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UNESCO

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1945

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Education • Non-profit • Social Impact

UNESCO is a specialized agency of the United Nations aimed at promoting international collaboration in the fields of education, culture, natural sciences, and social sciences. It works to foster peace, development, and sustainable practices through educational programs and cultural initiatives. UNESCO advocates for equal access to education and cultural preservation around the world, leveraging its partnerships with various entities, including governments and institutions, to achieve its goals.

📋 Description

• Coordinate the technical consolidation and quality assurance of UIS annual and biennial work plans, ensuring clearly formulated results, realistic indicators and measurable targets. • Ensure consistency between work plans and related planning instruments, including financial forecasts, budget envelopes, procurement plans, organizational and staffing information, the integrated calendar of surveys and data releases, and monitoring and evaluation plans. • Support senior management in translating UIS strategic priorities, UNESCO C/4 and C/5 commitments, and Governing Board decisions into operational planning instruments. • Provide technical advice to UIS sections and units on theories of change, results chains, indicator selection, target setting and performance measurement. • Coordinate the relevant quarterly, mid-year or annual programme monitoring cycle falling within the consultancy period. • Consolidate and quality-assure information on implementation progress, achievement of results and indicators, budget execution, delays, risks, mitigation measures and required management actions. • Maintain and improve the UIS management dashboard and other concise analytical products used by senior management to track institutional performance and delivery. • Maintain the UIS SharePoint corporate platform used for institutional planning, programme monitoring, knowledge management and reporting, ensuring that information is current, clearly structured and accessible to authorized users. • Track and report on internal and external oversight recommendations, agreed management actions and associated deadlines. • Coordinate the update of the UIS risk register and support the integration of risk management considerations into planning, monitoring and management reporting tools. • Prepare concise status updates for senior management on outstanding audit actions, institutional risks and proposed follow-up measures. • Support the planning and coordination of evaluations or evaluative exercises arising during the consultancy period, in accordance with UNESCO's Evaluation Policy. • Provide substantive inputs to evaluation terms of reference, management responses and follow-up matrices, as required. • Document and disseminate relevant lessons learned through briefs, presentations or internal knowledge-sharing products. • Coordinate and draft UIS inputs to priority UNESCO statutory reports, UIS Governing Board documentation, institutional progress reports and senior management briefs due during the consultancy period. • Support the preparation and quality assurance of narrative and financial reporting to donors and partners, ensuring consistency with institutional and project results frameworks. • Collaborate closely with the Resource Mobilization and Donor Relations function and relevant project managers to strengthen the timeliness, coherence and quality of donor reporting. • Work closely with the Resource Mobilization and Donor Relations function to provide programme management support to resource mobilization and fundraising activities. • Support the confirmation and prioritization of the UIS donor pipeline, including the review of prospective donors, funding opportunities, engagement status, next steps and responsibilities. • Develop a framework and outline for an external-facing UIS annual report, presenting institutional results, impact and forward priorities across the Institute's critical pillars (education; science, technology and innovation; culture; and communication and information), including a proposed structure, content plan, indicative production timeline and roles, designed to serve both public accountability and donor and partner engagement purposes. • Ensure resource mobilization efforts are aligned with UIS work-plan priorities and budget needs, including by identifying and costing funding gaps to inform donor engagement and proposals.

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in economics, statistics, public policy, international development, international affairs, education, social sciences, monitoring and evaluation, management or a related field. • A first-level university degree combined with at least two additional years of relevant professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree. • Certification in results-based management, monitoring and evaluation or project management, such as PMP or an equivalent certification, would be an asset. • Minimum five years of progressively responsible experience in institutional planning, budget monitoring, results-based management, programme/project management, and/or corporate and donor reporting. • Experience supporting organization-wide planning and performance management in a complex international or UN system environment. • Experience coordinating corporate, statutory, project or donor reporting and translating complex information into management products. • Experience with resource mobilization, donor pipeline management or proposal writing is an asset. • Experience with planning/monitoring tools, dashboards or SharePoint is an asset. • Experience supporting senior management or executive offices is an asset. • Experience with oversight recommendations, risk management or evaluation coordination is an asset. • Experience in statistics, education, science, culture or communication programmes is an advantage.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development