Monitoring Specialist, Level P3, Kabul, Afghanistan (for NON-Afghan nationals only)

Overview

Lead monitoring and analysis for UNICEF programs in Afghanistan.

You have:

• Advanced university degree in natural sciences, social sciences, statistics, or planning development.
• Eight years of relevant professional work experience including developing country work experience and field work experience.
• Professional work experience in programme development and implementation including monitoring and evaluation activities.
• Experience with development of analytical frameworks.
• At least one instance of exposure to emergency programming, including preparedness planning.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language or a local language is an asset.

Contract

This is a P-3 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 5 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 102,568 USD and 134,304 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, Results!

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How can you make a difference?

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES and DUTIES & TASKS

Within the delegated authority and under the given organizational set-up, the incumbent may be assigned the primarily, shared, or contributory accountabilities for all or part of the following areas of major duties and key end-results.

1. Integrated Monitoring and analysis Plan

Ensure that the Country Office and national partners use a well-prioritized and realistic plan of, monitoring and analysis activities that will provide the most relevant and strategic information to manage the Country Programme, including tracking and assessing UNICEF’s distinct contribution.

Duties & Tasks

• Make professional contributions to and provide technical assistance for the planning and establishing the major monitoring and analysis objectives, priorities, and activities in UNICEF’s multi-year and annual IMEPs, in consultation with child-rights and implementing partners.
• Likewise, support the development of UNSDCF Monitoring Plans from a sound results-based programming process.
• Identify the monitoring and analysis objectives, priorities, and activities required for effective CO and partner Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans,
• In humanitarian response situations, within the first month, draft and recommend a simple one-month data-collection plan to cover key data gaps as required for the initial emergency response.
• After the initial humanitarian response, support management of the medium-term response with a revised monitoring and analysis plan.

2. Programme Performance Monitoring

Ensure that the Country Office has quality information to assess progress towards expected results established in annual work plans.

Duties & Tasks

• Provide technical support to ensure that a set of programme performance indicators is identified and adjusted as necessary, with inputs of all concerned partners to assess progress towards expected annual and multi-year results in the context of the multi-year and annual monitoring plans, the Annual Management Plan and Annual Work Plans
• Coordinate with partners to ensure that monitoring systems and tools are properly designed, and that data collection and analysis from field visits are coordinated and standardized across programmes to feed into to programme performance monitoring, with special attention to humanitarian response.
• Drawing on monitoring and analysis of key program performance and management indicators, provide professional input to management reports, including relevant sections of the annual reports.

3. Analysis:

Duties & Tasks

• Develop an analytical framework to aid analysis of programme and administrative data
• Lead in analysis of programme monitoring data and information
• Support programme section chiefs and technical specialists and officers in analyzing data, interpreting analysis results and use of analytical reports for course corrections.
• Develop analysis capacities of national partners and UNICEF staff

4. Monitoring and analysis Capacity Building

Ensure that monitoring and analysis capacities of Country Office staff and national partners – government and civil society – are strengthened enabling them to increasingly engage in and lead monitoring and analysis processes.

Duties & Tasks

• Promote the awareness and understanding of the shared responsibility of monitoring analysis function among all staff members through communication, training, learning and development activities organization wide.
• In close collaboration with partners, ensure that monitoring and analysis capacity building strategy for UNICEF/UN staff national partners and institutions exists. Pay particular attention so the capacity needs of national partners through specific capacity building initiatives.
• 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 in order that UNICEF and UN staff have the basic knowledge and skills in understanding and applying new monitoring policies, tools, methods to fulfil their responsibilities. Similarly, design and implement strategies suited to the skills needs of national partners.
• Actively seek partnerships with knowledge institutions for the identification of capacity gaps and development of strategies to address them.

5. Coordination and Networking

Ensure that the UNICEF office is effectively linked to wider UNICEF monitoring and analysis developments in a way that both contributes to and benefits from organizational learning on effective.

Duties & Tasks

• Collaborate with Regional Monitoring Advisers and DAPM in HQ for overall coordination of priority monitoring and analysis activities, especially those of regional scope requiring the coordinated effort of multiple countries.
• Partner with the Regional Monitoring Advisers to ensure that current and accurate monitoring data and results are included in regional reports, multi-country studies, and knowledge sharing networks.
• Undertake lessons-learned reviews on successful and unsuccessful monitoring and analysis practices and experience at the national level, and ensure they are shared as appropriate. Similarly, pay attention to monitoring knowledge networks to identify innovations and lessons learned that may be relevant for the CO and partners to improve their monitoring and analysis function

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

• Advanced university degree in natural sciences, social sciences, statistics, planning development, planning.
• Eight years of relevant professional work experience. Developing country work experience (for IP) or field work experience (for NO)
• Professional work experience in programme development and implementation including monitoring and evaluation activities.
• Experience with development of analytical frameworks
• At least one instance of exposure to emergency programming, including preparedness planning. Active involvement in a humanitarian crisis response programme preferred.
• Experience with developing programme monitoring framework
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
• 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 Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues

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 [Insert diversity profile] are encouraged to apply.

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.

Candidates in 2022 Mobility Exercise and staff on abolished posts will be prioritized.

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 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.

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