Individual Consultant: Project Coordinator, Georgetown, Guyana (Open to National

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. For every child, the right to learn Background: The Education & Skills programme focuses on ensuring that children and adolescents, in development and humanitarian contexts – especially the most vulnerable – benefit from equitable, inclusive and gender-transformative quality education, leading to improved learning outcomes, increased resilience and skills for life and work. UNICEF provides technical support for the development of quality assurance criteria in ECE and ECD, child-centred curricula and improved pedagogical practices. The project partnership between the Canada High Commission and UNICEF aims at promoting safe and healthy learning and living environment to migrant and host communities in Guyana’s hinterland: Supporting Early Childhood Development and adolescent programming. The project’s objectives and planned results will address the equity gaps for safe and healthy learning and living environments most evident in migrant and host communities in the hinterland and selected coastal areas in Guyana. How can you make a difference? Under the guidance of the Education Specialist, the Project Coordinator will be responsible to support for overall planning, implementation, coordination and monitoring of the integrated Early Childhood Development programme in Guyana and will specifically: Develop and monitor an integrated approach (for health, education, social services, WASH) for the project that encapsulates the two project objectives and their activities. Coordinate with the focal points in Ministry of Human Services and Social Security, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education in relation to the implementation of the project activities. Work closely with project consultants to provide input to their work, facilitate networking, connect them with resources, review their deliverables and share feedback. Provide technical guidance, and follow-up, where necessary to focal points in the implementing Ministries and community leaders so as to ensure sustainability of the initiatives. To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… Minimum requirements: A university degree in Education, Public Health, Administration and a minimum of ten (10) years of professional leadership experience in designing, implementing and supervising programmes. Proven experience in managing projects. Program and or project management experience. Knowledge of and experience in the social sectors in Guyana (education, health, social services). Proven analytical skills and experiences lending to the ability to identify and evaluate best practices and innovative approaches to be utilized by the project. 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. 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.

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