National Consultant - Deployment of Nigeria Learning Passport at United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: National Consultant - Deployment of Nigeria Learning Passport

Job ID: 582581
Location: Abuja (FCT)
Contract type: Consultant
Level: Consultancy
Duty Station: Abuja
Categories: Education

Specific Objectives
The consultant will support the deployment of NLP and strengthen the digital learning ecosystems in Nigeria in collaboration with UNICEF Field Offices (FOs). Specific objectives are:

• Internal and external coordination of digital learning programmes
• Grant management
• Government management capacity
• Content development, management and quality assurance
• Communication, advocacy, and stakeholder engagement
• Monitoring, evaluation, and reporting
• Other activities.

Scope of Work
Internal and external coordination and grant management of digital learning programmes:

• Participate in and contribute to internal and external digital learning coordination meetings at global, regional, country and state levels.
• Manage the grants with digital learning components to ensure that the projects are planned, implemented, monitored, and reported as scheduled.
• This includes NLP deployment and scaling with capacity building of state officers and teachers.

Government management capacity:

• Provide support and capacity building to the Federal and State Ministries of Education to manage and coordinate programme implementation activities related to digital learning and NLP.

Content development, management and quality assurance:

• Lead the development and launch of learning pathways on NLP to facilitate curricular-based learning using the content on NLP.
• Support FME to review and approve new content in NLP when needs arise.

Communication, advocacy and stakeholder engagement:

• Coordinate communication, advocacy, and stakeholder engagement activities in collaboration with FOs to sensitize government officials, donors, private partners, schools, teachers, children and parents on NLP and digital learning management and use.

Monitoring and reporting:

• Conduct regular monitoring and reporting on usage of NLP as well as NLP-related activities.
• Support the mid-year and end-year review and report.

Other activities:

• Support the development of funding proposals and concept notes.
• Support the organization of seminars, conferences, and staff retreat, as well as programme mid-year and end-of-year review.

Work Assignment Overview
Tasks/Milestone:

• Coordination and grant management of digital learning programmes

Deliverables/Outputs:

• 1st biannual report/record of digital learning coordination meeting and grant management
• Government management capacity

Deliverables/Outputs:

• A record of 1st round of government capacity building
• Content management and quality assurance

Deliverables/Outputs:

• Learning pathway on NLP developed, launched and updated.
• Communication, advocacy & stakeholder engagement

Requirements
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have:

• Advanced university degree in education, digital education, instructional design, information systems management, ICT management, computer science or other relevant fields.
• A minimum of 8 years of experience in designing and implementing large-scale digital learning projects.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in developing / supporting instructional design, teacher competencies, e-learning materials and courses, and/or learning platforms, in context of digital teaching and learning.
• Working experience in conducting a similar type of digital learning development and deployment projects (e.g., needs assessment, capacity building for administrators/users, promotion strategies, digital content management, device management, helpdesk, and/or monitoring/reporting)
• Experience in supporting the deploying and/or managing Learning Passport, such as coordinating with the government to decide functions of platform, select content, support device procurement, develop partners for connectivity, and train teachers.
• Knowledge in instructional design, e-learning platform configuration, and digital learning content, with experience in requirements engineering related to applications for children, educators and parents.
• Experience in incorporating inclusive education strategies and/or universal design for learning (UDL) into technology-based learning solutions to improve accessibility to and use of digital learning platforms for children with disability.
• Result-based project/programme management skills.
• Experiences in working for UNICEF or UN agencies.
• Understanding of West Africa context.
• Fluency in English with strong written and oral skills.

For every Child, you demonstrate:

• UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, Sustainability (CRITAS), and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.
• UNICEF is also proud of a diverse workforce who are profoundly committed to supporting the full realization of children’s rights, and in uplifting a rights-based approach in all that we do.

Competencies:
The UNICEF competencies required for this post are

• Builds and maintains partnerships
• Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
• Drive to achieve results for impact
• Innovates and embraces change
• Manages ambiguity and complexity
• Thinks and acts strategically
• Works collaboratively with others.

Application Closing Date
11th August, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
• Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage).
• Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors.
• Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.
• The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract.
• Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment.
• It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.