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The Learning Passport is a UNICEF supported Digital Education Platform, developed through a partnership between UNICEF, Microsoft, and University of Cambridge, that :
- provides local, contextualized education content (like national curriculum), with a supplementary library of global content, mapped together via research by Cambridge ;
- provides a platform to serve this content to children and youth online or offline, via a platform being developed by Microsoft ;
- with an individualized record of learning for a user, that is portable across physical and digital borders.
For more information of the Learning Passport, please visit : www.learningpassport.org
Learning Passport and the COVID-19 Response :
The Learning passport, as an extraordinary emergency response offer from UNICEF and Microsoft, will create country-level sites available on request, to offices that would like to continue access to curriculum for students with connectivity at home. This will provide learners with continued access to their formal curriculum, online. In addition, supplementary content and non-formal education programmes can be populated and offered (i.e. content that relates to the curriculum, or alternative content like COVID-19 messaging, digital skills content, etc.), alongside the curriculum.
While Egypt has made great strides towards digital education as part of the ongoing Education reform, the COVID-19 pandemic and the closure of schools provided an immense push towards this goal. The pandemic has highlighted the need to develop and provide more digital content to students and teachers as well as capacity building in using new ways of teaching and learning.
In short, the key focus of this initiative is to support the access to quality of education and learning for children, whose education has been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The consultant will contribute to the rapid deployment and promotion of the Learning Passport Platform to ensure students, particularly children on the move, have access to quality education and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the consultant will also contribute to promoting digital education in Egypt through the digitalisation of training packages and toolkits and the roll-out thereof in targeted governorates.
Under the supervision of the Education in Emergency Specialist, Egypt Country Office, the consultant will work closely with the Learning Passport Global Program Manager in New York and the Global Learning Passport Deployment Team (based in New York, Rwanda and Dubai) on the rapid deployment of the Egypt Learning Passport Platform. As the Egypt Learning Passport Platform is open to other UN agencies and partners to join, the consultant is requested to coordinate and liaise regularly with member from the Education Working Group and UNICEF implementing partners.
The consultant is requested to participate in an on-boarding call with the deployment team, which serves to kick start the on-going deployment process. Based on the already existing platform (https://egypt.learningpassport.unicef.org), the consultant will identify, prepare and upload available digital resources and learning materials. Where necessary, and in collaboration with the Education in Emergency Specialist and Education Specialist (System Strengthening), the consultant will support the digitalization of learning materials for students and teachers.
The consultant is expected to regularly analyse the usage of the learning passport through data available from the platform, customize Egypt Learning Passport website to the needs of the targeted beneficiaries based on regular feedback and suggest ways to improve the platform to ensure user-friendly experience.
The consultant is highly encouraged to come up with new EdTech ideas to further develop and promote the Learning Passport in Egypt and liaise with other UNICEF country offices to learn from best practices and share Egypt’s experience.
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Under the supervision of the Learning Passport Global Program Manager and the Education in Emergency Specialist, Egypt Country Office, an individual consultant is required to provide the following services :
- Support UNICEF Egypt Country Office in the rapid deployment of Learning Passport Platform, providing technical assistance in localizing the technology, curating content, coordinating various actors, and providing regular reports to the Country Office and the global teams ;
2. Assist with local troubleshooting and user support :
- Serve as focal point to management, content creators, regional and global UNICEF stakeholders ;
- Provide on-the-ground support to users (learners, teachers) and stakeholders at key moments of engagement. Support may include sourcing and uploading content in collaboration with Education Staff and implementing partners, creating categories, courses, and lessons, and providing analytical reports from data aggregated by the platform ;
- Provide technical support to the Country Office procuring digital content services (e.g. curation, digitization, localization, production), quality assuring their deliverables from a digital perspective ;
- Create and assist in the management of a Learning Passport Platform community among UNICEF staff and national partners engaged in deployments, producing knowledge management resources and organizing activities to ensure collaboration among members of the community and documenting lessons learned, challenges, and good practices ;
- Provide inputs and support the drafting of reports to internal and external stakeholders and funders of the Learning Passport (grants’ reports, annual results report, needed updates, etc.) ;
- Scope complimentary ICT for learning and Edtech tools that could be integrated to support Learning Passport related technology efforts ;
- Coordinate the digitization and operationalization of relevant training packages and toolkits ;
- Provide technical inputs into proposals and reports ;
- Other activities needed to support the promotion of the Learning Passport Platform and digital education in Egypt.
| EXPECTED DELIVERABLES |
TENTATIVE TIMELINE
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TENTATIVE WORKING DAYS
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| 1. Workplan for the deployment of the Egypt Learning Passport developed. |
Q1
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4
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| 2. Needs and functionality requirements documents updated regularly. |
Ongoing
|
9
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| 3. Egypt Learning Passport Platform adjusted to the needs of beneficiaries based on regular feedback collected from beneficiaries and partners. |
Ongoing
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18
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| 4. Egypt Learning Passport launch organised. |
Q1
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5
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| 5. Offline and mobile phone version of the Egypt Learning Passport developed in collaboration with the global deployment team. |
Q1-Q2
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20
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| 6. In collaboration with the UNICEF Private Sector Team, zero rating negotiated with service providers. |
Q1-Q2
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5
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| 7. In collaboration with UNICEF implementing partners, Sudanese curriculum uploaded on the Egypt Learning Passport and supplementary materials identified to complement curriculum. |
Ongoing
|
35
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| 8. Relevant training packages and toolkits (e.g. Children on the Move Manual, LEGO training, etc.) digitalized. |
Ongoing
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20
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| 9. Relevant training packages and toolkits from UNICEF as well as Education partners uploaded on the Learning Passport Platform. |
Ongoing
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20
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| 10. Technical options proposed to make the Egypt Learning Passport more interactive and collect feedback from beneficiaries. |
Q1
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5
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| 11. Implementing partners, school principals and teachers trained on the use of the Learning Passport. |
Q1-Q2
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20
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| 12. Monitoring plan developed. Monitoring data analysed and corrective measures proposed were needed. |
Ongoing
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10
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| 13. FAQs, presentations and other visibility materials developed and inputs for donor reports provided. |
Ongoing
|
9
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| 14. Lessons learned, challenges, and good practices documented. |
Ongoing
|
9
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| Total workdays |
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189
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As a long-term consultancy with on-going responsibilities throughout the consultancy timeframe, the consultant will be paid on a monthly basis on submission of the monthly progress report document progress on deliverables.
Qualifications, specialized experience and additional competencies :
- Advanced degree in education, public administration, public policy, project management or other relevant field ;
- At least 3 years of professional work experience in development field, preferably with specific focus on Education or Technology for Development (T4D). Previous UNICEF experience is a plus ;
- Good technical understanding and familiarity with learning management systems (LMSs) and experience in digital education, digitalization of learning materials and/or EdTech is a requirement ;
- Capacity to contribute to fundraising, manage programmes and capacity building of partners is required ;
- Demonstrated ability and experience in coordination, and able to work under pressure is required ;
- Fluency in English and Arabic is a requirement.
Conditions of Work :
The consultant will report to the Education in Emergency Specialist, working closely with the Learning Passport Global Program Manager in New York, the Global Learning Passport Deployment Team, Education Specialist (System Strengthening) and other colleagues in the Education section where required. The consultant will be office-based when needed, and the consultant will be provided a laptop by UNICEF Egypt. The consultant might be requested to travel to selected governorates to follow-up on the roll-out of relevant training packages and toolkits. The costs for travel will be covered by UNICEF Egypt.
Note for consultants and individual contractors :
Please submit a financial offer along with your proposal, which contains the following information : Fee for services to be provided – based on the deliverables in the Terms of Reference
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UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.
Remarks :
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.