Senior Education Adviser on Strategy, Governance, and Reform- 12 months

Scope of work           

Some of the key features include, but not limited to:

1. Investing in building a unified management arrangement and integrating any external structure

2. Moving from a top-down unit-cost model to a holistic & fact-based bottom-up costing methodology

3. Transforming a nationality-based approach that distinguished between Lebanese and non-Lebanese children to a vulnerability-driven equity and inclusion policy for all children.

4. Moving from an input-driven system to a results-based management system.

5. Shifting from limited data quality and availability to a data-driven decision-making system.

6. Reducing the high number of transaction costs and risks by building a more efficient system with clear risk mitigation strategies.

7. Moving from an external plan to a unifying framework of an Education Sector Plan.

8. Adopting a whole-of-system approach instead of maintaining a divided education sector.

Specifically, this consultancy will support on the implementation of the Transition and Resilience Education Fund (TREF), with a particular focus on leading the Partnership Governance dimension, working with the DG and coordinating the Implementation Support Team and collaborate with the TREF Third-Party to prioritize the urgent tasks on system design and capacity building to MEHE on, inter alia, data management and school financial management, and provide technical inputs to develop the Second Window of TREF covering governance, procedures, support structures, and assurance mechanisms to support transition policies for children to the formal education sector.

The contractor will provide strategic and programmatic inputs to UNICEF programs and play an advising and guiding role in the implementation of MEHE´s Reform Road Map 2025 working closely with both MEHE as well as UNICEF team.  In addition, the contractor will support specific communication actions for UNICEF and advise relevant UNICEF staff on green TVET policies and implementation strategies and the related operationalization of a Center of Excellence.