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Programme Officer, Team Leader for SDGs and Greening TVET
Ken joined UNESCO-UNEVOC in 2013 as a Programme Officer where she brings with her 10 years of progressive experience working on TVET and education innovation programmes and projects. She contributes and supports the Head of Office in planning, designing and monitoring of programmes and new project development, medium-term strategic planning. As of 2020, she leads and coordinates UNEVOC’s SDGs and Greening TVET programme, aimed at strengthening TVET institutional capacities and teacher professional development. She supervised the overall management and implementation of various TVET projects implemented by UNEVOC, including inter-alia the Building TVET Resilience Project (2022-2023); UNEVOC COVID-19 Response Project (2020); Skills for Innovation Hubs (2018-2019); and the TEVET Management Capacity Building component of the UNESCO-EU Skills for Technical Education Programme (STEP) in Malawi (2017-2018).
For over 20 years, Ken has worked in various capacities with a goal to contribute in strengthening education and TVET and their linkage with sustainable development, including in UNESCO’s Asia-Pacific Education for Innovation and Development (APEID) Programme at its Regional Bureau for Education in Bangkok, Thailand and Colombo Plan Staff College for Technician Education (CPSC) in Manila, Philippines. She also worked in the public and private sectors in her home country through her engagements in the International Coral Reef Initiative Secretariat - Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Government of the Philippines and Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration and completed a Monitoring and Evaluation certificate with ITC-ILO.
Contact
ka.barrientos(at)unesco.org
Phone: +49 228 815 0123