KIX EMAP Knowledge Lead for Europe and Central Asia

Job Description

The KIX EMAP Hub is organised into four sub-regions: (i) Europe and Central Asia (ECA); South Asia, Middle East and North Africa (SAMENA); Southeast Asia (SEA); and Pacific (PAC).

The KIX EMAP Hub has designated a Knowledge Lead for each sub-region. The Knowledge Lead is the liaison between the headquarters of the KIX EMAP Hub (based in Geneva) and the KIX EMAP teams based at the country level. The Knowledge Lead supports the KIX EMAP national team in attaining the following results for the Hub:

• National experts from GPE partner countries actively participate in the KIX EMAP Hub, contributing to its governance and agenda, and share relevant knowledge from their context with the Hub.
• National experts have the opportunity to produce and use contextually relevant and gender equality and inclusion-oriented policy research that responds to thematic priorities set by the government and the GPE Partnership Compact.

The Knowledge Lead for Europe and Central Asia will work closely with eight countries in the Europe and Central Asia Sub-Region (Albania, Georgia, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan). Excellent mastery of English and Russian is required.

The Knowledge Lead will be responsible for managing KIX EMAP national teams and establishing working relationships with Ministries of Education, Development Partners, Academia and Civil Society education stakeholders. The Knowledge Lead will support the development of relevant knowledge exchange activities that can bring a meaningful contribution to the improvement of national education systems.

About the Organization

The Global Partnership for Education Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX) is a joint endeavour with the International Development Research Centre to connect expertise, innovation and knowledge to support GPE partner countries in building stronger education systems and accelerating progress toward SDG 4. KIX operates through four regional hubs.

NORRAG (the Network for International Policies and Cooperation in Education and Training) was selected as Regional Learning Partner to host the KIX Europe, Middle East, North Africa and Pacific (EMAP) Hub of the KIX Initiative. NORRAG is the Global Education Centre of the Geneva Graduate Institute. The KIX EMAP Hub corresponds to the core mission of NORRAG to mobilise, produce, and disseminate knowledge with a focus on providing a greater voice and enhanced visibility to expertise from the Global South.

The KIX EMAP Hub facilitates cross-country knowledge and innovation exchange and mobilisation, learning, synthesis and collaboration among national education stakeholders in 38 GPE partner countries in the EMAP region. The Hub objectives are:

• to increase the production of contextually relevant and gender-equality-and-inclusion-oriented policy research;
• to mobilize national experts and contextually relevant research evidence that responds to countries’ thematic priorities;
• to strengthen capacity to produce and use data and research evidence to address education systems’ priorities; and
• to provide country support generating direct and rapid responses to needs for evidence, policy support and capacity strengthening.

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