Monitoring & Evaluation Officer, NOB, TA (364 Days), Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh #552631 (For Bangladeshi Nationals Only)

Contract

This is a NO-2 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-2 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.

With UNICEF Bangladesh you are at the centre of the change you want to see.

In one of the largest UNICEF Country Offices in the world, you will be working with dynamic colleagues who have helped deliver remarkable results for children: Net enrolment in primary education rose from 61 per cent in 1987 to 98 per cent in 2019. Stunting fell from 42 per cent in 2013 to 28 per cent in 2019. Fully vaccinated children increased from 52 per cent in 2001 to 84 per cent in 2019.

Join us as we go the next mile for the nearly 60 million children in Bangladesh, including half a million Rohingya refugee children.

In a country undergoing rapid economic and demographic transition, be part of tackling malnutrition and stagnant wasting. Help protect children from child marriage, child labour and violence. Support the country to invest more in health and education, and to extend safe water to the children who are furthest left behind.

For every child, innovation.

How can you make a difference?

Under guidance of the PMR Specialist, Cox’s Bazar, the incumbent Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Officer will provide technical support throughout the Field Office monitoring and evaluation processes. This will include support to programme performance monitoring, preparation and monitoring of the Integrated Monitoring & Evaluation Plan (IMEP), as well as in information/data collection, statistics and data analysis, preparation of reports to enhance the use of data, and in implementing training programmes for camp-level and sub-national data collection, monitoring, evaluation and research capacity building with special attention to the interest, concern and participation of primary stakeholders. The M&E Officer will also lead the information management, Humanitarian Performance Monitoring (HPM) and partners’ reporting functions of the Planning, Monitoring and Reporting (PMR) Team of UNICEF Cox's Bazar Field Office (FO).

Key functions/accountabilities:

1. Integrated Monitoring & Evaluation Planning (IMEP)

Provide technical support to ensure that the Cox’s Bazar Office and implementing partners use a well-prioritized and realistic plan of research, monitoring and evaluation activities that will provide the most relevant and strategic information to manage the programme, including tracking and assessing UNICEF’s distinct contribution.

2. Situation Monitoring and Assessment

Provide technical support to ensure that the Cox’s Bazar Office and partners have timely and accurate measurement of change in conditions in the Rohingya refugee camps and host communities, to facilitate planning and to draw conclusions about the impact of programmes or policies.

3. Humanitarian Performance Monitoring (HPM) and Programme performance monitoring

Provide technical support to ensure that the Cox’s Bazar Office has quality information to assess progress towards expected results established in annual HAC and JRP work plans.

4. Information management, GIS and innovation

Provide technical support to ensure accurate and meaningful data collection, compilation and analysis, disseminated in a way that is easily understood by management, programme staff and implementing partners to influence decision making. Visualize and disseminate the UNICEF response results in a real-time manner using innovative visualization tools.

5. Evaluation

Provide technical support to ensure that a well-prioritised and strategic selection of evaluations at programme or Cox’s Bazar Office strategy level is managed in order that each evaluation is designed and carried out with quality process and products and that evaluation results are useful to the intended audience.

6. M&E Capacity Building

Provide technical support to ensure that the monitoring and evaluation capacities of Cox’s Bazar Office staff and national partners – government and civil society – are strengthened enabling them to increasingly engage in and lead monitoring and evaluation processes.

For detailed job responsibilities, please click the link below:

ToR Monitoring and Evaluation NOB.pdf

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

• University degree in social sciences, geo-information science, information management, development planning, planning, evaluation, survey implementation, data science, advanced statistical research.
• Strong knowledge and experience in using ONA, ODK, KOBO and other mobile data collection
• Strong knowledge and experience in database management using MS Office package, GIS, Mapping, and infographics skills (e.g., ArcGIS, Adobe)
• Strong knowledge and experience in data visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, etc.
• Professional work experience in programme development and implementation including information management, monitoring and evaluation activities as follows:
• Two years of relevant professional work experience.
• At least one instance of exposure to emergency programming, including preparedness planning.
• Active involvement in a humanitarian crisis response programme preferred.
• Fluency in English (verbal and written) is required. Good written and spoken skills in the language of the humanitarian operation and knowledge of another UN language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA).

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Drives to achieve impactful results (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

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:

*UNICEF does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.

*Internal candidates may be given preference over external candidates. The term "Internal" refers to all staff members with fixed term, continuing or permanent appointments.

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

*The complete vacancy announcements can be reviewed via UNICEF Careers website at https://jobs.unicef.org/en-us/listing/