UNICEF contributes to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria with a mandate to advocate for the protection of children’s rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential.
UNICEF’s Nigeria country programme:
Aims to accelerate the realization of the rights of all children and women to survival, development, protection and participation.
Promotes efforts to reduce infant, child and maternal mortality; expand access to quality basic education; and strengthen social and child protection systems.
Uses a rights-based and gender-sensitive approach
Plays a catalytic role in supporting federal, state and local governments in identifying key bottlenecks that hinder realization of the rights of disadvantaged children, supported by equity-focused, inclusive advocacy, planning, action and monitoring at all levels.
Supports adolescent development.Purpose of Assignment
The main objective of this consultancy is to support the UNICEF Nigeria Country Office to accelerate and scale-up its support to the Federal Ministry of Education (FME) and State Ministries of Education on strengthening skills development, alternative learning systems, including via the Nigeria Learning Passport, and systems strengthening.
Scope of Work:
1.Support the finalization of the National Policy on Skills Development and National Skills Development Framework
Provide technical input to the National Policy on Skills Development.
Support the validation and technical review of the National Policy on Skills Development.
Review final graphic design of the National Skills Development Framework.
2. Support implementation of skills development programmes (FLN, digital, transferable, employability skills)
Produce a lesson learned document on evidence from the field as skills development programs are implemented in 2023-24.
Provide technical support to the desk review of the employability skills for senior secondary schools.
Provide technical support in developing and testing of the model on employability skills for senior secondary.
3. Develop systems strengthening knowledge products
Support development of knowledge products for the education public financing analysis.
Support development of advocacy materials on the National Assessment on Learning Achievement in Basic Education (NALABE).
4. Support scale up of the Nigeria Learning Passport (NLP)
Develop a lesson learned document on NLP advocacy and comms activities to assess what worked on scaling up the NLP, raising usership numbers, and increasing course completion.
Collect NLP user feedback through development and launch of at least 3 NLP user surveys and sharing of results.
Manage development of knowledge products and advocacy/communications materials for the scale-up of the NLP.
Maintain and update advocacy toolkit for UNICEF Field Offices for NLP scale-up and update monthly advocacy and communications tracker.
5.Support proposal and strategy development
Develop or update 3 investment cases.
Support development of 3 proposals and strategies.
Review and provide inputs on 4 Education team proposals.
Deliverables/Outputs:
Deliverable 1:
Support the finalization of the National Policy on Skills Development and National Skills Development Framework
Provide technical input to the National Policy on Skills Development
Support the validation and technical review of the National Policy on Skills Development
Review final graphic design of the National Skills Development Framework
Develop knowledge management products
Create, review, and finalize 6 briefing notes for events/meetings
Develop and/or review and update 2 cheat sheets
Support organization of events for NCO Basic Education team
Annual Education staff retreat.
Deliverable 2:
Develop knowledge management products
Create, review and finalize 6 talking points and presentations for events/meetings
Develop and/or review and update 2 factsheets
Support proposal and strategy development
Develop or update 3 investment cases
Support development of 3 proposals and strategies
Review and provide inputs on 4 Education team proposals
Support staff professional development
Support identification of staff capacity development needs and process of securing appropriate trainings or resources to fill gaps
Lead one internal capacity development series/seminar
Support organization of events for NCO Basic Education team
4 seminars on education topics.
Deliverable 3:
Support scale up of the Nigeria Learning Passport (NLP)
Develop a lessons learned document on NLP advocacy and comms activities to assess what worked on scaling up the NLP, raising usership numbers, and increasing course completion
Collect NLP user feedback through development and launch of at least 3 NLP user surveys and sharing of results
Manage development of knowledge products and advocacy/communications materials for the scale-up of the NLP
Maintain and update advocacy toolkit for UNICEF Field Offices for NLP scale-up, and update monthly advocacy and communications tracker
Develop communications and advocacy assets
Draft and finalize 2 Op-Eds/articles
Develop communication assets and key messages for 4 international days or events
Maintain monthly advocacy and communications tracker on all UNICEF Education media mentions
Organize 2 donor engagement field visits
Support organization of events for NCO Basic Education team
Education Mid-year review
If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here. TOR Skills development alternative learning systems strengthening.docx
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Education:
A master’s degree in in education, international development, social sciences or other relevant fields.
Experiences:
A minimum of 5 years of experience in supporting large-scale education programmes.
At least 3 years of experience in research, evidence generation and knowledge management
Working experience in skills development programming, alternative learning, including digital learning
Skills:
Experience working with a range of partners to monitor the implement policy commitments
Experience developing resources for or guiding stakeholders to develop policy frameworks
Result-based project/programme management skills.
Experiences in working for UNICEF or UN agencies.
Experience in West Africa and ideally Nigeria context.
