Education Officer

Job no: 595052
Contract type: Fixed Term Appointment
Duty Station: Buenos Aires
Level: NO-2
Location: Argentina
Categories: Education

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For every child, the right to education

UNICEF Argentina’s education portfolio is strategically focused on improving foundational learning outcomes as a cornerstone for equity and system strengthening. The office is currently supporting a complex, multi-level agenda that includes national policy implementation (e.g., the National Mathematics Plan), early literacy in intercultural contexts, strengthening transitions into secondary education, and advancing inclusion and re-engagement of out-of‑school adolescents. In parallel, UNICEF plays a key convening role—mobilizing governments, generating evidence, and promoting child participation—to influence education policy and practice across multiple jurisdictions, requiring sustained technical leadership and coordination capacity.

How can you make a difference?

Under the supervision of the Education Specialist, the Education Officer – Foundational Learning provides technical, operational, and administrative assistance for the design, monitoring, and evaluation of educational programs focused on improving learning outcomes in Language (reading and writing) and Mathematics. This role specifically supports the professional development of educational officers, principals and teachers across compulsory education including initial, primary, and secondary to ensure sustainable results within the 2026-2030 Country program. The position will be responsible for development planning to deliver results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting.

Key functions and accountabilities:
1. Support to programme development and planning on foundational learning programs.
2. Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results.
3. Technical and operational support to programme implementation.
4. Networking and partnership building.
5. Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• Education: Completed first level university degree in one of the following fields is required: education, education psychology or another relevant technical field.
• Work Experience: A minimum of two years of professional experience in the development of learning outcomes improvement programs in Language and Mathematics for pre‑primary, primary and secondary education is required.
• Skills: Proven experience in programme planning, management, and applied research in education is required.
  Experience including professional experience on knowledge on pre‑primary, primary and secondary teaching strategies and curriculum, the design or management of professional development initiatives for educational officers, teachers and school principals is required.
• Language Requirements: Fluency in Spanish and English is required.
• Language: Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish or Russian) is an asset.
• Professional experience on supporting system strengthening is desirable.
• Experience in the implementation of EdTech solutions to foster access, teacher development and quality foundational learning outcomes is desirable.
• Experience working in a developing country and most vulnerable contexts is considered as an asset.
• Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization, public policy implementation is considered as an asset.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts is an asset.

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