Job Opportunity for Digital Games Pedagogy Developer at UNESCO in New Delhi

About the Organization

UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. It contributes to peace and security by promoting international cooperation in education, sciences, culture, communication and information. UNESCO promotes knowledge sharing and the free flow of ideas to accelerate mutual understanding and a more perfect knowledge of each other’s lives. UNESCO’s programmes contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals defined in the 2030 Agenda, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015.

Job Description

Digital gaming has emerged as a powerful new pedagogy for learning in the classroom. MGIEP’s digital pedagogy program includes design game based course centres around digital games to teach skills of socio-emotional and cognitive skills in learners, centred around contemporary themes related to SDG

Under overall guidance of the Director and direct supervision of the National Project Officer, the digital games pedagogy developer will serve as the primary program resource for content and competency development of modules centred around digital games. Game based courses will be developed using principles of good research design, on UNESCO MGIEP’s learning platform Framerspace (www.framerspace.com) and will seek to build cognitive, academic and socio-emotional skills centred around contemporary themes and in line with global UNESCO goals.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop and design content and assessments on Framerspace that embed social and emotional, cognitive and academic skills using digital games.
• Continue to expand the game-based learning community with experts from across the world and forge relevant partnerships that align with MGIEP’s mandate
• Design and coordinate game-based learning sessions for MGIEP’s international conference on digital pedagogies for building peaceful and sustainable societies
• Plan and coordinate the integration of games as assessment tools within the gaming curriculum
• Coordinate activities for game-based learning across projects of the institute
• Support in institute-wide activities as they arise

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• An advance university degree (equivalent to Mater’s) in education/cognitive science/ Digital Pedagogy/Instructional design/digital gaming.
• Experience in working with teachers and designing toolkits and digital courses.

Work Experience:

• A minimum of 2 years of relevant working experience with developing or using digital games for learning. 

Languages

Excellent knowledge (written and spoken) of English.

Desirable qualifications

Experience:

Experience within game-based curricula development and assessment.
Any experience of conducting research with game development or research would be an asset.

Languages:

Knowledge of another UNESCO official language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish).