementation:

  • Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, programme reviews and annual reviews with the government and other counterparts.
  • Enhance programme data analysis for action at subnational level.
  • Participate and keep record of reports on surveys and assessments for easy reference and/or to capture and institutionalize lessons learned.
  • Work closely and collaboratively with colleagues and partners to discuss facts and concerns found from monitoring. Provide solutions, recommendations and/or alert appropriate officials and stakeholders for higher-level intervention and/or decision-making.
  • Monitor and report on the use of sectoral resources allocated to partners (financial, administrative and other assets), verifying compliance with approved allocation.
  • Contingency planning/preparedness for recurrent disasters:

  • Contribute to risk profiling and analysis and subsequent contingency plans with relevant, context-specific inputs.
  • Accountability to affected populations:

  • Promote information sharing, sensitization and community engagement
  • Ensure effective and inclusive consultative and feedback mechanisms.
  • To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have...

  • A university degree in a subject area relevant to Education in Emergencies or humanitarian programming.
  • A minimum of 2 years of relevant professional experience in a developing country in one or more of the following areas is required: education, education planning and management, coordination.
  • Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
  • Experience in programme/project coordination is an asset.
  • Experience in /education programme/project development in a UN system agency or organization is an asset.
  • Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
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