Knowledge Management and Monitoring Officer (NO-1), TA, Warsaw - Poland ECAR

Contract

This is a NO-1 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-1 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.

For every child, COMMITMENT.

Since February 2022, Poland has become home to estimated 2 million refugees (registered and unregistered), whereas 1.6 million refugees so far have sought the temporary protection and around one million of these refugees still have active registration for temporary protection in Poland. In the early weeks of the war, more than 100,000 people were fleeing Ukraine each day and Poland was taking the major brunt of the migration. At the peak of this displacement there were an estimated 3.5 million refugees from Ukraine in Poland. Around 90 percent of the refugees are women and children. This was, and remains, a mothers-and-children crisis. UNICEF declared an L3 emergency in March 2022 and provided successful and well-regarded humanitarian response, targeting more than 75 percent of the refugee population. In March 2023, the response was scaled down to L2, but the humanitarian needs remain. UNICEF reached out to around 1 million refugees during one year of its operations in Poland and these activities, by their nature, also have a positive spill-over effect on host communities and children from other nationalities.

How can you make a difference?

As part of its comprehensive response to the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis, UNICEF Refugee Response Office in Poland aims to strengthen its planning, monitoring, and reporting function. Under the overall supervision of the Chief PMR, provide technical assistance and support in KM, monitoring and reporting. The incumbent will ensure systems are in place to monitor and verify UNICEF results in collaboration with programme sections.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

1. Knowledge management: Following regional and global; discussions on KM and adapt corporate KM strategies, guidelines, and tools to the RRO's needs, especially in terms of knowledge sharing within and outside the organization.

2. Humanitarian performance monitoring (HPM): Contribute with technical expertise to ensure that monitoring systems for the humanitarian response are in place and the HPM indicators are tracked.

3. Situation and programme monitoring: Lead and support the routine field monitoring of key programme indicators of office and support in tracking and analyzing findings of monitoring to guide programme and management decisions.

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

• University degree in social sciences, development planning, planning, research, advanced statistical research.

• Professional work experience in programme development and implementation including monitoring and knowledge management activities as follows:

  • minimum of two (2) years of relevant professional and field work experience in the following areas: situational and programme performance monitoring, documentation, reporting and dissemination of data and research, quantitative and qualitative data analysis and visualization.
  • At least one instance of active exposure to emergency programming and monitoring. Active involvement in a humanitarian crisis response programme.
  • Experience in capacity building and delivering organizational learning programs.
  • Knowledge of Excel, ODK, KOBO and other mobile data collection tools.
  • Knowledge and experience of working on data management and data visualization tools (such as Power BI, Tableau) will be an asset.
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English and Polish required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) 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.

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, eligible and suitable male candidates are encouraged to apply.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. 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.

The VA is open to all (internal and external candidates) who are nationals of Poland.