Job Vacancies at UNESCO August 2026, UNESCO, in partnership with Beijing Normal University and in collaboration with the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania, is implementing the project “Closing the Digital Divide: Ensuring Gender-Transformative Digital Skills Education for Women and Girls”.
The project aims to advance inclusive and gender-transformative digital education by addressing systemic barriers that continue to limit the meaningful participation of women and girls in digital learning, ICT, and technology-driven opportunities.
The initiative responds to persistent gender disparities in access to digital technologies, digital skills development, and participation in ICT-related education and career pathways.
Although Tanzania is experiencing rapid digital transformation and an increasing demand for digital competencies, many girls, particularly in public secondary schools, continue to face interconnected barriers, including limited confidence in using digital technologies, inadequate exposure to female role models in ICT and STEM, entrenched gender stereotypes, and socio-cultural norms that constrain their participation, aspirations, and progression in digital fields.
1: Consultant
JOB DETAILS
Type of contract : Consultant Contract
Level : Level 2 – Middle
Hiring Unit : Education Sector (ED)
Duty Station : Dar-es-Salaam
ASSIGNMENTS
Working under the technical guidance & supervision of the Lead Gender Expert, each Supporting Gender Specialist shall:
a. Provide field-based technical support for the integration of gender-responsive and gender-transformative approaches into ICT Clubs and related extracurricular interventions within their 5 assigned schools.
b. Provide technical guidance to teachers, mentors, school focal persons and the technical implementing partner to strengthen girls’ meaningful participation, leadership, confidence, safety, inclusion and empowerment throughout project implementation.
c. Contribute to the co-design of gender-transformative approaches and content for ICT Clubs, mentorship engagements, the Innovation Bootcamp and related project activities, drawing on implementation experience and emerging needs within their assigned schools to ensure that activities effectively address gender norms and stereotypes and strengthen girls’ agency, leadership, confidence and aspirations in ICT and STEM.
d. Contribute to the identification and preparation of appropriate female ICT and STEM role models and mentors and to the design and delivery of mentorship and career-exposure engagements, including identifying relevant needs, interests and opportunities emerging from their assigned schools.
e. Support the integration of gender-transformative content and approaches into project methodologies, facilitation processes, implementation tools and school-level activities, ensuring their practical application within assigned schools
f. Support the implementation of ICT Clubs, mentorship engagements, the Innovation Bootcamp and related project activities to ensure that girls are meaningfully engaged and provided with opportunities to assume technical and leadership roles, participate in collaborative learning and innovation, and develop and present digital projects addressing issues relevant to them.
g. Monitor implementation of the gender component within their assigned schools, identify emerging gender-related barriers, challenges and opportunities, and provide practical recommendations and follow-up support to strengthen implementation.
h. Document achievements, lessons learned, good practices, challenges and recommendations from their assigned schools and provide timely technical inputs to the Lead Gender Expert to support project monitoring, learning and adaptive implementation.
i. Prepare & submit school-level monitoring reports & a consolidated report covering their 5 assigned schools to the Lead Gender Expert, in accordance with the agreed reporting arrangements and timelines.
CONTRACT DURATION
The assignment is expected to run for two (2) months between August and November 2026.
DELIVERABLES
Under this assignment, each Supporting Gender Specialist will be individually accountable for deliverables relating to his/her 5 assigned schools. Each Specialist will be expected to deliver:
a. Report on technical support provided during the inception and teacher orientation workshops, including inputs on gender-transformative approaches, gender norms and stereotypes, and inclusive ICT Club implementation.
b. Provide reports for the assigned 5 schools, including achievements, challenges and recommendations.
c. Reports on gender integration in ICT Clubs and related project activities implemented in the assigned schools, including gender-transformative content, mentorship and role-model engagements, girls’ participation and leadership, and emerging gender-related issues.
d. Final technical report documenting achievements, lessons learned, good practices and recommendations from the assigned schools, including contributions to mentorship and role-model engagement, for consolidation by the Lead Gender Expert.
COMPETENCIES – Core (C) & Managerial (M)
- Communication (C)
- Accountability (C)
- Innovation (C)
- Knowlegde sharing and continuous improvement (C)
- Planning and organizing (C)
- Results focus (C)
- Teamwork (C)
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
EDUCATION
A university degree in Gender Studies, Education, Social Sciences, Development Studies or a related field.
WORK EXPERIENCE
a. At least 5 years of professional experience in gender equality, girls’ empowerment and gender-transformative programming.
b. Demonstrated experience integrating gender into education, ICT, STEM, youth or community development programmes.
c. Experience working with schools, adolescents, teachers and community stakeholders.
d. Experience working with government institutions, development partners or international organizations would be an added advantage.
SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
Strong facilitation, mentoring, communication, analytical and report-writing skills.
LANGUAGES
Excellent written and spoken English and Kiswahili languages
JOB DETAILS
Type of contract : Consultant Contract
Level : Level 3 – Senior
Hiring Unit : Education Sector (ED)
Duty Station : Dar-es-Salaam
Work location : Remote
Duration of contract : 3 months
Hiring open to : External candidates
Application deadline (Midnight UTC−3 Time) : 22/08/2026
ASSIGNEMENT
- Provide overall technical leadership, coordination and quality assurance for the work of the gender technical team in 20 schools
- Mobilize, assign and supervise 3 Supporting Gender Specialists, provide technical guidance, mentoring, and monitor their performance, review and validate their technical outputs and ensure ICT clubs interventions deliberately challenge gender norms and stereotypes and strengthen girls’ agency, leadership, confidence and aspirations in ICT and STEM
- Lead, identification & preparation of appropriate female ICT & STEM role models & mentors, & the design of mentorship & career-exposure engagements that provide girls with meaningful exposure to women in technology, ICT and STEM career pathways and opportunities
- Provide technical guidance to ensure that gender-transformative content and approaches are consistently integrated into project methodologies, training materials, facilitation guides, implementation tools and capacity-building activities
- Maintain direct technical responsibility for 5 assigned schools, including the provision of technical support, monitoring, follow-up, documentation and reporting on the implementation of the gender component in those schools
- Ensure consistent application of agreed gender-responsive and gender-transformative approaches, methodologies and quality standards 20 schools, identifying emerging gender-related barriers, risks and opportunities and recommending appropriate measures to strengthen implementation
- Consolidate and quality-assure technical inputs, monitoring findings, achievements, lessons learned, good practices, challenges and recommendations generated by the Supporting Gender Specialists and from the 5 schools directly supported by the Lead Gender Expert
- Serve as the principal technical focal point for the gender technical team and remain fully accountable to UNESCO for the quality, consistency, completeness and timely delivery of all technical outputs under the assignment.
CONTRACT DURATION
This assignment is expected to run for three (3) months between August and November 2026
DELIVERABLES
- Inception, Technical Review and Team Mobilization Report
- Consolidated Gender Technical Monitoring and Quality Assurance Report
- Final Gender Technical Report
COMPETENCIES – Core (C) & Managerial (M)
- Communication (C)
- Accountability (C)
- Innovation (C)
- Knowlegde sharing and continuous improvement (C)
- Planning and organizing (C)
- Results focus (C)
- Teamwork (C)
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
EDUCATION
An advanced university degree in Gender Studies, Education, Social Sciences, Development Studies, or a related field. A PhD will be highly desirable.
WORK EXPERIENCE
- Over 10 years of experience in gender equality, girls’ empowerment, and gender-transformative programming, preferably within the education sector.
- Demonstrated expertise in integrating gender-responsive and gender-transformative approaches into education, digital skills, ICT, STEM, youth development, or related programmes.
- Proven experience in providing technical leadership, coordinating multi-stakeholder programmes, and supervising multidisciplinary technical teams.
- Demonstrated experience in designing and delivering capacity-building initiatives, providing technical advisory services, and producing high-quality analytical and technical reports.
- Experience working with government, development partners & international organizations. Working with the UN an added advantage.
SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
Excellent facilitation, communication, analytical, coordination, mentoring, and report-writing skills.
LANGUAGES
Excellent knowledge of English and Kiswahili language
APPLICATION PROCESS
Please note that all candidates must complete an on-line application and provide complete and accurate information, by the above deadline.
To apply, please visit the UNESCO Careers website. No modifications can be made to the application once submitted.
After submitting the obline applivcation, each interested consultant should sibmit to UNESCO the following:
- An updated CV demonstrating the revelant experience as per the TORs.
- Assignment related costs indicating fees and travel costs
Submission of the CV and budget should be done through f.shayo@unesco.org with the email subject (APPLICATION FOR A SUPPORTING GENDER EXPERT)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- UNESCO recalls that paramount consideration in the appointment of personnel shall be the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, technical competence and integrity.
- UNESCO applies a zero-tolerance policy against all forms of harassment.
- lndividuals from minority groups and indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply.
- All applications will be treated with the highest level of confidentiality.
- UNESCO does not charge a fee at any stage of the hiring process.
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