National Project Officer (Education For Health and Well Being)

The position falls under the overall authority of the Assistant Director-General for Education, guidance from the Director of the UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa, support from the Senior Project Officer (Education for Health and Well-being), and the direct supervision of the Representative of the UNESCO Maputo Office. The incumbent will be responsible for the effective planning, implementation, and monitoring of UNESCO’s work on Education for Health and well-being through the Our Rights, Our Lives, Our Future (O3) Project, and the Unified Budget, Results, and Accountability Framework (UBRAF) in Mozambique.  The candidate will be responsible for providing technical expertise on key themes including comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), sexual and reproductive health, inclusion, gender, and school-related gender-based violence, school health, and HIV. The incumbent will specifically be responsible for:

Project and Technical Support for the O3 Project:

• Identify opportunities for UNESCO engagement in policy development and programming on HIV, sexuality education, and other health issues (within the framework of the UNESCO Strategy on Health and Well-Being, national strategies, and the UNAIDS division of labour).
• Facilitate a process of strategic planning within UNESCO for engagement in these opportunities.
• Liaise with UNESCO structures, including the Section on Health and Education at UNESCO Headquarters and colleagues in the Regional Office for Southern Africa, and sub-region working on HIV and AIDS, in particular the Regional HIV and AIDS team for East and Southern Africa.
• Support UNESCO programming on health education, in collaboration with other staff working on HIV and Health Education, with particular emphasis on interventions supporting national efforts towards HIV prevention, scaling up sexuality education, gender, and school-related gender-based violence.  
• Facilitate the provision of technical support to the Ministry of Education, and other national partners especially in curriculum development.
• Support capacity-building interventions within the education sector, through the organization of meetings and workshops to develop comprehensive action on HIV and Health and to contribute to national responses.
• Contribute to advocacy efforts at the country level, in order to advance the use of the evidence and strengthen joint UN and national responses to HIV and AIDS

Scale up and strengthen the delivery of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE)

• Support the capacity building of curriculum developers, teachers, and teacher educators, including teachers of learners with disabilities to deliver gender and social norms transformative CSE and school violence prevention, including through ICT-based solutions.
• Lead the development and dissemination of good quality teaching and learning digital and non-digital resources on gender and social norms transformative CSE and school violence prevention.  
• Grow and strengthen the CSE Community of Practice for teachers and other CSE practitioners in Mozambique.

Strengthen implementation of the program through evidence generated from monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning:

• Commission research on CSE and school violence to deepen evidence and support data-driven and evidence -based decision-making at legislative, policy and planning level.
• Strengthen the capacity of the education sector to report and use generated data for planning and decision-making.

Planning, budgeting, M&E, and reporting:

• Support strategic planning and budgeting for UNESCO engagement in HIV and SRHR programming in Mozambique, in line with UNESCO’s commitments as a UNAIDS Cosponsor.
• Contribute to timely Project implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and reporting for the O3 Project.
• Ensure timely narrative and financial reporting on elements from the national O3 Project and budget portfolio falling under the incumbent's responsibility, both within UNESCO and to external donors as appropriate.
• Support monitoring of the O3 Project’ expenditure in line with the approved budget, in liaison with relevant Harare and HQ colleagues.
• Plan, commission and supervise various research pieces to inform the work on Education for Health and Well-being in Mozambique.

Representation and partner relations:

• Represent UNESCO in appropriate coordination forums, such as the UN Joint Teams on HIV and AIDS, interagency meetings, and thematic meetings.
• Develop and maintain partner relations with the Ministry of Education, the UNESCO National Commission, national bodies, and development partners, including civil society organizations. Provide technical guidance and guidelines for further development of their capacities and activities.
• Engage with local organisations, including the civil society in support.
• Support UNESCO’s participation in regional structures and processes.

Resource Mobilization:

• Participate in resource mobilization efforts including proposal development from UNESCO and partners and provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Education in accessing funding for the education sector response to HIV, gender-based violence and other health issues.

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