National Consultant -Passport 2 Earning (P2E)
Qualifications:
- Location: Dhaka
- Vacancy No: 585845
- Salary: N/A
- Organization: UNICEF – United Nations Children’s Fund
- Deadline: 2025-11-16
Brief details:
Generation Unlimited’s Passport to Earning (P2E) is a flagship global initiative that expands digital skilling and employability pathways for young people. Built on a customizable and adaptable model, P2E integrates the efforts of governments, private sector, development partners, and youth networks to create an inclusive and scalable ecosystem. Anchored within UNICEF and powered by strong public-private partnerships, P2E is a globally recognized digital platform that connects youth to online courses, certifications, and job opportunities. It is designed to ensure that young people especially girls and those from marginalized backgrounds can access meaningful learning and earning opportunities in diverse contexts, thereby contributing to both national and global human capital development.
Since its launch in Bangladesh in July 2023 with support from GenU HQ, P2E has been strategically localized to fit Bangladesh’s rapidly evolving digital learning ecosystem and its growing demand for employable youth skills. The platform has been aligned with national priorities on digital transformation, skills for youth, and employability—bridging gaps between education, training, and the labor market. Adaptations have included integration with local languages, mobile-first learning design to reach low-connectivity areas, and partnerships with national institutions such as the National University to ensure alignment with public skilling frameworks. By connecting youth from all backgrounds—including those in rural and underserved areas—to globally recognized micro-credentials and real job opportunities, P2E serves as a practical model for inclusive digital skilling. Its potential lies in creating a unified national digital skilling ecosystem that connects multiple actors—government, private sector, and development partners—into one interoperable system, ultimately positioning Bangladesh as a regional leader in youth digital employability innovation.
P2E has demonstrated early success as the first country to show tangible results in digital skilling-to-earning pathways. To date, it has achieved over 50,000 course completions and facilitated 2,500 placements with 331 employers, offering an average entry-level wage of USD 140. The initiative has secured funding from Global Affairs Canada (GAC), targeting 120,000 learners and 10,000 placements within four years, alongside new partnerships with Standard Chartered Bangladesh, which aims to train 30,000 youth and place 6,000 in two years. Building on these results, P2E Bangladesh has entered a pre-scale stage, attracting strong donor interest, including a pipeline partnership with Adobe to train 200,000 learners and secure at least 10% placements. With nearly USD 3 million in funding opportunities emerging, the intervention is positioned to scale nationally as a robust and proven digital skilling-to-earning solution.
To ensure the stability, optimization, and scale-up of the P2E digital infrastructure in Bangladesh, it is critical to extend the engagement of the P2E Consultant, whose technical leadership has been central to the platform’s localization and operationalization since April 2023. The consultant provides advanced technical support that underpins the entire ecosystem—overseeing system architecture, ensuring data integrity, managing API development and integration with national platforms, and coordinating with the GenU HQ team on infrastructure upgrades and open-source migration. As P2E moves toward large-scale interoperability with the national aggregator and other EdTech and job-matching systems, the consultant’s technical oversight is essential to maintain platform reliability, security, and performance. The role also ensures that new innovations—such as AI-enabled learner engagement tools and analytics dashboards—are effectively implemented and adapted to local contexts. Extending the consultancy for 230 working days over the next 12 months will safeguard the technical continuity and coherence required for P2E’s expansion, ensuring the platform remains a robust, scalable, and future-ready digital skilling-to-earning solution for Bangladesh.
How can you make a difference?
Purpose of Activity/Assignment:
The P2E consultant will operate under the guidance and general supervision of the Program Specialist (NO-C) and overall guidance from the Section Chief. The P2E Consultant will assist with program implementation by collaborating with ecosystem partners, managing the P2E technology infrastructure with the help of Learning Passport global team, overseeing the development of content and its integration into the platform, building connections with partners as per the sustainability plan including the national aggregator platform, and supporting in resource mobilization efforts.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Minimum requirements:
- Education: University degree (Masters degree or equivalent) in business, education, social sciences, social work, statistics, development studies, or other relevant field.
- Work Experience: Minimum of 10 years of progressive professional experience in the conceptualization, development, and implementation of skilling to earning digital interventions.
- Skills :
- Proven track record in managing partnership with universities, TVET authorities, and private-sector actors.
- Demonstrated expertise in technology-enabled curriculum development, interactive digital learning content creation, and online course design tailored to diverse learner groups.
- Familiarity with user-centered design, digital pedagogy, AI-enabled engagement tools, and faculty capacity-building in the context of EdTech platforms is desirable.
- Demonstrated experience in resource mobilization, including drafting proposals, developing concept notes, and engaging with donors and private-sector partners.
- Relevant work experience in a UN system agency or similar international organization is considered an asset. particularly in fragile or emergency settings, is highly desirable.
- Language Requirements: Ability to speak and write in English language
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic background, and persons with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization. To create a more inclusive workplace, UNICEF offers paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements. Click here to learn more about flexible work arrangements, well-being, and benefits.
According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), persons with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual, or sensory impairments which, in interaction with various barriers, may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others. In its Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy 2022-2030, UNICEF has committed to increase the number of employees with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we provide reasonable accommodation for work-related support requirements of candidates and employees with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen physical and digital accessibility. If you are an applicant with a disability who needs digital accessibility support in completing the online application, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.
UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.
The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.