Technical Consultant for EOF Leadership Team Support

There are few greater challenges faced by the global community than the twin crises of learning poverty and youth unemployment. In response, the Education Commission (chaired by Gordon Brown, former UK Prime Minister and UN Special Envoy for Global Education) and the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (chaired by Sir Ronald Cohen) came together to create EOF. We aim to improve the education and employment outcomes of 10 million children and youth by supporting governments to utilize a range of innovative finance instruments at scale, including outcomes funds and other results-based financing (RBF) instruments.   

EOF supports improvements in the quality of education and skills programs, with a special focus on underserved populations, including the hardest to reach, rural populations, girls, children with disabilities, and refugees. It measures (and pays for) what matters – both core skills like literacy and numeracy, but also critical 21st Century skills such as socio-emotional skills, ICT skills, and other broader fundamentals of a quality education. It helps close the persistent gap between the skills needed by employers and those attained by today’s youth by paying for employment and retention outcomes.    

For all the above, EOF pays primarily on the basis of the results achieved, ensuring that taxpayer-funded domestic resources, aid, and philanthropic funds are only used to pay for what works. This is a game-changing way to finance results in education. It is more than just a fund – it is a powerful new set of partnerships and way of working.    

Together with our supporters, we believe this is the early stages of a much larger movement. Our approach is at the cutting edge of development finance, shifting risk to the private sector, crowding in private capital, and harnessing the capacity and capability of non-state actors, with huge potential to achieve better outcomes for children and youth around the world

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in  Business Management, Communications, Education, International Development, Politics, Economics, or a similar subject

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required :

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience is required. This includes event management, production, project management, management consultancy and executive assistant experience.
• Experience organizing events and business travel is required.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment is required.
• Fluency in English is required
• Experience organizing international and complex travel or events is strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of the international development sector is preferred.
• Knowledge of the global education sector is preferred.
• A good working knowledge of another UN language is an asset

Source: https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/580714