Individual Consultant – Final Review, MAWHIBA-UNESCO Online STEM Oasis Project
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External consultant evaluating UNESCO-Mawhiba’s online STEM portal, digital resources and stakeholder engagement. Reviewing implementation, results and sustainability across four Arab countries.
Responsibilities:
- Design and conduct an external final review of the MAWHIBA–UNESCO Online STEM Oasis project
- Assess implementation and available results against agreed objectives and planned outputs across Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and the Syrian Arab Republic
- Review the online STEM portal, selected videos and quizzes, outreach materials, stakeholder networks and national consultations
- Assess relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability proportionately using OECD-DAC criteria
- Conduct desk review of project, workplan, budget, progress, financial, contract, deliverable and consultation documentation
- Analyze available platform usage and engagement data, including data-quality limitations
- Review approximately 20–30 STEM videos and quizzes and test selected portal functions where access is provided
- Conduct remote interviews and, where useful, small-group discussions with UNESCO, Mawhiba, national partners and other adult stakeholders
- Integrate gender equality, human rights, accessibility, inclusion, informed consent, confidentiality and data protection into the review
- Triangulate evidence, document evidence gaps and limitations, prepare country-specific findings and develop a cross-country synthesis
- Prepare a short inception report, preliminary findings debrief, draft review report and final review report with practical prioritized recommendations
- Arrange stakeholder interviews with UNESCO support and manage the home-based assignment
- Address consolidated feedback while maintaining impartial analysis and evidence-based conclusions
- Disclose conflicts of interest and ensure secure handling of data
Requirements:
- Advanced university degree in education, STEM education, evaluation, social sciences or a related field
- At least seven years of relevant professional experience in project reviews, evaluations or applied programme research
- Responsibility for designing and conducting at least two comparable reviews or evaluations
- Demonstrated qualitative and quantitative methodological expertise in at least two assignments
- Experience with document review, stakeholder interviews, monitoring-data analysis and evidence triangulation
- Ability to develop a review matrix, assess evidence quality and explain methodological limitations
- At least one assignment involving education, STEM learning or digital learning
- Ability to assess educational-resource relevance, accessibility and usefulness and interpret platform usage data
- Knowledge of education systems and implementation contexts in the Arab region
- Professional experience in at least one of Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon or the Syrian Arab Republic
- Experience integrating gender equality, inclusion and human rights considerations into at least one review, evaluation or research assignment
- Understanding of informed consent, confidentiality, safeguarding and personal-data protection
- Excellent analytical writing and communication skills in English and Arabic
- Ability to conduct stakeholder consultations in Arabic and prepare reports and presentations in English
- Confirmed availability for approximately 22 working days over 8–9 calendar weeks
- No previous involvement in designing or implementing the MAWHIBA–UNESCO Online STEM Oasis project
- Must disclose actual or potential conflicts of interest
- Must submit a CV, two recent review/evaluation reports, two professional references, technical proposal, separate financial proposal in USD, availability and independence confirmation, conflict-of-interest disclosure and academic-qualification evidence
- Desirable: experience with extracurricular STEM initiatives for adolescents, online learning portals, digital educational content, learner-engagement data, multi-country assignments, remote consultations, UNESCO/UN assignments, and UNEG norms and standards
Benefits:
- Consultant contract for a 1-month assignment
- Approximately 22 working days over 8–9 calendar weeks
- Home-based remote assignment
- Remote meetings and presentations
- Payment proposal submitted in USD, inclusive of assignment costs
- Opportunity to contribute to UNESCO and Mawhiba project closure, sustainability planning and future programming
- Equal encouragement for individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities
- Applications treated with the highest level of confidentiality
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