UNESCO
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.
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UNESCO
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
• Provide overall technical leadership, coordination, quality assurance, and strategic oversight for the gender component of the UNESCO–BNU Project • Co-design project methodologies, ICT Club activities, mentorship engagements, Innovation Bootcamp activities, training materials, facilitation guides, implementation tools, and capacity-building approaches • Mobilize, coordinate, supervise, mentor, and provide technical guidance to three Supporting Gender Specialists • Strengthen the capacities of the technical implementing partner, teachers, mentors, school focal persons, and other stakeholders • Provide technical leadership and monitoring during ICT Clubs, mentorship programmes, ICT and STEM clinics, Innovation Bootcamps, STEM hackathons, and related activities • Identify and prepare female ICT and STEM role models and mentors and design mentorship and career-exposure engagements • Maintain direct technical responsibility for five assigned schools • Ensure consistent application of gender-responsive and gender-transformative approaches across 20 schools • Identify gender-related barriers, risks, and opportunities and recommend measures to strengthen implementation • Consolidate and quality-assure monitoring findings, achievements, lessons learned, good practices, challenges, and recommendations • Prepare the Inception, Technical Review and Team Mobilization Report, Consolidated Gender Technical Monitoring and Quality Assurance Report, and Final Gender Technical Report • Serve as the principal technical focal point and remain accountable to UNESCO for technical outputs
🎯 Requirements
• Advanced university degree in Gender Studies, Education, Social Sciences, Development Studies, or a related field • Over 10 years of experience in gender equality, girls’ empowerment, and gender-transformative programming • Expertise integrating gender-responsive and gender-transformative approaches into education, digital skills, ICT, STEM, youth development, or related programmes • Experience providing technical leadership, coordinating multi-stakeholder programmes, and supervising multidisciplinary technical teams • Experience designing and delivering capacity-building initiatives • Experience providing technical advisory services and producing high-quality analytical and technical reports • Experience working with government, development partners, and international organizations • Excellent facilitation, communication, analytical, coordination, mentoring, and report-writing skills • Excellent knowledge of English and Kiswahili • PhD highly desirable • UNESCO/UN experience is an added advantage
🏖️ Benefits
• Individuals from minority groups and indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply • All applications will be treated with the highest level of confidentiality • UNESCO does not charge a fee at any stage of the hiring process
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