ACCESS Lagos- National Education Programme Consultants, Lagos, 12 months, remote + travel, 596755
Organizational Context
UNICEF operates in over 190 countries and territories, dedicated to saving children's lives, defending their rights, and helping them fulfill their potential from early childhood through adolescence. We are committed, passionate, and proud of our work, viewing the promotion of every child's rights not just as a job, but as a calling.
Job Purpose
The primary purpose of this consultancy is to coordinate, implement, monitor, and support the delivery of the ACCESS programme at the Local Government Area (LGA) level. This involves actively contributing to the identification and enrollment of out-of-school children, improving school attendance and retention rates, facilitating the transition of children between educational levels, and enhancing foundational literacy and numeracy outcomes. The role also focuses on strengthening community engagement, ownership, and social mobilization with all relevant stakeholders, supporting schools, headteachers, and teachers to improve learning quality, and establishing sustainable community-based systems that foster children's continuous education and learning success. A key component is robust Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) to ensure data is collected, analyzed, and utilized cyclically to improve enrollment and learning for all children in selected schools.
Responsibilities
Coordinate and implement the ACCESS programme at the LGA level, ensuring effective delivery of all project components. Support school mobilization teams, schools, and communities in identifying and enrolling out-of-school children. Work with schools to improve student attendance and retention rates, implementing strategies to reduce dropout. Facilitate the transition of out-of-school children (OOSC) between different educational levels, engaging with schools and parents/caregivers. Collaborate with schools to enhance foundational literacy and numeracy outcomes for students. Drive community engagement, ownership, and social mobilization efforts by working with all relevant stakeholders. Provide support to schools, headteachers, and teachers to improve the overall quality of learning. Develop and strengthen sustainable community-based systems that support children's continuous education and learning success. Oversee Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) activities, ensuring timely collection, accurate analysis, and effective utilization of data to inform programme adjustments and improve learning outcomes for all children in the targeted schools. Prepare regular progress reports and contribute to broader programme documentation.
Work Experience
Minimum of eight (8) years of progressively responsible experience in education programming, including school-based programmes, education programme implementation, community-based education interventions, out-of-school children programming, school enrolment and retention initiatives, stakeholder engagement, monitoring and evaluation, and working with government education systems in Nigeria.
Skills
Education expertise, Out-of-school children programming, Community mobilization, Foundational literacy and numeracy, Data analysis and reporting, Social and behaviour change approaches, Excellent written and oral communication, Stakeholder relationship collaboration, Coaching and mentoring, Monitoring and Evaluation, Programme implementation, Child safeguarding