Monitoring Officer - Data Analysis (P-1), (TA) – 364 Days, Geneva - Switzerland ECARO

Contract

This is a P-1 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 1 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 82,408 USD and 113,889 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, hope

Significant escalation of the conflict in Ukraine has resulted in increased humanitarian needs and population displacement within and outside of the country. As the situation rapidly evolves, the conflict poses an immediate and growing threat to the lives and well-being of the country’s 7.5 million children. UNICEF is rapidly scaling up its multi-sectoral response to the increasing humanitarian needs in Ukraine and among refugees in neighboring countries.

In on-going humanitarian situations, strong performance monitoring is a core accountability and is essential to support effective response. To ensure that an effective monitoring of the programme actions is in place, UNICEF ECA Regional Office seeks support from an experienced professional in the areas of planning, monitoring and evaluation that would provide expertise in Humanitarian Performance Monitoring, supporting the ECARO Programme Planning and Data team.

How can you make a difference? Within the framework of regional Humanitarian Action for Children, the main purpose of the assignment is to support to the ECA Regional Office in data processing and analysis, management of humanitarian information management tools, facilitating effective HPM reporting. The incumbent will support the Regional Office to manage monitoring and reporting requirements, working closely with the Programme sections, Sr. Emergency Coordinator for Ukraine Crisis and the Programme Planning and Data section.

Support to monitoring and reporting • In collaboration with the HPM Manager, provide support to country teams on the quality assurance of reported data, on the development of automatized data collection mechanisms and on the analysis of data to be used in all reporting products (SitRep, Factsheet, briefing notes, country reports, etc). • Systematically screen and cross-check data for internal and external reports, sitreps, information and communication material for accuracy and consistency, at both quantitative and narrative level. • Support information gathering and information flow across sections, programmes and countries and make sure data is accurate reflected and reported. • In coordination with relevant colleagues at regional level RTE team, ensure that all feedback and inputs from country offices to monitoring and reporting tools are systematically collected and addressed. • Support regional and country-level work streams relating to the compilation and reporting of collected data to inform regional reporting. • Produce Monthly Performance Monitoring visual reports and Highlights in line with the Online Performance DashBoard. • Manage the data produced at Sector Working Group level for different COs Provide Programme and Sector performance inputs in format and timely manner to other Knowledge Management/ programme colleagues to allow the creation of other products. • Support the HPM Specialist on products related to data management and analysis.

Administrative support to the Sr. Emergency Coordinator for Ukraine Crisis • Provide administrative support to the Regional Emergency Coordinator including the preparation of briefing materials for official trips or meetings, facilitate the processing of contracts for consultants when required, carries out transactions in VISION, and Organize official travel on behalf of supervisor.

Database Management • Provide support to the Child Protection team and other relevant colleagues in the RO and COs in the maintenance of the UNHCR-UNICEF Blue Dots database and partnerships to ensure that data is organized and packaged to be used in relevant regional products.

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

• A first-level University degree (Bachelor's) in International development, International Relations, Business Administration, or another relevant field is required.
• A minimum of one (1) year of relevant work experience in data analysis, programme coordination, research or other relevant areas (information management, learning, community management, communication, M&E) is required.
• Knowledge of international development and humanitarian work is desirable.
• Experience in Emergency context is an asset.
• Knowledge of programme monitoring in international development is desirable.
• Experience working with excel, Power BI and other visualization software is desirable.
• Excellent written communication in English, especially for online publishing.
• Basic ability with visual design is desirable.
• Strong organizational, planning, and analytical skills.
• Good judgment, initiative, high sense of responsibility, tact, and discretion.
• Takes ownership and initiative and can work both independently and effectively in a team environment.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills in interacting with colleagues at all levels.
• Demonstrated cultural sensitivity and ability to establish harmonious working relations in a multicultural environment.
• Proficiency in English, written and verbal, is required. Working knowledge of another official UN Language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS). 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) Drive 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.

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. This is a Temporary Appointment for an initial duration of 364 Days.

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.