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.
Individual Consultant – Final Review, MAWHIBA-UNESCO Online STEM Oasis Project
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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
• Design and conduct an external final review of the MAWHIBA–UNESCO Online STEM Oasis project • Assess implementation and available results against agreed objectives and planned outputs across Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and the Syrian Arab Republic • Review the online STEM portal, selected videos and quizzes, outreach materials, stakeholder networks and national consultations • Assess relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability proportionately using OECD-DAC criteria • Conduct desk review of project, workplan, budget, progress, financial, contract, deliverable and consultation documentation • Analyze available platform usage and engagement data, including data-quality limitations • Review approximately 20–30 STEM videos and quizzes and test selected portal functions where access is provided • Conduct remote interviews and, where useful, small-group discussions with UNESCO, Mawhiba, national partners and other adult stakeholders • Integrate gender equality, human rights, accessibility, inclusion, informed consent, confidentiality and data protection into the review • Triangulate evidence, document evidence gaps and limitations, prepare country-specific findings and develop a cross-country synthesis • Prepare a short inception report, preliminary findings debrief, draft review report and final review report with practical prioritized recommendations • Arrange stakeholder interviews with UNESCO support and manage the home-based assignment • Address consolidated feedback while maintaining impartial analysis and evidence-based conclusions • Disclose conflicts of interest and ensure secure handling of data
🎯 Requirements
• Advanced university degree in education, STEM education, evaluation, social sciences or a related field • At least seven years of relevant professional experience in project reviews, evaluations or applied programme research • Responsibility for designing and conducting at least two comparable reviews or evaluations • Demonstrated qualitative and quantitative methodological expertise in at least two assignments • Experience with document review, stakeholder interviews, monitoring-data analysis and evidence triangulation • Ability to develop a review matrix, assess evidence quality and explain methodological limitations • At least one assignment involving education, STEM learning or digital learning • Ability to assess educational-resource relevance, accessibility and usefulness and interpret platform usage data • Knowledge of education systems and implementation contexts in the Arab region • Professional experience in at least one of Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon or the Syrian Arab Republic • Experience integrating gender equality, inclusion and human rights considerations into at least one review, evaluation or research assignment • Understanding of informed consent, confidentiality, safeguarding and personal-data protection • Excellent analytical writing and communication skills in English and Arabic • Ability to conduct stakeholder consultations in Arabic and prepare reports and presentations in English • Confirmed availability for approximately 22 working days over 8–9 calendar weeks • No previous involvement in designing or implementing the MAWHIBA–UNESCO Online STEM Oasis project • Must disclose actual or potential conflicts of interest • Must submit a CV, two recent review/evaluation reports, two professional references, technical proposal, separate financial proposal in USD, availability and independence confirmation, conflict-of-interest disclosure and academic-qualification evidence • Desirable: experience with extracurricular STEM initiatives for adolescents, online learning portals, digital educational content, learner-engagement data, multi-country assignments, remote consultations, UNESCO/UN assignments, and UNEG norms and standards
🏖️ Benefits
• Consultant contract for a 1-month assignment • Approximately 22 working days over 8–9 calendar weeks • Home-based remote assignment • Remote meetings and presentations • Payment proposal submitted in USD, inclusive of assignment costs • Opportunity to contribute to UNESCO and Mawhiba project closure, sustainability planning and future programming • Equal encouragement for individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities • Applications treated with the highest level of confidentiality
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