Education Specialist Cluster Coordinator, P-3, Temporary Position, 4 months, Juba, South Sudan, #00137405

Organizational Context

UNICEF operates in over 190 countries, dedicated to saving children's lives, defending their rights, and helping them fulfill their potential. We are committed to promoting the rights of every child, offering diverse opportunities for professional and personal development in a passionate and inclusive culture.

Job Purpose

This temporary position provides strategic and operational leadership for the South Sudan Education Cluster during a critical period. This includes managing an L2 emergency scale-up, addressing severe underfunding of Education in Emergencies (EiE), contributing to the development of the new Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Multi-Year Resilience Programme (MYRP), and participating in discussions on future humanitarian coordination. The role aims to strengthen UNICEF's capacity for effective humanitarian education coordination in partnership with Save the Children and the Ministry of General Education and Instruction (MoGEI), ensuring the implementation of core cluster coordination functions and supporting a timely, coordinated, principled, and evidence-based education response.

Responsibilities

The incumbent will strengthen UNICEF’s capacity to deliver effective humanitarian education coordination in partnership with Save the Children and the Ministry of General Education and Instruction (MoGEI), ensuring implementation of the seven core cluster coordination functions and supporting a timely, coordinated, principled, and evidence-based education response. The position will support emergency preparedness and response scale-up, strategic planning and advocacy, humanitarian prioritization processes, and sustained visibility of education within the broader humanitarian response architecture. The role will also support key strategic processes including finalization of the Education Cluster Strategy, support to ECW-MYRP development, HNRP 2027 preparation, and technical oversight of work related to reviewing future coordination options and sustainability considerations for education coordination in South Sudan. This includes ensuring the cluster effectively coordinates humanitarian education preparedness and response efforts at national and sub-national levels, supports strategic planning and advocacy, and works to strengthen linkages between humanitarian and sectoral education coordination mechanisms.

Work Experience

At least 5 years of relevant work experience in education, emergency, development, cluster coordination, humanitarian coordination.

Skills

Education Cluster Coordination, Humanitarian Response, Emergency Preparedness, Strategic Planning, Advocacy, Stakeholder Engagement, Programme Management, UNICEF Coordination Mechanisms, Education in Emergencies (EiE), Inter-agency Coordination, Report Writing, Leadership

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