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For every child, education...
Purpose of Activity/Assignment:
- Provide technical support to embed skills in to secondary curriculum framework, pedagogy and teaching-learning materials development during curriculum revision process by NCTB.
- Provide technical support to develop skill assessment toolkit following comprehensive national skills framework for adolescents
- Develop a strategy for developing ideas, solutions, interactive activities, contents to create an open platform (apps, e-learning courses or games) as part of facilitating skill acquisitions for adolescents, teachers and professionals.
- Develop pedagogical solutions with methods, process, steps, assessment and it’s monitoring (in collaboration with DSHE monitoring division) by following competencies of national curriculum to acquire competencies (skills) in secondary schools.
- Contribute in developing and conducting implementation research on skills related piloting activities.
Tasks and Deliverables:
Tasks/Milestone:
Deliverables/Outputs:
Timeline
· A brief inception report after discussion with the relevant UNICEF team on the assignment that will cover work process and time bound action plan to accomplish
the assignment within stipulated time frame.
· Meeting with relevant government stakeholders, external organizations and collect documents to understand the progress so far and capture the expectation.
·Develop action plan on deliverables with timeline.
· Support to develop the design, illustration and printing of the comprehensive skill framework narrative
-Inception Report
-Action plan on deliverables with timeline.
-The popular version of is designed and illustrated
15 days of 1st Month
· Provide technical support to embed skills in to secondary curriculum framework and in detail curriculum revision process by NCTB
· Explore new pedagogical solutions for secondary school’s students grade 6-8
· Support to develop design and methodology on conducting implementation research on skills related piloting activities
-Technical workshop output documents
- Outline of the pedagogical solutions (i.e. project ideas)
-The research design document
15 days of 2nd Month
· Conceptualization of skill assessment toolkit following comprehensive national skills framework for adolescents.
· Outline the guidelines for curriculum and materials revision/development on skills through workshops
· Develop monitoring process with guidelines to track the progress of project works in school in collaboration with DSHE monitoring division.
-Concept note of the skill assessment toolkit
-Guidelines for curriculum and materials revision/development on skills
-Outline monitoring mechanism in line with DSHE monitoring
15 days of 3rd Month
· Develop necessary framework, tools and guidelines for skill assessment toolkit through consultation with technical group
· Detailing the solutions for secondary school’s students with methods, process, steps and assessment mechanism.
· Support monitoring process with guidelines to track the progress of project works in school
-Draft tools and guidelines for skill assessment toolkit with the developed framework.
-Guideline for the solutions
-Monitoring mechanism established.
15 days of 4th Month
·Outline the guidelines for pedagogy and materials revision/development for class VI books.
· Develop the training package for teachers on skill assessment toolkit and support training facilitation.
· Provide technical support in project implementation (may include field visits)
-Guideline for developers who will develop class VI books
-Training package for teachers on skill assessment
-Field Visit observation-based feedback
15 days of 5th Month
· Continue to provide technical support in development of class VI books under NCTB
· provide support to e-learning course development agency to incorporate the contents.
· Develop the training package for teachers on skill assessment toolkit.
-Draft books for class VI
- E-learning course content reviewed that developed by agency.
-Tools and guidelines for skill assessment toolkit
15 days of 6th Month
· Develop a strategy paper for ideas, solutions, interactive activities, contents for facilitating skill acquisitions through open platform
· Outline the guidelines for pedagogy and materials revision/development for class VII and class IX based on new curriculum
-Outline of developing contents for facilitating skill acquisitions through open platform
-Guideline for developers who will develop class VII and class IX based
15 days of 7th Month
· Continue to provide technical support in development of class VII and class IX based on new curriculum
· Contribute to develop contents for apps or games as part of facilitating skill acquisitions for adolescents, teachers and professionals.
-Draft books for class VII
-Draft contents for apps or games is developed/ selected
15 days of 8th Month
· Continue to provide technical support in development of class VII and class IX based on new curriculum
·Contribute to develop contents for apps or games as part of facilitating skill acquisitions for adolescents, teachers and professionals.
- Draft books for class IX
-Draft contents for apps or games is developed or selected.
15 days of 9th Month
· Support to develop the end-line research design under implementation research
· Provide technical support to develop packages to disseminate the curriculum among teachers and students with the feedback from technical working group.
-Research design developed
-Develop curriculum dissemination package
15 days of 10th Month
· Support to develop methodology, data collection for end-line under implementation research
· Provide technical support to disseminate the new curriculum among teachers
- Draft of tools and guidelines for conducting research
- Support curriculum dissemination package
15 days of 11th Month
·Provide support to review and finalize implementation research report
· Fine tuning of all documents and final copy submission
·Assignment completion report
- Research report reviewed and finalized
- The Final version of all deliverables
- Completion report
15 days of 12th Month
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
- An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Education, Social science, Development studies.
- 08 years of working experiences in social development field, especially on gender and education program. Sound technical knowledge and experiences on soft/transferable skills, developing training modules, guidelines on skill-based education program design, implementation and monitoring. Sound Technical understanding on research as well as experience in the areas of secondary education is an asset.
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.
View our competency framework at
http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.
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. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. 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.
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
Consultants and Individual contractors are responsible for paying any taxes derived from the earnings received from UNICEF.
How to apply:
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organization. To apply, click on the following link http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/?job=530226
