Education Officer (Governance, Access, and Learning)

About This Role

This Education Officer role involves leading the coordination, planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of UNICEF's education programme in the southern region of Iraq. The position focuses on system building and strengthening education governance, expanding equitable access to quality learning opportunities, and improving learning outcomes and skills development. It suits a professional with experience in education programme management and a commitment to children's rights.

Responsibilities

• Support programme development and planning for education-related programmes/projects
• Contribute to the preparation and updating of situation analyses
• Research and report on development trends and data for programme development, management, monitoring, evaluation, and delivery of results
• Contribute to the development and establishment of sectoral programme goals, objectives, strategies, and results-based planning
• Provide technical and administrative support throughout all stages of programming processes
• Contribute to the programmatic component of humanitarian preparation and response, working at the intersection of the humanitarian-development-peace nexus
• Coordinate organizational efforts to address climate change and environmental degradation, including through disaster risk reduction (DRR)
• Contribute to UNICEF's engagement in peace building and social cohesion and ensure mainstreaming of conflict sensitivity, peace building, and shock responsiveness into country programmes and sectors
• Work closely and collaboratively with internal colleagues and partners to collect, analyze, and share information on implementation issues
• Suggest solutions on routine programme implementation and submit reports to alert appropriate officials and stakeholders for higher-level intervention and/or decisions
• Keep record of reports and assessments for easy reference and/or to capture and institutionalize lessons learned
• Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, programme reviews, and annual sectoral reviews with government and other counterparts
• Prepare minutes/reports on results for follow-up action by higher management and other stakeholders
• Monitor and report on the use of sectoral programme resources (financial, administrative, and other assets)
• Verify compliance with approved allocation, organizational rules, regulations/procedures, and donor commitments, standards of accountability and integrity
• Report on issues identified to ensure timely resolution by management/stakeholders
• Follow up on unresolved issues to ensure resolution
• Prepare draft inputs for programme/donor reporting
• Undertake field visits and surveys and share information with stakeholders to assess progress