Adolescent Education for Health and Well-being Community and Engagement Consultant

Duties and Responsibilities

ASSIGNMENTS
1. Community Management & Life Cycle
-Understand the purpose, structure, and function of the current CoP.
-Review previous CoP reports to identify successes, challenges, and opportunities for improvement.
-Engage with the Regional Team and National Programme Officers (NPOs) to understand their needs, gaps, and opportunities, and use these insights to plan and manage the Connect and Learn initiative effectively.
-Develop and implement strategies aligned with the CoP's purpose, including mapping members’ needs, setting growth ambitions, and adapting approaches across inception (initial setup), establishment (building momentum), maturity (sustaining engagement), and mitosis (scaling or subdividing groups), while staying informed on ASRHR trends, emerging platforms, and regional developments to refine strategies.
-Build and grow membership through targeted outreach to teachers, educators, policymakers, NGOs/CSOs, youth-led organizations, researchers, religious leaders, and media personnel, mainly in ESA, while supporting the Education for Health and Well-being (EHW) monitoring and evaluation (M&E) officer to manage and digitalize the teacher database.
-Organize events like monthly webinars, virtual meetups, and live streams; collaborate with internal teams for consistent ASRHR messaging.
-Manage content creation and scheduling, such as curating ASRHR-focused posts, videos, articles, infographics, and e-books; maintain a calendar for webinars, newsletters, and online courses.
-Analyze quantitative and qualitative metrics (e.g., membership growth, members’ willingness to engage and contribute to the CoP, their confidence and competence to deliver CSE) to prepare reports, identify trends, and inform data-driven improvements.

2. Engagement & Trust
-Facilitate interactions by welcoming new members, sparking discussions, addressing challenges, and responding promptly to queries and feedback, while promoting engagement through rich multimedia channels and social support networks.
-Foster a sense of belonging through mechanisms supporting autonomy (e.g., member-led topics and co-facilitation of discussions), competence (e.g., skill-building resources), and relatedness (e.g., peer networking and peer mentoring).
-Build cognitive and affective trust via responsive support, rich communication channels (e.g., WhatsApp groups, webinars), and social encouragement to enhance participation and ASRHR knowledge adoption.
-Provide user assistance, including technical support for platforms (e.g., webinars, online courses, WhatsApp), managing enrolment data, and liaising with software suppliers.

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3. Knowledge Sharing & Impact Tracking
-Facilitate post-webinar discussions in a regional WhatsApp group for ongoing knowledge exchanges and peer support, while exploring other digital platforms (e.g., WhatsApp Channel) for alternative or additional engagement.
-Curate and share ASRHR resources, including webinar highlights, and innovative practices, through producing and disseminating E-Newsletters on a bimonthly basis and managing a resource library, to foster knowledge exchange and community motivation.
-Encourage members to enrol in relevant online courses on ASRHR to strengthen their basic knowledge in ASRHR and gender.
-Develop and implement an M&E plan under the guidance of the EHW, including defining indicators, data collection methods, reporting mechanisms, and qualitative outcome measures.
-Work with the EHW M&E officer to establish a cohort of teachers from selected countries whose progress will be measured at immediate levels (e.g., knowledge), intermediate levels (e.g., confidence and capacity), and long-term levels (e.g., impacts on learners).
-Showcase achievements and lessons learned in global or regional platforms (e.g., professional conferences).

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4. Community Moderation & Safeguarding
-Maintain a safe and inclusive CoP community by enforcing guidelines, handling sensitive inquiries, crises, and bridging with support teams.
-Address unique challenges associated with ASRHR such as cultural sensitivities and resistance to ASRHR, while preventing harm and promoting respectful dialogue.

5. Country- Contextualization & Support
-Regularly update UNESCO country teams on CoP activities via email and facilitate meetings with them to reflect on progress and exchange learnings.
-Support country teams in implementing country-level continuous professional development (CPD) for trained teachers, including coaching and mentoring components.

6. Partnerships & Strategic Collaboration
-Explore and expand partnerships with other organizations to enrich the CoP. For instance, collaborate with UNESCO International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA) to explore ways to incorporate mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) into CoP activities.