[Hiring] GESP Playbook Development Consultant @AGORA

Role Description

UNICEF Generation Unlimited (GenU) is a public-private-youth partnership (PPYP) launched in 2018, dedicated to ensuring that every young person gains skills and livelihoods. It supports country-level initiatives and drives global solutions to improve skills development and youth employability for livelihood opportunities with a focus on equity and innovation where girls and young women is one of the key strategic priorities.

The GESP aims to provide quality market-relevant skills to 1 million young women, promoting equality of choice and access to opportunities in learning, skilling, and livelihoods. Adopting a girl-centered approach, GESP addresses the skills deficit among young women through several pathways:

• Enhancing the quality and relevance of curriculum
• Enhancing teachers and trainer capacity
• Offering access to high-quality, market-relevant skills training
• Strengthening pathways to learning and earning
• Collaborating with communities and institutions to foster an inclusive and supportive environment for young women

Under the direct supervision of the Programme Specialist (GESP coordinator), the GESP Playbook Development Consultant will:

• Translate GESP's tacit knowledge, operational experience, lessons learned, and effective approaches into a practical global public good.
• Provide future practitioners and donors with interactive tools, templates, and guidance for designing, implementing, and strengthening girl-centred learning-to-earning pathways.
• Apply a human-centred design (HCD) and social and behaviour change (SBC) lens to the Playbook's content and structure.
• Develop a web-based visualization of the Playbook, including the use of tools such as H5P.

Qualifications

• Advanced university degree in international development, education, gender studies, social and behaviour change, human-centred design, public policy, youth livelihoods, or a related field.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of progressively responsible experience designing and developing practitioner-facing tools, playbooks, toolkits, or guidance using human-centred design (HCD) and social and behaviour change (SBC) approaches for gender-responsive programming.
• Experience in youth livelihoods, youth employment, skills-to-work transitions, or related fields is desirable.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Knowledge of another official UN language or a local language is an asset.
• Demonstrated experience applying HCD and/or SBC approaches to the design of programmes or practitioner resources.
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to synthesize qualitative and quantitative information, assess programme models, identify practical implications, and translate analysis into clear recommendations.
• Experience using H5P or similar interactive digital authoring platforms to visualize guidance, toolkits, or learning resources for practitioners is desirable.
• Experience supporting multi-country or large-scale programmes in international development contexts is desirable.
• Strong writing skills, including experience producing high-quality analytical reports, guidance notes, frameworks, tools, presentations, and recommendations.

Benefits

• Attractive compensation and benefits package.
• Diverse opportunities for professional and personal development.

Company Description

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. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

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