Associate Project Officer- Research

The UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (UNESCO MGIEP) is UNESCO’s Category 1 research institute in the Asia-Pacific region, dedicated to achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.7, i.e., education for building peaceful and sustainable societies. One of the ways the Institute advances this goal is by promoting Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) to nurture peaceful mindsets. Through a range of programs and online courses, MGIEP strives to strengthen core Social and Emotional Competencies (SECs), such as empathy, mindfulness, compassion, and critical inquiry, among teachers, students, and young people. In keeping with its mandate to mainstream SEL in education systems, MGIEP continues to generate research and evidence to inform policy and practice on SEL for learning, peace, global citizenship and sustainable development. To support this work, MGIEP seeks to recruit a technically competent and motivated researcher at the master’s level with demonstrated interest in social and emotional learning and education research. The role will contribute to advancing research on SEL in both formal and informal learning environments, including classrooms as well as virtual and physical learning spaces, and in the design of novel teacher capacity building programs, in alignment with the institute's mid-term strategy.