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Job no: 595052
Contract type: Fixed Term Appointment
Duty Station: Buenos Aires
Level: NO-2
Location: Argentina
Categories: Education
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
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For every child, the right to education
UNICEF Argentina’s education portfolio is strategically focused on improving foundational learning outcomes as a cornerstone for equity and system strengthening. The office is currently supporting a complex, multi-level agenda that includes national policy implementation (e.g., the National Mathematics Plan), early literacy in intercultural contexts, strengthening transitions into secondary education, and advancing inclusion and re-engagement of out-of-school adolescents. In parallel, UNICEF plays a key convening role—mobilizing governments, generating evidence, and promoting child participation—to influence education policy and practice across multiple jurisdictions, requiring sustained technical leadership and coordination capacity.
How can you make a difference?
Under the supervision of the Education Specialist, the Education Officer – Foundational Learning provides technical, operational, and administrative assistance for the design, monitoring, and evaluation of educational programs focused on improving learning outcomes in Language (reading and writing) and Mathematics. This role specifically supports the professional development of educational officers, principals and teachers across compulsory education including initial, primary, and secondary to ensure sustainable results within the 2026-2030 Country program. The position will be responsible for development planning to deliver results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting.
Key Functions And Accountabilities
- Support to programme development and planning on foundational learning programs.
- Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results.
- Technical and operational support to programme implementation.
- Networking and partnership building.
- Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building.
If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: JD_Education Officer_NOB FT.pdf
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Minimum Requirements
- Education: Completed first level university degree in one of the following fields is required: education, education psychology or another relevant technical field.
- Work Experience: A minimum of two years of professional experience in the development of learning outcomes improvement programs in Language and Mathematics for pre-primary, primary and secondary education is required.
- Skills: Proven experience in programme planning, management, and applied research in education is required. Experience including professional experience on knowledge on pre-primary, primary and secondary teaching strategies and curriculum, the design or management of professional development initiatives for educational officers, teachers and school principals is required.
- Language Requirements: Fluency in Spanish and English is required.
Desirables
- Language: Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish or Russian) is an asset.
- Professional experience on supporting system strengthening is desirable.
- Experience in the implementation of EdTech solutions to foster access, teacher development and quality foundational learning outcomes is desirable.
- Experience working in a developing country and most vulnerable contexts is considered as an asset.
- Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization, public policy implementation is considered as an asset.
- Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts is an asset.
For every Child, you demonstrate...
UNICEF's Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
UNICEF Competencies Required For This Post Are…
- Builds and maintains partnerships
- Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
- Drive to achieve results for impact
- Innovates and embraces change
- Manages ambiguity and complexity
- Thinks and acts strategically
- Works collaboratively with others
Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels.
UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.
UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.
UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). 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 based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. 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, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.
UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station is required for IP positions and will be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be selected for a position with UNICEF, you either must be inoculated as required or receive a medical exemption from the relevant department of the UN. Otherwise, the selection will be canceled.
Remarks
As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.
UNICEF is committed to fostering an inclusive, representative, and welcoming workforce. For this position, eligible and suitable candidates are encouraged to apply.
Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.
UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants' bank account information.
Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF's Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.
Visa residence requirements: i.e. UNICEF shall not facilitate the issuance of a visa and working authorization for candidates under consideration for positions at the national officer and general service category.
All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.
Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.
Advertised: 12 Aug 2026 Argentina Standard Time
Deadline: 26 Aug 2026 Argentina Standard Time
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