Education Specialist – Learning Passport M & E; P-, Programme Group Education, outposted in F

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

The Education Strategy (2019-30) ‘Every Child Learns’ identifies innovation as one of six programmatic approaches that has the potential to disrupt the conventional pace of expansion of education inputs and enable the improvement of learning. The Learning Passport (LP) is the flagship Digital Learning Programme of UNICEF, developed as a partnership between UNICEF and Microsoft. The LP delivers digital learning experiences to children around the world, in both connected and unconnected environments with 6m+ learners across 35+ countries, each with specific content needs and support.

The scale of LP has created a surge in demand for technical assistance on programme monitoring and data analysis. The increased organizational focus on digital learning, specifically through the varying implementations of the LP, requires sustained technical capacity within the global team to meet the consistent and growing demands from implementing parties and the global LP user base. The global LP team wants to systemize evidence generation systems for the LP to understand what works, and under which conditions, as a priority activity that would accelerate the journey from the what to the how to improve learning outcomes.

Note:

This role will be on a fully remote work modality. The position will be based in Florence and no installation will be applicable and relevant entitlements will be adjusted based on lower of the two costs between the remote work location and the duty station.

For every child, Hope for all…

Under the guidance of the Education Specialist (LP Global Program Manager), the position will lead monitoring and evaluation of the programme, provide technical assistance for LP research, evidence generation, and policy, and support LP Country and Regional Offices with strategic planning and implementation reflecting UNICEF’s education priorities.

The position will focus on providing technical support in programme design and development of fit for purpose monitoring (including real time monitoring), and evidence generation methods. This requires design and implementation of LP’s M&E framework with countries, managing LP’s data system, analysis, and reporting, and using quasi-experimental and experimental methods to generate evidence for the programme.

The Specialist contributes to achievement of results according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), as well as UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance, and accountability framework.

How can you make a difference?

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

• Provide technical support to LP country offices and implementing partners on programme design, monitoring, measurement, evaluation, and reporting aspects.
• Design and implement fit for purpose M&E systems for LP programmes at the global, regional, and country level to inform programme decisions and improve reporting.
• Develop, maintain, and improve LP and associated brand entities’ information management system, databases, data quality assurance protocols and mechanisms with UNICEF central ICTD team.
• Manage key evidence generation components at the global, regional, and country level including:
• developing theories of change for the global programme and for country offices
• developing potential mixed methods evidence generation plans with country offices
• drafting data collection tools and code/templates for data analysis
• developing identification strategies for impact evaluations
• collaborate with UNICEF’s Office of Research on evidence generation plans.
• Manage global and country level measurement of results for the LP programme.
• Produce LP data and evidence products to expand learning from the programme, and disseminate recommendations and lessons learned to country and regional offices, partners and donors.

Support to programme planning,…