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 134,636 USD and 173,585 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, Health

https://www.unicef.org/afghanistan/

How can you make a difference?

II. Organizational Context and Purpose for the job

The Afghanistan health system made considerable progress over the period of 2003-2021. Data from household surveys between 2003 and 2018 show significant improvement in the coverage of reproductive, maternal and child health services. The number of functional health facilities increased from 498 in 2002 to 2,725 in 2017 and the proportion of health facilities with skilled female health workers increased from 25% to 95.2% (MOPH HMIS department). The number of Community Health Workers (CHWs) increased from 2,682 in 2005 to 29,596 in 2017 (MoPH, CBHC department). Coverage of skilled birth attendance (SBA) for women in rural areas has increased from 4% to 59% and antenatal care (ANC) coverage from 8% to 61% between 2013 and 2018. However, Afghanistan does have a robust DHIS system in place for data and information management, which UNICEF is using as a primary data source, there exist significant gaps in terms of monitoring systems to validate the information and ensure timely provision of data and real-time monitoring system.

Job organizational context

UNICEF Afghanistan monitors its delivery against its approved Country Programme, including progress against the respective milestones which are set in a given year. The Country Programme has a mid-term and annual review and an end-of-cycle review. Progress on output level results is assessed during these reviews and data is managed through the Results Assessment Module (RAM) system at UNICEF HQ.

Monitoring of the implementation of projects delivered by UNICEF Afghanistan and its implementing partners occurs throughout the year. UNICEF Afghanistan adopts a risk-based approach in relation to monitoring its implementing partners’ activities and results. Specifically, the level of monitoring it undertakes is determined by the risk assessment made of each partner during its due diligence/capacity assessment.

Purpose for the job

The incumbent will work under the overall supervision of the Principal Advisor / Chief Health Afghanistan, in close collaboration with the Health Section and Programme Monitoring and Evaluation section. This position is based in the Afghanistan Country Office in Kabul, Afghanistan, with frequent travel to the field.

III. Key functions, accountabilities and related duties/tasks (Please outline the key accountabilities for this position and underneath each accountability, the duties that describe how they are delivered.

1. Programme Performance Monitoring
   1. Results Monitoring and Annual Reporting
2. Closely work with PMU to finalize and manage TPM contract.
3. Ensure that TPM visits are conducted on a quarterly basis, in line with the donor requirements. This requires finalizing of monitoring checklists, sampling data collection and reviewing TPM report, before submission to the donor.
4. Maintain an action tracker for timely follow up of action points, as highlighted in the TPM reports.
   3. Field Monitoring by UNICEF staffs
5. Where UNICEF staff can gain access, develop monthly field monitoring plan for UNICEF staffs to conduct programmatic visits as and when required to meet the minimum HACT assurance requirements.
6. Present the progress of these monitoring visits during the monthly meetings and action points stemming from them are tracked through the use of eTools to ensure that they are addressed and closed in due time.
7. Manage third party HR consultants (extenders) by ensuring monthly monitoring plan and all project sites are visited as per requirements.
   4. Information Management

• Ensure that the UNICEF Country Office has useful, valid, and reliable information about children's and women's rights; the performance of UNICEF-supported programmes, including their relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability, and in emergency contexts, their coverage, coordination, and coherence.
• Provide information and data for sitreps, health clusters and other office reporting requirements in a timely and harmonized manner.

2. Integrated Monitoring, Evaluation & Research Plan (IMEP)

• Contribute to and provide technical assistance to plan and establish research, monitoring, and evaluation objectives, priorities, and activities in UNICEF’s multi-year and annual IMEPs, consultation with child-rights and implementing partners.
• Identify the M&E objectives, priorities, and activities required for effective CO, Health programme, and partner Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans.

3. Situation Monitoring and Assessment

• Support Sehatmandi partners in the management of national statistical databases (e.g., DHIS, HMIS), ensuring that key indicators are readily accessible by key stakeholders. Potential uses include the Situation Analysis, Common Country Assessment, Early Warning Monitoring Systems, and Mid-Term Reviews.

4. Evaluation

• Technically support programme partners to formulate Terms of Reference and evaluation designs of high quality, when relevant, drawing on the know-how of knowledge institutions, in compliance with the organization’s programme evaluation policies and guidelines.
• Monitor and ensure the quality of the fieldwork and data management during the implementation phase and the quality of the analysis and ease of understanding during the report writing phase.
• Disseminate evaluation findings and recommendations to the intended audiences in user-friendly methods to ensure 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 completed, recorded, and followed up for implementation. Most specifically, ensure that evaluation recommendations are submitted to the Country Management Team, and follow-up actions are recorded in CMT minutes. Submit electronic copies of all evaluations to NYHQ via the Evaluation Data Base web portal, with full accompanying documentation.

5. M&E Capacity Building

• Promote the awareness and understanding of the shared responsibility of the M&E function among all polio staff members through communication, training, learning, and development activities organization wide.
• Collaborate to implement capacity-building strategies as a joint commitment with other developmental partners. Utilize a range of appropriate skills-building strategies, including self-learning, seminars and workshops, and practical experience so that UNICEF and UN staff have the basic knowledge and skills in understanding and applying new M&E policies, tools, and methods to fulfill their responsibilities.
• Actively seek partnerships with knowledge institutions to identify capacity gaps and the development strategies to address them for polio eradication.

6. Coordination and Networking

• Collaborate with CO P&M, Regional and HQ M&E Advisers for overall coordination of priority research, monitoring, and evaluation activities.
• Partner with the CO, Regional, and HQ Monitoring and Evaluation teams to ensure that current and accurate Polio M&E data and results are included in all reports, multi-country studies, and knowledge-sharing networks.
• Undertake lessons-learned reviews on successful and unsuccessful M&E practices and experience at the national and sub-national levels, and ensure they are appropriately shared. Similarly, please pay attention to M&E knowledge networks to identify innovations and lessons learned that may be relevant for the CO and Health partners to improve their M&E functions.

IV. Impact of Results (Please briefly outline how the efficiency and efficacy of the incumbent impacts its office/division and how this in turn improves UNICEF’s capacity in achieving its goals)

• It is expected that the expertise and leadership of the M&E Manager will significantly positively impact health section efforts and the overall UNICEF child survival and development agenda in Afghanistan with the provision of timely and quality information for informed decisions making.
• The efficacy and efficiency of the assistance provided in program monitoring and evaluation and surveys will improve the quality of health interventions.
• Timely response and quality reports to donors and partners.

V. Competencies and level of proficiency required (based on UNICEF Competency Profiles per level and functional area select top 5 functional competencies)

Core competencies

• Communication (2)
• Working with people (2)
• Drive for results (2)

Functional Competencies:

Nurtures, Leads, and Manages People (2)

Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2)

Works Collaboratively with others (2)

Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)

Innovates and Embraces Change (2)

Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)

Drive to achieve impactful results (2)

Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

VI. Recruitment Qualifications

Education:

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in social sciences, statistics, planning development, public health, or related field.

Experience:

• A minimum of eight years of relevant professional experience in programme development and implementation, including monitoring and evaluation activities
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergencies is considered an asset.

Language Requirements:

• 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 values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA).

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

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.

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 may also be 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.