Sunita Maharaj

Provide system-level technical support on education quality, safeguarding, inclusion, reporting, data systems, policy, and school improvement. Develop safeguarding policy, referral pathways, and implementation resources while coordinating with education, social services, police, public health, and child-protection stakeholders.

Prepare evidence-based country and thematic analyses on migration, protection, social conditions, institutional context, vulnerability, and human-rights issues for legal and policy audiences. Apply source evaluation, structured evidence synthesis, contextual analysis, and careful distinction between direct evidence, inference, and unsupported claims.

Led development of multilingual curriculum and implementation guidance for vulnerable Indigenous Warao learners in informal and alternative education settings. Integrated culturally responsive pedagogy, language access, differentiated instruction, safeguarding, and trauma-informed approaches into educator resources.

Led and coordinated operational, stakeholder, and case-level support for Afghan resettlement and humanitarian pathways work during a volatile funding period. Conducted or supported protection and trafficking-risk assessments, trauma-informed interviews, referrals, case documentation, lessons-learned work, and stakeholder analysis involving government, donors, embassies, and service providers.

Produced and supported multi-country evidence products, situation reports, RMNA/RMRP planning inputs, thematic analysis, factsheets, advocacy materials, and donor-facing reporting across Aruba, Curacao, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and the wider sub-region. Designed reporting guidance, data-collection workflows, quality-assurance approaches, and workshops; supported assessments

Taught undergraduate, professional, and continuing-education courses in education, academic writing, communication, Spanish, English/ESL, ECCE, and teacher education; designed curricula, assessments, rubrics, and blended-learning resources. Mentored learners and educators across academic, public-sector, technical, and professional contexts; recipient of three consecutive ROYTEC Excellence in Teach

Developed and led an integrated education and protection programme for 300+ refugee and migrant learners aged 4-18, combining education, child protection, nutrition, transport, referrals, and family engagement. Managed 65+ staff and supported a wider six-centre/mobile education initiative involving 100+ personnel; developed curricula, flexible pathways, LMS-supported learning, teacher training, sa

Managed a six-person training team and coordinated curriculum, programme schedules, report-writing and professional-communication training, quality standards, and departmental reporting.

Awarded PhD in Philosophy of Education in November 2024. Dissertation focused on challenges and proposed solutions for educating refugee and migrant children in Trinidad and Tobago.

Completed executive education in Leadership, Management, Projects and Change Management in 2023.

Participated in an Innovation Fellowship focused on Alternative Learning Pathways from 2022 to 2023.

Earned a Diploma in Gender Equality in Humanitarian Action in 2021.

Grade: Honours

Completed Master of Education in Globalization and Inclusion with Honours from 2010 to 2013.

Grade: Honours

Completed Postgraduate Certificate in Education in Research, Leadership and Management with Honours from 2006 to 2008.