Re-advertisement: Education Manager - Cluster Coordinator (P-4), FT, East Jerusalem - State of Palestine, #137759

About the role

Join our team and make a difference by leading and strengthening coordinated education responses in humanitarian settings. This role requires a strategic, coherent, and accountable approach within the Cluster, ensuring partners work effectively together to meet the needs of affected populations.

Responsibilities

• Drive a strategic, coherent, and accountable approach within the Cluster, ensuring partners work effectively together to meet the needs of affected populations.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, foster inter-sectoral collaboration, and guide collective action to deliver timely, inclusive, and impactful education interventions.
• Provide strategic leadership and representation to ensure a timely, coherent, and effective response in complex humanitarian settings.
• Bring together diverse stakeholders, guiding them to work collectively toward shared, evidence-based goals while overseeing coordination mechanisms, needs assessments, and response planning.
• Mobilize resources, monitor performance, and drive an inclusive and accountable response.
• Strengthen national and local capacities and ensure education interventions align with humanitarian standards and meet evolving needs.

Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of professional experience, preferably at the international level, in education program planning, coordination, and management and/or research.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of other UN official languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is considered an asset.
• Relevant experience in programme management in education within a UN system agency or organization is considered an asset.
• Experience leading or supporting humanitarian coordination, response planning, and inter-agency collaboration in emergency contexts.
• Experience engaging with donors, humanitarian coordination mechanisms, and senior stakeholders, including preparation and presentation of strategic updates, briefing materials, and advocacy products.
• Experience developing emergency preparedness, contingency, and response plans within complex humanitarian settings.
• Experience coordinating diverse stakeholders, including government counterparts, NGOs, UN agencies, community-based organizations, and other humanitarian actors in complex emergency and early recovery contexts.
• Experience of working in a senior management role or in cluster coordination within a complex country programme in an emergency response or protracted crisis, including experience in first phase emergency response.
• Experience in effective leadership and management of teams to deliver results in high-stress/risk environments.
• Knowledge of IASC cluster coordination, Sphere standards, the Core Humanitarian Standard, and INEE Minimum Standards, and experience working in high-risk environments.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, complex, fragile settings, and humanitarian contexts.

Qualifications

• An advanced university degree in education, economics, pedagogy, psychology, sociology, international development, management, or another relevant technical field.

Skills

• Coordination
• Coordination and Management
• Emergency Response
• International Development
• Management
• Programme Planning
• Research

Benefits

UNICEF offers a wide range of benefits to its staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities.

Pay

The pay for this position is competitive and commensurate with experience.

Schedule

The schedule for this position is flexible and tailored to the needs of the role and the individual.