How can you make a difference?

Specifically, the consultant will:
• Build Leadership: Equip Ministry decisionmakers with gender transformative leadership skills.
• Mobilize Youth Voices: Launch and operationalize a Feminist Youth Coalition for Gender Equality in Education to amplify girls’ perspectives in education policy.
• Shift Social Norms: Drive a high impact multimedia campaign to challenge gender stereotypes around menstrual health and girls’ leadership.
• Influence Policy: Co create targeted advocacy products on SRGBV prevention and women’s leadership in education, and secure ministerial commitments at the Regional Girls’ Summit.
• Strengthen coordination with other UNICEF sections and with external partners, including government, civil society and development partners, to ensure complementarity of gender-transformative actions.


Minimum requirements:
• Education: Master’s (or equivalent) in Education, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Development Studies, or a related field.
• Work Experience: 5 years in gender transformative education programmes in Africa; proven engagement with UNGEI, GPE or equivalent. Experience working within UNICEF, another UN agency or similar institutional environment (preferred)
• Skills: Strong knowledge of gender issues in education and of the Senegalese education system. Proven experience in working with government counterparts, civil society organizations (CSOs), and technical partners.
Strong knowledge with GCI, UNGEI and related initiatives.
Development of gender sensitive pedagogical tools; Multimedia campaign design and community engagement; Workshop facilitation, strategic advocacy writing; Design of gender responsive M&E frameworks
• Language Requirements: Fluency in French (oral and written) and at least intermediate English.

Supervision : The consultant will work under the supervision of the Chief of the Education Section and will collaborate closely with other sections and the Deputy Representative (Programmes).