National Public Education Expert, (Retainer)

UNOPS is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners’ peace building, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve sustainable development.

UNOPS areas of expertise cover infrastructure, procurement, project management, financial management and human resources.

Working with us

UNOPS offers short- and long-term work opportunities in diverse and challenging environments across the globe. We are looking for creative, results-focused professionals with skills in a range of disciplines.

Diversity

With over 4,000 UNOPS personnel and approximately 7,000 personnel recruited on behalf of UNOPS partners spread across 80 countries, our workforce represents a wide range of nationalities and cultures. We promote a balanced, diverse workforce — a strength that helps us better understand and address our partners’ needs, and continually strive to improve our gender balance through initiatives and policies that encourage recruitment of qualified female candidates.

Work life harmonization

UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands.

The National Public Education Expert (NPEE) will specifically:

1. Develop public awareness and knowledge enhancement strategy for the project
2. Develop action plan for the project based on the strategy
3. Produce radio programme and magazine articles to build national awareness and visibility on the benefits of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) and in particular focusing on forest and rangelands.
4. Prepare materials and knowledge projects on EbA based on the project interventions as well as experience from other EbA project globally.
5. Facilitate and foster intra & inter community dialogues on EbA in forests and rangelands by i) coordinating open learning days for targeted user groups in project sites ii) integrating an EbA discussion in the district environment energy climate change coordination committee  or relevant institution in project working districts.
6. Organize visits for the Project Implementing Partners; Director Generals (DGs) of Department of Forests and Soil Conservation, Department of Agriculture, Department of Livestock, School environmental clubs and environmental journalists to a selected EbA intervention site.
7. Assess primary and secondary school curricula to identify entry points for learning on EbA
8. Design educational tool kits for primary and secondary schools on EbA for adaptation to climate change. These tool kits must include inter alia i) lessons plan to enhance understanding of the role of EbA in climate change adaptation, and ii) guidelines for small scale EbA projects that can be implemented on school premises to strengthen the technical capacity of the Nepalese youth to plan and implement EbA.
9. Conduct trainings for Ministry of Education Science and Technology (MoEST) Officials based on the EbA educational toolkits for primary, secondary and tertiary education programmes.
10. Present the educational toolkits on EbA to the Ministry of Education Science and Technology (MoEST) at a workshop.
11. Team up with other experts and PMU to disseminate information of the research studies on EbA through national and regional meetings.
12. Undertake any other responsibilities relevant for EbA as required by PMU.

• PhD's degree in Education, development communication, environmental science or any relevant discipline with 10 years of substantive work experience in education, public awareness and communication field with focus on development and dissemination of public education and awareness programmes through a wide range of media or other related fields is required.
• Master's degree in the above subjects with 15 years of substantive work experience may be accepted in lieu of PhD's degree.

• Prior work experience and knowledge on product development of educational materials, tool kits, curricula, and awareness generating materials is preferred. 

• Sound working knowledge of contemporary environmental issues, climate change and environment poverty nexus with a strong skill for technical writing including ability to work in a team and travel to field sites is essential. 

Contract type: LICA

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• Work life harmonization - UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We have a progressive policy on work-life harmonization and offer several flexible working options. This policy applies to UNOPS personnel on all contract types
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns.
Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.

The position is based in the family duty station.