National digital learning consultant for Nigeria at UNICEF

United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged  children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every  child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: National digital learning consultant for Nigeria 

Location: Abuja FCT 

Job ID: 594880

Contract Duration: 12 months

•  Internal and external coordination of digital learning programmes: Participate in and contribute to internal and external digital learning coordination meetings at global and national levels to ensure the digital learning initiatives are aligned with the global and national digital learning strategies and priorities.
•  Grant management: Support the education section to implement and monitor grant projects that have digital learning components. Develop and update costed workplan, provide guidance to Field Offices for grant implementation, monitor progress and budget execution, and adjust workplans to achieve results on time.
•  Content development, management, and quality assurance: Support FME to review and update digital teaching and learning contents in NLP in alignment with the new national curriculum and coordinate DUTY STATION Abuja, Nigeria (office based) validation of the updated contents.
• Device procurement: Support the education section to define specifications of devices (e.g., PCs, tablets, projectors) to be provided o governments and schools for NLP deployment. Work with the Supply team and Field Offices to ensure the devices are procured, delivered and installed at government offices and schools.
•  New NLP functions/designs: Work with the HQ LP team and the FME ICT team to identify new functions to be added to NLP such as AI-supported teaching tools and course management. When agreed, develop a plan to upgrade NLP to improve the quality of digital teaching and learning.
• NLP deployment, monitoring and reporting: Coordinate the launch of NLP in additional states by establishing and training digital learning teams in states and supporting development of a state digital learning implementation plan. Conduct regular monitoring and reporting on usage of NLP as well as NLP-related activities.
•  Private sector partnership: Work with the partnership section to explore, engage and maintain the private sector partnerships for digital learning, such as funding support for Internet connectivity at schools, procurement of devices, and deploying online and offline NLP models.
• Communication, advocacy and stakeholder engagement: Coordinate communication, advocacy, and stakeholder engagement activities in collaboration with FOs to sensitize government officials, donors, schools, teachers, children and parents on NLP and digital learning management and use.
•  Government management capacity: Develop and implement a plan to handover the NLP management and coordination roles to the FME ICT department so that the government fully owns and manages the NLP updating and deployment with increased ownership and sustainability. This includes the capacity building of the FME staff.
•  Coordination of UPSHIFT initiatives: Liaise with a HQ team and FME to explore, customize and design the UPSHIFT programme (e.g., introduction of Google Workspace for teachers and learners for youth skilling) and coordinate the programme development and implementation.

If you would like to know more about this consultancy, please review the complete Terms of Reference here:  ToR_ext_TMC0004698.pdf

Application Deadline : 9 , August 2026

METHOD OF APPLICATION

Interested and Qualified candidates should use link below to Apply.

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