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Job Title: National Consultant to Support Curriculum and Instructional Design for Implementation of Learning Passport Platform Initiative (one for Mathematics and one for English Language) (6 months)
Job no: 538322
Location: Nigeria
Contract Type: Consultancy
Level: Consultancy
Categories: Education, Monitoring and Evaluation, Planning, Consultancy, Programme Management
For Every Child, Education / Purpose of Activity
The Learning Passport, a partnership between UNICEF, Microsoft, Cambridge, and supported by the Boston Consulting Group, has been established to, 1) provide local, contextualized content with a supplementary library of global content, mapped together via research by Cambridge; 2) provide a platform to serve this content to children and youth online or offline, via a platform being developed by Microsoft, and 3) with an individualized record of learning for a user, that is portable across physical and digital borders. The Learning passport, as an extraordinary emergency response, will create country-level sites available that would like to make access to curriculum and learning materials available for students with connectivity both at school and at home.
The envisioned digital platform aims to enhance continued engagement with families and parents on learning at home by providing practical resources and materials that can be applied in home settings. The envisioned digital platform aims to enhance continued engagement with families and parents on learning at home by providing practical resources and materials that can be applied in home settings. Its second aim is to strengthen professional development opportunities and facilitate collaboration between educators at preschool, primary and secondary education levels, and other staff on sharing ideas, best practices and activities that can be implemented in schools.
COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique challenge for Nigeria's education system and the emerging situation is going to transform the way public education is being delivered ever before. With this new normal, education system both private and public is being prepared to deliver blended form of classroom- both face-to-face and through using online digital platforms. In Nigeria, there have been efforts by governments, private sector and key education stakeholders to promote continued learning and bridge potential learning gaps. These efforts range from large-scale, low tech solutions that do not require internet-enabled devices (radio and television), to high tech alternatives (virtual classrooms, video conferencing, animated lessons and online resources libraries) that require internet-enabled devices.
In short, while the key focus of this initiative is learning, quality and portability for children whose education has been disrupted by emergencies, the medium and long-term goal is to help establish a quality system of online and offline education, collaboration and support to children and parents.
Scope of Work
Under the overall supervision of the UNICEF Nigeria Education programme section, guidance of Learning Passport Global Program Manager and in close cooperation with Director ICT of the Federal Ministry of Education, Nigeria, an individual consultant is required to provide the following services:
Content Development and Management:
Support coordination with national and international stakeholders:
Key Deliverables
Content development and management:
Support coordination with national and international stakeholders:
Other activities needed to support the purpose of this contract:
Deliverables - Timelines:
Requirements
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have:
All applicants will be screened against qualifications and requirements set above. Candidates fully meeting all the requirements will be further evaluated based on the criteria below:
For every Child, you demonstrate:
Application Closing Date
5th March, 2021. W. Central Africa Standard Time.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
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