UNICEF
Skills and digital economy technical consultant, GPD, Education CoE, 12 months, Amman, Jordan (Remote with travel)
🇯🇴JordanRemote available8 days ago
SeniorFull Time
Working arrangement: Remote -With travel to COs that are part of this consultancy
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
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How can you make a difference?
The purpose of this consultancy is to generate a comprehensive, evidence driven analysis of adolescent and youth skills needs, skills portability options, and user journeys across digital learning to earning pathways. This work aims to document skills needs, portability, how young people discover, access, navigate, complete, and transition from digital learning opportunities into economic outcomes across multiple country contexts. The analysis will focus on blended, low tech, offline-capable, and mobile first delivery models, reflecting the realities of learning in low resource and displacement settings. The consultancy will produce actionable insights and recommendations that strengthen UNICEF’s programming skills development, portable digital competencies, and school to work transitions. Findings will equip country offices and partners with practical guidance to design, adapt, and scale learning platforms and digital skilling interventions that are user centric, gender responsive, inclusive, and effective in linking learners to the world of work. The consultant will review relevant data, conduct interviews, and analyse user journeys across selected digital learning-toearning platforms in PROSPECTS implementing countries, synthesizing findings to identify key enablers and constraints along these pathways. These insights from user journey documentation will then directly inform and shape the skills mapping exercise, ensuring that identified skills demands are grounded in actual platform use and transition experiences. This sequencing ensures that evidence on real learning-to-earning pathways systematically informs demand-side skills analysis, strengthening alignment and relevance across the focus countries.If you would like to know more about this consultancy, please review the complete Terms of Reference here: ToR TMC0002026.pdf
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Minimum requirements:
Extensive knowledge and skills in education, programme management, digital system development, or education technology solutions
For every Child, you demonstrate...
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
This position has been assessed as an elevated risk role for Child Safeguarding purposes as it is either a role with direct contact with children, a role that works directly with identifiable children’s data, a safeguarding response role, or an assessed risk role. Additional vetting and assessment for elevated risk roles in child safeguarding (potentially including additional criminal background checks) apply.
UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.
UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.
UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.
Qualified candidates are invited to submit the following documents via the online recruitment portal, TMS (Talent Management System):
Remarks: If the TOR or financial proposal documents are not visible on certain recruitment platforms, please visit our official page Vacancies | UNICEF Careers.
UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information.
All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.