Education Specialist - UNICEF (Apply by: 18 June 2014)

SAMS is helping UNICEF, the world’s leading organization working for the rights of children, fill the following vacancy for a senior education professional:

(1) Education Specialist
(2) Location: Guwahati 

Purpose of the Post

The incumbent will be responsible for facilitating and influencing the State Government’s policy, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, for education programme or specific projects in Assam and North-East. 

District Coordinator (Planning and Monitoring) - Pragati Development Consulting Services Ltd.

Pragati Development Consulting Services Limited (PDCSL) has been engaged by an UN Agency to provide technical, financial and human resource support to various programmes and operation in Assam & other North-East States. PDCSL invites applications from qualified candidates for the position (One Position) of District Coordinator (Planning and Monitoring) for Dibrugrah, Assam. The overall objective of the Consultancy is to provide technical support to the Dibrugarh District Administration and the District Planning Committee (DPC) for the effective monitoring of flagship schemes and updating of the District Plans to make these more child-centered.

The specific objectives will be to:

•        Improve the monitoring system within (selected) line Departments implementing the flagship schemes at the district level

•         Provide technical support to the selected district officials to take more informed programme decisions.

•         Identify institutional and organisational constraints to programme implementation that may have an adverse impact on the poor and other vulnerable groups and recommend changes;