Education Manager Cluster Coordinator

Lead and strengthen coordinated education responses in humanitarian settings by driving a strategic, coherent, and accountable approach within the Cluster. Build strong relationships with stakeholders, foster inter-sectoral collaboration, and guide collective action to deliver timely, inclusive, and impactful education interventions in emergencies.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and representation to ensure a timely, coherent, and effective response in complex humanitarian settings.
• Bring together diverse stakeholders, guiding them to work collectively toward shared, evidence-based goals while overseeing coordination mechanisms, needs assessments, and response planning.
• Build strong partnerships, mobilize resources, and monitor performance to drive an inclusive and accountable response.
• Strengthen national and local capacities and ensure that education interventions are aligned with humanitarian standards and effectively meet the evolving needs of affected populations.
• Coordinate, represent, and lead education cluster activities.
• Conduct needs assessment and analysis.
• Plan strategic responses.
• Mobilize resources and advocate for education in emergencies.
• Implement and monitor education interventions.
• Conduct operational review and evaluation.
• Ensure accountability to affected populations.
• Strengthen national and local capacity.

Requirements

• An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: education, economics, pedagogy, psychology, sociology, international development, management, social sciences or another relevant technical field.
• A minimum of 8 years of professional experience, preferably at the international level, in education programme planning, coordination and management and/or research is required.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Relevant experience in programme management in education within a UN system agency or organization is considered an asset.
• Knowledge of other UN official languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is considered an asset.
• A minimum of two years of experience of Education Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group coordination is desirable.
• Experience of working in a senior management role or in cluster coordination within a complex country programme in an emergency response or protracted crisis, including experience in first phase emergency response, is strongly desirable.
• Experience in effective leadership and management of teams to deliver results in high stress/risk environments is desirable.
• Knowledge of IASC cluster coordination, knowledge of Sphere standards, knowledge of Core Humanitarian Standard, knowledge of INEE minimum standards, experience in high-risk environments.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, complex, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

Skills

• Education Programme Design
• Education programme coordination
• Education Program Management
• Research in Education
• Programme Management in Education
• Education Cluster coordination
• Sector coordination
• Working Group Coordination
• Emergency Response Coordination
• Protracted Crisis Management
• First Phase Emergency Response
• Team Leadership in High Stress Environments
• IASC Cluster Coordination
• Sphere Standards knowledge
• Core Humanitarian Standard Knowledge
• INEE Minimum Standards Knowledge
• Humanitarian Programme Management
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Inter-sectoral Collaboration

Languages

English