Rights Respecting Schools Award - Professional Adviser (Scotland)

UNICEF ensures more of the world’s children are vaccinated, educated and protected than any other organisation. We have done more to influence laws and policies to help protect children than anyone else. We get things done. And we’re not going to stop until the world is a safe place for all our children.

This is a great opportunity to join the UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK) as a senior leader within the Rights Respecting Schools Team

With knowledge and experience of child rights education in school settings you will play a key role in the implementation of the RRSA in Scotland and across the UK. You will support schools by delivering our online training, conducting accreditations and writing supportive and developmental reports. You will liaise with Local Authority colleagues to ensure ongoing school engagement with RRSA.

The successful applicant will have:

• Excellent knowledge of the CRC, the UK education landscape and the challenges facing school leaders at this time.
• Well developed ICT and communication skills and a clear capacity to collaborate with colleagues and support schools to progress on their rights respecting journey.
• High levels of personal drive and motivation with a proven commitment to effective teamwork and delivering positive change for children.

Please bear in mind that when you write your response to our application questions, you demonstrate your knowledge, skills, and understanding of the role requirements and how well UNICEF UK’s values and mission aligns with yours. Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) such as ChatGPT to generate your answers, will automatically exclude your application from our recruitment process.

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