About this role
National Education Programme Consultant
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 Education Programme Consultant
Job No: 596755
Location: Lagos (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-time
Contract Type: Consultant
Categories: Education
Responsibilities
The main roles will be to coordinate, implement, monitor, and support the delivery of the ACCESS programme at LGA level, including supporting the:
- Identification and enrollment of out-of-school children with the school mobilization teams, schools and communities.
- Improvement of school attendance and retention with schools
- Transition of OOSC between education levels with schools and parents/caregivers.
- Enhancement of foundational literacy and numeracy outcomes with schools.
- Community engagement, ownership and social mobilization with all relevant stakeholders
- Schools, headteachers and teachers to improve learning quality.
- Sustainable community-based systems that support children's continuous education and learning success.
- Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, including ensuring all data is collected, analyzed and used in a cyclical manner to improve enrolment and learning of all children in the selected schools
Minimum requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in education development, Foundational Learning, Sustainable development, Education Policy, Teacher Training, and any other educational fields
- Work Experience: Minimum eight (8) years of progressively responsible experience in education programming, including:
- School-based programmes including headteacher training and school improvement plans
- Education programme implementation.
- Community-based education interventions.
- Out-of-school children programming.
- School enrolment and retention initiatives.
- Stakeholder engagement and partnership management.
- Monitoring, evaluation and reporting.
- School-based professional development programmes
- Working with government education systems in Nigeria.
Preferred:
- Experience working in Lagos State with LASUBEB and LGEAs.
- Experience implementing donor-funded programmes.
- Experience working with UNICEF, UN agencies or international NGOs.
Skills:
- Demonstrated expertise in education, out-of-school children programming, Community mobilisation, foundational literacy and numeracy, data analysis and reporting, and Social and behaviour change approaches
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, with experience translating evidence for and communicating with a broad range of actors (including government) on sensitive issues.
- Strong writing skills in English
- Coaching and mentoring skills with headteachers, teachers, and community leaders
- Stakeholder relationship collaboration
- Proven experience of the OOSC and FLN landscape, ideally in Sub-Saharan Africa and Nigeria specifically
Language Requirements:
- Fluency in English and Yoruba (is preferred). Ability to communicate effectively in additional local languages spoken in Lagos communities
Desirables:
- Knowledge of the Nigerian political landscape and recent developments in education.
- Familiarity with the Nigerian education context
- Ability to present ideas concisely for diverse audiences and to give practical, actionable advice grounded in evidence.
Application Closing Date
9th November, 2026; W. Central Africa Standard Time.