Re-advertisement Home-based in Austria: Lead Ece

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Schweiz UNICEF Vollzeit

**Job no**: 567479

**Contract type**: Consultant

**Duty Station**: Vienna

**Level**: Consultancy

**Location**: Switzerland

**Categories**: Education, Early Childhood Development

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.

And we never give up.

**For every child, **_hope._**

**Purpose of Activity/Assignment**

UNICEF is seeking a consultant to be the technical lead for the work surrounding improvement and development of early childhood development and care (ECEC) workforce quality and conditions in Austria. **The consultant must be based in Austria and fluent in both English and German.**

**Background**

In Austria the provision and oversight of early childhood education and care (ECEC) is split according to the Austrian constitutional law. The federal government (“Bund”) - in particular the Ministry for Education, Science and Research - is responsible for the standardised training of ECEC professionals at Training Institutes for ECEC; the financing of childcare facilities as well as the organization (e.g. the definition of framework conditions) are primarily the responsibilities of the “Länder” (provinces) and the municipalities.

There is currently a very high demand for ECEC and a shortage of provision. With an 89.9% ECEC participation rate of children between 3 years and compulsory schooling age in 2019, Austria was below the EEA target of 96% by 2030. The Austrian participation rate for 4-year-olds is at the EU average, above average for 5-year-olds, but considerably lower for 3-year-old children (-11.3 pps). The share of children under the age of 3 attending formal childcare increased considerably from 9% in 2009 to 22.7% in 2019. Meeting this growing need is a challenge due to low numbers of ECEC staff. The reasons for this lack of staff are various, and due to missing profound data, also not fully understood. However, annecdotal evidence suggests:

- There are differing staffing and employment conditions for ECEC staff across Länder (provinces) and the municipalities including differences in salaries and salary schemes (Austria has over 60 different schemes), group sizes, the professional staff-child ratio, and service-related matters such as preparation time without direct child services.
- There is persistent gender inequality in the sector. In 2020/21 only 3% of employees in ECEC services were men.
- The qualification is not percieved to be attractice, especially for male students, which is certainly also strongly influenced by the low level of recognition of the profession in society and the low salary.

ECEC services face a clear shortage of professional staff, which was made more profound due to the COVID-19 pademeic which increased uncertainty and educator streeses. Due to this shortage, a competition between public and private employers takes place to the disadvantage of children. Salary differences between private and public employers and the high demand for ECEC professionals applicants can choose their employer based on salary and other indicators like framework conditions. If one of these employers enhances its conditions, ECEC staff switches the workplace, causing a high fluctuation in less attractive ECEC services. This situation will worsen as more than a quarter of current employees will retire in the next 10 years. Austrian studies (such as ÖIF) forecast that by 2025, 860 managers, 2,450 qualified elementary teachers (educators) and 2,000 assistants will be needed in the ECEC sector. Staff struggled with oversized groups, lacking coordination with colleagues, administrative challenges and keeping a reasonable work-life balance. To counteract to this trend Austria foresees higher investments in ECEC within the National Recovery and Resilience Plan for the development of elementary education.

The EU Commission and UNICEF are supporting the Austrian authorities in addressing some of these challenges through a technical support project which seeks to strengthen ECEC workforce quality and conditions.

This will be achieved through the following outcomes:

- **Outcome 1**: The Austrian authorities have gained extensive knowledge of the current status of the ECEC sector and implications for staffing.
- **Outcome 2**: The Austrian authorities at federal and province level have jointly developed a Model Framework for ECEC Staffing Quality and Conditions, to serve as a template/best practice for adaptation and adoption at the province, as well as a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for quality control and coordination of ECEC.
- **Outcome 3**: Austrian authorities (federal and province level) agree on a detailed implementation strategy on the improvement of framework conditions and recruitment in ECEC, i

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