CHARGÉ(E) DE PROJET - QUALITÉ DE L'ÉDUCATION, RÉFORME CURRICULAIRE ET DÉVELOPPEMENContrat de service
Organizational Context
The Republic of Congo is undertaking an ambitious reform of its education system to enhance learning quality, strengthen teacher competencies, modernize curricula, and align education with sustainable development needs. UNESCO's Brazzaville office supports the government in designing, implementing, and monitoring interventions focused on improving education quality, curriculum reform, teacher training, and national capacity building in education management.
Job Purpose
Under the overall authority of the UNESCO Representative in Brazzaville and direct supervision of the Head of the Education Sector, the Project Officer is responsible for the technical and operational coordination, planning, implementation, monitoring-evaluation, and reporting of UNESCO's interventions in education quality, curriculum reform, teacher professional development, and institutional capacity building. This role ensures the technical quality of activities and deliverables, adherence to timelines, achievement of expected results, and alignment with national education strategies and UNESCO priorities. The incumbent will foster coordination among national institutions, partners, experts, and stakeholders to enhance complementarity, knowledge sharing, best practices dissemination, and sustainable solutions for education quality improvement.
Responsibilities
Contribute to the planning, coordination, and monitoring of project implementation. Ensure alignment of activities with program objectives, work plans, timelines, and resources. Provide technical oversight for curriculum reform, pedagogical resource development, teacher capacity building, and TVET modernization. Coordinate and monitor teacher training activities, supporting curriculum revision, trainer capacity development, and training system enhancement. Integrate digital technology, quality, equity, inclusion, and gender principles into interventions. Liaise with beneficiary ministries, technical and financial partners, and other programs to ensure complementarity and institutional capacity building. Monitor results, provide technical reports, prepare supervision missions, and facilitate knowledge capitalization and dissemination. Contribute to new initiative development, project proposal preparation, resource mobilization, and partnership building. Execute other tasks as needed to achieve the Bureau's objectives.
Work Experience
Minimum of five years of relevant professional experience in the education sector, educational project/program management, curriculum reform, or teacher training. Proven experience in planning, coordinating, implementing, and monitoring development projects. Experience in preparing and quality assuring technical documents. Experience supervising consultants and collaborating with public administrations and educational institutions.
Skills
Excellent knowledge of education quality and learning issues. Strong understanding of curriculum reform processes and teacher training systems. Solid project planning, management, coordination, and M&E skills. Excellent analytical, writing, and synthesis abilities. Proficiency in standard IT tools. Ability to work effectively with public administrations, national institutions, experts, and partners. Excellent oral and written French proficiency.