Monitoring Specialist - Situation & Third Party (P-3), (TA) – 364 Days, ECARO o/p Istanbul - Turkiye

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 110,928 USD and 145,252 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

The Level 3 Scale-up for Ukraine was activated effective 5 March 2022, for an initial period of six months. With the activation of the procedure, UNICEF has adopted a no-regrets approach in view of the complex situation and increasing humanitarian needs, to ensure that UNICEF continues to provide life-saving response for the children and women in neighboring and other affected countries in line with the CCCs.

The recent escalation in the armed conflict in Ukraine poses an immediate threat to the lives and wellbeing of millions of children in the entire region. The intensification of the armed conflict is posing severe human costs, causing a growing number of civilian and children casualties, interrupting livelihoods and damaging critical civilian infrastructure, including hundreds of homes, water and sanitation infrastructure, schools and health facilities. Hundreds of thousands of children and their families have been internally displaced and, to-date, over one million forced to flee the country in search of safety – the majority are women and children.

In response, UNICEF has already mobilized organization-wide support. However, the deteriorating situation and complex operating environment requires strengthened capacity and sustained efforts to further expand our presence and work in those parts of the country that can be safely accessed, to strengthen our cluster and overall humanitarian leadership, and to continue scaling-up our humanitarian action, with priority focus on child protection, health, WASH, nutrition, learning, cash interventions and social protection efforts. UNICEF is also coordinating with refugee hosting countries to prepare and respond to the humanitarian needs emerging from population movements.

How can you make a difference?

The presence of an Monitoring Specialist ((Situation and Third Party) – P-3 is urgently needed due to the L3 emergency declaration in Ukraine and outflow countries and the limited capacity in Planning, Monitoring and Data /SitCen to support the programmatic implementation of the L3 emergency response at regional level.

Under the supervision of the Regional HPM Manager, the candidate will be responsible for supporting the following areas of responsibility:

NEED ASSESSMENTS:

• Provide technical support any regional or affected country initiative related to Multi-Sectoral Need Assessments, to ensure the minimum UNICEF mandate information is available to enable ulterior corrective actions.
• Design and support any regional or country specific Children Profiling and specific sectorial need assessments.
• Support any real time evaluation in coordination with the Evaluation team.

SITUATION MONITORING

• In coordination with the Child Rights monitoring map all the available sources of information on situation flows and develop a regular Highlights report and DashBoard update on the Multi-Country situation.
• Support each country to develop their own Situation Monitoring system in coordination with the PME focal point.

THIRD PARTY MONITORING

• Develop, refine and ensure tight management of the agreement signed with a partner that will implement the Third Part Monitoring to ensure all COs do have a high intensity field monitoring plan, with special attention on a) reporting verification b) quality standards monitoring c) recommendations for programme and partners d) monitoring of the recommendations.
• It will be adapted to each country and proportional to the risk assumed by their partnerships, with regular evidence based reports that influence corrective strategic and programmatic actions.
• Dissemination and follow up of findings with a particular emphasis on adaptive management of humanitarian programming.

• Develop with programme colleague’s solid data collection mechanisms and tools in line with planned priority interventions.

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

• A first-level University degree (Bachelor's) in economics, psychology, sociology, education or other relevant social science field is required.

• A minimum of five (5) years of relevant work experience in monitoring, needs assessments, data analysis, programme coordination, research or other directly relevant areas (information management, learning, community management, communication, M&E) is required.
• Experience managing Need Assessments and/or Third Party Monitoring Agreements is required.
• Experience working with excel, Power BI and other visualization software is desirable.
• Experience in Emergency context is strongly desirable.
• Knowledge of the Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action framework is desirable.
• Ability to work independently and in constant communication across multiple teams and partners as well as emergency focal points in the region is required.
• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize, and deliver under pressure is a requisite.
• Knowledge of international development and humanitarian work is desirable.
• Ability and willingness to travel to emergencies countries if necessary.
• 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) and/or regional language as needed to perform the role is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF's 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

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)

Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: 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.

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:

Please note that as a designated L3 emergency, the successful candidate is expected to start within four weeks of acceptance of offer.

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.