Education Officer (Skills), NO-2, FT, #137956, Male', Maldives, APR (Open to Maldivian nationals only)
Organizational Context
UNICEF works in over 190 countries to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential. The organization is committed to promoting the rights of every child, offering diverse opportunities for professional and personal development in a passionate and inclusive culture. UNICEF provides an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Job Purpose
UNICEF Maldives seeks a motivated Education Officer (Skills) to strengthen skills development, digital learning, and education-to-work transitions for adolescents and young people. This role is crucial for implementing the Education Programme, focusing on learning pathways, transferable skills, employability, and an inclusive national skills ecosystem. The incumbent will manage, coordinate, and analyze initiatives, supporting programme design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting. Collaboration with government, development partners, the private sector, and youth organizations is essential to ensure interventions are inclusive, market-responsive, and aligned with national priorities. The position also supports the TRAIL skills framework to equip youth with competencies for learning, employment, and societal participation, ensuring quality implementation and sustainable results.
Responsibilities
Under the guidance of the Education and Skills Development Specialist, the Education Officer, Skills will contribute to strengthening skills development, digital learning, and school-to-work transitions for adolescents and young people. Key accountabilities include supporting programme development and planning, ensuring effective programme management, monitoring, and delivery of results. The role involves providing technical and operational support for programme implementation, fostering networking and partnership building with government counterparts, development partners, and the private sector. Additionally, the officer will drive innovation, knowledge management, and capacity building initiatives. This includes supporting the design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of skills and transition initiatives, contributing to programme development, partnership engagement, evidence generation, and knowledge management to ensure interventions are inclusive, market-responsive, and aligned with national education and workforce development priorities.
Work Experience
A minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience in Programme planning, Implementation, Management, Monitoring and/or research in education is required.
Skills
Programme planning, Programme implementation, Programme management, Monitoring, Research in education, Skills development, Digital learning, Youth transitions, Coordination, Analytical skills, Partnership engagement, Knowledge management