Inclusion Planning and Monitoring Specialist

Contract

This is a UNV National Specialist contract. This kind of contract is known as National UN Volunteer. It is normally only for nationals. More about UNV National Specialist contracts.

UNICEF works in the world’s toughest places to reach the most disadvantaged children and adolescents – and to protect the rights of every child, everywhere. Across more than 190 coun-tries and territories, we do whatever it takes to help children survive, thrive and fulfill their po-tential, from early childhood through adolescence. The world’s largest provider of vaccines, we support child health and nutrition, safe water and sanitation, quality education and skill building, HIV prevention and treatment for mothers and babies, and the protection of children and adolescents from violence and exploitation. Before, during and after humanitarian emergencies, UNICEF is on the ground, bringing lifesav-ing help and hope to children and families. Non-political and impartial, we are never neutral when it comes to defending children’s rights and safeguarding their lives and futures. And we never give up.

The Inclusion Planning and Monitoring Specialist will be working in the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Section of the UNICEF Burundi Programme Department in close collaboration with all the programme teams and in particular with the education and child protection inclusion focal points. UNICEF Burundi is planning for the new Country Programme 2024-2027 and the UNV will play a key role in ensuring that the new country programme is fully inclusive and reaches the most vulnerable. This will be done through preparation of Situation Analysis, review of key research in the area and analysis of monitoring data in order to inform the new country programme.

Under the direct supervision of the P3 Planning and Monitoring Specialist, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: Planning: - Finalize and keep up to date the Situation Analysis on inclusion in Burundi - Assist in the planning of the new Country Programme 2024-2027 ensuring that the programme is fully inclusive and reaches the most vulnerable - Analyses data from monitoring efforts and ensures these feed back into the planning system - Reviews partnership documents with an inclusion lens - Puts in place dedicated partnerships around inclusion in close collaboration with all the pro-gramme sections and in particular with the education and child protection inclusion focal points Monitoring: - Reviews the monitoring system ensuring that all relevant inclusion indicators are consistently monitored - Reviews national data systems and advises on indicators to be included in order to ensure in-clusion and disability related data is consistently collected and drives action in that sense - Ensures that real time monitoring is inclusive of children living with disabilities and includes them proactively including as monitoring actors (eg. Young people)

☒ Accountability ☒ Adaptability and Flexibility ☒ Client Orientation ☒ Commitment and Motivation ☒ Commitment to Continuous Learning ☒ Creativity ☒ Ethics and Values ☒ Integrity ☒ Judgement and Decision-making ☒ Knowledge Sharing ☒ Planning and Organizing ☒ Professionalism ☒ Respect for Diversity ☒ Self-Management ☒ Technological Awareness ☒ Working in Teams

planning: able to think strategically and work with colleagues to ensure UNICEF pro-grammes are fully inclusive and reaching the most vulnerable • Monitoring: able to support the implementation of monitoring initiatives that ensure that UNICEF programmes are fully inclusive and adapt in an agile manner to ensure the most vulnerable are reached. • Attentive to details • Strategic thinking and analysis • Fast learner

With an area of 27,834 km², an estimated population of 11.2 million and GDP per capita of US$320 in current dollars in 2017, Burundi is one of the world’s poorest countries. Demographic growth runs at 3.21 per cent. Population density was on the order of 415 inhabitants/km² in 2018. The country is ranked 185 out of 189 countries and territories (2018). The security situation in the city of Bujumbura has improved, with the exception of a few isolated incidents that are regularly recorded. However, while some neighbourhoods of the city remain closed to international staff, UNDSS has identified and recommended areas for staff housing and vigilance remains required. UN security has put in place certain security measures to which volunteers and other staff have to adhere to. In Bujumbura one can find shops, restaurants, sport and leisure facilities. In other provinces, however, living conditions are lower with lack of electricity and often poor road networks. In Burundi, the climate is mild or warm, and varies according to altitude, while there is little seasonal variation in temperature. Much of the country is occupied by a plateau, at an altitude of around 1,500/1,800 meters (5,000/6,000 feet), but in the west there is also a lower region, around 800 meters (2,600 feet), as well as a mountainous belt.

REASONABLE ACCOMODATION

The UN system wishes to create an inclusive workplace and commits to taking appropriate measures to enable persons with disabilities to access and benefit equally from employment and other engagement opportunities such as volunteering, by providing reasonable accommodation. In this context, “reasonable accommodation” means necessary and appropriate modifications and adjustments not imposing a disproportionate or undue burden, where needed in a particular case, to ensure to persons with disabilities the enjoyment or exercise on an equal basis with others of all human rights and fundamental freedoms.[Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Article 2]