Individual Consultant: Educational Technology and Digital Pedagogies Expert

Type of contract: Consultant Contract

Level: Level 3 - Senior

Hiring Unit: Education Sector (ED)

Duty Station: Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Work location: Remote

Duration of contract: 11 months

Hiring open to: External candidates

Application deadline (Midnight UTC+7 Time): 1 July 2026

**UNESCO Core Values: Commitment to the Organization, Integrity, Respect for Diversity, Professionalism**

1. **Background**

Building on the success of the implementation of the Strengthening Teacher Education Programmes in Cambodia (STEPCam), UNESCO and the MoEYS are implementing the second phase of STEPCam (STEPCam Phase II), supported by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE).

As a critical cross-cutting component of the programme, STEPCam promotes a uniform approach to digital transformation in Cambodia’s education system and the effective use of digital tools for quality teaching, learning, and education management. The MoEYS, with support from STEPCam, has developed Cambodia’s National ICT and AI Competency Framework for Teachers (ICT-AI CFT). The ICT-AI CFT will inform the review of the PRESET curriculum and development of targeted CPD courses focusing on artificial intelligence and promoting its ethical use, as well as developing ICT in education and EdTech pedagogy skills among teachers and teacher educators.

To foster research and thought leadership to drive the digital transformation of the education system in Cambodia, STEPCam is supporting the establishment of an Educational Technology (EdTech) Innovation Hub at the Phnom Penh Teacher Education College (PTEC) in Cambodia mandated to promote research and innovation in ICT in education, artificial intelligence and digital transformation, develop ICT in education competencies in Cambodia’s teaching force and provide advisory services to education stakeholders, ensuring a uniform approach to the use of digital technology in the education system.

1. **Objectives**

Under the overall authority of the UNESCO Representative to Cambodia, the supervision of the Chief of the Education Unit, and direct supervision of the STEPCam Programme Manager, the Consultant will provide technical support to Component 4 of STEPCam Phase II: Digital Transformation in Education – Preparing for the effective adoption of digital strategies for education delivery.

The Consultant will work in close consultation and collaboration with the STEPCam programme team, technical departments of the MoEYS, TEIs, and other Development Partners supporting the MoEYS to establish the EdTech Innovation Hub at the selected TEI and provide strategic advice, technical support and capacity building for the operations and sustainability of the EdTech Innovation Hub to fulfil its mandate as the leading specialised institute for driving thought leadership, research and innovation and teacher development to drive digital transformation in education in Cambodia.

The main objectives of the consultancy are:

1. Provide strategic technical support for the establishment, daily operations and institutionalisation of the EdTech Innovation Hub institute on educational technology and digital transformation at PTEC
2. Lead the capacity building at the EdTech Innovation Hub on institutional management and administration, and research and innovation
3. Provide technical support to seek new partnerships and resource mobilisation for the EdTech Innovation Hub
4. Provide technical advice and quality assurance for the development of new ICT and AI CPD courses in collaboration with the STEPCam programme team and technical experts
5. Provide strategic technical advice to UNESCO’s country-level portfolio on EdTech and digital transformation
6. **Specific tasks**

Specific tasks include, but will not be limited to, the following:

1. **Strategic technical support for the establishment, daily operations and institutionalisation of the EdTech Innovation Hub at PTEC**
2. Provide technical support to the MoEYS to oversee the process for the establishment, daily operations and institutionalisation of the EdTech Innovation Hub located within PTEC, ensuring its overall institutional capacity to fulfil its mandate, including facilitating consultation workshops/technical meetings to secure high-level buy-in from MoEYS leaders, development partners and other stakeholders
3. Provide technical advice to the MoEYS for the recruitment and/or selection of management personnel and technical experts for the EdTech Innovation Hub, as well as the selection process of candidates for the flagship Fellowship Programme which will support action research and the design, testing, and scaling up of digital and AI-enabled pedagogical incubation in the classroom
4. Lead the facilitation of technical meetings with potential partners identified for potential partnerships in research collaboration, knowledge exchange and capacity building for the EdTech Innovation Hub
5. Provide technical support and work collaboratively with the MoEYS technical departments