Chief Planning & Monitoring, P-4, FT, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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 146,462 USD and 188,832 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, Hope

The Chief Planning & Monitoring will ensure that the UNICEF Ethiopia Country Office has useful, valid and reliable information on the situation of children’s and women’s rights in Ethiopia and the performance of UNICEF-supported programmes. This will include programme relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability, and in emergency contexts, their coverage, coordination and coherence. The Chief will work within the UN country team (UNCT) to support their goals for delivering valid and reliable information on the attainment of the SDGs and other goals, and on the performance of UN-supported programmes. They will also assist in the establishment of monitoring an evaluation tools to enhance partnership between the UNCT, government and other key players to collectively track progress on SDGs and other international commitment for children.

How can you make a difference?

1. Integrated Monitoring, Evaluation & Research Plan (IMEP) - Ensure that the Country Office and national partners use a well-prioritised and realistic plan of research, monitoring and evaluation activities that will provide the most relevant and strategic information to manage the Country Programme, including tracking and assessing UNICEF’s distinct contribution.
2. Situation Monitoring and Assessment - Ensure that the Country Office and national partners have timely and accurate measurement of change in conditions in the country or region, including monitoring of socio-economic trends and the country’s wider policy, economic or institutional context, to facilitate planning and to draw conclusions about the impact of programmes or policies.
3. Programme Performance Monitoring - Ensure that the Country Office has quality information to assess progress towards expected results established in annual work plans.
4. Evaluation - Ensure that UNICEF-supported evaluations are designed and implemented to established UN quality standards, and the results are disseminated in a timely fashion to stakeholders in order to improve programme performance and contribute to wider learning.
5. M&E Capacity Building - Ensure that the monitoring and evaluation capacities of Country Office staff and national partners – government and civil society – are strengthened enabling them to increasingly engage in and lead monitoring and evaluation processes.
6. Coordination and Networking - Ensure that the UNICEF office is effectively linked to wider UNICEF M&E developments in a way that both contributes to and benefits from organizational learning on effective M&E management.

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

• Advanced university degree in social sciences, statistics, planning development, planning. *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.
• Professional work experience in programme development and implementation including monitoring and evaluation activities as follows:
  • A minimum of eight (8) years of relevant professional work experience, including developing country work experience, is required.
  • At least one (1) instance of exposure to emergency programming, including preparedness planning. Active involvement in a humanitarian crisis response programme preferred
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local 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: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

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

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.

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, qualified female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

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

Priority will be given to all the eligible candidates participating in 2022 Mobility Exercise and UNICEF Staff on Abolished post.

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

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.