Child Rights Monitoring Specialist, NO-3, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Fixed-term #94332 (Only for Uzbekistan nationals)

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This is a NO-3 contract. This kind of contract is known as National Professional Officers. It is normally only for nationals. It's a staff contract. More about NO-3 contracts.

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.

PURPOSE OF THE JOB 1. To ensure that the UNICEF Country Office and national partners have useful, valid and reliable information on: a. the situation of children and women and on the progress in realizing their rights; b. the reduction of equity gaps within the country; c. the results of UNICEF-supported national public programmes including their evaluation; and d. the contribution of UNICEF to the achievement of the results; e. the potential impact of socio-political developments of the country on child wellbeing.

2. To assist in the development of national capacities for evidence-based and inclusive policy making, child rights monitoring, evaluation and research, with special attention to the interest, concern and participation of government, community, and civil society stakeholders.

3. To support Country Office’s efforts in knowledge management by identifying, documenting and sharing lessons learned and good practices related to child rights within the UNICEF and in the country.

4. Where relevant, to assist in the establishment of oversight and reporting mechanisms which enhance partnership between the UN Country Team, government, national human rights institutions and other key players to collectively track progress made by the country in meeting its international commitments for children.

KEY END-RESULTS

  1. Strengthening child rights systems monitoring. The monitoring and evaluation capacities of partners, from the government, the parliament and civil society at national, regional and local level, as well as the independent child rights institutions and mechanisms are enhanced. All stakeholders have at their disposal disaggregated evidence to influence, develop, implement, monitor and evaluate national, regional and local policies, and allocations of resources and models in support of meeting the international commitments focusing on child related disparities and inequities. Advocacy and facilitation of policy dialogue leading to establishment of an independent system for child rights monitoring.
  2. Situation Monitoring and Assessment****. A comprehensive situation assessment and monitoring system collectively owned by all key partners is in place. Timely and accurate measurements of changes in the conditions of children, women, and their families in the country or region are available to relevant stakeholders through the system. This information is made publicly available to facilitate evidence-based decision-making processes, and the documentation of the progressive realization of child rights and the reduction of equity gaps.
  3. Improving data on child poverty & vulnerability for increased use for policy and programme action. The collection, analysis and user-friendly presentation of data on multidimensional child poverty is supported, including strengthening national capacity to collect routinely, report and use data for policy decision-making.
  4. Advice on e****nabling environment and social inclusion dimensions affecting child rights. Developmental and economic context and its impact on social development, emerging issues and policy concerns, as well as implications for children are analysed. The policy coherence and evidence-based and inclusive decision-making in line with the national Sustainable Development Goals and international standards ensured.
  5. Evaluation. UNICEF-supported evaluations (such as joint evaluations of public policies and programmes or impact evaluations of pilots) are strategically selected and conducted in accordance with UN quality standards. The results of these evaluations are disseminated in a timely fashion to internal and external stakeholders to inform public programme design and performance and contribute to national and corporate learning.
  6. Knowledge Management. UNICEF contributes to national, regional and international learning on child rights by sharing knowledge, good practices and lessons and by supporting national partners and civil society to share the same with other countries.
  7. Contribution to Networking and Advocacy****. UNICEF’s partnerships, networking and advocacy are effectively supported by relevant evidence-based research and knowledge related to children in the country, focusing on disadvantaged and excluded children.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES and DUTIES & TASKS

Within the delegated authority and under the given organizational set-up, the incumbent may be assigned the primarily, shared, or contributory accountabilities for all or part of the following areas of major duties and key end-results.

1. Strengthening child-rights system monitoring.

Strengthen monitoring and evaluation capacities of national, regional and local partners, from the government, the parliament and civil society as well as the independent child rights institutions and mechanisms are enhanced and that stakeholders have at their disposal disaggregated evidence to influence, develop, implement, monitor and evaluate international commitments, national, regional and local policies, allocations of resources and programme implementation models, focusing on child- related disparities and inequities.

Duties & Tasks

  • Maintain and develop partnerships with relevant stakeholders, the parliament and civil society to establish and/or strengthen the existing independent monitoring and evaluation systems and processes so that reliable and disaggregated data and analysis on the situation of disadvantaged and excluded are available to, and used by, decision-makers in the development child-related policies and programmes.
  • Systematically promote equity-based child rights indicators and monitoring systems in partnerships
  • Actively seek partnerships with centres of excellence for the identification of capacity gaps (in terms of human resources, processes, indicators, etc.) to monitor and evaluation progressive realisation of child rights and reduction of equity gaps and the development of strategies to address them.

2. Situation Monitoring and Assessment

Ensure that the Country Office and national partners have timely and accurate measurement of change in the conditions of disadvantaged and excluded children 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 on equity for children.

Duties & Tasks

  • Support partners in the establishment and management of national statistical and MIS databases; and contribution to regional and international databases (e.g. TransMonEE), ensuring that key indicators are readily accessible by key stakeholders. Potential uses include the Situation Analysis, Common Country Assessment, and Mid-Term Reviews.
  • Develop a Situation Monitoring and Assessment system owned by all key partners which supports the preparation of country level statistical and analytic reports on the status of children’s and women’s rights issues and of equity gaps; and which allow, when opportunities emerge to influence developmental and social policies. This is to include technical support to global reporting obligations including national reports on progress toward international commitments for children, and toward CRC, CEDAW and CRPD fulfilment.
  • In coordination with other stakeholders, where applicable support the collection of Sustainable Development Goals and other nationally or internationally agreed key social development indicators (through MICS or other surveys) to improve national planning.

3. Improving data on child poverty & vulnerability

The increased use of data on child poverty and vulnerability for policy and programme action. The collection, analysis and user-friendly presentation of data on multidimensional and monetary child poverty is supported, including strengthening national capacity to collect routinely, report and use data for policy decision-making.

Duties and Tasks:

  • Maintain and develop partnerships with relevant stakeholders, so that reliable and disaggregated data and analysis on child rights and evidence based policy options are available to, and used by, decision-makers in the development of child-related policies and programmes, such as multidimensional poverty and other cross-sectoral and cross-cutting documents targeting improvement in the lives and wellbeing of children, particularly those furthest behind.

4. Advice on enabling environment and social inclusion dimensions affecting child rights.

Developmental and economic context and its impact on social development, emerging issues and policy concerns, as well as implications for children are analysed. The policy coherence and evidence-based and inclusive decision-making in line with the national Sustainable Development Goals and international standards ensured.

Duties and Tasks:

  • Technically support programme colleagues and partners in enhancing the Government’s capacity to design, budget, monitor and implement evidence-based age-, gender- and disability-sensitive policies and programmes for child rights realisation (including data use and strengthening inclusive planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation);
  • Support the management in high level meetings through contributing to defining and developing strategic points for discussion, as well as participating in the meetings and ensuring the follow up.

5. Evaluation

Ensures that UNICEF-supported evaluations (such as joint evaluations of public policies and programmes or impact evaluations of pilots) are strategically selected and conducted in accordance with UN quality standards. Ensures that the results of these evaluations are disseminated in a timely fashion to internal and external stakeholders to inform public programme design and performance and contribute to national and corporate learning.

Duties & Tasks

  • Technically support programme colleagues and national partners in identifying and designing strategic evaluations. This may include joint evaluation of public policies and programmes, impact evaluation of models and pilots and participation to strategic multi-country evaluations.
  • Disseminate evaluation findings and recommendations to the intended audiences in user-friendly methods. In particular, to ensure that effective participatory feedback is provided to community and civil society stakeholders.
  • Monitor and ensure that a management response to the findings and recommendations of the evaluation is jointly developed by all relevant stakeholders, recorded, and followed up for implementation. Most specifically, ensure that evaluation recommendations are submitted to the Country Management Team and follow-up actions recorded in CMT minutes. Submit electronic copies of all evaluations to NYHQ via the Evaluation Data Base web portal, with full accompanying documentation.

6. Knowledge Management

Ensure that UNICEF contributes to national, regional and international learning on child rights by sharing knowledge, good practices and lessons and by supporting national partners and civil society to share the same with other countries.

Duties & Tasks

  • Coordinates the CO efforts to support the government, the parliament and civil society in the identification of good practices in and support their dissemination within the country, regionally and internationally (as relevant) by partners themselves.
  • Undertake lessons-learned reviews on CRM practices and experience at the national level, and ensure they are shared as appropriate. Similarly, pay attention to CRM knowledge networks to identify innovations and lessons learned that may be relevant for the CO and partners to improve their CRM function.

7. Contribution to Networking and Advocacy

Ensure that the UNICEF partnerships, networking and advocacy are effectively supported by relevant and evidence-based research and knowledge related to children in the country, focusing on the most vulnerable children.

Duties & Tasks

  • Strengthen the capacity of UNICEF colleagues and national partners, including the media, to generate and use reliable and disaggregated data and analysis on the situation of vulnerable children for their own interventions and advocacy for child rights.
  • Link UNICEF’s partnerships and advocacy strategies with the knowledge strategy to ensure that the CO has at its disposal the latest data and analysis on vulnerable children and their families, generated by UNICEF or partners.

JOB GRADE FACTORS

P3/NOC Level (Level 3)

  • Country Program Size: Small to medium CP (based on UNICEF’s Country Office Category).
  • Risk of Emergencies: Humanitarian crises, if they occur, are expected to arrive in sudden-onset natural disasters or in longer-term recurrent problems like drought.
  • Technical Breadth: Should have significant professional strength and office leadership responsibilities in at least 3 of the remaining 5 functional areas (Statistical data analysis, Evaluations, M&E systems Capacity Building, Knowledge management and partnerships, Advocacy)
  • Sectoral Breadth: Should possess academic or professional work exposure to the MTSP themes prioritized in the Country Programme. Should be familiar with Child Rights based analysis, monitoring and evaluation and Human Right Based Approach.
  • Innovation and Conceptualization. Considered fully competent to apply standardized approaches and models; expected to seek support from regional or HQ level when innovating approaches, techniques and policies.
  • Technical and Managerial Engagement: Primary roles are in technical support and quality assurance. Normal counterparts are ministerial and academic/private specialists. Is occasionally a Coordinator/Team Leader with broader managerial roles.
  • Capacity Strengthening: Fully competent to undertake capacity gaps analysis, organize and help deliver specialized training, including the design of materials and methods. Not expected to develop capacity strengthening strategies without external support.
  • Networking: Ability to effectively liaise with knowledge institutions and CSOs to seek partnerships in formulating capacity strengthening strategy.
  • Supervisory Role: Not expected to supervise more than one professional post at levels 1-2. May supervise multiple consultants up to Level 4 work.

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

Education****: Advanced university degree in social sciences, statistics, economics, planning development, planning.

Work Experience****: Relevant professional work experience in programme development and implementation including monitoring and evaluation activities as follows:

Level 3 - Five years of relevant professional work experience. Developing country work experience (for IP) or field work experience (for NO)

Language Proficiency: Fluency in English, Russian and Uzbek is required.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

4. Competency Profile

Core Values (Required)

  • Commitment
  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • Integrity

Core Competencies (Required)

  • Communication [ II ]
  • Working with People[ II ]
  • Drive for Result [ II ]

Functional Competencies (Required)

  • Leading and Supervising [ II ]
  • Formulating Strategies and Concepts [ II ]
  • Analyzing [ II ]
  • Applying Technical Expertise [ II ]
  • Planning and Organizing [ III ]

Technical Knowledge

a) Specific Technical Knowledge & Competencies Required(for the job)

  • Human Rights Based Approach to Planning.
  • Knowledge of Project Evaluation.
  • Professional technical knowledge/expertise in Evaluation Process Management.
  • Follow-up on recommendations and dissemination of M&E results.
  • Emerging international good practice in monitoring and evaluation partnerships.

b) Common Technical Knowledge Required (for the job group)

  • Professional technical knowledge/expertise in demography, statistics, and data management.
  • Professional technical knowledge/expertise in methodology of M&E, including theories, standards and models, quantitative/qualitative/mixed methods, validity/reliability testing of data, data analysis and interpretation, and statistical inference methods.
  • Professional technical knowledge/expertise in Activity Monitoring & Evaluation, Evaluation Design, data analysis, and reporting.
  • Human Rights, Gender equality and diversity awareness

c) Technical Knowledge to be Acquired/Enhanced (for the Job)

  • Professional/technical knowledge/expertise in Team Management, Coaching & Training.
  • Mastery of UNICEF’s M&E policies and procedures.
  • Latest programme monitoring and evaluation theory, methodology, technology and tools.
  • Understanding of UN Mission and system, current key UN topics; and International Code of Conduct.
  • Understanding of UNICEF Mission Statement and UNICEF Guiding Principles.
  • UNICEF strategic framework for partnerships and collaborative relationships.

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

Click here to learn more about UNICEF’s values and competencies.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

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 also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. 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:

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

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

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