Chief Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation, P4, Carcas, Venezuela

Contract

This is a P-4 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 7 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 144,460 USD and 186,252 USD.

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, a champion

The fundamental mission of UNICEF Venezuela is to promote the rights of every child in everything the organization does — in programs, in advocacy and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment to children’s rights into action.

Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative the Chief of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Leads the Country Office’s strategic planning, monitoring, reporting and performance analysis of UNICEF-supported programmes, including their relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability.
• Ensures that the UNICEF Country Office has useful, valid and reliable information on the situation of children’s and women’s rights to inform strategic positioning, programme planning, integration, and coherence.
• Supports the UNCT in establishing refined goals for delivering valid and reliable information on the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) , as set forth in the UNSDCF and assist in the development of development of related monitoring, reporting and evaluation mechanisms as related to the implementation of international standards.
• Assists in the development of national capacities for planning, monitoring, evaluation, and research, with special attention to the interest, concern and participation of government, community, and civil society stakeholders.

How can you make a difference?

1. Monitoring, Evaluation & Research Planning. The Venezuela Country Office and national partners have a well-prioritised and realistic plan of research, monitoring and evaluation activities, developed collaboratively that provides all the relevant and strategic information needed to manage the newly signed Country Programme 2023-2026.

2. Situation Monitoring and Assessment. With the Country Office’s national partners have timely and accurate measurements of change in conditions of children, women, and their families in the country or region; information is available to facilitate planning, public outreach and advocacy and measure program impact.

3. Programme Performance Monitoring. The planning function of the Country Office has quality information collected and disseminated with the participation of all concerned partners to assess progress towards expected annual and multi-year results.

4. Evaluation. UNICEF-supported evaluations attain established UN quality standards, and the results are disseminated in a timely fashion to stakeholders for improving programme performance and contributing to national and corporate learning.

5. Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity Building. The monitoring and evaluation capacities of the Venezuela Country Office staff and national partners – government, civil society and even private sector– enhanced with the contribution of UNICEF knowledge partners meet the expectations and requirements of their positions and responsibilities.

6. Coordination and Networking. The UNICEF office is linked to wider UNICEF PM&E developments in way that both contributes to and benefits from organizational learning on effective PPM&E management.

The full job profile is accessible here: Chief Planning Monitoring and Evaluation Level 4.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• Advanced university degree in social sciences, statistics, strategic planning, management or any related subject. A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
• A minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience in programme development and implementation including planning, monitoring and evaluation activities.
• Developing country work experience is required.
• Managerial experience is required.
• At least one instance of exposure to emergency programming, including preparedness planning is desirable.
• Active involvement in a humanitarian crisis response programme is an asset.
• Working experience in a context of volatility, uncertainty, ambiguity, complexity and institutional fragility is an asset.
• Relevant experience in programme planning in a UN system agency or organization is an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Fluency in Spanish is an asset. Knowledge of another official UN language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3) Drive to achieve results for impact (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others. (8) Nurtures, leads and manages people) for supervisory role

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

Carcas, Venezuela is a Family Duty Station and internal candidates with family are encouraged to apply.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable female candidates are encouraged to apply.

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are also subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

This vacancy is open only for international candidates, nationals of Venezuela or not eligible for this post.